The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book.

  • -- Toni Morrison 托尼·莫里森

不讨喜的评论在短时间内是痛苦的;那些写得不好的文章是非常非常无礼的。那位评论家没有花时间真正读这本书。

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And at the same time, you are of course a performer, but it's very important that you understand that your role as a performer is to get the best performance from those wonderful colleagues that you have the chance to work with.

与此同时,你当然也是一名表演者,但你必须明白,作为一名表演者,你的角色是要从那些你有机会共事的优秀同事那里得到最好的表演。

I know better than to read reviews but I do it anyway. Somebody described my pacing as 'glacial.' I wasn't thrilled, but I think they meant it in a not entirely unflattering way.

我知道不应该看评论,但我还是看了。有人说我的步伐“缓慢”。“我并不激动,但我想他们的意思并不完全是奉承。

God is the supreme uncreated light of which Wisdom is born, but there was never a time when God's Wisdom did not exist.

上帝是最高的未被创造的光,智慧由此诞生,但上帝的智慧从来没有不存在过。

If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write.

如果你没有时间去阅读,你就没有时间(或工具)去写作。

I have personally seen statements that were longer than some books I have read.

我个人看到的陈述比我读过的一些书还要长。