You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.

  • -- A. R. Ammons 安蒙斯

当你发现,不是你能集中精力做什么,而是你不能集中精力做什么时,你就有了自己的身份。

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The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others.

当你放弃国家权力时,你就放弃了自己的身份,这种想法毫无用处。不,实际上恰恰相反:如果以明智的方式来做,你就能获得与其他国家合作更好地解决国家问题的主权。

If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.

如果有什么东西可以被称为天才的话,那就是把注意力集中在一件事上的能力。这件事能使我们把它牢牢地记在心里,直到我们从各个方面对它进行了准确的考察。

The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.

头脑永远是心甘情愿的仆人,它会对勇敢作出反应,因为勇敢实际上是一种传递精神资源的命令。

You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living.

你必须敢于冒着身份的风险去追求比你现在生活的更伟大的未来。