To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.

  • -- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 利希滕贝格

为那些不需要我们所有力量的工作而鼓掌,会阻碍我们向完善我们的精神前进。这通常意味着从那以后我们就站着不动了。

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I have been trying to find out exactly when listeners and performers decided that applause between movements would not be allowed, but nobody seems to have been willing to admit that they were the culprit.

我一直试图弄清楚听众和表演者是什么时候决定不允许在动作之间鼓掌的,但似乎没有人愿意承认他们是罪魁祸首。

Any man who makes a speech more than six times a year is bound to repeat himself, not because he has little to say, but because he wants applause and the old stuff gets it.

任何一年演讲超过六次的人注定要重复自己的演讲,不是因为他没什么可说的,而是因为他想要掌声,而老东西能得到掌声。