If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

  • -- Colin Luther Powell 鲍威尔

如果你想在大事上取得卓越,你就得在小事上养成习惯。优秀也不例外,它是一种普遍的态度。

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If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

如果一个人有好玉米、好木头、好木板、好猪可以卖,或者比任何人都能做得更好的椅子、刀子、坩埚或教堂的器官,你会发现一条通往他家的宽阔的、不易走的路,尽管这条路是在树林里。

When, according to habit, I was contemplating the stars in a clear sky, I noticed a new and unusual star, surpassing the other stars in brilliancy. There had never before been any star in that place in the sky.

我照例在晴朗的天空中观看星星,忽然看见一颗不寻常的新星,比其他的星星更明亮。那地方以前从来没有一颗星星。

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

人们可能会把习惯称为道德摩擦:一种阻止思维掠过事物,但又将其与之联系起来,使其难以摆脱的东西。

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

礼物的卓越之处不在于它的价值,而在于它的恰当。