There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.

  • -- Bliss Carman 布利斯·卡曼

有一种追求完美的激情,你很少能看到这种激情得到充分的发展;但你可能会注意到,在成功的人生中,它从来不是完全缺乏的。

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I had a friend who worked at a hospice, and he said people in their final moments don't discuss their successes, awards or what books they wrote or what they accomplished. They only talk about their loves and their regrets, and I think that's very telling.

我有个朋友在一家临终关怀医院工作,他说人们在生命的最后时刻不会谈论他们的成功、奖项、写过什么书或取得了什么成就。他们只谈论他们的爱和遗憾,我认为这很能说明问题。

The novel that's contemporary in the sense of being wholly 'of now' is an impossibility, if only because novels may take years to write, so the 'now' with which they begin will be defunct by the time they're finished.

从完全“当下”的意义上讲,当代小说是不可能的,因为小说可能要花好几年的时间来写,所以小说开头的“现在”在写完的时候就已经不存在了。

The one thing that scares me the most is failing. It scares me that one day I won't be at this level. But while I'm here and while I'm having success early, I'm trying to do everything to stay on this level.

我最害怕的一件事是失败。我害怕有一天我不会达到这个水平。但是当我在这里的时候,当我很早就取得成功的时候,我要尽我所能保持在这个水平上。

When you go to standup, there seems to be a common denominator of some form of need or want for validation from the audience that maybe you were lacking as a kid.

当你站起来的时候,似乎有一个共同点,那就是你需要得到观众的认可,而这也许是你小时候所缺乏的。

First of all it's usually women who run these higher primate sanctuaries, rarely men. They are white. They come from privileged backgrounds. They are educated.

首先,通常是女性管理着这些更高的灵长类动物保护区,很少是男性。他们是白色的。他们来自优越的背景。他们的教育。

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.

一个领导者最重要的品质就是被认可。所有健康状况受到质疑的领导人都明显缺乏实权。

Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life.

不要因为你今天成功而感到安慰,因为明天可能会失败。生活中没有保证。

The only thing I hope I did was never put in question my love for the game, or my passion to be counted on when it mattered most.

我唯一希望做的就是永远不要质疑我对比赛的热爱,或者在最重要的时候我的激情。

Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful in anything that you put your mind to.

在没人注意的时候尽力而为。如果你做到了这一点,那么你就可以在任何你想做的事情上取得成功。

Snow is so common that I have omitted to note its falling at least two days out of Three.

雪是如此常见,以至于我忘记了在三天里至少有两天下雪。

My secret passion is motorbikes. I want a Kawasaki Ninja.

我的秘密爱好是摩托车。我想要一个川崎忍者。

There's never a false note in a Berg novel.

在伯格的小说中从来没有一个错误的音符。