If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. He doesn’t have tenure.
如果你认为你的老师严厉,等你有了老板再这样想。老板可是没有任期限制的。
不仅要学习,还要会学习
像上班一样去上学
人生的距离,是在大学拉开的
老师和老板的区别
第5条建议
Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping; they called it opportunity.
烙牛肉饼并不有损你的尊严。你的祖父母对烙牛肉饼可有不同的定义;他们称它为机遇。
人,首先是活给自己的
竖一个自己能跳过去的高度
珍惜别人给的每一次机会
把平凡的事情做得不平凡就是成功
第6条建议
If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about our mistakes, learn from them.
如果你陷入困境,那不是你父母的过错,所以不要尖声抱怨我们的错误,要从中吸取教训。
成长是一个痛苦的过程
你所遇到的事情,都是因你而发生的
人生的游戏不能存盘
从错误中找到意义
第7条建议
Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you are. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parents’ generation, try “delousing” the closet in your own room.
Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not. In some schools they have abolished failing grades; they’ll give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. This doesn’t bear the slightest resemblance to anything in real life.
Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself. Do that on your own time.
生活不分学期。你并没有暑假可以休息,也没有几位雇主乐于帮你发现自我。自己找时间做吧。
有些废话你必须在乎
你用在有意义事情上的时间并不多
没人在乎你对什么感兴趣
用好自己的聪明
第10条建议
Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
电视并不是真实的生活。在现实生活中,人们实际上得离开咖啡屋去干自己的工作。
战胜眼前的诱惑
说和做,永远都是两码事
只有争取,才能得到
时刻保持你的最佳工作状态
第11条建议
Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.
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