We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.

  • -- J. B. S. Haldane 约翰·伯顿·桑德森·霍尔丹

在大多数情况下,我们不知道社会上的失败和成功在多大程度上是由遗传造成的,又在多大程度上是由环境造成的。但是环境是两者中比较容易改善的。

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I should just put it bluntly, because we're all sort of friends here now - it's exceedingly likely that my greatest success is behind me. Oh, so Jesus, what a thought! You know that's the kind of thought that could lead a person to start drinking gin at nine o'clock in the morning, and I don't want to go there.

我应该坦率地说,因为我们现在都是这里的朋友——我最大的成功极有可能已经过去了。哦,天哪,真是个好主意!你知道,这种想法可能会导致一个人在早上九点就开始喝杜松子酒,而我不想去那里。

Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some.

不要因失败而气馁。这可能是一个积极的经历。从某种意义上说,失败是通往成功的道路,因为每一次对错误的发现都会引导我们认真地追寻真理,而每一次新鲜的经历都会指出一些错误。