You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.

  • -- Rita Dove 丽塔·达夫

在你看到一些东西之前,你必须想象它是可能的。证据就在你面前,但是如果你不能想象以前从未存在过的东西,那是不可能的。

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The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

我们贫穷的原因是我们没有想象力。有很多人在积累他们认为是巨大的财富,但那只是钱……他们不知道如何享受它,因为他们没有想象力。

Everyone thinks these are self-portraits but they aren't meant to be. I just use myself as a model because I know I can push myself to extremes, make each shot as ugly or goofy or silly as possible.

每个人都认为这是自画像,但其实并不是。我只是把自己当作一个模特,因为我知道我可以把自己推向极端,让每一个镜头都尽可能地丑陋、愚蠢或愚蠢。

People have the idea of missionaries as going out with the Bible and hitting natives with it. It's not really what they were doing. They were all doing something rather different.

人们认为传教士带着圣经走出去,用圣经攻击当地人。这并不是他们真正在做的。他们都在做一些不同的事情。

In some way, my fundamental feeling about music is that it's impossible to put a price tag on it. Human beings made music before they made a lot of other things, including tools.

在某种程度上,我对音乐的基本感觉是,它不可能有一个价格标签。人类在创造包括工具在内的许多其他东西之前就创造了音乐。

Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.

此外,科学本身的尊严似乎要求探索一切可能的方法来解决一个如此优雅和如此著名的问题。

I've always thought that if you work really hard at something, you can get it.

我一直认为,如果你在某件事上真的很努力,你就能得到它。

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

为了达到不可能,我们必须尝试荒谬。

It's quite difficult for me to imagine my life without chess.

我很难想象没有象棋的生活。