Ali's morning reading:
1.A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
2.Thinking is the hardest work there is,which is probably the reason so few engage in it.
3.The best piece of advice that I remember probably on a daily basis is to accept everything about me that is different.That is what makes me special.
4.You can give without loving,but you can never love without giving.The great acts of
love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness.
5.It is not good enough for things to be planned-they still have to be done;for the intention to become a reality,energy has to be launched into operation.
6.Fear has never been a good adviser,neither in our personal lives nor in our society.Cultures and societies that are shaped by fear,will without doubt not get a grip on the future.
恐惧从来不是一个好的顾问,不管是在个人生活或社会里,被恐惧所左右的文明及社会将毫无疑问地抓不住未来。
7.It is not in the still calm of life,or in the repose of a pacific station,that great characters are formed.
伟大的人格特质不是在平静的生活或无风的太平洋港湾里形成的。
8.What I've really learned over time is that optimism is a very,very important part of leadership.
我在过去真正学到的是乐观是领导力非常重要的一环。
9.There are many more people trying to meet the right person than to become the right person.
很多人都想遇到对的人而不是让自己成为对的人。
10.The loving person makes other people feel good,and he is usually a happy person himself.
仁者悦人,且自悦。
11.Mental attitude plays a far more important role in person's success or failure than mental capacity.
对于一个人的成功与失败,态度所扮演的角色比能力更重要许多。
12.When you come slang bang up aginst trouble,it never looks half as bad if you face up to it.
当你和难题对撞时,你如果面对它,会发现它没有你想的一半困难。
13.In each of us are places where we have never gone.Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them.
我们内心都有未开发的潜能,唯有挑战极限你才能发现它们。
14.Life is not always a matter of holding good cards,but sometimes,playing a poor hand well.
人生不只是握有一副好牌,有时你也要需要打好一副烂牌。
15.No matter how wonderful things used to be,we cannot live in the past.The joy and excitement we feel here and now are more important.
无论过去多么美好,我们都不可能活在过去,此时此刻享受、感受到的激动和快乐是更加重要的。
16.The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.
世上美好的事不是你如今身在何处,而是你朝着哪个方向在努力。
17.I'm a believer in fate and in fulfilling your destiny.I've always had a kind of inner voice that I have learned to listen to.
我相信命运以及完成使命,总有一种内心的声音告诉我,我要学会倾听。
18.The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions---the little soon forgotten charities of a kiss,a smile,a kind look,a heartfelt compliment.
生活中的快乐是由零碎的片段组成---我们很快忘记的短暂亲吻,微小,关爱的眼神,由衷的赞美与善举。
19.Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many-not on your past misfortunes,of which all men have some.
想想你目前拥有的幸福---这每人都有很多;别回想以前的不幸---这每人或多或少都有一点。
20.When you make a decision,you flip your brain onto a different frequency.You begin to attract whatever is on that frequency.
当你做一个决定,你的大脑会切换到另一个频率,让你开始吸引所有那一频率的事物。
21.Champions aren't made in the gyms.Champions are made from something they have deep inside them---a desire,a dream,a vision.
体育馆不会造就冠军,人的内心深处才会造就冠军,他的渴望、梦想、愿景等等。
22.The important thing is not to stop questioning.Curiosity has it's own reason for existing.
重要的是不要停止发问,好奇心有它存在的理由。
23.I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.
我始终相信我们每个人都可以对消除苦难做出一点点贡献。
24.It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of it's sorrow,but only empties today of its strength.
有人说,我们的忧虑不会带走今天的难过,只会带走今天的力量。
25.If you want to create a great product,just focus on the one person.Make that one person have the most amazing experience ever.
如果你想创造一个好的产品,那就锁定一个人做为目标客户,让他的到最棒的体验。
26.You are not obligated to win.You are abligated to keep trying.Do the best you can do everyday.
你不一定要获胜,但你必须要不断地去尝试,每天表现出你最好的一面。
27.The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource,adding color and suspence to all our life.
敢有不同想象的勇气是我们最大的资产,能为人生增添色彩,又扣人心弦。
28.The world is before you and you need not to take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
世界在你跟前,而你不一定要接受或者维持它原来的样子。
29.There is nothing noble in being superior
to your fellow man;true nobility is being superior to your former self.
真正的高贵不是优于你的同伴,而是优于过去的自己。
30.He is no wise man who will quit certainty for an uncertainty.
为了不确切的事儿而放弃确切事儿的人是不明智的。
31.Successful people don't have fewer problems.They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.
成功的人遇到的问题并不一定更少一些,他们只是下决心,没有任何东西能阻止他们前进罢了。
32.The aim of education should be to convert the mind into living fountain,and not a reservioir.
教育的目的应是把人心转换为活的泉水,而不是注水池。
33.When you walk on a court,clear your mind of everything unrelated to the goal of playing the match as well as you can.
当你走进球场后,清除所有杂念,专注在比赛里,秀出你的最好表现。
34.A No uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a Yes merely uttered to please,or what is worse,to avoid trouble.
为了最深的信念而说出的“不”,比为了讨好别人,甚至躲避麻烦而说出的“是”更好、更佳。
35.No man chooses evil because it is evil;he only mistakes it for happiness,the good he seeks.
没有人为了邪恶而选择邪恶,而是误把邪恶当做快乐——所追寻的东西。
36.A man,as a general rule,owes very little to what he is born with - A man is what he makes of himself.
一个人,一般而言,天生的能力对他影响不大,他如何造就自己决定了他的人生。
37.Imagination took the reins,and Reason,
slow-paced,though sure-footed,was unequal to a race with so eccentric and fighty a companion.
在想象力掌控之后,步调慢的逻辑推理,尽管脚步稳健,无法与那异乎寻常且变化快速的想象力竞赛。
38.Never walk away from failure.On the contrary,study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.
遇到失败,绝不要一走了之,相反的,对其隐藏的资产,仔细并用想象力地研究。
39.Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.
把手头的工作做好是获得你想要成功的最好办法。
40.In a world that's changing really quickly,the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.
在一个瞬息万变的世界里,不冒任何险是唯一能保证会失败的策略。
41.I believe in work,hard work and long hous of work.Men do not breakdown from overwork,but from worry and dissipation.
我相信工作、努力工作和长时间的工作,过度工作不会让人崩溃,到忧郁和放纵会让人崩溃。
42.The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,whose presence calls forth your best.
关键是要和可以提升你的人在一起,他们在场会引导出你最好的部分。