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史蒂芬•乔布斯-
苹果电脑CEO,斯坦福大
学,2005年6月12日
记着你总会死去,这是我知
道的防止患得
患失的最佳办法。赤条条来去无牵挂,还
有什么理由不随你的心?!你的时间是有
限的,因此不要把时间浪费在过别人的生
活上。不要被教条所困——使自己的生活
受限
于他人的思想成果。不要让他人的意
见淹没了你自己内心的声音。最重要的
是,要有勇气跟随你
的内心与直觉,它们
好歹已经知道你真正想让自己成为什么。
其他的,都是次要的。
大卫•福斯特•华莱士, 小说家, 肯尼恩
学院, 2005年5月21日
有两条小鱼一起在水里游,碰到一条老鱼
迎面游过来。老鱼向他们点点头,并说:
“早上好
,孩子们。水怎么样?”这两条
小鱼继续往前游了一会儿后,其中一条小
鱼实在忍不住了,看了
一下另一条小鱼,
问道:“水到底是什么东西?”……简单
的意识;对我们生活中如此真实、如
此必
不可少、无处不在、无时不在的事物的意
识,需要我们一遍一遍地提醒自己:“这
是水。”“这是水。”天天都保持意识清
醒而鲜活,在成人世界中做到这点,是不
可想象地难。
1. Steve Jobs -CEO of Apple Computers,
Stanford University, June 12, 2005
Remembering that you are going to die is
the best way I know to avoid the trap of
thinking you have something to lose. You
are already naked. There is no reason
not
to follow your time is
limited, so don't
waste it living
someone else's life. Don't be
trapped by
dogma — which is living with the
results of other people's thinking.
Don't
let the noise of others' opinions
drown out
your own inner voice. And most
important, have
the courage to follow
your heart and
intuition. They somehow
already know what you
truly want to
become. Everything else is
secondary。
2. David Foster Wallace- Novelist,
Kenyon College, May 21, 2005
There are
these two young fish swimming
along and they
happen to meet an older
fish swimming the
other way, who nods at
them and says,
“Morning, boys. How's
the water?” And the two
young fish swim
on for a bit, and then
eventually one of
them looks over at the other
and goes,
“What the hell is water?”... simple
awareness; awareness of what is so real
and essential, so hidden in plain sight
all around us, all the time, that we have
to keep reminding ourselves over and
over:“This is water。”“This is
water。”It is
unimaginably hard to do
this, to stay
conscious and alive in the
adult world day in
and day out。
1
迈克尔•奥斯兰,电影制片人, 印第安纳
大学, 2006年5月6日
你必须相信你自己,对自己的工作充满信
心。当我们的第一部电影《蝙蝠侠》创下
史无
前例的票房纪录时,我接到了艺术家
联合会会长的电话,他在数年之前曾说我
疯了。如今他说:
“迈克尔,我给你打电
话祝贺《蝙蝠侠》的成功。我总说你是一
位有远见的人。”你看,关键在
这里,当
他们说你有多差,你的想法有多糟的时
候,不要信他们的话,同时,当他们告诉
你你有多么了不起,你的想法多美妙时,
也不要相信他们。你就只相信你自己,这
样你就能
做好。还有,那就是,不要忘记
推销你自己和你的想法。左右大脑你都得
用。要能经受得住挫败
。这是被好莱坞每
一家制片厂拒绝过的人的经验。你必须去
敲一扇扇的门,直到指关节流血。大
门会
在你面前砰然关上,你必须重振旗鼓,弹
去身上的灰尘,再敲下一扇门。这是实现
你人生目标的唯一办法。
伍迪•海耶斯,大学橄榄球教练,俄亥俄州
立大学,
1986年5月14日
在橄榄球场上,我们总是说其他队战胜不
了我们
。我们必须做到不把自己打垮。所
有人也都必须这么做,确保自己不要被自
己打垮。……你会发现,来得容易的东西
总是一文不值。事实上,我从来没有看到
3. Michael Uslan-Movie Producer,Indiana
University,May 06, 2006
You must believe
in yourself and in your
work. When our first
Batman movie broke
all those box-office
records, I received
a phone call from that
United Artists
exec who, years before, had
told me I was
out of my mind. Now he said,
“Michael,
I'm just calling to congratulate you
on
the success of Batman. I always said you
were a visionary。” You see the point
here
— don't believe them when they tell
you how
bad you are or how terrible your
ideas are,
but also, don't believe them
when they tell
you how wonderful you are
and how great your
ideas are. Just
believe in yourself and you'll
do just
fine. And, oh yes, don't then forget
to
market yourself and your ideas. Use both
sides of your must have a high
threshold
for frustration. Take it from
the guy who was
turned down by every
studio in Hollywood. You
must knock on
doors until your knuckles bleed.
