Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won.

  • -- Ralph Waldo Emerson 拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生

把这个论点变成一个具体的形状,一个形象,一些强硬的短语,像一个圆圆的实心的球,他们可以看到,可以处理,可以带回家,那么这个事业就成功了一半。

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I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side.

我要把所有的论点都整理出来,看看哪些属于恐惧,哪些属于创造性。在其他条件相同的情况下,我会做出一个有更多创造性原因的决定。

To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

写作就是变得不感兴趣。在艺术中有一种放弃。

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. On Being a Teacher

选择大到重要、小到能赢的战役。关于当老师

I'm not in power, but my ideas are in power. And my ideas will prevail.

我没有权力,但我的想法有权力。我的想法将会占上风。

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.

写作不是一种职业,而是一种不快乐的职业。

Ideas are fatal to caste.

思想对种姓制度是致命的。