The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

  • -- Henri Cartier-Bresson 布列松

这种创造性的行为只持续了很短的一段时间,就像闪电一样的给予和接受,这段时间刚好够你把相机调平,把稍纵即逝的猎物困在你的小盒子里。

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Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love, and avoid others, like loneliness. We eat specific foods to enjoy their fleeting presence on our tongues. We read for the pleasure of thinking another person's thoughts.

我们所做的一切都是为了改变意识。我们建立友谊是为了能够感受到某些特定的情感,比如爱,避免其他人,比如孤独。我们吃特定的食物是为了享受它们在我们舌头上短暂的存在。我们读书的乐趣在于思考别人的想法。

All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

历史的全部教训用四句话概括: 神要谁灭亡,必先使谁因势力而发狂。 天网恢恢,疏而不漏。天网恢恢,疏而不漏。 蜜蜂使它抢夺的花受精。 当足够黑的时候,你可以看到星星。

You know when something feels so good but you're afraid to feel good about it? So you kinda hold back? Everyone says, Congratulations, you must be so happy. And you say something stupid like, I'm just doing what little I can with what little I have.

你知道当某件事让你感觉很好,但你却害怕感觉很好?所以你有点犹豫?每个人都说,恭喜你,你一定很高兴。你会说一些愚蠢的话,比如,我只是在尽我所能利用我仅有的一点。

I want to make sure that no matter how long I go through this, I don't fall into the trap of changing and modifying how I do things that aren't a positive example. I want to remain somebody that the entire family can listen to or watch.

我想要确保无论我经历了多长时间,我都不会陷入改变和修改我做事方式的陷阱,而这些都不是一个积极的例子。我想成为一个全家人都能听或看的人。

When looking at the evidence of feeding on large prey, you can see every size tooth from hatchling to adult in one spot. The babies may have been fed in the nest until they were full grown, like in eagles and hawks.

当你看到以大型猎物为食的证据时,你可以在一个地方看到从刚孵化到成年的所有大小的牙齿。这些婴儿可能在巢中被喂养,直到他们完全长大,就像老鹰和老鹰一样。

I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.

我想写的是当你的毒瘾不再对你隐瞒真相的那一刻。当你的整个生活崩溃的时候。那一刻,你必须以某种方式选择你的生活将会是什么样子。

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

你运用自我暗示原则的能力,很大程度上取决于你专注于某一特定欲望的能力,直到这种欲望变成一种燃烧的痴迷。

I think the challenges for me was to go into the studio with these incredible jazz players and come up to their level of excellence. That's always a challenge.

我认为我所面临的挑战是和这些令人难以置信的爵士乐手一起进入录音室,并达到他们的卓越水平。这一直是个挑战。

Since God knows our future, our personalities, and our capacity to listen, He isn't ever going to say more to us than we can deal with at the moment.

既然上帝知道我们的未来、我们的个性和我们倾听的能力,他就不会对我们说太多,超过我们目前所能应付的。

I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!

我试图让这两种艺术都活下来,但相机赢了。我发现,虽然相机不能表达灵魂,也许照片可以!

Too many people think that economics is this subject that should wait until the university level. But it can't wait that long.

太多的人认为经济学是一门应该等到大学水平的学科。但它不能等那么久。

Any song I have to work on longer than a day, I just leave it. It's not gonna work. Everything that's good is really instant.

任何一首我要花超过一天的时间创作的歌曲,我都不去管它。不会成功的。所有好的东西都是即时的。

I would act whether or not I was paid. I would be involved in ensemble groups. I would have the desire to tell stories.

不管有没有工资,我都会采取行动。我会参加合奏团。我会有讲故事的欲望。

You change for two reasons. Either you learn enough that you want to, or you've been hurt enough that you have to.

你的改变有两个原因。要么你学到了足够多你想学的东西,要么你受了足够多的伤害你不得不学。

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

当小人物企图做大事业时,他们总是以使其沦落为平庸告终。

If you love someone you say it, you say it right then, out loud. Other wise the moment just passes you by

如果你爱一个人,你就说出来,然后大声说出来。否则,这一刻就会从你身边溜走

People who have expertise or the luck to have rehearsal time with cameras have it over people who don't.

有专业知识或运气好的人有带着摄像机排练的时间,这比没有的人更有优势。

I was taken to concerts when I was six, seven years old, and sat in a box throughout the whole evening.

在我六、七岁的时候,有人带我去听音乐会,整个晚上我都坐在一个包厢里。

I believe that my whole creative life stemmed from this magic hour under the stars on that hilltop.

我相信,我的整个创作生涯都源于那座山顶上星光照耀下的神奇时刻。

A good script and a good brief from the director is enough to let me know what is expected of me.

一个好的剧本和一个好的导演简介就足以让我知道对我的期望是什么。

Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.

有些人的记忆就像一个盒子,一个人应该把他的珠宝和他的旧鞋混在一起。

I know how tough it is to stand up to powerful forces that prey on consumers.

我知道,要对抗强大的消费力量是多么困难。

If it's the right chair, it doesn't take too long to get comfortable in it.

如果是对的椅子,坐上去不会花太长时间。

I was a boy, suddenly treated like the men and expected to act like them.

我是个男孩,突然被当作男人对待,并期望自己的行为也像他们一样。

When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away.

当我想锻炼时,我就躺下来,直到这种感觉消失。

I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time.

我把速溶咖啡放进微波炉里,差点让时光倒流。

There is no such thing as a value trap. There are investing mistakes.

没有所谓的价值陷阱。这是投资失误。

If the present is really all we have, then the present lasts forever.

如果现在真的是我们所拥有的一切,那么现在就是永远。

It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits.

让你富有的不是你的薪水,而是你的消费习惯。

I like forms that are flexible, that can let you feel creative.

我喜欢灵活的形式,能让你有创造力。

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

初恋就是一点点笨拙外加许许多多好奇。

Careless rat chewing on a cat's tail: beware lightning!

粗心的老鼠咬着猫的尾巴:当心闪电!

Electricity is really just organized lightning.

电其实就是有组织的闪电。