A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
能力
Ability
Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.
不要用你的成就来衡量自己，而是用你的能力来衡量你应该完成什么。
If there was one life skill everyone on the planet needed, it was the ability to think with critical objectivity.
如果这个星球上的每个人都需要一种生活技能，那就是批判性客观思考的能力。
One of the greatest obstacles standing between us and our ability to evolve is our tendency to behave like sheep.
阻碍我们进化能力的最大障碍之一就是我们的行为像绵羊一样。
Being competent means the ability to control and operate the things in the environment and the environment itself.
能力是指控制和操作环境和环境本身的能力。
There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.
有些邪恶有能力在认同中存活，并永远存在……比如钱，或者战争。
The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.
天才的领导者必须有能力让不同的对手看起来像是属于一个类别。
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
对于能力有限的人，谦虚只是诚实。但在有才能的人面前，却是虚伪。
Enduring setbacks while maintaining the ability to show others the way to go forward is a true test of leadership.
在忍受挫折的同时，保持向他人展示前进道路的能力，是对领导力的真正考验。
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
有的东西比才能稀罕得多，珍贵得多。它是识别能力。
Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.
自由不是没有承诺，而是选择——并承诺自己——对自己最好的东西的能力。
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
许多伟人一生中唯一的好运就是有能力和决心克服坏运气。
People who know other people’s secrets can’t afford to do things that impair their ability to control their mouths.
知道别人秘密的人不能做损害他们控制自己说话能力的事情。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
信念有创造的力量，也有毁灭的力量。人类有一种可怕的能力，可以从他们的生活中获取任何经验，并创造出一种意义，使他们丧失权力，或一种真正能拯救他们生命的意义。
Everyone has the ability to hurt; it's the choice that matters.
每个人都有伤害别人的能力;重要的是选择。
Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking for source material.
艺术有这样的能力，让你可以像生物学一样，回顾历史。我一直在寻找原始资料。
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
我所知道的最令人鼓舞的事实莫过于人类通过有意识的努力来提高自己的生活水平的无可置疑的能力。
If i could give you one thing in life, i would give you the ability to see yourself through my eyes. Only then would you realize how special you are to me.
如果我能给你生命中的一件事，我会给你通过我的眼睛看到自己的能力。只有这样，你才会意识到你对我来说是多么的特别。
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.
幽默感是理解笑话的能力——而笑话就是你自己。