Doors
will slam in your face. You must pick
yourself up, dust yourself off, and
knock
again. It's the only way to achieve
your goals
in life。
4. Woody Hayes-College Fooball
Coach,Ohio State University, May 14,
1986
In football we always said that the other
team couldn't beat us. We had to be sure
that we didn't beat ourselves. And
that’s
what people have to do, too —
make sure they
don't beat themselves....
2
哪位橄榄球运动员是带着微笑完成阻截
的。从来没有。
布兰德利•惠特福德-演员,威斯康辛大
学麦迪逊分校, 2006年5月17日
第一,爱上过程,结果自然会来。第二,
做你的事。第三,一旦准备好,就付诸行
动。
第四,你能做的,超出了你的想象。
第五,聆听。第六,采取行动。你有一个
选择。要么你成为
环境的被动受害者,要
么你主动成为自己生活的英雄。行动可以
消除冷漠、玩世不恭与绝望。
杰瑞•朱克- 导演、电影制片人, 威斯康
辛大学, 2003年5月17日
如果你一生都在睡觉,你的梦想是否实现
就无关紧要了。问你自己一个问题:如果<
br>我不是必须做得完美,那我还努力什么
呢?没有人会像你自己那样对自己的失
败那么在意
。你是唯一一个能追求自己的
生活意义的人。对于其他所有人来说,你
只是雷达荧光屏上的一个
光点。所以,只
管前行吧。
厄尔•巴肯- 商人,
夏威夷大学,2004
年5月16日
you'll find out
that nothing that comes
easy is worth a dime.
As a matter of fact,
I never saw a football
player make a
tackle with a smile on his face.
Never。
5. Bradley Whitford-Actor,
University
Wisconsin - Madison,May 17, 2006
Number One: Fall in love with the process
and the results will Two:
Do your Three:
Once you're
prepared, throw your preparation
in the
Four: You are capable of
more
than you Five:
Six: Take have
a choice.
You can either be a passive
victim of
circumstance or you can be the
active hero of
your own life. Action is
the antidote to
apathy and cynicism and
despair。
6. Jerry
Zucker-Director, movie
producer,University of
Wisconsin,May 17,
2003
It doesn't matter
whether your dream
came true if you spent your
whole life
yourself one question: If
I
didn't have to do it perfectly, what
would I try?Nobody else is paying as much
attention to your failures as you are.
