Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

  • -- John William Gardner 约翰·威廉·加德纳

今天的很多教育都非常低效。我们常常在应该教年轻人自己种花的时候,却给他们插花。

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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

我们应该为年老做好准备,这样,这个世界就不会迫切需要从对下一个世界的冥想中吸收老年。看到老态龙钟的瘦削的手在坟墓上做棺材是可怕的。

The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will not use the thoughts of other men’s brains, proves that he has no brains of his own.

不读书的人永远不会被人读书;不引用的人永远不会被引用。不愿用别人脑子里想法的人,证明自己没有脑子。

The irony of our social group is that so often everyone feels this, but there's no company whatsoever in that feeling. Think of Pound's great emphasis, the way out is via the door.

具有讽刺意味的是,我们这个社会群体的每个人都经常有这种感觉,但这种感觉中却没有任何同伴。想想庞德的重点,出路是通过门。

When you're in a band that's so big when you're young, you kind of lose your identity a little bit. You just become part of the band. I just needed to get away from it.

当你年轻的时候加入一个非常大的乐队,你会有点迷失自我。你只是乐队的一员。我只是需要远离它。

The economy in the Valley will need to grow if students want to come back and work with their specialized degrees. We need to develop more to create more opportunities.

如果学生们想回来拿着专业学位工作,硅谷的经济就需要增长。我们需要发展更多,创造更多的机会。

What happens in the media is the cult of personality. The brands who have been forced to cut their staff have been forced to take on the brands of journalists.

在媒体上发生的是对个人的崇拜。被迫裁员的品牌被迫与记者的品牌竞争。

When I was a young prosecutor, I got called to testify against my boss. I could have backed down, but I didn't. I stood up to him. And he fired me for it.

当我还是一名年轻的检察官时,我被叫去指证我的老板。我本可以让步的,但我没有。我向他站了起来。他因此炒了我鱿鱼

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

一个人至少已经开始发现人类生命的意义,当他种植树荫下,他完全知道他永远不会坐在。

Don't wear excessive make-up as you grow older. Young women can wear whatever make-up they want, but if you are older, you will regret it.

随着年龄的增长,不要化浓妆。年轻女性可以随意化妆,但如果你年纪大了,你会后悔的。

Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.

每一个曾经生活过的悲观主义者都被埋葬在一个没有标记的坟墓里。明天总是比今天好,将来也总是如此。

Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.

统计学家的定义:一个人相信数据不会说谎,但他承认,在分析中,有些数据也站不住脚。

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

为什么社会只对儿童的教育负责,而不对所有年龄层的成年人的教育负责?

I hate getting too close to people, Because when I thought they would always be there for me, they eventually leave.

我讨厌和别人太亲近,因为当我以为他们会一直在那里等着我的时候,他们最终还是离开了。

My vocal style I haven't tried to copy from anyone. It just developed until it became the girlish whine it is today.

我的演唱风格我没有试图模仿任何人。直到今天,它才发展成为少女般的哀鸣。

Even the prettiest flower will die one day. It's nature's way of teaching us... that nothing lasts forever.

即使最漂亮的花也有一天会死的。这是大自然教我们的……没有什么是永恒的。

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

只有艺术家才能看到灵魂。但当他告诉大家他们出现在他面前时,每个人都看到了他们。

Sometimes, you gotta quit thinking so much. If it feels right, it probably is so just go with it.

有时候,你得停止想那么多。如果感觉对了,那就顺其自然吧。

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

老年本身就有足够的畸形。这决不应该给他们增添罪恶的丑恶。

There was never an age in which useless knowledge was more important than our own.

从来没有一个时代,无用的知识比我们自己的知识更重要。

Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grew.

自我牺牲是真正的奇迹,所有报道的奇迹都是从自我牺牲中产生的。

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.

我认为任何人都不应该在死后才写自传。

You grow up in a Sicilian household, becoming an actor is not a big leap.

你在西西里岛的一个家庭长大,成为一名演员并不是一个很大的飞跃。

I enjoy tutoring. I just really enjoy the experience of teaching.

我喜欢辅导。我真的很享受教学的经历。

Always do your best what you plant now, you will harvest later.

现在种什么,以后就会收获什么。

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

图画破坏墙壁的次数比装饰墙壁的次数要多。

I like to do things that I develop from the ground up.

我喜欢从头开始做我喜欢做的事情。

If you like her, tell her. Maybe , she likes you too.

如果你喜欢她,就告诉她。也许,她也喜欢你。

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

只有穷人才懂得给予的奢侈!

What you get free costs too much.

你免费得到的东西太贵了。