Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.

  • -- Thornton Wilder 桑顿·怀尔德

如果一个人不坚定地追求崇高或美好的目标,上帝不会为他留下任何美好或崇高的东西。目标是成功的永恒条件。

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There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success.

在工作中,在生活中,在商业中,有一种永恒的冲突,在和平与混乱之间,有一种永恒的斗争。两者都不能被掌握,但都可以被影响。如何去做是成功的关键。

Furthermore, order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order.

此外,顺序是构成结构函数的必要条件。一种物理机制,无论是一组劳动者,动物的身体,还是机器,只有在符合物理秩序的情况下才能工作。

When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.

当我在广播中说一些不真实的东西时,我的意思是它明显不真实。我想人们知道我只是在说些有理有据的话。或者是为了搞笑。

With all our mastery over the powers of Nature we have adhered to the view that the struggle for existence is a permanent and necessary condition of life.

在我们对自然力量的全部掌握中,我们坚持这样一种观点,即为生存而斗争是生命的一个永久和必要条件。

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

上帝是有福的,他给了每个人他的玩具:娃娃给孩子,孩子给女人,女人给男人,男人给魔鬼!

Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.

这些荷兰人几乎没有任何想象力或幻想,但他们的良好品味和科学知识的组成是巨大的。

Find your purpose and fling your life out to it. Find a way or make one. Try with all your might. Self-made or never made.

找到你的目标,全身心地投入其中。要么想办法,要么自己动手。尽你最大的努力去尝试。要么是白手起家,要么是白手起家。

It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement.

知道你要去哪里比快速到达那里更重要。不要把活动误认为成就。

It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something.

正是这种想知道结局的欲望,使我们相信上帝,或巫术,至少相信某些东西。

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

我认为我们过于看重早起鸟的好运气,而忽视了早起虫的坏运气。

Truly successful decision making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.

真正成功的决策依赖于深思熟虑和本能思考之间的平衡。

God sends men cold according to their clothes.

神按著人的衣服叫他们冷。