Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

别自寻烦恼地只想着比你同时代的人或是先辈们出色，试着比你自己更出色吧。

-- William Faulkner 威廉·福克纳