Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

  • -- Benjamin Franklin 本杰明富兰克林

与其说人类的幸福来自偶尔发生的鸿运,不如说来自每天都有的小实惠。

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But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it.

但是当我画一幅画的时候,我会从一幅画开始画,但是我会在画中加入一些我非常确定我想要的东西,然后用印刷的点或彩纸在画上拼贴,在我真正投入之前。

Every day I shall put my papers in order and every day I shall say farewell. And the real farewell, when it comes, will only be a small outward confirmation of what has been accomplished within me from day to day.

每天我都要把文件整理好,每天我都要告别。真正的告别,当它到来的时候,只是一个小小的外在的确认,证实我每天在内心所取得的成就。

Often I'll try things that just won't happen the way I'd like them to, so hearing that they're not working saves me some wear and tear the next time around.

我经常会尝试一些我不希望发生的事情,所以当我听到它们不起作用的时候,我就会在下一次的时候节省一些精力。

You never know how things are going to turn out, however much you plan. But you already know that.

无论你怎么计划,你永远不知道事情的结果会怎样。但你已经知道了。

My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.

我的父亲是一位政治家,我是一位政治女性。我父亲是圣人,我不是。

Try to arrange things so that you can have a reasonable bit of quiet every day.

尽量把事情安排好,这样你每天就能有一个合理的安静时间。

In the early days I had a very black-and-white view of everything.

在最初的日子里,我对每件事的看法都是非黑即白的。

But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.

但如果技术奇点能够发生,它就会发生。