The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.

  • -- Thomas Alva Edison 托马斯·阿尔瓦·爱迪生

很多人没有意识到机遇的存在,是因为它总是穿着工装裤走来走去,看上去像在努力工作。

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I think some people would love to be able to make the clothes I make - and of course, I do influence them, but they keep simplifying, and minimalism doesn't quite work.

我想有些人会喜欢做我做的衣服——当然,我确实影响了他们,但他们一直在简化,而极简主义并不怎么管用。

Personally, I don't like the term 'success.' It's too arbitrary and too relative a thing. It's usually someone else's definition, not yours.

就我个人而言,我不喜欢“成功”这个词。这太武断,太相对了。通常是别人的定义,而不是你的。

I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.

我总是写得很紧凑,这是有原因的。使用你不会用到的词是没有意义的。

I think there are a lot more writers who are actors than you know; they just don't have roles on famous TV shows that you recognize.

我认为有很多作家是演员,比你知道的多得多;他们只是在著名的电视节目中没有你认识的角色。

Share what you like and don’t pretend to like things you don’t. There are many ways to be honest but polite.

分享你喜欢的东西,不要假装喜欢你不喜欢的东西。有很多方法可以做到诚实但有礼貌。

Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.

我们的理性可能会证明它会证明什么:我们的理性只是从自然中发出的一束微弱的光线。

People recognize me, I have scripts, and auditions. And I meet great people.

人们认出了我,我有剧本,还有试镜。我遇到了很棒的人。

Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.

职业足球就像核战争。没有赢家,只有幸存者。

But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.

但当我不工作的时候,我通常是站在窗前俯视大地。

Words do not pay for my dead people.

言语不能补偿我死去的亲人。