Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better.

  • -- Edwin Louis Cole 埃德温·路易斯·科尔

平庸的人工作效率最高;追求卓越的人努力做得更好。

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Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.

很少有人能称得上具有无可比拟的优点。让我们看看他们从幼年到成年的成长过程,我们很快就会相信,他们所取得的成就是他们所追求的事业和所使用的手段的必然结果。

I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.

我要把这座城市留给入侵者:越来越多的平庸、肮脏、行为不端、无耻的游客。

Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.

杯子和嘴唇之间常常会掉出许多东西。

Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

时间是优秀公司的朋友,平庸公司的敌人。