You're the only one who is obsessed with
the importance of your own life. To
everyone else, it's just a blip on the
radar screen, so just move on。
7. Earl
Bakken-Businessman,University of
Hawaii,May
16, 2004
3
无论怎么考量,大黄蜂从空气动
力学上
讲是不健全、不应该会飞的。但是,这
种小蜜蜂却像涡轮喷气飞机一样地展翅
飞
行,飞到它圆乎乎的身体能够降落的
任何植物上去采蜜。大黄蜂最坚韧的生
灵,它们不知道自己
不能飞,因此它们
只管到处嗡嗡地飞个不停。千万不要悲
观。不知道你不会飞,你会像鹰一样高
高飞翔。不要到头来后悔自己因为太懒
或太怕高飞而无所作为。做一只大黄蜂。
飞到天
上去。你能做到的。
约翰•沃尔什-作家和艺术历史学家,惠顿
学院,2000年
一次做一件事情。全力关注你每一次的经
历。决不要被别的声色之物和其他想法、<
br>任务分心。一旦分心了,引导你的注意力
重新回到你做的事情上。我不是在反对学
习多个
学科的众多知识。我所警告的是分
心与干扰,无论是你主动招惹的,还是让
它发生的。在棒球场
上,得分高的击球员
对此有更深体会:他们谈的是“专注”,
他们把它看得跟力量一样重要。在
心理学
家的描述中,高技能的攀岩者、网球运动
员、钢琴家已经超越了专注,达到了他们
所称的经验之“流”,那是一种跟岩石、
网球或音乐融为一体的感觉,“我与它”
已然消失,
跟任务合二为一,给人以更高
水平的愉悦体验,而不仅仅是成功地完成
了任务。我有这种体验,
虽然很少,但来
得还不算迟,或许你也有这种体验。这是
一种最高形式的快乐。如果你一次专注
于
一件事情,你就会有更多这样的体验。
By all reckoning,
the bumblebee is
aerodynamically unsound and
shouldn't be
able to fly. Yet, the little bee
gets
those wings going like a turbo-jet and
flies to every plant its chubby little
body can land on to collect all the nectar
it can bees are the most
persistent
creatures. They don't know
they can't fly, so
they just keep buzzing
give in to pessimism.
Don't
know that you can't fly, and you will
soar
like an eagle. Don't end up regretting
what you did not do because you were too
lazy or too frightened to soar. Be a
bumblebee! And soar to the heavens. You
can do it。
8. John Walsh,Author and art
historian,Wheaton College,2000
Do one
thing at a time. Give each
experience all your
attention. Try to
resist being distracted by
other sights
and sounds, other thoughts and
tasks,
and when it is, guide your mind back to
what you're doing.I'm not warning
against
learning many things on many
subjects. My
warning is against
distraction, whether you
invite it or
just let it happen. In baseball,
high-percentage hitters know better:
it's
“focus” they talk about, and they
prize it as
much as strength.
Psychologists describe
skilled rock
climbers and tennis players and
pianists
as going beyond focus, to what they
have
called a “flow” experience, a sense of
absorption with the rock or the ball or
the music in which the “me versus it”
disappears and there's a kind of oneness
4
大卫•卡尔霍恩-
商人,弗吉尼亚理工
大学, 2005年5月13日
我在通用公司为一个名叫杰克
•韦尔奇
的家伙工作了20年。他既是一位伟大
的领导者,也是一位伟大的导师,过去
是,现在也是。如果我必须找出那些年
里他充满激情地对我说的最主要的话,
那就是:自信是最
重要的,它是成功必
不可少的,是所有在其他多数方面才能
也许大相径庭的伟大领导者的共同特
征。如何获得自信?培养你特有的自信
的秘诀是什么?首先,你必须下决心每
天都通过
你的工作和家庭生活去获得
智力、道德、技术与专业上的提高。你
需要每天问自己:我是在加速
前进还是
在后退?我还在学习吗?我是在每天
重复做同样的事情或就像奥蒂斯•瑞汀
所
唱的那样,“坐在海湾的码头上,看
潮起潮落”?对学习的渴望是不受年
龄限制的。培养自信的
另一个重要途径
是寻找最难做的工作,最棘手的科学、
工程或管理方面的难题。
with the task that brings a joyful higher
awareness, as well as successful
performance. I've had these
experiences,
too little but not too
late, and probably you
have, too. They
are a supreme kind of
pleasure. You will
have more of them if you do
one thing at
a time。
9. David L. Calhoun-
Businessman,Virginia
Tech,May 13, 2005
I
worked for a guy named Jack Welch for
twenty
years at GE. He was, and is, a great
mentor as
much as a great leader. If I had
to isolate
the subject he spoke most
passionately to me
about, over all those
years, it is that SELF
CONFIDENCE is the
most important, the
indispensable
characteristic of success, the
common
characteristic shared by great leaders
whose talents may have varied widely in
most other , how do you get it?
