Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate. The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had. He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.

  • -- Al Franken 弗兰肯

是啊,我们一出校门就搬起石头砸了自己的脚。一开始经营这家公司的人在我们有多少资本的问题上误导了几乎所有人。他说我们有足够的钱过三年不赚钱的日子,也有足够的钱过三个星期。

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A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about refining it. A work of non-fiction is not as difficult to write as a work of fiction, but it's not as satisfying in the end.

一个非小说作家在他或她面前有一个人物的形状,并不断完善它。一部非小说作品并不像小说作品那么难写,但它最终并没有那么令人满意。

And so, little by little, I gradually divested myself of pretty nearly all of the guest conducting I used to do, because I was at the same time working in the places like the Met, where I could work in this sort of depth.

所以,一点一点地,我逐渐摆脱了几乎所有我曾经做过的客座指挥,因为我同时也在大都会这样的地方工作,在那里我可以有这样的深度。

When you have too much month for you paycheck, then what you need to do is realize that there is abundance all around you and focus on the abundance and not your lack and as night follows day abundance will come to you.

当你的月供太多时,你需要做的就是意识到你周围有很多富足,关注富足而不是匮乏,随着夜幕降临,富足会降临到你身上。

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

获得智慧有三种方法。第一种是反射,反射是最高的。第二个是限制,这是最简单的。第三是经验,这是最痛苦的。

Well, maybe so, although I don't think I am particularly gifted in languages. In fact, oddly enough, it may have something to do with my being slow at languages.

也许吧,虽然我不认为我在语言方面有什么特别的天赋。事实上,奇怪的是,这可能与我在语言方面的迟钝有关。

Naming a transition team varies with the intentions of the candidate; some candidates have been careful to name a transition team as much as a year in advance.

任命过渡团队的方式因候选人的意图而异;有些候选人甚至提前一年就谨慎地选择了一个过渡团队。

This ain't goodbye, this is just where love goes when words aren't warm enough to keep away the cold.

这不是再见,这只是爱要去的地方,当言语不足以温暖来驱走寒冷。

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

一切都是变化的。人们把喜剧演员当儿戏,把政客当儿戏。

I'm not into watching stuff I did last week, let alone three or four years ago.

我不喜欢看我上周做的东西,更不用说三四年前了。

There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.

没有一种劳动是不体面的;如果他们做对了。

And during my college, at the end of the junior year I worked in a mine.

在我上大学的时候,大三的时候,我在一家煤矿工作。

If you feel with all your heart that something is right, it probably is.

如果你真心觉得某件事是对的,那么它很可能就是对的。

I try not to drink too much because when I'm drunk, I bite.

我尽量不喝太多,因为当我喝醉的时候,我会咬人。

Hurt at first a little bit but now i'm so over it.

开始有点疼,但现在我已经完全好了。

I've been right more than I've been wrong

我对的比错的多

It is the first step that is difficult.

这是困难的第一步。