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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When it comes to exploring the mind in the framework of cognitive neuroscience, the maximal yield of data comes from integrating what a person experiences - the first person - with what the measurements show - the third person.

在认知神经科学的框架下探索大脑时,数据的最大产出来自于将一个人的经历——第一个人的经历——与测量结果显示的——第三人称的经历结合起来。

Speculators get a bad rap. In the popular imagination they're greedy, heedless, and amoral, adept at price manipulations and dirty tricks. In reality, they often play a key role in making markets run smoothly.

投机者名声不好。在大众的想象中,他们贪婪、粗心、不道德,擅长操纵价格和肮脏的伎俩。在现实中,它们常常在使市场平稳运行方面发挥关键作用。

The last few years I became a lot more into sports. Growing up, the sports I liked were independent sports, like skateboarding. I was really into skateboarding, and not necessarily team televised sports.

在过去的几年里,我更喜欢运动了。从小到大,我喜欢的运动都是独立的运动,比如滑板。我真的很喜欢滑板,不一定是电视转播的团队运动。

The difference in this case between a man of sense and a fop, is, that the fop values himself upon his dress; the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time that he knows he must not neglect it.

在这种情况下,一个有理智的人和一个纨绔子弟的区别在于,纨绔子弟看重自己的衣着;有理智的人对它一笑置之,但同时也知道自己决不能忽视它。

Any time you take a chance you better be sure the rewards are worth the risk because they can put you away just as fast for a ten dollar heist as they can for a million dollar job.

每当你冒险的时候,你最好确保回报是值得冒这个风险的,因为它们能让你在抢十美元的时候和抢一百万美元的工作一样快地离开。

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.

如果一个人自信地朝着他的梦想前进,努力过他想象中的生活,他会在平常的时间里遇到意想不到的成功。

Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.

欧洲传统中的大多数绘画都是画面具。现代艺术拒绝了这一切。我们的主题是面具背后的人。

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

任何一本书,只要能帮助孩子养成阅读的习惯,使阅读成为他内心深处持续不断的需求之一,对他都是有好处的。

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

我宁愿娱乐并希望人们学到一些东西,而不是教育人们并希望他们得到娱乐。

I wanted to be a painter, really, when I was growing up as a kid. It was one thing that really took a grip on me.

我想成为一名画家,真的,当我还是个孩子的时候。这是一件真正让我着迷的事情。

All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

我想指出的是,生活模仿艺术远远超过艺术模仿生活的一般原则。

The sad moment when you find an old conversation between you and someone you don't talk to anymore.

当你发现你和一个不再和你说话的人之间的旧对话时的悲伤时刻。

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.

我认为,银行机构对我们的自由而言,比常备军更危险。

I prefer to be busy all day long, and when you work for someone else, you're not busy enough.

我宁愿整天都很忙,而当你为别人工作时,你还不够忙。

Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade.

有些人太忙于学习这一行的诀窍,以至于他们从来没有学过这一行。

I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.

我不希望艺术只为少数人而存在,就像不希望教育只为少数人而存在,不希望自由只为少数人而存在。

If you're nasty to me in my place of business, I'm going to be really nasty back.

如果你在我工作的地方对我不好,我也会对你不好。

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

一个人的朋友是人类可以成为人类的一部分。

The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.

活到老的平凡是一件太新奇而不值得欣赏的事情。

Adult stem cells tend not to form tumors.

成体干细胞一般不会形成肿瘤。

Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.

放荡是自我牺牲的一种形式。