The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare.

  • -- Edward Thorndike 桑代克

智力的作用是提供一种方法来改变我们对生活环境的反应,使我们能够获得快乐,这是幸福的征兆。

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It's just that, when the orchestra look at me, I want them to see a completely involved person who reflects what we rehearsed, and whose function is to make it possible for them to do it.

只是,当乐团看着我的时候,我想让他们看到一个全身心投入的人,他能反映出我们排练的内容,他的作用是让他们有可能做到这一点。

It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know.

这是一个如何确保社会任何成员所知道的资源得到最佳利用的问题,其目的的相对重要性只有这些个人知道。

It's obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.

很明显,但也许值得说的是,幸福实际上与你的智力水平无关。

And going into my studio at night, particularly at night when everybody's asleep, is just a total pleasure for me.

晚上走进我的工作室,尤其是在大家都睡着的晚上,对我来说是一种完全的快乐。

It's such a pleasure to work in these movies, it's almost like it's not really happening.

在这些电影中工作是如此的快乐,就好像它并没有真正发生一样。

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

技能是经验、智慧和激情在运作中的统一力量。

He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.

把有用的和愉快的结合起来的人会得到每个人的赞同。

We need to make sure we have secure borders.

我们需要确保边境安全。