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。

I like acting for myself as a director. I act and I know that I'll have a chance to have some say in what gets used and that I'll be able to give myself enough takes and be on the same page as myself about how the scene should play.

我喜欢自己当导演。我知道我将有机会在使用什么方面有一些发言权,我将能够给自己足够的拍摄时间,并且在场景应该如何播放的问题上与自己保持一致。

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。

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.

大多数人在即将取得成功时就放弃了。他们在一码线上退出。他们在比赛的最后一分钟离成功触地只有一英尺远的时候放弃了。

Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming.

没有什么好东西是突然冒出来的。闪电可以从乌云中射出;但这一天却把祂光明的使者送到祂面前,使世界为祂的来临做好准备。

Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.

因为在人类变化和进步的伟大空间里,有一段短暂的时间,某些人类的普遍目标在他身上得到了令人满意的体现。

There is no such thing as a good or bad ad in isolation. What is good at one moment is bad at another. Research can trap you into the past.

广告没有好坏之分。一时的好,一时的坏。研究能让你陷入过去。

You want to feel that you can do something creative that you love without being picked apart and mutilated for other people's pleasure.

你想要感觉到你可以做一些你喜欢的有创意的事情,而不是为了别人的快乐而被拆散和残缺不全。

I like leaping around on stage as long as it's done with class. None of this jumping up in the air and doing the splits.

我喜欢在舞台上跳来跳去,只要是在课堂上。这些都不是在空中跳跃和劈叉。

When I was a little kid I wanted to be an artist or a painter. But once I got into boxing, all I wanted was to box.

当我还是个孩子的时候,我想成为一名艺术家或画家。但是一旦我开始打拳击,我想做的就是拳击。

While I believe firmly in open markets and free trade, I also believe an open market needs a level playing field.

虽然我坚信开放的市场和自由贸易,但我也认为开放的市场需要一个公平的竞争环境。

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

如果你想和你的敌人和平相处,你必须和你的敌人一起工作。然后他成为你的伴侣。

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

永远不要和愚蠢的人争论,他们会把你拉到和他们一样的水平,然后用经验打败你。

Everybody wants happiness nobody wants pain but you can't have a rainbow without a little rain.

每个人都想要幸福,没有人想要痛苦,但是没有一点雨就没有彩虹。

And I've played piano since I was little, so I was originally the piano player in the band.

我从小就弹钢琴,所以我最初是乐队里的钢琴手。

I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.

我能想象,没有什么比漫长而浪费的等待更能让人耐心了。

We all must live our lives always feeling, always thinking the moment has arrived.

我们都必须生活在我们的生活中,总是感觉,总是认为那一刻已经到来。

Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.

经济衰退是指邻居失业。抑郁是当你失去你的。

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。

I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.

我是一架开着快门的相机,非常被动,记录,不思考。

I've never done a box set, and Eddie's full of it if he says otherwise.

我从来没有做过盒装,如果艾迪不这么说的话,他就会满嘴胡言乱语。

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。

Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.

实践一个好主意比仅仅有一个好主意要好。

I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.

我认为愤世嫉俗是永恒的。多愁善感的年龄,约会很快。

No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.

任何善意的行为,无论多么小,都不会被浪费。

When you put a camera in front of me, I'm home.

当你把相机放在我面前,我就到家了。

Live for the moments you can't put into words.

活在你无法用语言表达的时刻。

I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.

我力求简洁,却变得晦涩难懂。

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

在艺术和爱情中,本能就足够了。

An old rat won't go into the trap.

老老鼠不会上这个圈套。

In art the best is good enough.

在艺术上,最好的已经足够好了。

There are no instant solutions.

没有立竿见影的解决办法。