We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

  • -- Barack Obama 巴拉克奥巴马

我们需要将这种卓越的理念内化。没有多少人会花很多时间去追求卓越。

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As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence.

因此,进步仅仅意味着更大的权力、更多的利润、更高的生产率、更多的纸张繁荣,所有这些都可以转化为只与大小或规模有关的标准,而不是质量或卓越性。

Really I suppose what I hate myself most on is showing other people where to dig, not having time to do intensive and exclusive digging myself. I am a dowser and not a navvy.

真的,我想我最讨厌自己的地方是告诉别人去哪里挖,而不是花时间自己去挖。我是个勤杂工,不是挖土的。

So many people have left my life. So from now on as soon as i meet someone new i will be prepared for the worst.

那么多人离开了我的生活。所以从现在开始,只要我遇到一个新的人,我就会做好最坏的打算。

It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check.

在没有现实检验的情况下,你很难一次独自工作数年。

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

礼物的卓越之处不在于它的价值,而在于它的恰当。

I spend shockingly little time thinking about real-world stuff.

我花在思考现实世界的时间少得惊人。

You get kind of bored being in catalogues all the time.

你会觉得一直在目录里有点无聊。

There's many a man has more hair than wit.

有许多人头发比智慧多。