SOCIETY 社會
Dirty secrets come out in the wash
Nacchi Ma
Thursday, January 07, 2010
香港家庭一年用掉超過3萬噸的洗衣精和柔軟精，裝滿相當於12個奧林匹亞規格的標準游泳池或者172架波音747型的飛機。這驚人的數字推算資料來源是對有洗衣使用的2,141位用戶所做的網路調查。是上個月政府網站所舉辨的究研調查，此研究目標在調查化學洗衣劑對水污染的影響程度。每一個家庭調查確實平均一週洗衣三次，每一次使用1.4匙的清洗劑和0.9匙的柔軟精。也就是超過兩百萬的家庭用戶，每年總共42億次洗衣次數，消耗掉３萬噸的洗衣精和柔軟精，生活易網站的市調經理蘇家仁如此說。
Hong Kong households use over 30,000 tonnes of laundry detergent and fabric softener a year - equal to the volume of 12 Olympic-size swimming pools or the weight of 172 Boeing 747s.
The staggering figures emerged from an online survey of the laundry habits of 2,141 Hongkongers.
Conducted by government website ESDlife last month, the study aimed to investigate the impact of laundry chemicals on water pollution.
Each household surveyed did an average of 3 loads of laundry a week, using 1.4 scoops of detergent and a 0.9 scoop of fabric softener for each wash.
With more than two million households, this translates to the washing of 420 million loads of laundry each year, consuming 30,000 tonnes of washing powder and softener, said Siu Ka-yan, ESDlife market research manager.
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民主政治是政府的一種形式，在那裡當有一黨不做它們該做的事，另一黨將會強調如果他們在位的話，他們將做的比現有政府好得多。
“A democracy is a form of government where one party doesn’t do things as they ought to be done, and the other party tells how much better they would be done if it were in power.” (More Toasts, Gertrude Stein)
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甘地是印度最偉大的政治家與精神領袖，一生主張以消極不抵抗主義對抗極權與欺壓，以爭取自由平等。他認為一個人的生存與生活是他天賦之權利。1948年他在一個早禱會中被一狂熱信徒刺死。甘地生前曾列出人類七大罪行：
一、 法庭無法：歷史上第一件叛例就是，彼拉多雖查不出耶穌有罪，但卻仍將祂交給兵丁釘在十字架上。
二、 戰爭無道：殘害平民婦幼，如希特勒以煤氣毒死六百萬猶太人。
三、 買賣無信：良心被利所蒙蔽。
四、 教育偏差：重視學問，疏忽人格與生活之教導。
五 、無真愛之婚娶：為家世、為享樂而結合。
六、 政治不一：如人權標準不一，種族隔離。
七 、無誠心之敬拜：沒有委身之感動，只有儀式之表演。
從前甘地所看到的，半世紀後的今天仍然存在，值得我們常常默想。
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STRESS壓力
This is the problem with all stress-management tactics: you have to want them to succeed and be willing to throw yourself into them, or they'll fail. If you force yourself to do them, you'll just stress yourself out more. This is why exercise relieves stress for some people and makes others miserable. It's also why Sapolsky says he's "totally frazzled" but doesn't bother with meditation: "If I had to do that for 30 minutes a day," he says, "I'm pretty sure I'd have a stroke."
For all of the science's shortfalls, there's animal research that suggests why something that should lower stress can actually cause stress if it's done in the wrong spirit. In a classic study, scientists put two rats in a cage, each of them locked in a running wheel. The first rat could exercise whenever he liked. The second was yoked to the first, forced to run when his counterpart did. Exercise, like meditation, usually tamps down stress and encourages neuron growth, and indeed, the first rat's brain bloomed with new cells. The second rat, however, lost brain cells. He was doing something that should have been good for his brain, but he lacked one crucial factor: control. He could not determine his own "workout" schedule, so he didn't perceive it as exercise. Instead, he experienced it as a literal rat race.
This experiment brings up a troubling point about stress. Psychologists have known for years that one of the biggest factors in how we process stressful events is how much control we have over our lives. As a rule, if we feel we're in control, we cope. If we don't, we collapse. And no amount of meditation or reframing our thinking can change certain facts of our lives. With the market languishing and jobs hemorrhaging and the world going to hell, too many of us probably feel like that rat in the second wheel: it's hard to convince ourselves we're in control of anything.
