Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

  • -- Thomas Alva Edison 托马斯·阿尔瓦·爱迪生

忙碌并不总是意味着真正的工作。所有工作的目标都是生产或成就,而要达到其中任何一个目标,都必须有先见之明、系统、计划、智慧、诚实的目标,以及勤奋。表面上做,实际上没有做。

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Between Scott on the earlier side and Dickens and Thackeray on the other, there was an immense production of novels, illustrated by not a few names which should rank high in the second class, while some would promote more than one of them to the first.

在早期的史考特和狄更斯、萨克雷之间,有大量的小说作品,其中不少小说的名字应该排在第二类小说的前列,而有些则会把其中不止一个提升到第一类。

Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn't been any radio that did that. And so they weren't trained - they had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.

是的,但是你需要一个经验丰富的电台老手,一个自由主义的拥护者。当时没有任何一台收音机能做到这一点。所以他们没有受过训练——他们养成了所有这些客观、平衡的坏习惯,诸如此类。

And, moreover, it is art in its most general and comprehensive form that is here discussed, for the dialogue embraces everything connected with it, from its greatest object, the state, to its least, the embellishment of sensuous existence.

此外,这里所讨论的是艺术的最普遍和最全面的形式,因为对话包含了与它有关的一切,从它的最伟大的对象,国家,到它的最小的,对感官存在的美化。

I go on giving interviews because I've been brought up to support the projects I'm involved in. When you've enjoyed working on a production, you want to do them a favour.

我之所以会继续接受采访,是因为我从小就被教育要支持我所参与的项目。当你喜欢制作一部作品时,你想帮他们一个忙。

Not compromising the music, but there is a way, by just showing the people that you're sincere and honest with what you're doing, and by talking to them.

不影响音乐,但有一种方法,就是向人们展示你的真诚和诚实,告诉他们你在做什么。

I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.

我一直努力发出希望的声音,在这个世界上,仇恨让位于尊重,压迫让位于解放。

I am methodical to the point of being obsessive-compulsive. And I have always been good at multi-tasking.

我做事有条不紊,几乎到了强迫症的程度。我一直擅长同时处理多项任务。

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

中年时期,男人总是在想,一两周后他会感觉和以前一样好。

This object that we hold in our hands, a book... that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go away.

我们手里拿的这个东西,一本书……那种触觉上的愉悦,是不会消失的。

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

一个人不应该太诚实。直树先砍,诚实人先遭殃。

That is happiness; to be dissolved into something completely great.

这是幸福;完全溶入伟大的事物中。

The purpose creates the machine.

目的创造了机器。