If nothing is to be done in the given situation, he must invent plausible reasons for doing nothing; and if something must be done, he must suggest the something. The unpardonable sin is to propose nothing, when action is imperative.

  • -- Charles Edward Merriam 梅里亚姆

如果在给定的情况下什么也不做,他必须为什么也不做编造合理的理由;如果必须采取措施,他必须提出建议。当行动是必须的时候,什么也不提是不可饶恕的罪。

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While I was doing stand-up, I thought I knew for sure that success meant getting everyone to like me. So I became whoever I thought people wanted me to be. I'd say yes when I wanted to say no, and I even wore a few dresses.

当我在做单口相声时,我想我肯定成功意味着让每个人都喜欢我。所以我成为了人们想让我成为的那个人。当我想说“不”的时候我会说“是”,我甚至还穿了几件衣服。

Part of getting older is realizing that you can integrate all these different areas of your life, rather than the adolescent mindset, which for me lasted a long time, which says, 'It's all or nothing.'

随着年龄的增长,你会意识到,你可以把生活中所有这些不同的方面都整合起来,而不是像我一样,有很长一段时间都处于青春期的心态,认为“要么全有要么全无”。

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

先生,对于人类这种渺小的生物来说,没有什么是微不足道的。正是通过研究小事情,我们获得了尽可能少的痛苦和尽可能多的幸福的伟大艺术。

Joy is what's there when you stop doing everything else.

当你停止做其他事情的时候,快乐就来了。