One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons.

  • -- Russell Banks 罗素·班克斯

我在这本书中尝试做的一件事就是避免那种简单的,简单的,简单化的动机观来展示我们做事情是为了一个复杂的原因网,一个真正的原因编织。

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A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.

一个花园是一个审美和造型意图的综合体;对于景观艺术家来说,植物不仅是一种稀有的、不寻常的、普通的或注定要消失的植物,而且它本身也是一种颜色、一种形状、一个体量或一种阿拉伯风格。

I don't let people use me. That's why I like a small number of people in my life. The more people in my life, the more complex it becomes, so I just try to keep it at a minimum.

我不让别人利用我。这就是为什么我喜欢我生命中的一小部分人。在我的生活中,人越多,事情就越复杂,所以我尽量把它控制在最低限度。

I got very cross with the term, kitchen sink. It just meant that you invaded different kinds of houses, where it was very difficult to avoid kitchen sink.

我对“厨房水槽”这个词很生气。这只是意味着你侵入了不同种类的房子,在那里很难避免厨房水槽。

I do the very best I know how-the very best I can; and mean to keep doing so until the end.

我尽我所能做到最好;并打算一直这样做到最后。

If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass.

如果你想避免看到一个傻瓜,你必须先打破你的镜子。

If you don't scale the mountain, you can't view the plain.

如果你不登那座山,你就看不见平原。

Devotion to duty is the highest form of worship of god.

对责任的奉献是对上帝的最高形式的崇拜。