A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.

  • -- David Brinkley 戴维·布林克利

一个成功的人是能够用别人扔给他或她的砖头打下坚实基础的人。

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There was endless controversy as to whether the acts of the New Deal did actually move recovery or retard it, and nothing final could ever come of that bitter debate because it is forever impossible to prove what might have happened in place of what did.

关于新政的行为究竟是推动了经济复苏,还是阻碍了经济复苏,一直存在着无休止的争议,而这场激烈的辩论永远不会有任何结果,因为永远不可能证明本来会发生什么,而不是发生了什么。

I want to be able to look back and say, 'I've done everything I can, and I was successful.' I don't want to look back and say I should have done this or that. I'd like to change things for the younger generation of swimmers coming along.

我希望回首往事时能说,‘我已经做了我所能做的一切,我成功了。“我不想回头说,我应该做这个或那个。我想为即将到来的年轻一代游泳运动员做些改变。

I think that my main criticism in that book was directed at the general assumption that adaptation characterizes populations and species, rather than simply the individuals in the populations and species.

我认为我在那本书中的主要批评是针对一个普遍的假设,即适应性是种群和物种的特征,而不仅仅是种群和物种中的个体。

I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. An assault upon a town is a bad thing; but starving it is still worse.

我宁愿被攻击也不愿被忽视。因为你对一个作家所能做的最糟糕的事就是对他的作品保持沉默。袭击一个城镇是件坏事;但挨饿更糟糕。

Teach success before teaching responsibility. Teach them to believe in themselves. Teach them to think, 'I'm not stupid'. No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.

先教成功,再教责任。教他们相信自己。教他们思考,“我不傻”。没有孩子愿意失败。每个人都想成功。

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

一个好的领导者的天才之处在于,他留下了一个没有天才风度的常识可以成功处理的局面。

Just because you are successful in one area does not necessarily mean you're going to be successful in another.

仅仅因为你在一个领域取得了成功,并不一定意味着你会在另一个领域取得成功。

The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

最激烈的争论是关于任何一方都没有充分证据的问题。