The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.

  • -- Edgar R. Fiedler 埃德加·费德勒

预测者的羊群本能让羊看起来像是独立的思考者。

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When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

当你快乐的时候,看看你的内心深处,你会发现只有那些带给你悲伤的东西才会带给你快乐。当你悲伤的时候,再看看你的心,你会发现你在为你曾经快乐的东西哭泣。

The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature.

模仿的本能产生了演员;通过模仿获得快乐的欲望造就了剧作家;为了给这种乐趣提供足够的人物塑造和令人难忘的对话,产生了戏剧文学。

You just never give up, no matter how hard the challenges are, and observe this world with a healthy dose of criticism and don't just follow the herd like somebody else might do.

你永远不会放弃,不管挑战有多难,用健康的批评来观察这个世界,不要像其他人那样随波逐流。

I write mostly in my office in the shed outside at home, but it can get very cold. I write best on the train, among people. As a writer you spend so much time away from people.

我大部分时间都是在办公室里,在家里外面的小屋里写作,但有时会很冷。在火车上,在人群中,我写得最好。作为一名作家,你花了很多时间远离人群。

Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.

孤独不是你将来必须希望的东西。相反,它是对当下的深化,除非你在当下寻找它,否则你永远不会找到它。

By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.

以任何合理的成就衡量,启蒙思想家对科学的信仰都是有道理的。

Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.

任何时候有人把漫画书拍成电影,在某种程度上,我认为他们必须扼杀漫画书。

Be an independent thinker at all times, and ignore anyone who attempts to define you in a limiting way.

任何时候都要做一个独立的思考者,不要理会任何试图以有限的方式定义你的人。

I love my kids as individuals, not as a herd, and I do have a herd of children: I have seven kids.

我爱我的孩子们,因为他们是独立的个体,而不是一群人。我有一群孩子:我有七个孩子。

You draw on whatever's relevant to the part you're playing; it makes it more personal.

你利用任何与你所扮演的角色相关的东西;这让它更个人化。

Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.

当代思想家会说,人在不断地超越自己。

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

人最可怜的是把自己的梦想变成金银财宝的人。

An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.

一个独立的人想把政治从政治中抽离出来。

It is a bad sheep that is too lazy to carry its own fleece.

懒得连自己的羊毛都带不走的羊是坏羊。

Today I trust my instinct, I trust myself. Finally.

今天我相信我的直觉,我相信我自己。最后。

A leap year is never a good sheep year.

闰年从来不是好羊年。