I have never been able to decide whether, in mountain exploration, it is the prospect of tackling an unsolved problem, or the performance of the task itself, or the retrospective enjoyment of successful effort, which affords the greatest amount of pleasure.

  • -- Eric Earle Shipton 埃里克·厄尔·希普顿

在山区探险中,我一直无法决定是解决一个尚未解决的问题的前景,还是任务本身的执行,还是对成功努力的回顾享受,才给我带来最大的乐趣。

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You can have unbelievable intelligence, you can have connections, you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end, hard work is the true, enduring characteristic of successful people.

你可以拥有令人难以置信的智慧,你可以拥有人脉,你可以拥有从天而降的机会。但最终,努力工作才是成功人士真正的、持久的特征。

Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

每一个伟人,每一个成功人士,不管他们从事的是什么行业,都知道这句话的魅力:每一次逆境都孕育着与之等价或更大的利益。

Men build bridges and throw railroads across deserts, and yet they contend successfully that job of sewing on a button is beyond them. Accordingly, they don’t have to sew buttons.

人们在沙漠中修桥、修铁路,然而他们成功地争辩说,缝钮扣的工作超出了他们的能力范围。因此,他们不需要缝扣子。

Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.

嗯,成立国土安全部花了很长时间。国会花了很长时间才决定要资助多少。

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.

当人们开始认为自己能做一些事情时,他们就会变得非常了不起。当他们相信自己的时候,他们就拥有了成功的第一秘诀。