勵志名言 & 名人雋語
發言者：Thomas Friedman (紐約時報專欄作家)
- 發言背景：說明他為什麼最喜歡台灣這個國家，因為缺乏資源的台灣人民養成了不斷粹煉本身技能的習慣和文化，而這才是真正取之不盡、用之不竭的再生能源。
- 發言時間：2012/3/10
- 發言內容："Every so often someone asks me: “What's your favorite country, other than your own?”
I've always had the same answer: Taiwan." "Because rather than digging in the ground and mining whatever comes up, Taiwan has mined its 23 million people, their talent, energy and intelligence — men and women. I always tell my friends in Taiwan: “You're the luckiest people in the world. How did you get so lucky?
You have no oil, no iron ore, no forests, no diamonds, no gold, just a few small deposits of coal and natural gas — and because of that you developed the habits and culture of honing your people's skills, which turns out to be the most valuable and only truly renewable resource in the world today.” " (取材自NYT)
發言者：龍應台 (文學家、行政院文建會主任委員)
- 發言背景：勉勵香港大學醫學院畢業生能在「看起來很不重要、極其普通的日常生活裡的判斷和抉擇」中，實踐醫人醫國的理想。
- 發言時間：2011/11/28
- 發言內容：「你是否想過：在你的時代裡，在你的社會裡，你會抵抗些什麼，堅持些什麼？」「
我倒不希望你能立即回答，因為如果你能隨口回答，我反而要懷疑你的真誠。一個人所抵抗的以及所堅持的，匯成一個總體，就叫做『信仰』。但是信仰，依靠的不是隆重的大聲宣告；信仰深藏在日常生活的細節裡，信仰流露在舉手投足之間最尋常最微小的決定裡。」
(取材自中時電子報)
發言者：Thomas Friedman (紐約時報專欄作家)
- 發言背景：呼籲領導者應勇於向選民說「不」，以刪減不必要的支出，同時要將省下的經費積極投資在教育、基礎建設及創新上。
- 發言時間：2010/12/25
- 發言內容："And we are entering an era where to be a leader will mean, on balance, to take things away from people. It is the only way we'll get our fiscal house in order before the market, brutally, does it for us." "Everyone knows the first rule of holes: When you're in one, stop digging. But people often forget the second rule of holes: You can only grow your way out. You can't borrow your way out." "America can no longer afford a politics of irresponsible profligacy. But..America cannot afford a politics of mindless austerity either." "Cut here. Invest there." (取材自NYT)
發言者：John Grisham (美國知名作家、律師)
- 發言背景：敘述作家成名前的人生歷練，許多看似浪費時間的經歷，後來都成為寫作的養分
- 發言時間：2010/09/05
- 發言內容："I was in my early teens, ... For $1.50 an hour, I labored like a grown man as we laid mile after mile of chain-link fence."
"I crawled under houses, into the cramped darkness, ... to dig until I found the problem, then crawl back out and report what I had found. I vowed to get a desk job."
"Each year from January through March I was at the State Capitol in Jackson, wasting serious time, but also listening to great storytellers. I took a lot of notes, not knowing why but feeling that, someday, those tales would come in handy."
(取材自NYT)
發言者：Tamaki Iijima
(日本家庭主婦)
- 發言背景：呼籲日本國民別怕右翼份子的暴力威脅，勇於參與揭露日本漁民殘忍屠殺海豚真相的影片放映會
- 發言時間：2010/06/18
- 發言內容：More than 700 people lined up to attend a one-time screening last week in central Tokyo organized by free-speech advocates.
“I'm glad I saw it,” said Tamaki Iijima, a 53-year-old homemaker from Saitama, west of Tokyo. “We live in a society that hides away the dirty things. To know is a big first step.”
(取材自NYT)
發言者：Bill Clinton (美國前總統)
- 發言背景：紀念15年前發生的奧克拉荷馬市聯邦政府大樓爆炸事件，呼籲美國人民力守「非暴力」這條民主的底線
- 發言時間：2010/04/18
- 發言內容：Civic virtue can include harsh criticism, protest, even civil disobedience. But not violence or its advocacy. That is the bright line that protects our freedom.
