There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.

  • -- Evelyn Waugh 伊芙琳·沃

没有诗意的想法;只有诗意的话语。

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My plays are for the kind of black people who relate to funk music, to Parliament-Funkadelic. When those guys get out of a spaceship - the idea that black people are from outer space, there's a poetic truth to that. We are this vast people.

我的剧本是写给那些喜欢放克音乐的黑人的,属于议会放克乐派。当这些人走出宇宙飞船——黑人来自外太空的想法,有一个诗意的真理。我们是如此广大的人民。

Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.

大多数高管、许多科学家以及几乎所有商学院毕业生都认为,如果你分析数据,这将给你带来新的想法。不幸的是,这种想法是完全错误的。头脑只能看到它准备看到的东西。

It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.

诗性语言对散文语言的影响可以看作是一种决定性的鞭策。

Good ideas are often murdered by better ones.

好主意常常被好主意扼杀。