("Who Says Stress Is Bad For You?" NEWSWEEK International Edition, From the magazine issue dated Feb 23, 2009)
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SUCCESS 成功
六個能達到成功的建議：
忘了過去的錯誤而致力於未來偉大的成就
時時精神奕奕, 並對每個你遇到的生物微笑
花更多時間充實自己以致你沒時間批評他人
不要憂慮，不要憤怒，不要恐懼
肯定你的美好, 不要用宏亮的聲音向世界宣揚，要有偉大行動
只要您對您裡面的最好是的真實, 居住在世界在您邊的信念
Six Suggestions for Success
To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievement of the future.
To wear a cheerful countenance at all times, and to have a smile for every living creature you meet.
To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you will have no time to criticize others.
To be too big for worry, too noble for anger and too strong for fear.
To think well of your self and to proclaim this fact to the world not in loud words, but in great deeds.
To live in the faith that the world is on your side so long as you are true to the best that is in you. (More Toasts, Gertrude Stein)
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「孩子！通往成功的路是漫長而困難的。」
「爸爸，沒有捷徑嗎？」
「當然有，孩子！我們的感化院內充滿這些走捷徑的人。」
“The road to success is apt to be a long, hard one, my boy.”
“Are there no short cuts, father?”
“Yes, my son. Our penitentiaries are full of men who took the short cuts.”
(More Toasts, Gertrude Stein)
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「爸爸，什麼是幸運呢？」
「孩子，幸運就是在我們失敗之處協助同伴成功。」
YOUNG SON: “What is luck, father?”
FATHER: “Luck, my son, is something that enables another fellow to succeed where we have failed.” (More Toasts, Gertrude Stein)
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為什麼他無法升遷？
他老注意看錶。
他總是發牢騷。
他從未準時進辦公室。
他問太多問題。
他常以”它是不必要的”作藉口。
他不為下一步做預備。
他不把心思放在工作上。
他沒有從錯誤中學習。
他在比自己差的人中找朋友。
他以敷衍了事糟蹋自己的能力。
他從不執行自己的判斷。
他認為不值得花時間去學習。
他效法那些比他更停滯不前的人。
他沒學會他最好的薪資不在他的薪資袋裡。
他沒有勉強去做一些事。
他是公司的總裁。
Why He Was Not Promoted
He watched the clock.
He was always grumbling.
He was never at the office on time.
He asked too many questions.
His stock excuse was “it isn’t necessary.”
He wasn’t ready for the next step.
He did not put his heart in his work.
He learned nothing from his blunders.
He chose his friends among his inferiors.
He ruined his ability by half-doing things.
He never acted on his own judgment.
He did not think it worth while to learn how.
He imitated the habits of other men who could stand more than he could.
He did not learn that the best part of his salary was not in his pay envelope.
He didn’t have to.
He was the President of the Company.
(More Toasts, Gertrude Stein)
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如同貪婪對健康的傷害般，野心也對權力犯下了同樣的錯誤，她一開始是僅以累積權力來做為得到幸福的手段，而結局卻成了以繼續不斷積聚權力為終極的目標。
Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end. Colton (More Toasts, Gertrude Stein)
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四個必勝的規則：
出席。
專注。
詢問。堅持。
The Four Surefire Rules for Success
Show up.
Pay attention.
Ask questions.
Don’t quit. (Bits and Pieces 10/9/97)
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當偉大的愛力克司小時候，問他的老師愛瑞司”一是多少？”，他很訝異老師竟然說隔天才能回答他，隔天早上老師給了答案”一就是夠了”。
When Alexander the Great was a young student, he asked his teacher Aristotle
“How much is one?” Alexander was surprised when his teacher said he
would have to think about the question overnight. The next morning he gave his answer: “One is enough.”