Fifteen years ago, the line was crossed in Oklahoma City. In the current climate, with so many threats against the president, members of Congress and other public servants, we owe it to the victims of Oklahoma City, and those who survived and responded so bravely, not to cross it again.
(取材自NYT)
發言者：Thomas Friedman (紐約時報專欄作家)
- 發言背景：對新創事業能靈活運用遍布全球的資源大表讚揚
- 發言時間：2010/04/17
- 發言內容：This kind of very lean start-up, where the principals are rarely in the same office at the same time, and which takes advantage of all the tools of the flat world — teleconferencing, e-mail, the Internet and faxes — to access the best expertise and low-cost, high-quality manufacturing anywhere, is the latest in venture investing. You've heard of cloud computing. I call this “cloud manufacturing.”
(取材自NYT)
發言者：Paul Krugman (2008年諾貝爾經濟學獎得主、普林斯頓大學教授、紐約時報專欄作家)
- 發言背景：認為「銀行該倒就讓他倒」是不負責任的說法，就像是袖手旁觀大樓失火一樣，反而會導致災難擴大
- 發言時間：2010/04/15
- 發言內容：...letting banks fail — as opposed to seizing and restructuring them — is a bad idea for the same reason that it's a bad idea to stand aside while an urban office building burns. In both cases, the damage has a tendency to spread. In 1930, U.S. officials stood aside as banks failed; the result was the Great Depression. In 2008, they stood aside as Lehman Brothers imploded; within days, credit markets had frozen and we were staring into the economic abyss. (取材自NYT)
發言者：Ben S. Bernanke (美國聯邦準備理事會主席)
- 發言背景：提醒美國執政當局必須及早處理赤字問題，且短期內除了增稅或削減社福支出，別無良方
- 發言時間：2010/04/14
- 發言內容：Although sizable deficits are unavoidable in the near term, maintaining the confidence of the public and financial markets requires that policymakers move decisively to set the federal budget on a trajectory toward sustainable fiscal balance. ...the nation will ultimately have to choose among higher taxes, modifications to entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare, less spending on everything else from education to defense, or some combination of the above. These choices are difficult, and it always seems easier to put them off — until the day they cannot be put off any more. (取材自NYT)
發言者：Thomas Friedman (紐約時報專欄作家)
- 發言背景：認為美國對伊拉克及阿富汗的政策應抱持理想主義--幫他們建立好的國家治理團隊--美國才有辦法脫身
- 發言時間：2010/04/13
- 發言內容：...in both countries, it still is not clear if the “good guys” will really turn out to be good.
In the cold war all that mattered was whether a country was allied with us. What matters in Obama's war in Afghanistan is whether the Afghan people are allied with their own government and each other.
When Karzai tries to gut an independent election commission, that matters. When the Iraqi prime minister, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, refuses to accept a vote count certified by the U.N. that puts him in second place, that matters.
As I have said before, friends don't let friends drive drunk — especially when we're still in the back seat alongside an infant named Democracy.
(取材自NYT)
發言者：Richard P. Wenzel (Virginia Commonwealth大學醫學教授)
- 發言背景：回顧H1N1一週年：認為墨西哥不隱瞞疫情是H1N1得以控制的重要關鍵，並提醒大眾莫輕忽H1N1的後續影響
- 發言時間：2010/04/12
- 發言內容：Only 10 days passed between Mexican health authorities' recognition of a possible new epidemic and their announcement of it, a sharp contrast to the many months in 2003 between the outbreak of SARS in China and its public declaration.
Thanks to that decision, we had an edge in fighting this virus.
...it is likely that H1N1 will continue to cause sporadic cases. In some highly susceptible, unvaccinated populations it may even produce local outbreaks.
