很多年前当圣安东尼奥马刺队获得NBA 总冠军的时候,石佛和他的队友们再一次会到更衣室,默默的望着更衣室的墙壁。
当一切都看起来无济于事的时候,我看到一个石匠敲石头,他一连敲了一百次,石头仍然纹丝不动。但当他敲第101次的时后,石头裂为两半。可我知道,让石头裂开的不是那最后一击,而是前面一百次敲击的结果。
——雅各布 里斯
When nothing seems help,i go and look at a stonecutter hammering away his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it .Yet at the hundred and first blowit will split in two ,and i know it was not that did it ---but all that had gone before.
----Jacob Riis
雅各布 里斯 是上世纪美国最著名的记者之一。简单的几句话却蕴含着世界上最简单的真理。