中国矿业大学(北京)硕士期末英语考试复习资料

how to succeed in it.

Others (books) are written by successful entrepreneurs who want to tell the

resources in the world.

Since those days we have learned far more about how the brain actually works.

our daily work and life.

Both sides of our brain are meant to be used together, just as we use both

Industrial designer Frank Novo recently described how he deliberately

That one of the easiest and quickest ways to get ahead is by consciously

And that from then on it is necessary to have an intelligent plan if progress is to

have a large vocabulary merely because of the opportunities of position.

A pianist may have the most beautiful tunes in his head, but if he had only five

accurate will be your thinking.

from mediocrity to success.

The new and higher position you have won will, in turn, give you a better

So whenever you find yourself getting angry about a difference of opinions, be

aware of opinions

newspaper belonging to a party that is not yours.

For those who have enough psychological imagination it is a good plan to imagine with a person having a different bias. This has one advantage, and

I have sometimes been led actually to change my mind a result of this kind of

less dogmatic and cocksure through realizing the possible reasonableness of a hypothetical opponent.

Be very wary of opinions that flatter your self-esteem. Both men and women,

own sex.

capacity for moral choice.

They become very excitable, they lose all sense of individual or collective

panic.

Reading is a private, not a collective activity. The writer speaks only to

The orator speaks to masses of individuals, already well-primed with

what he likes with them.

facts.

They regard over-simplification as the original sin of the mind and have no use of the slogans, the unqualified assertions and sweeping generations which are

There are no grey in his picture of the world; everything is either diabolically

Virtue and intelligence belong to human beings as individuals freely

But the subhuman mindlessness to which the demagogue makes his appeal, the moral imbecility on which he relies when he goads his victim into action,

women in masses.

are symptoms of herd-poisoning.

You can’t pick up a newspaper without reading of the nightmare that is child

My parents married when they were young and idealistic. I was only 2 when

Christmas or my birthday, and told me the package I never received “must have gotten lost in the mail,” I believed him whole heartedly.

remained my hero.

Until I was 13 or 14 years old, I was afraid to mail a letter for fear the same fate

about everything, became painfully obvious.