(取材自NYT)
發言者：Maureen Dowd (紐約時報專欄作家)
- 發言背景：對伊斯蘭教及天主教會限制女性發展的作法提出批判，並反證說耶穌從未把女性放在次等地位
- 發言時間：2010/04/10
- 發言內容：To circumscribe women, Saudi Arabia took Islam's moral codes and orthodoxy to extremes not outlined by Muhammad; the Catholic Church took its moral codes and orthodoxy to extremes not outlined by Jesus. In the New Testament, Jesus is surrounded by strong women and never advocates that any woman — whether she's his mother or a prostitute — be treated as a second-class citizen. (取材自NYT)
發言者：Paul Krugman (2008年諾貝爾經濟學獎得主、普林斯頓大學教授、紐約時報專欄作家)
- 發言背景：認為希臘的債務問題已經沒有不具痛苦的解藥，並提醒美國要藉著經濟成長及溫和通膨來處理債務問題
- 發言時間：2010/04/08
- 發言內容：The debt crisis in Greece is approaching the point of no return. Greece could alleviate some of its problems by leaving the euro, and devaluing. But it's hard to see how Greece could do that without triggering a catastrophic run on its banking system.
There are no good answers here — actually, no nonterrible answers. But what are the lessons for America? Of course, we should be fiscally responsible.
Equally important, however, we need to steer clear of deflation, or even excessively low inflation.
America's public debt will be manageable if we eventually return to vigorous growth and moderate inflation. (取材自NYT)
發言者：Thomas Friedman (紐約時報專欄作家)
- 發言背景：認為大眾應揚棄管的最少的政府是最好的政府這種過時的意識形態，並批判共和黨為反對而反對的作為
- 發言時間：2010/04/06
- 發言內容：...we are now in a hypercompetitive global economy, where the country that thrives will be the one that brings together the most educated, creative and diverse work force with the best infrastructure... So, government matters. ... while today’s G.O.P./Tea Party is just not in the game. Today, we have no real opposition party with its own pathway to the 21st century. We just have opposition. (取材自NYT)
發言者：Thomas Friedman (紐約時報專欄作家)
- 發言背景：提出解決就業問題的長遠之計：強化教育及擴增高素質移民配額，以孕育出更多新創事業
- 發言時間：2010/04/03
- 發言內容：Good-paying jobs don’t come from bailouts. They come from start-ups. And where do start-ups come from? They come from smart, creative, inspired risk-takers. How do we get more of those? There are only two ways: grow more by improving our schools or import more by recruiting talented immigrants. (取材自NYT)
發言者：Hamid Karzai (阿富汗總統)
- 發言背景：反駁西方媒體對他的選舉舞弊指控
- 發言時間：2010/04/02
- 發言內容：“There is no doubt that the fraud was very widespread,” Mr. Karzai said, “but this fraud was not committed by Afghans - it was committed by foreigners.” As for American, British and other NATO troops now fighting insurgents, he said, “There is a thin curtain between invasion and cooperation-assistance.” (取材自NYT)
發言者：Ryan Kenney (Apple產品愛用者)
- 發言背景：蘋果迷表達對iPad的渴望
- 發言時間：2010/04/01
- 發言內容：“It's a want, as opposed to a need,” said one of those Apple fans, Ryan Kenney, 29, describing his nascent desire for the iPad in New York this week. “You don't really need it. Between a smartphone and a laptop, that covers all the bases.” “But I'd wear their underwear if they made it.” (取材自NYT)
發言者：Thomas Friedman (紐約時報專欄作家)
- 發言背景：對阿富汗總統虛與委蛇的治國態度表達不滿
- 發言時間：2010/03/30
- 發言內容：
In the Middle East, what leaders tell you in private in English is irrelevant. All that matters is what they will defend in public in their own language. We have thousands of U.S. troops on the ground in Afghanistan and more heading there. Love it or hate it, we're now deep in it, so you have to want our engagement there to build something that is both decent and self-sustaining — so we can get out.
