Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.

  • -- Stephen R. Covey 科维

每个人都有四种天赋——自我意识、良知、独立意志和创造性想象力。这些给了我们终极的人类自由……选择、回应和改变的能力。

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It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.

成为一名优秀的摄影师需要很大的想象力。成为一名画家,你不需要太多的想象力,因为你可以创造东西。但在摄影中,一切都是那么平凡;在你学会看到不平凡之前,你需要仔细观察。

If, as is natural, you focus on the corruption and on those threatened institutions that are trying to prevent change - even though they don't really know what they're trying to prevent - then you can get pessimistic.

如果像自然的那样,你把注意力集中在腐败和那些受到威胁的试图阻止变革的机构上——尽管它们并不真正知道自己试图阻止什么——那么你就会变得悲观。

If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is sheer luck. You have to have two out of the three. Any two will probably do.

如果有人问我成功的要素,我说一个是天赋,两个是固执或决心,第三个是纯粹的运气。你必须有三个中的两个。任何两个都可以。

I'm not aware that I was consciously influenced by any director, though these things often happen unnoticed, submerged in the unconscious.

我没有意识到我有意识地受到任何导演的影响,尽管这些事情经常发生在不被注意的情况下,淹没在潜意识里。

You must train your intuition -- you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide.

你必须训练你的直觉——你必须相信你内心的小声音,它告诉你该说什么,该做什么决定。

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.

有意识并不仅仅意味着存在,而是被报道,被了解,意识到自己被添加到存在中。

When our actions and choices are based on fear and denial ... Well, nothing good can come of that. Ever.

当我们的行为和选择基于恐惧和拒绝时……好吧,没有什么好结果。永远。

Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.

你不应成为受害者。你不应该成为一个犯罪者。最重要的是,你不能做一个旁观者。

It may be our actions that define us, but it is our reaction that changes the course of things.

也许是我们的行为定义了我们,但是是我们的反应改变了事情的进程。

He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes.

为野心牺牲良心的人,烧了一幅画以得到灰烬。

He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable.

他有一种奇妙的天赋,能把思想包装得很严密,便于携带。

Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.

艺术给了我创作音乐时所没有的自由。

Give me freedom to think and I'll give you my life.

给我思考的自由,我就给你我的生命。

Imagination rules the world.

想象力主宰世界。