You have to have conviction and completely question everything and anything you do. No matter how much you study, no matter how much you know, the side of your brain that has the smarts won't necessarily help you in making art.

  • -- Maya Lin 林璎

你必须有坚定的信念,对你所做的每件事都要彻底地提出质疑。无论你学了多少,无论你知道多少,你大脑中有智慧的那一部分并不一定会帮助你创作艺术。

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Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.

脑力通过大脑的使用而提高,就像我们的身体力量随着锻炼而增长一样。毫无疑问,从上学到中年晚期,很大一部分女性的生活确实非常复杂。

Well I tried to, but I could never write anything that I liked or was worthwhile. I threw it all out and realized that I had to make a serious study- that my tastes were far more advanced than my abilities.

我试过,但是我从来没有写过我喜欢的或有价值的东西。我把这些都扔掉了,意识到我必须认真学习——我的品味远远超过了我的能力。

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.

当情感信念的强度减弱时,一个有推理习惯的人会寻找符合逻辑的理由来支持他在自己身上找到的信念。

To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

要抵抗老年的寒冷,就必须把身体、思想和心灵结合起来。为了保持这些活力,我们必须锻炼、学习和热爱。

The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.

成功的人比竞争对手更早发现自己的生意出了什么问题。

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

信念再好也没用,除非它把自己变成行动。

The owners and managers were too stupid to realize we had brains.

老板和经理们太蠢了,没有意识到我们有头脑。

People who know, know. The others, it really doesn't matter.

知道的人,知道的人。其他的,真的不重要。