The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.

  • -- John Ruskin 约翰·罗斯金

所有成功努力的原则都是,不要试图做绝对最好的,而要做在我们力所能及的范围内,并且适合我们的气质和条件的事情。

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I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently... This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten.

我仍然在寻找现代版的贵格会信徒,他们经营着成功的企业,赚钱是因为他们提供诚实的产品,善待他们的人民……遗憾的是,这一商业信条似乎早已被遗忘。

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.

如果一天没有看到或听到美的声音,没有思考神秘的事物,没有寻求真理或完美,那将是悲惨的一天;这样的日子接连不断,对人类的生命是致命的。

If the ingredients for happiness are not within a person, no material success or entertainment or platinum credit cards can make that person smile.

如果一个人不具备幸福的要素,那么物质上的成功、娱乐或白金信用卡都无法让这个人微笑。

The most successful people are so original.

最成功的人都很有创意。