If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

  • -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 圣埃斯库里

如果你想造一艘船,不要让人们聚在一起捡木头,不要给他们分配任务和工作,而是要教他们渴望无边无际的大海。

相关名言

I never intended to be a professional writer; as the story developed, the one thing I had in my hopes was that this would be something tangible to separate me from the nameless, numbered masses.

我从来没有想过要成为一名职业作家;随着故事的发展,我所希望的一件事是,这将是一种有形的东西,把我从无名的、数量众多的人群中分离出来。

Those of us who are today prepared to hazard our lives for the cause would regret having raised a finger, if we were able to organize only a new social system and not a more righteous one.

我们这些今天准备为这一事业冒生命危险的人,如果我们只能组织一个新的社会制度,而不能组织一个更正义的社会制度,就会后悔曾经动过一根手指。

They were very considerate, I must say. Every time I felt I was about to slip out of these fingers and would yell for help, they'd let me down and re-organize things.

我得说,他们考虑得很周到。每当我觉得自己要从这些手指中滑出来,想要大喊救命的时候,他们就会让我失望,让我重新整理东西。

Some people us language to describe the lives they lead, and other people use language to create the lives they lead.

有些人用语言来描述他们的生活,有些人用语言来创造他们的生活。