1. A decade of enquiry has convinced me we can. What separates the average person from Edison, Picasso or even Shakespeare isn't creative capacity. It's the ability to use that capacity by encouraging creative impulses and then acting upon them.
    十年的研究使我确信,我们都能变得那样聪明。普通人与爱迪生、毕加索或者莎士比亚之间的差别不在于创造力,而在于通过激发创造性灵感并将这种灵感付诸实践来利用创造力的能力。

2. Only a small canal separates Africa from Asia.
    把亚洲和非洲分隔开来的不过是一条不大的运河，

3. Isolation is one of the worst coping mechanisms you can use because it separates you from those things that could really help you.
    孤立法也许是人们用来对付文化冲击的最糟糕的办法之一，因为你把那些能真正帮助你的东西和你隔离开来了。