I am naturally taciturn, and became a silent and attentive listener.

  • -- William Hamilton Maxwell 威廉·汉密尔顿·麦克斯韦

我天生沉默寡言,成了一个沉默而专注的倾听者。

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Two people in a conversation amount to four people talking. The four are what one person says, what he really wanted to say, what his listener heard, and what he thought he heard.

两个人的谈话相当于四个人的谈话。这四个是一个人说了什么,他真正想说什么,他的听众听到了什么,他认为他听到了什么。

People ask me, 'What do you do?' And I tell them I'm a writer, but always with the silent reservation, 'I am, of course, not really a writer. Hemingway was a writer.'

人们问我,‘你是做什么的?我告诉他们我是一名作家,但总是带着沉默的保留。海明威是个作家。”

In silent movies, they tended to put the camera down, and everybody walked in front of it and acted, and then they all walked off. Cutting was quite infrequent.

在无声电影中,他们倾向于把摄像机放下,每个人都走到摄像机前表演,然后他们都走开。

Don't worry about being successful but work toward being significant and the success will naturally follow.

不要担心成功,而是朝着有意义的方向努力,成功自然会随之而来。

The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.

我们的心太自然地倾向于享乐,却太容易屈服于放荡。

Two good talkers are not worth one good listener.

两个善于讲话的人抵不上一个善于倾听的人。