What is
the secret to developing your own
brand of
self-confidence?First, you must
resolve to
grow intellectually, morally,
technically, and
professionally every day
through your entire
work and family life.
You need to ask yourself
every day: Am I
really up to speed or falling
behind? Am
I still learning? Or am I just
doing the
same stuff on a different day or as
Otis
Redding sings, “Sitting on the dock of
the
bay... watching the tide roll away?”The
lust for learning is
r important way to
build your confidence is to seek out the
toughest jobs, the most daunting
scientific, engineering or management
challenges。
5
马克•刘易斯-
临床心理学教授,得克萨
斯大学奥斯汀分校, 2000年5月19日
有时候你会干得很漂亮,有时候你会失
败,但二者都不是衡量成功的标准。衡量
成功的标准是你
自己对你的所为怎么看。
让我换一句话说:让自己幸福的办法是喜
欢你自己,喜欢自己的办法是
只做让你自
己感到骄傲的事情。有一个老笑话,不是
很好笑,它是这么说的:“无论你走到哪<
br>里,你都在那里。”这是真的。你一生中
跟你在一起最多的人是你自己,如果你不
喜欢你
自己,那你就会总是跟你不喜欢的
人在一起。
10. Marc S.
Lewis-Clinical psychology
professor,University
of Texas at
Austin,May 19, 2000
There are
times when you are going to do
well, and times
when you're going to
fail. But neither the
doing well, nor the
failure is the measure of
success. The
measure of success is what you
think
about what you've done. Let me put that
another way: The way to be happy is to
like yourself and the way to like
yourself
is to do only things that make
you 's that old
joke, not
very funny, that goes, “No matter
where
you go, there you are。” That's true.
The person who you're with most in life
is
yourself and if you don't like
yourself you're
always with somebody you
don't like。
6
美国大学十佳毕业典礼演讲精选
史蒂芬•乔布斯-
苹果电脑CEO,斯坦福大
学,2005年6月12日
记着你总会死去,这是我知
道的防止患得
患失的最佳办法。赤条条来去无牵挂,还
有什么理由不随你的心?!你的时间是有
限的,因此不要把时间浪费在过别人的生
活上。不要被教条所困——使自己的生活
受限
于他人的思想成果。不要让他人的意
见淹没了你自己内心的声音。最重要的
是,要有勇气跟随你
的内心与直觉,它们
好歹已经知道你真正想让自己成为什么。
其他的,都是次要的。
大卫•福斯特•华莱士, 小说家, 肯尼恩
学院, 2005年5月21日
有两条小鱼一起在水里游,碰到一条老鱼
迎面游过来。老鱼向他们点点头,并说:
“早上好
,孩子们。水怎么样?”这两条
小鱼继续往前游了一会儿后,其中一条小
鱼实在忍不住了,看了
一下另一条小鱼,
问道:“水到底是什么东西?”……简单
的意识;对我们生活中如此真实、如
此必
不可少、无处不在、无时不在的事物的意
识,需要我们一遍一遍地提醒自己:“这
是水。”“这是水。”天天都保持意识清
醒而鲜活,在成人世界中做到这点,是不
可想象地难。
1. Steve Jobs -CEO of Apple Computers,
Stanford University, June 12, 2005
Remembering that you are going to die is
the best way I know to avoid the trap of
thinking you have something to lose. You
are already naked. There is no reason
not
to follow your time is
limited, so don't
waste it living
someone else's life. Don't be
trapped by
dogma — which is living with the
results of other people's thinking.
