1.Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. - Judy Garland

永遠做自己的一流版本，永不做他人的二流版本。——朱迪·嘉蘭（Judy Garland，美國30~50年代著名影星）

I believe that having an idol is often VERY GOOD to the point where you take his/her positive traits and copy them (like persistence, etc). But copying a person to a point where you are the SECOND RATE of him/her is plain stupid.For example, I like Winston Churchill. I like his persistence and quotes about success. But there's some things I don't like about him too. I take only his positive traits and see to model them at me. I leave out the negative ones. Simple as that.

我相信有了偶像，就有利于人們接受并模仿他們的優秀品質（比如堅毅等等）。但是如果完全復制別人，成為了他/她的“二流版本”，就愚不可及了。舉個例子，我喜歡溫斯頓·丘吉爾。我欣賞他的堅持不懈與他對成功的見解。但是他的有些方面我并不茍同。我取其精華，并作為自己的榜樣。同時去其糟粕，摒棄消極的品質。各位讀者們可以以此為例。

2.Action is the real measure of intelligence.- Napoleon Hill

行動才是智慧真正的度量衡——拿破侖·希爾（Napoleon Hill，世界上最偉大的勵志成功大師之一）

Actually, this quote was also told by Andrew Carnegie, the richest man on Earth 100 years ago. I see so many people going to schools, universities. I see my teachers say that I need to study hard, memorize root lessons to become "somebody". Then I remind myself of Bill Gates who dropped out. I remind myself of Steve Jobs who also dropped out. Thousands upon thousands of successful people who dropped out of high school and universities. They did not choose root memorization as their education. They choose action, failures and successes as their primary action. That was their intelligence. And they got very rich by it.

事實上，這句話百年前的世界第一富翁安德魯·卡內基（Andrew Carnegie）②就說過了。我看到太多的人進入高等學府，聽到我的老師說我必須努力學習，記住些基本課文，將來成為“某些人”。然后我不禁想到了輟學的比爾·蓋茨，輟學的史蒂芬·喬布斯。成千上百名成功人士都放棄了高中和大學的學業。他們并沒有選擇把基礎知識的記憶作為培養自己的方式，而選擇了行動 ——讓成功和失敗成為他們主要的行動。這就是他們的智慧，并且以此得到了巨大財富。

3.Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it. - Groucho Marx

每天清晨，當我睜開眼睛，我告訴自己：我今天快樂或是不快樂，并非由我所遭遇的事情造成的，而應該取決于我自己。我可以自己選擇事情的發展方向。昨日已逝，明朝未及，我只有過好每一個今天，唯一的今天。——格勞喬·馬克斯（Groucho Marx，上世紀好萊塢著名喜劇演員）

Yesterday's tomorrow is today. Tomorrow's yesterday is today. Why care about the past (don't get me wrong, you can learn a lot from analyzing the past). But I see people that go into over-analyzing the past and do too much planning for the future. What about the...PRESENT. What about enjoying the present moment? Have you ever thought about that? If not, it's time to reconsider.

昨日的明天是今天。明天的昨日是今天。為什么要計較于過去呢（先別急著糾正我的錯誤，你確實可以在評判過去中學到許多）。但是我發現有的人過分地瞻前顧后了。為何不想想“現在”呢？為何不及時行樂呢？如果你的回答是“不”，那么是時候該重新考慮一下了。

4.The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure - Sven Goran Eriksson

  成功的最大障礙是懼怕失敗——斯文·戈蘭·埃里克森（Sven Goran Eriksson）

  "Try And Fail, but don't Fail to Try" - Stephen Kaggwa

 “嘗試后才放棄，但是不要放棄嘗試。”——史蒂芬·卡格瓦（Stephen Kaggwa）

  "I didn't fail the test, I just found 1000 ways to do it wrong" - Benjamin Franklin

   “我并未在試驗中失敗，我只是尋找了1000中錯誤的做法。”——本杰明·富蘭克林

The lesson: don't be afraid to fail. If you do, try again. Take babies for example. What a baby is learning to walk and fails he doesn't sit down and say: "Damn it, I'm such a failure, I quit". Not a SINGLE BABY does that. Instead, he tries again and again and again. If one approach does not work, try another and another and another.

這些句子都教育我們：不要懼怕失敗。如果你失敗了，重新嘗試。以嬰兒為例，當一個嬰孩學步摔倒后，他不會坐下來說：“靠，我真失敗，我放棄。”并且不是一個嬰兒會如此做，他們都會反反復復，一次一次地嘗試。如果一條路走不通，那就走走其他途徑，不斷嘗試。

Fear of failure is simply a trait imposed by society. Nobody is born with the fear of failure. Remember that.

懼怕失敗僅僅是社會導致的一種品質，沒有人生來害怕失敗，記住這一點。

5.Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly - Robert Schuller

  寧愿做事而犯錯，也不要為了不犯錯而什么都不做——羅伯特·舒勒（Robert schuller）

Do not wait for a perfect time to start doing something. It may be hard at the beginning and you'll get used as time passes by. There will be no perfect time always, so do things even when it doesn't feel it is the right time to do so.

不一定要等到時機完全成熟才動手。開頭也許艱難，但是隨著時間的流逝，你會漸漸熟悉你的事業。世上往往沒有完美的時機，所以當你覺得做某事還不是時候，先做起來再說吧。