Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

  • -- Edwin Herbert Land 埃德温·赫伯特·兰德

不要承担一个项目,除非它是明显重要的,几乎是不可能的。

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I've done that quite often, but I've got to be quite honest... as much as you would want to only do one at a time, sometimes projects overlap and there's nothing you can do. Sometimes you to have begin writing a new project just as you're finishing off another.

我经常这样做,但我必须非常诚实……尽管你一次只想做一件事,但有时项目重叠,你也无能为力。有时你不得不在完成另一个项目的同时开始写一个新项目。

From these inconsiderable attempts, some idea may be formed with what success, should Fortune afford an opportunity, I am likely to treat matters of greater importance.

从这些微不足道的尝试中,我可能会得出这样的结论:如果命运给我一个机会,我将获得怎样的成功?

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

官员的尊严往往与任职国家的重要性成反比。

How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time.

一个项目怎么会落后计划一年?过好每一天。