Sunday, June 22, 2008

From J.K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter

The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination

"Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena I believed I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had already been realised, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life."

向死而生.

"We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better."

梦的力量.

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