Don't
let the noise of others' opinions
drown out
your own inner voice. And most
important, have
the courage to follow
your heart and
intuition. They somehow
already know what you
truly want to
become. Everything else is
secondary。
2. David Foster Wallace- Novelist,
Kenyon College, May 21, 2005
There are
these two young fish swimming
along and they
happen to meet an older
fish swimming the
other way, who nods at
them and says,
“Morning, boys. How's
the water?” And the two
young fish swim
on for a bit, and then
eventually one of
them looks over at the other
and goes,
“What the hell is water?”... simple
awareness; awareness of what is so real
and essential, so hidden in plain sight
all around us, all the time, that we have
to keep reminding ourselves over and
over:“This is water。”“This is
water。”It is
unimaginably hard to do
this, to stay
conscious and alive in the
adult world day in
and day out。
1
迈克尔•奥斯兰,电影制片人, 印第安纳
大学, 2006年5月6日
你必须相信你自己,对自己的工作充满信
心。当我们的第一部电影《蝙蝠侠》创下
史无
前例的票房纪录时,我接到了艺术家
联合会会长的电话,他在数年之前曾说我
疯了。如今他说:
“迈克尔,我给你打电
话祝贺《蝙蝠侠》的成功。我总说你是一
位有远见的人。”你看,关键在
这里,当
他们说你有多差,你的想法有多糟的时
候,不要信他们的话,同时,当他们告诉
你你有多么了不起,你的想法多美妙时,
也不要相信他们。你就只相信你自己,这
样你就能
做好。还有,那就是,不要忘记
推销你自己和你的想法。左右大脑你都得
用。要能经受得住挫败
。这是被好莱坞每
一家制片厂拒绝过的人的经验。你必须去
敲一扇扇的门,直到指关节流血。大
门会
在你面前砰然关上,你必须重振旗鼓,弹
去身上的灰尘,再敲下一扇门。这是实现
你人生目标的唯一办法。
伍迪•海耶斯,大学橄榄球教练,俄亥俄州
立大学,
1986年5月14日
在橄榄球场上,我们总是说其他队战胜不
了我们
。我们必须做到不把自己打垮。所
有人也都必须这么做,确保自己不要被自
己打垮。……你会发现,来得容易的东西
总是一文不值。事实上,我从来没有看到
3. Michael Uslan-Movie Producer,Indiana
University,May 06, 2006
You must believe
in yourself and in your
work. When our first
Batman movie broke
all those box-office
records, I received
a phone call from that
United Artists
exec who, years before, had
told me I was
out of my mind. Now he said,
“Michael,
I'm just calling to congratulate you
on
the success of Batman. I always said you
were a visionary。” You see the point
here
— don't believe them when they tell
you how
bad you are or how terrible your
ideas are,
but also, don't believe them
when they tell
you how wonderful you are
and how great your
ideas are. Just
believe in yourself and you'll
do just
fine. And, oh yes, don't then forget
to
market yourself and your ideas. Use both
sides of your must have a high
threshold
for frustration. Take it from
the guy who was
turned down by every
studio in Hollywood. You
must knock on
doors until your knuckles bleed.
Doors
will slam in your face. You must pick
yourself up, dust yourself off, and
knock
again. It's the only way to achieve
your goals
in life。
4. Woody Hayes-College Fooball
Coach,Ohio State University, May 14,
1986
In football we always said that the other
team couldn't beat us. We had to be sure
that we didn't beat ourselves. And
that’s
what people have to do, too —
make sure they
don't beat themselves....
2
哪位橄榄球运动员是带着微笑完成阻截
的。从来没有。
布兰德利•惠特福德-演员,威斯康辛大
学麦迪逊分校, 2006年5月17日
第一,爱上过程,结果自然会来。第二,
做你的事。第三,一旦准备好,就付诸行
动。
第四,你能做的,超出了你的想象。
第五,聆听。第六,采取行动。你有一个
选择。要么你成为
环境的被动受害者,要
么你主动成为自己生活的英雄。行动可以
消除冷漠、玩世不恭与绝望。
杰瑞•朱克- 导演、电影制片人, 威斯康
辛大学, 2003年5月17日
如果你一生都在睡觉,你的梦想是否实现
就无关紧要了。问你自己一个问题:如果<
br>我不是必须做得完美,那我还努力什么
呢?没有人会像你自己那样对自己的失
败那么在意
。你是唯一一个能追求自己的
生活意义的人。对于其他所有人来说,你
只是雷达荧光屏上的一个
光点。所以,只
管前行吧。
厄尔•巴肯- 商人,
夏威夷大学,2004
年5月16日
you'll find out
that nothing that comes
easy is worth a dime.
