Civilization grew in the beginning from the minute that we had communication -- particularly communication by sea that enabled people to get inspiration and ideas from each other and to exchange basic raw materials.

  • -- Thor Heyerdahl 托尔·海尔达尔

从我们有了交流的那一刻起,文明就开始发展了——尤其是海上的交流,使人们能够从彼此身上获得灵感和想法,并交换基本的原材料。

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Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.

沟通是一种持续的平衡行为,在亲密和独立的需求之间平衡。为了在这个世界上生存,我们必须与他人合作,但是为了作为我们自己而生存,而不仅仅是作为一个齿轮上的齿轮,我们必须独自行动。

A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.

一个国际社会只有通过世界通讯才能存在,这意味着不仅仅是遍布全球的广泛的短波设施。它意味着共同的理解、共同的传统、共同的思想和共同的理想。

Relationships are all there is. Everything in the universe only exists because it is in relationship to everything else. Nothing exists in isolation. We have to stop pretending we are individuals that can go it alone.

人际关系就是一切。 宇宙中的一切之所以存在,只是因为它是存在的 和其他一切的关系。没有任何事物是孤立存在的。 我们必须停止假装我们是可以独立完成任务的个体。

Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect...

只有连接!这就是她全部的布道。只有把散文和激情联系起来,两者才会升华,人类的爱才会达到它的顶峰。不再活在碎片中。只有连接……

Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.

有时,在轻松的交谈中比在沉默中更缺乏沟通。

A lot of people in this business are born with money or family connections.

在这个行业里,很多人天生就有金钱或家庭关系。

We cannot build our own future without helping others to build theirs.

没有帮助别人建设自己的未来,我们就不能建设自己的未来。

You know when civilization began? With the invention of the mirror.

你知道文明是什么时候开始的吗?随着镜子的发明。

I was determined to know beans.

我下定决心要了解豆类。