Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

  • -- Khalil Gibran 纪伯伦

艺术是从显而易见和众所周知的走向神秘和隐蔽的一步。

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Of course there are many ways we can reuse something. We can dye it. We can cut it. We can change the buttons. Those are other ways to make it alive. But this is a new step to use anything - hats, socks, shirts. It's the first step in the process.

当然,我们有很多方法可以重用一些东西。我们可以给它染色。我们可以削减。我们可以换按钮。这些是让它活下来的其他方法。但这是使用任何东西的新步骤——帽子、袜子、衬衫。这是整个过程的第一步。

I took a little break - I was coming back to work and the last thing I was going to do was take a step backwards, so I knew that if I was going to take a feature it was going to have to be taking a step forward.

我休息了一下——我要回去工作了,我要做的最后一件事就是后退一步,所以我知道,如果我要开发一个功能,就必须向前迈进一步。

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.

一个真正的评论家应该专注于优点而不是缺点,去发现一个作家隐藏的美,并向世界传达那些值得他们观察的东西。

The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.

找到真理的上帝的第一步,是发现关于我自己的真理。如果我犯了错误,找到真理的第一步就是发现我的错误。

Conversations in the flesh are the first drafts toward the later conversations of the mind, where words and ideas are sorted and elaborated, recast.

肉体上的对话是通向心灵深处的对话的第一稿,在那里,文字和思想被整理、阐述、改写。

It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.

很明显,我们不能向一个从未经历过激情的人解释激情,就像我们不能向盲人解释光一样。

We seem to have set up some very arcane rules as to when it is actually OK to applaud.

对于什么时候鼓掌是可以的,我们似乎已经制定了一些非常神秘的规则。

Things aren't obvious unless we see them.

除非我们看到,否则事情并不明显。