The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.

  • -- Van Wyck Brooks 范·威克·布鲁克斯

有勇气讲陈词滥调的人总是一个成功的人。

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If we get our self-esteem from superficial places, from our popularity, appearance, business success, financial situation, health, any of these, we will be disappointed, because no one can guarantee that we'll have them tomorrow.

如果我们从肤浅的地方获得自尊,从我们的受欢迎程度、外貌、商业成功、财务状况、健康状况,任何这些,我们都会感到失望,因为没有人能保证我们明天就能拥有自尊。

We need to take our best ideas, our strongest intuitions, and we need to test them. We need to measure whether we've been successful, and we have to be willing to fail, to be wrong, to start over again with lessons learned.

我们需要用我们最好的想法,我们最强的直觉,我们需要测试它们。我们需要衡量自己是否成功,我们必须愿意失败,愿意犯错,愿意从失败中吸取教训,重新开始。

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

通常,成功人士和失败者的区别不是一个人有更好的能力或想法,而是一个人有勇气把赌注押在自己的想法上,去冒险,并采取行动。

The difficulty of writing a second novel is directly proportional to how successful the first novel was, it seems.

写第二部小说的难度似乎与第一部小说的成功程度成正比。

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

谚语总是陈词滥调,直到你亲身经历了它们的真相。