To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us.

  • -- Charles Caleb Colton 英国作家科尔顿

要了解一个人,要观察他如何赢得他的目标,而不是他如何失去它;因为当我们失败时,我们的骄傲支持着我们——当我们成功时,它背叛了我们。

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If a man has a talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

如果一个人有才能却不能运用,那他就失败了。如果他有一种天赋,但只使用了一半,那么他已经部分失败了。如果他有一种才能,并且不知何故学会了运用它的全部,他就已经获得了辉煌的成功,赢得了很少有人知道的满足感和胜利。

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

文明人比野蛮人更不礼貌,因为他们知道,通常情况下,即使他们的头颅没有被劈开,也可能是不礼貌的。

Men of genius are meteors intended to burn to light their century.

天才是流星,燃烧着照亮他们的世纪。

The way to succeed is to double your error rate.

成功的方法是将错误率提高一倍。