(取材自NYT)
發言者：
Dr. Steven W. Seiden
(心臟科醫生)
- 發言背景：對FDA擴大心血管藥品適用範圍表達看法
- 發言時間：2010/03/30
- 發言內容：The rate of heart attacks, for example, was 0.37 percent, or 68 patients out of 8,901 who took a sugar pill. Among the Crestor patients it was 0.17 percent, or 31 patients. That 55 percent relative difference between the two groups translates to only 0.2 percentage points in absolute terms — or 2 people out of 1,000.
“That's statistically significant but not clinically significant,” said Dr. Steven W. Seiden.
(取材自NYT)
發言者：Ross Douthat (紐約時報專欄作家)
- 發言背景：希望教宗對神父戀童醜聞表達懺悔
- 發言時間：2010/03/28
- 發言內容：Popes do not resign. But a pope can clean house. And a pope can show contrition, on his own behalf and on behalf of an entire generation of bishops, for what was done and left undone in one of Catholicism's darkest eras. This is Holy Week, when the first pope, Peter, broke faith with Christ and wept for shame. There is no better time for repentance. (取材自NYT)
發言者：Maureen Dowd (紐約時報專欄作家)
- 發言背景：建議天主教會應引入女性擔任神職人員並容許神職人員結婚
- 發言時間：2010/03/27
- 發言內容：If the church could throw open its stained glass windows and let in some air, invite women to be priests, nuns to be more emancipated and priests to marry, if it could banish criminal priests and end the sordid culture of men protecting men who attack children, it might survive. The nuns have historically cleaned up the messes of priests. And this is a historic mess. Benedict should go home to Bavaria. And the cardinals should send the white smoke up the chimney, proclaiming “Habemus Mama.” (取材自NYT)
發言者：Barack Obama (美國總統)
- 發言背景：在全民健保法簽署儀式上發言
- 發言時間：2010/03/23
- 發言內容：“Our presence here today is remarkable, and improbable,” the president said. “With all the punditry, all of the lobbying, all of the game-playing that passes for governing in Washington, it's been easy at times to doubt our ability to do such a big thing, such a complicated thing; to wonder if there are limits to what we as a people can still achieve.” (取材自NYT)
發言者：Thomas Friedman (紐約時報專欄作家)
- 發言背景：出席 Intel 高中生科學獎頒獎典禮
- 發言時間：2010/03/20
- 發言內容："In today's wired world, the most important economic competition is no longer between countries or companies. The most important economic competition is actually between you and your own imagination." "If I just have the spark of an idea now, I can get a designer in Taiwan to design it. I can get a factory in China to produce a prototype. I can get a factory in Vietnam to mass manufacture it." "The one thing that is not a commodity and never will be is that spark of an idea. And this Intel dinner was all about our best sparklers." (取材自NYT)
發言者：胡志強 (台中市長)
- 發言背景：胡志強應邀至政治大學演講
- 發言時間：2010/03/18
- 發言內容：台中市長胡志強應政大邀請，以「發言人的修為」為題演講，他指出，公關發言如同拆彈部隊，不是送禮吃飯，也不是應付記者；「發言人的修養要有藝術般的優美、科學般的可信以及生命般的必要。」(取材自聯合新聞網)
發言者：Nancy Pelosi (美國聯邦眾議院議長)
- 發言背景：美國民主黨政府致力推動全民健保新制度，卻遭到保險業者大力阻撓。
- 發言時間：2010/03/17
- 發言內容：Ms. Pelosi said she was ready for a fierce fight. Insurance companies “will do anything to stop this legislation,” she said, asserting, “They have made a fortune off of the misfortune of the American people.” (取材自NYT)
發言者：朱學恆 (魔戒中文版翻譯者、奇幻文藝基金會執行長、MIT開放式課程中譯計畫發起人)
- 發言背景：朱學恆應邀至建國中學演講
- 發言時間：2010/01/08
- 發言內容：「人之所以成為英雄，是因為選擇，不是能力… 」「宅神」朱學恒昨天到建中演講「創意與熱情」，幽默的談吐，搭配大量的勵志影片，學生反應熱烈，結束時掌聲整整持續兩分多鐘，連校長蔡炳坤都忍不住表示「有點被感動到了」。(取材自聯合新聞網)