名人金句大師輕鬆讀

對大多數的我們來說，最可怕的危險不在於把目標設定得太高卻達不到，而是把目標設得過低而達到了。

The greatest danger for most of us doesn’t lie in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark.

米開朗基羅 Michelangelo
NO.385 賈伯斯創新秘笈

設計師知道自己的設計已經達到完美，不是因為再也沒有東西可添加，而是再也沒有東西可以拿掉了。

A designer knows he has achieved perfection, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

聖艾修伯里 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
NO.385 賈伯斯創新秘笈

成功是個很糟的老師，它讓聰明的人以為自己不能失敗。

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

比爾．蓋茲 Bill Gates
NO.639 不被淘汰的能力

巨大的成功就是最好的報復。

The best revenge is massive success.

法蘭克．辛納屈 Frank Sinatra
NO.300 占穩我的升遷路

令人訝異的是，讓頭腦有條不紊地運作，對許多人而言竟然是件辛苦的事。

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitively and systematically to work.

愛迪生 Thomas Edison
NO.268 請愛迪生當創意總監

我很少用文字思考。我的視覺圖像必須很辛苦地轉譯成傳統的語言和數學用語。

I rarely think in words at all. My visual images have to be translated laboriously into conventional verbal and mathematical terms.

愛因斯坦 Albert Einstein
NO.592 有圖有故事有真相

創造力是指打破長久存在的模式，以便以不同的眼光觀察事物。

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

愛德華．狄波諾 Edward De Bono
NO.623 創新看得見

光是在場，不算出席。

Presence is more than just being there.

邁爾康．富比士 Malcolm Forbes
NO.300 占穩我的升遷路

過了一定年紀之後，閱讀會讓我們難以追求創意。人只要讀太多書又很少用腦，就容易懶得思考。

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and who uses his brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

愛因斯坦 Albert Einstein
NO.236 下一個新富族就是你

深度工作不是作家和20世紀初哲學家的思古幽情，而是今日的貴重技能。

Deep work is not some nostalgic affectation of writers and early-twentieth-century philosophers. It’s instead a skill that has great value today.

卡爾．紐波特 Cal Newport
NO.627 深度工作術

洞見是創造性思考的踏腳石。

Insights are stepping stones for creative thinking.

羅恩．吉布森 Rowan Gibson
NO.623 創新看得見

洞見是創造性思考的踏腳石。

Insights are stepping stones for creative thinking.

羅恩．吉布森 Rowan Gibson
NO.623 創新看得見

洞見是創造性思考的踏腳石。

Insights are stepping stones for creative thinking.

羅恩．吉布森 Rowan Gibson
NO.623 創新看得見

問題從來不是如何想出嶄新、創新點子，而是如何剔除舊思惟。

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get the old ones out.

狄伊．哈克 Dee Hock
NO.623 創新看得見

在你知道如何遵守規則之前，犯規是非常不智的。

It’s not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.

艾略特 T.S. Eliot
NO.300 占穩我的升遷路

人為了不必費力思考，任何取巧方法都不會放過。

There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.

愛迪生 Thomas Edison
NO.268 請愛迪生當創意總監

思考是件苦差事，因此很少人會去做。

Thinking is hard work; that's why so few do it.

愛因斯坦 Albert Einstein
NO.37 快意人生思考法

一旦心智被新概念伸展，它就永遠不會回復到原先的狀態。

The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

愛默生 Ralph Waldo Emerson
NO.615 上台就要搶鋒頭

好的洞見就像是冰箱，因為當你打開冰箱門時，燈就會點亮。

A good insight is like a refrigerator, because the moment you look into it, a light comes on.

傑瑞米．布摩爾 Jeremy Bullmore
NO.623 創新看得見

利用反常現象，正是為你公司注入某種活力、刺激和實驗精神的機會，而這些也是新創公司的特色。

Taking advantage of an anomaly is an opportunity to inject into your company some of the vitality, excitement, and spirit of experimentation that is characteristic of start-ups.

羅伯．拉肯奧爾 Rob Lachenauer
NO.624 強硬派策略

我們不做的東西和我們做的東西同樣讓我感到驕傲。

I am as proud of what we don’t do as I am of what we do.

賈伯斯 Steve Jobs
NO.385 賈伯斯創新秘笈

對火堆來說，洞見就是火種。洞見代表產生偉大點子的最佳方式，這些點子能促進成功。

Insights are to an idea what firelighters are to a fire. They represent the best way of generating great ideas that inspire success.

史考特．葛瑞 Scott Gray
NO.623 創新看得見

創造性程序是包裹在結構四周的一團混亂，再用一小撮魔法粉末連接在一起。

The creative process is chaos wrapped around structure and held together by a sprinkle of magic dust.

史帝夫．傑爾 Steve Zelle
NO.623 創新看得見

威力強大的新點子絕對不會憑空而降。這些點子總是受到洞見啟發。

Powerful new ideas are never simply snatched out of the air. They are always inspired by insights.

羅恩．吉布森 Rowan Gibson
NO.623 創新看得見