How to Live on 24 Hours a Day

看到这本书，觉得不亚于看到《1984》、《万历十五年》、《奇特的一生》等书时给我的震撼。

看了大家的书评，感觉评价不是顶高，
可能和翻译也有关系，我看的是原文，行文幽默诙谐，节奏也把握地很好，心情很轻松，但是很有警示意义。
一个晚上就津津有味的读完了，摘抄一些好的句子如下：

1.What I suggest is that at six o'clock you look facts in the face and
admit that you are not tired (because you are not, you know), and that you arrange your evening so that it is not cut in the middle by a meal. By so doing you will have a clear expanse of at least three hours. I do not suggest that you should employ three hours every night of your life in using up your mental energy. But I do suggest that you might, for a commencement, employ an hour and a half every other evening in some important and consecutive cultivation of the mind. You will still be left with three evenings for friends, bridge, tennis, domestic scenes, odd reading, pipes, gardening, pottering, and prize competitions. You will still have the terrific wealth of forty-five hours between 2 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. Monday. If you persevere you will soon want to pass four evenings, and perhaps five, in some sustained endeavour to be genuinely alive. And you will fall out of that habit of muttering to yourself at 11.15 p.m., "Time to be thinking about going to bed."

The man who begins to go to bed forty minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored; that is to say, he is not living.——这句实在是太赞了，笑死我也。




2.as you walk in the street, or sit in the corner of the compartment behind a pipe, or "strap-hang" on the Subterranean, who is to know that you are engaged in the most important of daily acts? What asinine boor can laugh at you?——想象一个人隐秘地的brain storm，at any place，真是是一件很有趣的意思，比在公交车上联系夹屁屁翘臀都要来得喜悦~


3.not to mince the matter, habits are the very dickens to change! Further, any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.——it's tru。是这样的。



4.Self-respect is at the root of all purposefulness, and a failure in an enterprise deliberately planned deals a desperate wound at one's selfrespect. Hence I iterate and reiterate: Start quietly, unostentatiously.


5.People say: "One can't help one's thoughts." But one can. The control of the thinking machine is perfectly possible.

And since nothing whatever happens to us outside our own brain; since nothing hurts us or gives us pleasure except within the brain, the supreme importance of being able to control what goes on in that mysterious brain is patent.

This idea is one of the oldest platitudes, but it is a platitude who's profound truth and urgency most people live and die without realising. People complain of the lack of power to concentrate, not witting that they may acquire the power, if they choose.

happiness is attainable, by realising that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.


6.Try it. Get your mind in hand. And see how the process cures half the evils of life --especially worry, that miserable, avoidable, shameful disease--worry!
——对焦虑（worry）的解释很赞。焦虑的确是人要面对的一个无时不在的主旋律。


真的是一本好书，很多感悟，有空来写。