As a matter of fact,
I never saw a football
player make a
tackle with a smile on his face.
Never。
5. Bradley Whitford-Actor,
University
Wisconsin - Madison,May 17, 2006
Number One: Fall in love with the process
and the results will Two:
Do your Three:
Once you're
prepared, throw your preparation
in the
Four: You are capable of
more
than you Five:
Six: Take have
a choice.
You can either be a passive
victim of
circumstance or you can be the
active hero of
your own life. Action is
the antidote to
apathy and cynicism and
despair。
6. Jerry
Zucker-Director, movie
producer,University of
Wisconsin,May 17,
2003
It doesn't matter
whether your dream
came true if you spent your
whole life
yourself one question: If
I
didn't have to do it perfectly, what
would I try?Nobody else is paying as much
attention to your failures as you are.
You're the only one who is obsessed with
the importance of your own life. To
everyone else, it's just a blip on the
radar screen, so just move on。
7. Earl
Bakken-Businessman,University of
Hawaii,May
16, 2004
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无论怎么考量,大黄蜂从空气动
力学上
讲是不健全、不应该会飞的。但是,这
种小蜜蜂却像涡轮喷气飞机一样地展翅
飞
行,飞到它圆乎乎的身体能够降落的
任何植物上去采蜜。大黄蜂最坚韧的生
灵,它们不知道自己
不能飞,因此它们
只管到处嗡嗡地飞个不停。千万不要悲
观。不知道你不会飞,你会像鹰一样高
高飞翔。不要到头来后悔自己因为太懒
或太怕高飞而无所作为。做一只大黄蜂。
飞到天
上去。你能做到的。
约翰•沃尔什-作家和艺术历史学家,惠顿
学院,2000年
一次做一件事情。全力关注你每一次的经
历。决不要被别的声色之物和其他想法、<
br>任务分心。一旦分心了,引导你的注意力
重新回到你做的事情上。我不是在反对学
习多个
学科的众多知识。我所警告的是分
心与干扰,无论是你主动招惹的,还是让
它发生的。在棒球场
上,得分高的击球员
对此有更深体会:他们谈的是“专注”,
他们把它看得跟力量一样重要。在
心理学
家的描述中,高技能的攀岩者、网球运动
员、钢琴家已经超越了专注,达到了他们
所称的经验之“流”,那是一种跟岩石、
网球或音乐融为一体的感觉,“我与它”
已然消失,
跟任务合二为一,给人以更高
水平的愉悦体验,而不仅仅是成功地完成
了任务。我有这种体验,
虽然很少,但来
得还不算迟,或许你也有这种体验。这是
一种最高形式的快乐。如果你一次专注
于
一件事情,你就会有更多这样的体验。
By all reckoning,
the bumblebee is
aerodynamically unsound and
shouldn't be
able to fly. Yet, the little bee
gets
those wings going like a turbo-jet and
flies to every plant its chubby little
body can land on to collect all the nectar
it can bees are the most
persistent
creatures. They don't know
they can't fly, so
they just keep buzzing
give in to pessimism.
Don't
know that you can't fly, and you will
soar
like an eagle. Don't end up regretting
what you did not do because you were too
lazy or too frightened to soar. Be a
bumblebee! And soar to the heavens. You
can do it。
8. John Walsh,Author and art
historian,Wheaton College,2000
Do one
thing at a time. Give each
experience all your
attention. Try to
resist being distracted by
other sights
and sounds, other thoughts and
tasks,
and when it is, guide your mind back to
what you're doing.I'm not warning
against
learning many things on many
subjects. My
warning is against
distraction, whether you
invite it or
just let it happen. In baseball,
high-percentage hitters know better:
it's
“focus” they talk about, and they
prize it as
much as strength.
