I don't think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

  • -- Richard Nixon 理查德·尼克松

我不认为一个领导者能在很大程度上控制自己的命运。如果历史的力量向另一个方向发展,他很少能介入并改变局势。

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I was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty. I would see people kissing, and I would think one was trying to bite the other.

我是一个非常害怕的小孩,我总是看到事情最坏的一面。玻璃杯是半空的。我看到人们在接吻,我想其中一个是想咬另一个。

When people hurt you over and over, think of them as sandpapers. They scratch and hurt you. But later, you'll shining and polished while they end up useless.

当人们一次又一次地伤害你时,把他们当成砂纸。它们会抓伤你。但后来,你会擦亮它们,而它们最终却毫无用处。

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

远离那些试图贬低你抱负的人。小人物总是这样做,但真正伟大的人会让你觉得你也可以变得伟大。

I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.

我认为我是天生的领导者。我知道如何向我尊重的权威低头。

I have never tried to fiddle my role as leader of the city of Sheffield, as an MP or as a minister.

作为谢菲尔德市的领导人、议员或部长,我从未试图篡改自己的角色。

Whether it's destiny or fate or whatever, I don't think I could do a French Laundry anywhere else.

不管是命运还是别的什么原因,我想我在别的地方是干不了法式洗衣店的。

It's what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.

只有你现在所做的,才能挽回过去,从而改变未来。

And I'm working with all these great people at Sony Publishing.

我和索尼出版公司的所有这些伟大的人一起工作。

Don't settle for less than God's best for you.

不要满足于上帝给你最好的。

I'm Colombian and nothing will change that.

我是哥伦比亚人,没有什么能改变这一点。