Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.

  • -- Thomas Alva Edison 托马斯·阿尔瓦·爱迪生

浪费比损失更糟糕。每一个自称有能力的人都会把浪费的问题不断地摆在面前,这一时刻即将来临。节俭的范围是无限的。

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To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference.

拥有构成自尊的内在价值,就有可能拥有一切:歧视、爱和保持冷漠的能力。缺乏爱就是把自己锁在自己的内心,矛盾的是,既没有爱也没有冷漠。

I obviously take a lot of pride in what I do on the football field, because that has the ability to influence a lot of people. That puts smiles on people's faces. That gives people a pep in their step on Monday morning when they go back to work.

很明显,我对自己在足球场上所做的感到非常自豪,因为这能够影响很多人。这让人们的脸上露出了笑容。这让人们在周一早上回到工作岗位时精神抖擞。

Once you get into your stride, the camera becomes like another person in the room. It's like being in a very small theatre where there is no getting away with anything because the audience is centimetres away from you.

一旦你进入状态,相机就会变成房间里的另一个人。这就像在一个很小的剧院里,因为观众离你只有几厘米远,所以什么也逃不掉。

Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that.

每个欧洲人都会走上街头,参观中世纪的教堂。如果你住在印第安纳波利斯就不会。我收到的最令人兴奋的信来自那样地方的人。

I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men.

我认为,人类的利益意味着每个人都能获得他所能享受的一切幸福,而不损害他的同胞的幸福。

This time, instead of moving oceans and healing planets, let's get our bills in order and pay down the debt so we control our own future.

这一次,让我们不再移动海洋和治愈行星,而是把我们的账单整理好,还清债务,这样我们就能控制自己的未来。

Sometimes travelling really intensely for a long time is like having a continuous nervous breakdown.

有时候长时间的紧张旅行就像持续的精神崩溃。

If you are going to become limitless, you must summon the explorer within you.

如果你想变得无限,你必须召唤你内心的探索者。

Our football program is bigger than any one person.

我们的足球节目比任何人都大。