励志演讲 :我生命中的三个故事(7)

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; 再次说明的是,你在向前展望的时候不可能将这些片断串连起来; you can only connect them looking backwards. 你只能在回顾的时候将点点滴滴串连起来。 So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. 所以你必须相信这些片断会在你未来的某一天串连起来。 You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life,...

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励志演讲 :巴菲特:决定你成功的因素(6)

But we put in a bid on Wednesday morning. By that, I was in Boston Montana. 星期三的早上,我们出了一个报价。那时,我已经在蒙塔那了。 And I talked to Bill McDonough at the New York Federal. 我和纽约储备局的比尔·麦克唐纳通了话。 At 10 o'clock we were having a meet with bankers at 10 o’clock that morning in New York. 他们在10点会和一批银行家碰头。 And I called them, we actu...

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励志演讲 :巴菲特:决定你成功的因素(8)

And yet 16 guys with very high IQs and very decent people entered into that game. 我所不能理解的是,这16 个如此高智商的能人怎么就会玩这样一个游戏。 You know I think it is madness. 简直就是疯了。 It is produced by an overall reliance to same extent on things. 某种程度上,他们的决定基本上都依赖于一个客观上的联系。 You know those guys would tell me back at Salomon, a six Sigma ...

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励志演讲 :拉里·佩奇:梦想的力量(1)

Class of 2009! 2009届的同学们, I don't think I hurt you. 我不认为这伤害了你们。 First I’d like you to stand up, and wave and cheer your supportive family and friends! 首先我希望大家都站起来,向支持你们的亲朋好友挥手致意! I’m sure you can find them out there. 我相信你们都能在人群中找到他们。 Show your love! 把你们的爱表现出来吧! It is a great honor for me to be here tod...

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励志演讲 :我生命中的三个故事(8)

I didn't see it then, 我当时没有觉察, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. 但是事后证明,从苹果公司被炒是我这辈子发生的最棒的事情。 The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again,less sure about everything. 尽管前景为卜,但从头开始的轻松感取代了保持成功的沉重感。...

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励志演讲 :巴菲特:决定你成功的因素(1)

I'd like to just say a few words primarily and then the highlight for me will be getting your questions in a few minutes. 我想先讲几分钟的套话,然后我就主要来接受你们的提问。 I want to talk about what is on your mind. 我想谈的是你们的所思所想。 I urge you to throw a hard ball. 我鼓励你们给我抛一些高难度的球, It’s more fun for me if you, if you feel a little speed of amb...

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励志演讲 :我生命中的三个故事(9)

My third story is about death. 我的第三个故事是关于死亡的。 When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." 当我十七岁的时候, 我读到了一句话:“如果你把每一天都当作生命中最后一天去生活的话,那么有一天你会发现你是正确的。” It made an impression on me, 这句话给我留下了深刻...

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励志演讲 :我生命中的三个故事(10)

I lived with that diagnosis all day. 我整天和那个诊断书一起生活。 Later that evening I had a biopsy, 后来有一天晚上我作了一个活切片检查, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, 医生将一个内窥镜从我的喉咙伸进去,通过我的胃, 然后进入我的肠子, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. 用一根针在我的胰腺上...

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励志演讲 :乔布斯-我生命中的三个故事(5)

This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept: 这是我距离死亡最近的一次,我希望它也是未来几十年里我离死亡最近的一次。经历了这件事,死亡对我而言已经不再只是一种有益却仅限于纯粹...

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英文欣赏:以书为伴 Companionship of Books

曾几何时,我学会了在书海中徜徉;曾几何时,我学会了在书山 中冥想;又几何时,我已经爱上了那熟悉的书的墨香。 A man may usually be known by the books he reads as well as by the company he keeps; for there is a companionship of books as well as of men; and one should always live in the best company, whether it be of books or of men. 通常看一个读些什么书就可知道他的为人,就像看他...

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