The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

  • -- Joel A. Barker 乔尔A.巴克

预言的最终功能不是预言未来,而是创造未来。你成功的过去会阻碍你对未来的憧憬。

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If you're successful in what you do over a period of time, you'll start approaching records, but that's not what you're playing for. You're playing to challenge and be challenged.

如果你在一段时间内在你所做的事情上取得了成功,你就会开始接近记录,但这并不是你演奏的目的。你是在挑战和被挑战。

I know I had been successful in football. I had been successful in broadcasting. I didn't think that anything could touch me. I thought, I can beat anything.

我知道我在足球上很成功。我在广播事业上取得了成功。我不认为任何东西能碰我。我想,我能打败任何东西。

With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.

我手里拿着一支笔,成功地攻进了那些用剑和逐出教会的人被击退的堡垒。

If all you're trying to do is essentially the same thing as your rivals, then it's unlikely that you'll be very successful.

如果你和你的竞争对手做的事情本质上是一样的,那么你不太可能非常成功。