The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.

  • -- Walter Bagehot 沃尔特·巴格霍特

说话习惯的共同性和连续性是智力缺陷的一种症状。它源于不知道别人在想什么。

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You need to put what you learn into practice and do it over and over again until it's a habit. I always say, 'Seeing is not believing. Doing is believing.' There is a lot to learn about fitness, nutrition and emotions, but once you do, you can master them instead of them mastering you.

你需要把你学到的东西付诸实践,一遍又一遍地重复,直到它成为一种习惯。我常说,眼见为实。做的是相信。“关于健康、营养和情绪还有很多需要学习,但一旦你学会了,你就能掌握它们,而不是被它们控制。”

I love to be in the position of not knowing what I'm gonna do, but having rehearsed all of those so when something happens with the others actors I go with whatever that is I'm getting.

我喜欢不知道自己要做什么,但我已经排练过了,所以当其他演员有什么事情发生时,我就会跟着做。

The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself.

在算术计算中节省时间和脑力的愿望,以及消除人类易犯错误的倾向,可能和算术科学本身一样古老。

Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.

习惯不会囚禁人。一旦危机被认识和理解,他身上的巨大变化就可以通过危机来实现。

An actor shouldn't undergo psychoanalysis, because there are a lot of things you're better off not knowing.

演员不应该接受心理分析,因为有很多事情你最好不知道。

Talkativeness is a symptom of deep-seated pessimism. Without it there would be no pessimistic literature.

多嘴多舌是一种根深蒂固的悲观主义的症状。没有它,就不会有悲观的文学。

Frankly, earmarking is not the problem. It is a symptom of the problem.

坦率地说,指定用途不是问题所在。这是问题的征兆。

Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech.

一千倍地滥用言论自由,总比否认言论自由好。

Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things.

心理过程的词汇都来自于物理事物。

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

据说音乐是天使的语言。