Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.

  • -- Eric Hoffer 埃里克·霍弗

社会进步更容易通过对结果质量的关注而不是单纯的动机来实现。

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A lot of athletes have star quality, but they just can't perform in front of a camera. So no matter how good-looking you are, no matter what kind of presence you have, you still have to be able to be a convincing performer to become a star.

很多运动员都有明星的素质,但他们就是不能在镜头前表演。所以,不管你有多漂亮,不管你有什么样的风度,你仍然要成为一个有说服力的表演者,才能成为明星。

Sometimes, his methods and his motives are questionable and even his morals are questionable in the way he does things. But I think his intention is always to protect his daughter.

有时,他的方法和动机是可疑的,甚至他的道德是可疑的,在他做事情的方式。但我认为他的意图一直是保护他的女儿。

Social psychology has, as a rule, dealt with various phases of social experience from the psychological standpoint of individual experience.

社会心理学通常从个体经验的心理学角度来处理社会经验的各个阶段。

Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them.

质量是由工作的深度决定的,在这个深度中,工作本身包含了多种选择,因此掌握了它们。

No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.

无论母亲多大年纪,她都会观察她的中年孩子是否有进步的迹象。

Living in a tower, however secure it may feel, is hardly a social attribute.

住在高楼里,无论感觉多么安全,都算不上是一种社会属性。

People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware.

人们有他们不知道的动机和思想。