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一位野心勃勃的年輕人，他冒險大胆的問一位工業界財主。
年輕人:「請問可否告知你個人成功的祕訣 。」
財主:「那沒有什麼祕訣，你只要不斷的跳躍入機會 。」
年輕人:「我如何得知機會的來臨呢？」
財主:「你不會知道的，但你就是需要不斷的尋找跳入去。」
An ambitious young man ventured to approach a wealthy industrialist.
Young man: "Would you mind telling me your secret of personal success?”
Rich man: “There is no secret. You just have to jump at your opportunities.”
Young man: "But how will I know when these opportunities comes?”
Rich man: "You can’t—you just have to keep jumping.”
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永不停止追求卓越
超越存在--生存。
超越接觸—感受。
超越看見—觀察。
超越閱讀--吸收。
超越聽到--聆聽。
超越聆聽—了解。
Never stop reaching for more
Do more than exist-live.
Do more than touch-feel.
Do more than look-Observe.
Do more than .read-absorb.
Do more than hear-listen.
Do more than listen-understand.
John H.Rhoades
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貧賤之交不可忘，糟糠之妻不下堂 《後漢書 宋弘傳》
宋弘是東漢光武帝時代的名臣，官至大司馬（即陸軍司令官）。光武帝相當欣賞他的才華與為人，時光武帝的姐姐新寡，於是帝乃有意賜婚，撮合二人。
但宋弘卻以這兩句話謝絕了光武帝的好意。他的意思是說：貧賤時所交的朋友，在自己飛黃騰達時，絕不可忘記。而長年同甘共苦的妻子，一旦富貴榮華時，也絕不能予以拋棄，反之要對其體貼愛護有加。
其實，相同的故事也曾發生在光武的先祖西漢宣帝身上。漢宣帝自幼長於民間，在其還未登基時，也曾娶了一位民女許氏為妻。後來宣帝即位，霍光掌權，欲把女兒嫁宣帝為后，可是這位有情有意的皇帝不忘糟糠之情，加以拒絕，並馬上封許氏為后。
光武帝也是來自民間，可是他顯然忘了這段歷史，真貴人多忘事呀！
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Quotes引證 :
The longer you are in the game the more labels are attached to you. If you are not winning you are useless, if you are winning you’re great. Alex Ferguson
A first failure is often a blessing. A. L. Brown.
Try not to be a success, but rather try to become a man of value. Albert Einstein
My IQ jumped 10 points and I became much funnier. Carl Bass, new CEO of Autodesk
There is no success without sacrifice. If you succeed without sacrifice it is because someone has suffered before you. If you sacrifice without success it is because someone will succeed after. Adoniram Judson
I pity the man who falls in love with his image as it is drawn by public opinion during the honeymoon of publicity. Dag Hammarskjöld
To succeed, you must first improve. To improve, you must first practice. To practice, you must first learn. To learn, you must first fail.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. Abraham Lincoln
A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. Fred Allen
The secret to success is to learn to accept the impossible, to do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable. Nelson Mandela
Success is not a matter of luck. It is mainly a matter of first, work; second, work; third, work – with, of course, a plentiful mixture of brain, foresight, and imagination. B.C. Forbes
There are three classes of people in this world: the “I will’s”, and the “I won’ts” and the “I can’t’s”. The first accomplish everything, the second oppose everything and the third fail in everything.
The success family: The father of success is work. The mother of success is ambition. The oldest son is common sense. Some of the other children are : perseverance, honesty, thoroughness, foresight, enthusiasm and cooperation and you will be able to get along pretty well with success.
A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did. Anonymous
Four steps to achievement: Plan purposely. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently. William A. Ward
After Edison had experimented 10,000 times with his storage battery and still couldn’t get it to work, a friend tried to comfort him. “Why, I have not failed,” Edison replied. “I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” Nearly deaf, with only three months of formal schooling, Thomas A. Edison patented more than 1,000 inventions. During his 60 years of reaching toward the unknown, Edison failed more than he succeeded. Douglas Parson
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well. John D. Rockefeller
The worst thing that can happen to a man is to succeed before he is ready. Martin Lloyd-Jones
Success is not forever and failure is not fatal. Don Shula
I would rather fail in the cause that some day will triumph than triumph in a cause that some day will fail. Woodrow Wilson
你紅濄我，我開心。王晶
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