Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

  • -- André Maurois 安德烈·毛罗斯

变老只不过是一个忙碌的人没有时间养成的坏习惯。

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I'd like to think that, at the end of the day, you can look at the things that I made as a young person and the things I'll continue to make as I get older and they'll be consistently interesting and soulful things, and if you like them they'll be a part of your dimension, as well.

我想,在一天结束的时候,你可以看看我做的东西作为一个年轻人,我将继续随着我年龄的增长,他们会一直有趣和深情的事情,如果你喜欢他们他们会成为你的一部分维度,。

The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience - there and then gone.

印刷的页面传达信息和承诺,需要积极参与。电视传达情感和经验,它在逻辑上所能做的非常有限。这是一种存在的体验——在那里,然后消失。

A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.

一个孩子也永远无法理解这样一个事实:同样是这位母亲,她做饭做得那么好,那么关心他的咳嗽,那么慈祥地帮助他做作业,在某些情况下,她对他的感情不过是隐藏在他内心世界的一堵墙。

The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed.

法律总是建立在道德观念的基础上,如果所有代表道德选择的法律都要根据正当程序条款被废除,法庭将会非常忙碌。

The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.

最安全、最适当的苦修形式似乎是使肉体痛苦而不穿透骨头的苦修,也就是说,使人受苦而不使人生病。

The Northern idea of form is more of a process. The various units of the form overlap. You can't tell where some things stop and new things start. This is typical of Sibelius.

北方的形式观念更像是一个过程。表单的各个单元相互重叠。你不知道一些事情在哪里停止,新的事情在哪里开始。这是典型的西贝利厄斯。

One of my side strange abilities is to hear a good song, no matter how it's being performed. Even if you get a bad performance, I can still hear that there's a good song.

我有一种奇怪的能力,那就是能听到一首好听的歌,不管它是如何演奏的。即使你表现不好,我仍然能听到有一首好歌。

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

如果你想在大事上取得卓越,你就得在小事上养成习惯。优秀也不例外,它是一种普遍的态度。

A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.

一个懒惰的人,不管他有什么才能,都会使自己陷入被动的思想和二流的朋友之中。

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

我们成功的企业,需要我们所拥有的积极的品质,但我们在那些也可以利用我们的缺点。

if you're too busy looking for the perfect person, you will probably miss the imperfect person who could make you perfectly happy.

如果你太忙着寻找完美的人,你可能会错过那个不完美的人,那个可以让你完全快乐的人。

You have major labels that are willing to take unconventional approaches because the old model is crumbling in front of us.

一些大品牌愿意采取非传统的方式,因为旧模式正在我们面前崩溃。

The Boomers have modeled a set of bad habits, and one grand gesture is not going to unwind all those bad habits.

婴儿潮时期出生的人已经形成了一套坏习惯的模型,而一个宏大的姿态不会消除所有这些坏习惯。

I make a note, set it aside, and hope it makes sense when the time comes to look at it again.

我做了个笔记,把它放在一边,希望下次再看的时候它能有意义。

I was in group therapy for years but it wasn't the same thing. It was more about growing.

我参加团体治疗很多年了,但那不是一回事。更多的是关于成长。

Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read.

养成取消所有你没有时间阅读的订阅的习惯。

It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.

用死人的骨头打活人是神学家的老习惯。

I've got what my ma had, macular degeneration, which you get when you get old.

我有我妈的病,黄斑变性,你老了就会得。

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

作为一个小商人,你没有比真相更大的影响力。

You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when.

你可以通过你喜欢的电影来判断你是谁。

Life is not about growing old. It's about growing up.

生活不是变老。而是关于成长。

I have been no more than a medium, as it were.

可以说,我只不过是一个媒介。