To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.

  • -- Alexander Calder 亚历山大考尔德

对一个工程师来说,足够好意味着完美。对于一个艺术家来说,没有什么是完美的。

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A couple of seats at a good picture house cost comparatively little but give a generous return in the shape of freshened minds and freedom from the worries that even the best regulated homes cannot always avoid.

几张好画屋的坐位相对来说成本较低,但却能带来丰厚的回报,让你头脑清醒,不用担心即使是监管最好的房子也无法避免的担忧。

That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking.

事情就是这样。你永远不会习惯有人离开的感觉。就在你认为已经和解、被接受的时候,有人把它指出来给你看,它又一次击中了你,令人震惊。

I've seen a lot of highs and a lot of lows with this team, and one thing I've learned is that even though you have lows, you're not going to have them forever, so you've got to keep fighting.

在这支球队里,我经历了很多高潮和低谷,我学到的一件事是,即使你有低谷,你也不会永远拥有它们,所以你必须继续奋斗。

My dad was an engineer and so I had this picture of science and technology and pursuits of the mind as being more impressive than artistic pursuits, which I saw a as kind of frivolous.

我的父亲是一名工程师,所以我对科学技术和精神追求的理解比艺术追求更深刻,我认为这是一种轻浮的追求。

I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have laughed in your face.

当我还是个孩子的时候,我最想做的就是成为一名小说家。如果你告诉我长大后要当艺术家或小说家,我会当面笑话你。

I was lucky enough to have the talent to play baseball. That's how I treated my career. I didn't think I was anybody special, anybody different.

我很幸运有打棒球的天赋。我就是这样对待我的事业的。我不认为我有什么特别,有什么不同。

Mike would engineer Mike would engineer Mike would engineer Mike would engineer Mike would engineer.

迈克会设计迈克会设计迈克会设计迈克会设计迈克会设计迈克会设计。

Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.

敬拜意味着崇敬和谦卑它意味着尊重你真实的自我和谦卑的幻想。

There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed.

世界上有足够的东西来满足每个人的需要,但却不够满足每个人的贪婪。

The wedding day is perfect for the bride only if she is marrying the best man!

只有当新娘嫁给了伴郎,婚礼那天才最适合她!

We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it.

除了我们对一件艺术品的感觉,我们没有其他的方法来认识它。

Because I'm not perfect looking, I get to play better roles.

因为我长得并不完美,所以我可以扮演更好的角色。

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

没有失败这回事。只有结果。

He was a god, such as men might be, if men were gods.

他是神,如果人是神的话,他可能是人。

I'm not a good collaborator in general.

总的来说,我不是一个好的合作者。

Is an artist much more than a beggar?

艺术家比乞丐重要得多吗?