When the pressure comes, preferences give way while convictions hold firm.

  • -- Edwin Louis Cole 埃德温·路易斯·科尔

当压力来临时,偏好让步,而信念坚定。

相关名言

To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.

那么,从我自己开始,人们对我的议论就会大不相同,因为在作出判断时,几乎每一个人与其说受到真理的影响,不如说是受到偏爱的影响,而且善恶的报道都是不分国界的。

I don't really believe in the type of pressure that people are wanting to put on the type of music that I make.

我不相信人们对我所创作的音乐施加的压力。

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

宽容是没有信念的人的美德。

Hermits have no peer pressure.

隐士没有同伴的压力。