Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.

  • -- Renata Adler 雷纳塔·阿德勒

懒惰的人往往是无聊的,无聊的人,除非他们睡得多,是残酷的。在我们这个时代,无聊和残酷是人们最关心的事情,这并非偶然。

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Employees are your most valuable assets. They are the heart and guts of a company. This doesn't mean that from time to time, you aren't going to do what is good for the company.

员工是你最宝贵的资产。他们是一个公司的核心和勇气。这并不意味着你不会时不时地去做对公司有益的事情。

I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.

我不想表达异化。这不是我的感觉。我对各种充满激情的参与感兴趣。我所有的工作都告诉我要严肃,要有激情,要清醒。

People don't realize that molecules themselves are somewhat hypothetical, and that their interactions are more so, and that the biological reactions are even more so.

人们没有意识到分子本身在某种程度上是假想的,它们之间的相互作用更是如此,而生物反应更是如此。

The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel than the severest treatment at the hands of one loved.

我们对自己施加的阻止自己去爱的力量,往往比被爱之人最严厉的对待还要残酷。

Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.

每隔一段时间,你身上就会发生一些事情,让你意识到人类并没有看上去那么糟糕。

No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

无论你多么仔细地计划你的目标,它们永远不会超过白日梦,除非你充满热情地追求它们。

When you're constantly looking for things from other people, you're not looking within yourself.

当你不断地从别人身上寻找东西时,你并没有看到你自己。

They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

人们说时间会改变一切,但实际上你必须自己去改变它们。

A meaningless statement remains meaningless no matter how often it's heard.

一句毫无意义的话,无论听多少遍,都是毫无意义的。

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

除非你爱一个人,否则没有什么是有意义的。

The Beatles saved the world from boredom.

披头士将世界从无聊中拯救出来。

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

相信残忍的上帝会使人变得残忍。