I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.

  • -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich 托马斯·贝利·奥尔德里奇

我喜欢有人建议我做一件事,而不喜欢有人把全部告诉我。当每一个细节都被给出时,头脑就会得到满足,想象力就会失去使用自己翅膀的欲望。

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People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I'll give you an example; I don't read what's handed to me. People say, 'Here, here's your speech, or here's an idea for a speech.' They're changed. Trust me.

人们总是对该说什么提出建议。我给你们举个例子;我不读递给我的东西。人们会说,‘给,这是你的演讲,或者这是演讲的想法。他们改变了。相信我。

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

我的国家为我安排了一个最微不足道的职位,这个职位是人类的发明或想象力所构想出来的。

What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out.

我脑子里真正的想法,我的想象力,我对音乐的理解,我从来没有真正把它们表达出来。

The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.

十诫不是一个建议。