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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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。

I'm glad I'm successful at it, because it's allowed me to live very well financially, and give my kids a lot of things. It's enabled me to do stuff that I otherwise wouldn't be able to do. But it's not who I am.

我很高兴我成功了,因为它让我在经济上生活得很好,给了我的孩子很多东西。它使我能够做一些我无法做的事情。但这不是我。

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

我可以原谅,但我不能忘记,只是另一种说法,我不会原谅。宽恕应该像一张作废的便条——撕成两半,烧掉,这样它就永远不会对一个人显现出来。

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

成功的秘诀是学会如何利用痛苦和快乐,而不是让痛苦和快乐利用你。如果你这样做了,你就控制了自己的生活。如果你不这样做,生活就会控制你。

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.

如果一个人不知道他是受必然性支配的,他就不能自由,因为他的自由总是在他从不完全成功地把自己从必然性中解放出来的努力中获得的。

Again, I find it difficult to be taken care of and rarely acknowledge it, and every act he does registers, but I also just need to verbally acknowledge him and hug him.

同样,我发现很难被照顾,也很少承认这一点,他做的每一个动作都会引起我的注意,但我也只需要口头上承认他,并拥抱他。

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。

That's the danger of having too much success. You lose that magic, that feeling of not being in control, which I feel now, it's too controlled.

这就是太多成功的危险。你失去了那种魔力,那种不受控制的感觉,我现在感觉,它太受控制了。

I'm a guy who just wanted to see his name in the lineup everyday. To me, baseball was a passion to the point of obsession.

我只是一个每天都想在阵容中看到自己名字的人。对我来说,棒球是一种近乎痴迷的激情。

The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.

作家的快乐是能成为情感的思想,能完全成为思想的情感。

In the end, I hope there's a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer.

最后,我希望在某个地方有个小纸条说我设计了一台好电脑。

A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.

一个伟大的领导者实现他的愿景的勇气来自激情,而不是地位。

Very rarely is there a spike in news-stand sales.

报摊的销售很少出现激增。

Freedom is not enough.

光有自由是不够的。