When you’re interested, you’re effective. You find a way. 当你感兴趣的时候，你是有效的。你自己想办法

When you’re invested, you get results. You know the details, and you figure out how to best make use of them. 当你投入时，你会得到结果。你知道细节，你知道如何最好地利用它们。

The value of opportunity is not in the mere concept of opportunity, not in simply calling it by name. Opportunity yields its value only when it is specific and embodied, when you jump in and do the work it demands. 机会的价值不在于机会的概念，也不在于简单地称呼它。只有当机会具体具体化、具体化时，当你投身其中并完成它所要求的工作时，机会才会产生价值。

Scrutinize the territory at ground level, inch by inch. Get intimately involved in the challenges, the trade-offs, discovering what works and what doesn’t. 一寸一寸地仔细检查这片土地。密切参与挑战，权衡，发现什么可行，什么不可行。

An opportunity that’s handed to you isn’t going to do you any good. The opportunities that bring real richness are the ones you forge your way into and through. 一个交给你的机会对你没有任何好处。带来真实的丰富的机会是你努力进入和度过的机会。

Cherish the opportunities enough to give them the discipline, persistence, fascination, and creativity they deserve. That’s what turns them into treasure. 珍惜机会，给予他们应有的纪律、坚持、魅力和创造力。这就是把它们变成宝藏的原因。

— Ralph Marston - 拉尔夫·马斯顿