To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world -- that I am able to change it in positive ways.

  • -- Maxine Hong Kingston 汤亭亭

对我来说,成功意味着在这个世界上的有效性,我能够把我的想法和价值观带到这个世界上——我能够以积极的方式改变它。

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I don't think one can accurately measure the historical effectiveness of a poem; but one does know, of course, that books influence individuals; and individuals, although they are part of large economic and social processes, influence history. Every mass is after all made up of millions of individuals.

我不认为人们可以准确地衡量一首诗的历史效力;但人们当然知道,书籍影响着个人;个人,虽然他们是大的经济和社会进程的一部分,影响着历史。每个群体毕竟是由数百万个体组成的。

People who say they're not nervous - I would be kind of curious to see how successful you are at what you do and how long you've done it. And what is success in your eyes? Have you separated yourself from everyone else in that craft? Or have you settled amongst the pack?

那些说他们不紧张的人——我很好奇你在你所做的事情上有多成功,你已经做了多久。你眼中的成功是什么?在那个行业里,你把自己和其他人分开了吗?或者你已经在人群中安顿下来了?

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

每个在一次伟大的冒险中获得成功的人,都有勇气说不。有勇气面对事实。做正确的事,因为它是正确的。这些都是让你的生活保持正直的魔法钥匙。

Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

时间从画家的作品中提取各种价值。当这些价值被耗尽时,图片就会被遗忘,而一张图片所能提供的东西越多,它就会变得越大。

Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, ut more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a decline, it's civic fall from grace.

科学不再像过去那样依附于“真理”,而是更倾向于直接的“有效性”,现在正滑向衰落,这是公民的失宠。

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

当我可以死去的时候,我希望那些最了解我的人对我说,我总是摘下蓟,在我认为会开花的地方种上一朵花。

The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

重要的是:能够在任何时候牺牲我们现在的样子,去追求我们将来可能成为的样子。

I wanted to explore the values that are at work, underpinning my life.

我想探索工作中支撑我生活的价值观。