A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
能力
Ability
The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.
诚然，想要获得更多是非常自然和常见的事情;当人们成功做到这一点时，他们总是受到赞扬而不是谴责。但当他们缺乏这样做的能力，却又想不惜一切代价获得更多时，他们的错误就应该受到谴责。
I moderated a panel focusing just on women and the specific challenges that women entrepreneurs face. And we found that around the world, the challenges are the same, whether it is gaining access to capital, risk-taking, or the ability to expand beyond a small business and grow.
我主持了一个专门讨论女性和女性企业家所面临的具体挑战的小组。我们发现，世界各地面临的挑战都是一样的，无论是获得资金、承担风险，还是有能力在小企业之外扩张并实现增长。
Well you know, I think a lot of us in marriage know that you play different roles at different times. And Mitt can get very intense, and I can have the ability to kind of talk him off the rails sometimes and say, 'Hey let's look at what is really important and let's do that now.'
我想我们很多人在婚姻中都知道你在不同的时间扮演着不同的角色。米特有时会变得很紧张，而我有时会把他说得偏离轨道，然后说，‘嘿，让我们看看什么才是真正重要的，现在就开始做吧。’
In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability nor interest, instead of to the good arts of peace. They are generally more set on acquiring new kingdoms by hook or by crook than on governing well those that they already have.
首先，大多数王子都把自己的精力用在我既没有能力也没有兴趣的战争艺术上，而不是用在和平的艺术上。他们通常更倾向于不择手段地获取新王国，而不是治理好他们已经拥有的王国。
The difference between people who believe they have books inside of them and those who actually write books is sheer cussed persistence - the ability to make yourself work at your craft, every day - the belief, even in the face of obstacles, that you've got something worth saying.
相信自己有书在里面的人和真正写书的人之间的区别在于纯粹的固执——每天让自己在自己的领域努力的能力——相信，即使面对障碍，你也有值得说的东西。
I think there's a very fine line between the type of performing that some actors do, and being in a state in your mind where you actually believe what's going on. If we weren't actors, what would we do with that ability? Would we not be slightly insane? Mentally ill? I don't know.
我认为，在一些演员的表演类型和你内心的一种状态之间有一条非常微妙的界线，在这种状态下，你实际上相信正在发生的事情。如果我们不是演员，我们会用这种能力做什么?我们不会有点疯狂吗?精神疾病?我不知道。
What a man accomplishes in a day depends upon the way in which he approaches his tasks. When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen. When we do our work with a dynamic, conquering spirit, we get things done.
一个人一天的成就取决于他完成任务的方式。当我们接受困难的工作作为对我们能力的挑战，并带着喜悦和热情投入其中，奇迹就会发生。当我们以一种积极进取的精神工作时，我们就能把事情做好。
We are now at a point in time when the ability to receive, utilize, store, transform and trasmit data -- the lowest cognitive form -- has expanded literally beyond comprehension. Understanding and wisdom are largely forgotten as we struggle under an avalanche of data and information.
我们现在所处的时代，接收、利用、存储、转换和转换数据的能力——最低的认知形式——已经超出了我们的理解范围。当我们在海量的数据和信息下挣扎时，理解和智慧在很大程度上被遗忘了。
The survival of the fittest is the ageless law of nature, but the fittest are rarely the strong. The fittest are those endowed with the qualifications for adaptation, the ability to accept the inevitable and conform to the unavoidable, to harmonize with existing or changing conditions.
适者生存是亘古不变的自然规律，但适者生存的往往不是强者。适者生存的人是那些具有适应能力的人，他们有能力接受不可避免的事情，顺应不可避免的事情，并与现有或正在变化的条件相协调。
As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's words. I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.
作为一名演员，你有一定的创作空间，但最终你总会说别人的话。我不认为我有精力、技能或能力写小说，但我喜欢写短篇小说和诗歌，因为这是我的两大爱好。
The system that enables the most people to earn the most success is free enterprise, by matching up people's skills, interests, and abilities. In contrast, redistribution simply spreads money around. Even worse, it attenuates the ability to earn success by perverting economic incentives.
通过匹配人们的技能、兴趣和能力，使大多数人获得最大成功的系统是自由企业。相比之下，再分配只是简单地把钱分散开来。更糟糕的是，它削弱了通过扭曲经济激励机制获得成功的能力。
Further Education should be about the ability to learn, not the ability to pay - everyone who is able should have the opportunity, regardless of their family background. I don't want to see students struggling with huge debts or frightened off even going to university in the first place.
继续教育应该是关于学习的能力，而不是支付的能力——每个有能力的人都应该有机会，不管他们的家庭背景如何。我一开始就不希望看到学生背负巨额债务，甚至害怕上大学。
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Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
很少有人有真正的艺术才能。因此，通过努力来刺激局势既不合适，也没有效果。如果你有一种强烈的，不安分的写作或绘画的冲动，只要吃点甜食，这种感觉就会过去。
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。
Never let life impede on your ability to manifest your dreams. Dig deeper into your dreams and deeper into yourself and believe that anything is possible, and make it happen.
永远不要让生活阻碍你实现梦想的能力。深挖你的梦想，深挖你自己，相信任何事情都是可能的，并让它发生。
Money can add very much to one's ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself, but, hopefully, beneficial to others.
金钱可以大大增加一个人过建设性生活的能力，不仅使自己快乐，而且希望对他人有益。
When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical.
当某样东西超出了你的理解能力时，它就会变得很神奇。
I think education is one of the greatest tools for most kids not only to expand their book knowledge, but their ability to experience new things - I think it opens more doors than any other experience I can think of.
我认为对大多数孩子来说，教育是最好的工具之一，不仅可以扩展他们的书本知识，还可以让他们体验新事物的能力——我认为它比我能想到的任何其他经历都能打开更多的门。