The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

  • -- Walter Lippmann 沃尔特·利普曼

一个好的领导者的天才之处在于,他留下了一个没有天才风度的常识可以成功处理的局面。

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When I started, I was told that, for all intents and purposes, I was playing a human, which made it easier. Until they told me, 'Grace, you're a Cylon, she wouldn't do that.' And later, I learned that Cylons are actually more human than humans. This has been an ongoing exploration.

当我开始的时候,我被告知,出于各种目的,我在扮演一个人,这让我变得更容易。直到他们告诉我,‘格雷斯,你是赛昂人,她才会那样做。“后来,我了解到赛昂人实际上比人类更像人类。这是一个正在进行的探索。

Every time we bring someone in we ensure that they are a strategic thinker, but even more important that they understand that if the products aren't successful and the products don't sell that there won't be anything to strategize about.

每一次我们引入一个人,我们都要确保他们是一个战略思想家,但更重要的是,他们要明白,如果产品不成功,产品不畅销,就没有什么战略可言。

Some people are uncomfortable with the idea that humans belong to the same class of animals as cats and cows and raccoons. They're like the people who become successful and then don't want to be reminded of the old neighborhood.

有些人认为人类与猫、牛和浣熊属于同一类动物,他们对此感到不舒服。他们就像那些成功的人一样,不想被老邻居提醒。

Now being in such grace and favor by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art of mathematics with other things, I pleased him so that what I said he would not contrary.

现在,由于受到这样的恩宠,我学会了一些几何学的知识,用其他的东西来理解数学的艺术,我使他高兴,所以我说的话他不会反对。

You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.

你总是可以修改一个大计划,但你永远不能扩大一个小计划。我不相信小计划。我相信有足够大的计划来应对我们现在无法预见的情况。

Animals... don't have a sense of time. You just have to do things over and over with animals until they happen to do it right because they don't really know what you want.

动物……没有时间观念。你必须一遍又一遍地和动物打交道,直到它们碰巧做对了,因为它们并不知道你真正想要的是什么。

Be one who nurtures and builds be one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart who looks for the last in people leave people better than you found them.

做一个有善解人意和宽容之心的人,在别人身上寻找最后的优点。

Most of the time people are aiming so low on television. They're trying to reach that common denominator, especially on network television.

大多数时候,人们在电视上的目标都很低。他们正试图达到这个共识,尤其是在网络电视上。

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.

不能原谅别人的人,就等于打破了自己必须跨过的桥;因为每个人都需要被原谅。

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

没有女人为钱结婚;他们都很聪明,在嫁给百万富翁之前,先爱上了他。

There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience.

如果一个人要对自己的良心负责,他就必须拒绝对他的领袖负责。

I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.

我无法理解一个有名望的人怎么能手里拿着一份报纸而不感到厌恶。

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

教育是一种能力,能够倾听任何事情而不发脾气或失去自信。

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

我想,即使死也有好处,因为这样我们就可以和一群凡夫俗子混在一起了。

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

只有艺术家才能看到灵魂。但当他告诉大家他们出现在他面前时,每个人都看到了他们。

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

创造性的本质在于它的新颖性,因此我们没有判断它的标准。

I think to be a successful comic, you have to be exceptionally smart and exceptionally perceptive.

我认为要成为一个成功的喜剧演员,你必须非常聪明,非常敏锐。

It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.

如果你没有对许多矛盾力量的感觉,你就不可能生活在这个时代。

Past performance speaks a tremendous amount about one's ability and likelihood for success.

过去的表现在很大程度上说明了一个人的能力和成功的可能性。

In the midst of these hard times it is our good health and good sleep that are enjoyable.

在这些困难时期,我们的健康和良好的睡眠是令人愉快的。

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

如果可能的话,优雅地获得地位和财富;如果没有,无论如何要获得财富和地位。

A lot of the ideas or even individual technologies behind Khan Academy are not novel.

可汗学院背后的许多想法甚至个人技术都不新鲜。

The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.

治理的唯一合法权利是被治理者明确授予的权力。

Whether you know it or not, we leave parts of ourselves wherever we go.

不管你知不知道,我们走到哪里都会留下自己的一部分。

Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.

天才不仅能诊断情况,还能提供答案。

Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with.

董事的模棱两可是一件很难处理的事情。

My arse contemplates those who talk behind my back.

我的屁股注视着那些在我背后说话的人。

A traitor leader is the outcome of a fool nation.

一个叛徒领导人是一个愚蠢国家的产物。

I never could be good when I was not happy.

当我不快乐的时候,我永远也做不好。

Let's deal with each other honestly.

让我们诚实地对待彼此。