My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.

  • -- George Washington 乔治华盛顿

我的观察是,只要有一个人被发现能胜任某项工作,……两个人做的效果更差,如果三个或更多的人同时做的话,效果就更差了。

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I get asked sometimes 'What's the highlight of my career?' because I've been doing it for so long, and I always have a hard time coming up with something, because so many good things have happened.

有时有人问我:“我职业生涯中最突出的是什么?”“因为我已经做了这么长时间了,我总是很难想出什么来,因为发生了这么多好事。

The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything until we can be impartial about our own organism.

我们无法公正地观察自己,这影响了我们对他人的观察。在我们对自己的有机体不公正之前,我们永远不可能对任何事情公正。

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth.

我们的责任是鼓励每一个人在奋斗中实现自己的最高理想,同时努力使理想尽可能接近真理。

Yes, if I had it my way I would do all the shots myself - I used to do that when I was just a cameraman, an operator - but there's no way; you can't do that anymore.

是的,如果我有我自己的方式,我会做所有的拍摄我自己-我曾经这样做,当我只是一个摄影师,一个操作员-但没有办法;你不能再这样了。

The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is and the man he wants to be.

许多广告背后的哲学是基于一个古老的观点,即每个人都是两个真正的男人——他是他自己,他想成为的人。

I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.

我没有志愿者;他们问我。我觉得有责任作证。