There is a famous remark from Abraham Lincoln “Give mesix hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four sharpening theaxe." That's to say, sharpening your knife won't waste your time forcutting your firewood.

有一句名言，亞伯拉罕.林肯的“給我留個小時砍倒一棵樹，我會先花四小時磨斧頭。”這就是說，磨練你的刀不會浪費你的時間，減少您砍的柴火。

If your axe is blunt, it will seriously affect thespeed and efficiency of cutting trees. Even though sharpening the axe beforechopping down a tree takes you sometime, the speed and efficiency of it will beimproved a lot, and you will spend less time cutting down the same tree.Similarly, if we want to succeed, we'd better improve ourselves first. Whatshould we do to achieve success? Many of us have set lofty goals, but we hadbetter start by preparing to confront difficulties, and proceeding with the veryfoundation. Just stop talking and get down to working. With the exception ofperseverance and diligence, it is extremely necessary for us to have someuseful methods.

如果你的斧頭鈍了，會嚴重影響砍伐樹木的速度和效率。在砍到一棵樹前，去磨斧頭，即使會花一點時間，砍伐的速度和效率會提高很多，但是你會花更少的時間，減少花在同一棵樹上的時間。同樣的，如果我們想成功，我們最好先提高自己。我們應該做什么來取得成功呢？我們很多人都樹立遠大的目標，但我們應有更好的準備來面對這些困難，和進行重要的準備基礎。只是不說話，踏踏實實的工作。除了毅力和勤奮，對我們來說有一些有用的方法是十分必要的。

Just remember, haste makes waste. Good tools areprerequisite to the successful execution of a job. To gain success, we shouldchoose the right methods, and make enough preparations, and then we are on theway to success.

只需記得，欲速則不達。良好的工具是成功執行工作的先決條件。為了獲得成功，我們應該選擇正確的方法，并做好充分的準備，那么我們就在成功的路上了。