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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Well we took it apart scene by scene. We examined every sentence, every full stop, every comma. He has a most wonderful eye for detail, Roman, and you know, he's a very good artist.

我们一场一场地把它拆开。我们检查了每一个句子,每一个句号,每一个逗号。他对细节有非常敏锐的观察力,罗曼,你知道,他是个很好的艺术家。

And, we have no such thing as a budget anymore. Our manager freaks when we show him the bill. We're lavish to the bone, but all our money goes back into the product.

我们已经没有预算了。我们经理看到帐单时吓了一跳。我们花钱大手大脚,但所有的钱都花在产品上了。

An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are in conflict.

艺术家的早期作品不可避免地由多种倾向和兴趣组成,其中一些是相容的,另一些是冲突的。

I like the good life too much, I'm not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.

我太喜欢美好的生活了,我不擅长一个晚上接着一个晚上上台,也不擅长在潮湿的周三下午上台。

I'm an engineer. I see myself as a toolmaker and the musicians are my customers... They use my tools.

我是一个工程师。我把自己看作一个工具制造者,音乐家是我的顾客……他们用我的工具。

You can only do your best. That's all you can do. And if it isn't good enough, it isn't good enough.

你只能尽力而为。这就是你能做的。如果它不够好,它就不够好。

The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you.

一个无形的东西叫做好名字,它是由说你好话的数字组成的。

You make a choice in your life, and it affects your life in all the ways, good and bad.

你在生活中做出了一个选择,它影响着你的生活的方方面面,有好有坏。

Not everybody is perfect, and I don't think we should be looking for perfect people.

不是每个人都是完美的,我认为我们不应该寻找完美的人。

There is on way to be a perfect mother.... But a million ways to be a good one.

有一种方法可以成为一个完美的母亲……但要想成为一个好的人,有一百万种方法。

I'm not good enough, technically, to be a classic musician. I lack discipline.

从技术上讲,我还不够优秀,不足以成为一名古典音乐家。我缺乏纪律。

Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.

现实意味着你活到死。真正的事实是没有人想要现实。

I don't think just being skinny means necessarily anorexic.

我不认为瘦就一定是厌食症。

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。

Flying is such a joy. You just want to hoot.

飞行是如此的快乐。你只是想叫。

I was Google's first woman engineer.

我是谷歌的第一位女工程师。