Psychologists describe
skilled rock
climbers and tennis players and
pianists
as going beyond focus, to what they
have
called a “flow” experience, a sense of
absorption with the rock or the ball or
the music in which the “me versus it”
disappears and there's a kind of oneness
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大卫•卡尔霍恩-
商人,弗吉尼亚理工
大学, 2005年5月13日
我在通用公司为一个名叫杰克
•韦尔奇
的家伙工作了20年。他既是一位伟大
的领导者,也是一位伟大的导师,过去
是,现在也是。如果我必须找出那些年
里他充满激情地对我说的最主要的话,
那就是:自信是最
重要的,它是成功必
不可少的,是所有在其他多数方面才能
也许大相径庭的伟大领导者的共同特
征。如何获得自信?培养你特有的自信
的秘诀是什么?首先,你必须下决心每
天都通过
你的工作和家庭生活去获得
智力、道德、技术与专业上的提高。你
需要每天问自己:我是在加速
前进还是
在后退?我还在学习吗?我是在每天
重复做同样的事情或就像奥蒂斯•瑞汀
所
唱的那样,“坐在海湾的码头上,看
潮起潮落”?对学习的渴望是不受年
龄限制的。培养自信的
另一个重要途径
是寻找最难做的工作,最棘手的科学、
工程或管理方面的难题。
with the task that brings a joyful higher
awareness, as well as successful
performance. I've had these
experiences,
too little but not too
late, and probably you
have, too. They
are a supreme kind of
pleasure. You will
have more of them if you do
one thing at
a time。
9. David L. Calhoun-
Businessman,Virginia
Tech,May 13, 2005
I
worked for a guy named Jack Welch for
twenty
years at GE. He was, and is, a great
mentor as
much as a great leader. If I had
to isolate
the subject he spoke most
passionately to me
about, over all those
years, it is that SELF
CONFIDENCE is the
most important, the
indispensable
characteristic of success, the
common
characteristic shared by great leaders
whose talents may have varied widely in
most other , how do you get it?
What is
the secret to developing your own
brand of
self-confidence?First, you must
resolve to
grow intellectually, morally,
technically, and
professionally every day
through your entire
work and family life.
You need to ask yourself
every day: Am I
really up to speed or falling
behind? Am
I still learning? Or am I just
doing the
same stuff on a different day or as
Otis
Redding sings, “Sitting on the dock of
the
bay... watching the tide roll away?”The
lust for learning is
r important way to
build your confidence is to seek out the
toughest jobs, the most daunting
scientific, engineering or management
challenges。
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马克•刘易斯-
临床心理学教授,得克萨
斯大学奥斯汀分校, 2000年5月19日
有时候你会干得很漂亮,有时候你会失
败,但二者都不是衡量成功的标准。衡量
成功的标准是你
自己对你的所为怎么看。
让我换一句话说:让自己幸福的办法是喜
欢你自己,喜欢自己的办法是
只做让你自
己感到骄傲的事情。有一个老笑话,不是
很好笑,它是这么说的:“无论你走到哪<
br>里,你都在那里。”这是真的。你一生中
跟你在一起最多的人是你自己,如果你不
喜欢你
自己,那你就会总是跟你不喜欢的
人在一起。
10. Marc S.
Lewis-Clinical psychology
professor,University
of Texas at
Austin,May 19, 2000
There are
times when you are going to do
well, and times
when you're going to
fail. But neither the
doing well, nor the
failure is the measure of
success. The
measure of success is what you
think
about what you've done. Let me put that
another way: The way to be happy is to
like yourself and the way to like
yourself
is to do only things that make
you 's that old
joke, not
very funny, that goes, “No matter
where
you go, there you are。” That's true.
The person who you're with most in life
is
yourself and if you don't like
yourself you're
always with somebody you
don't like。
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