A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
简单
Simple
Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws.
我们的要求简单、正常,因此很难满足。我们所要求的只是舞台上的演员要按照自然规律生活。
I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.
我开始意识到,如果一个人有固定的工作时间,固定的薪水,很少有原创的想法去做,那么他的生活会变得多么简单。
It is best to be honest and truthful, to make the most of what you have, to be happy with simple pleasures, and to have courage when things don't go your way.
最好是诚实和诚实,充分利用你所拥有的,为简单的快乐而快乐,当事情不顺心时要有勇气。
My beauty regime is very simple. I just take my make-up off before bed. And oh, I always put moisturiser on. But that's about it, apart from a bit of soap maybe.
我的美容方法很简单。我只是在睡觉前卸妆。哦,我总是涂润肤霜。但也仅此而已,也许除了一点肥皂。
Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a fortune at hand, will fail to do.
节俭、谨慎和简朴的生活是需求的主宰,它们常常能完成与之相反的事情,而手头有一笔财富却做不到这一点。
The father's greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being.
父亲最大的愚蠢之处在于,他相信自己可以比自己简单得多;作为一个人,他并不能真正处理自己的复杂性。
One simple way to keep organizations from becoming cancerous might be to rotate all jobs on a regular, frequent and mandatory basis, including the leadership positions.
防止组织癌变的一个简单方法可能是定期、频繁和强制性地轮换所有工作,包括领导职位。
I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.
我来这里讲诗歌。它将永远在草地上。也有必要弯下腰去听。它总是太简单,不能在程序集中讨论。
Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.
一切深刻的东西都是简单的,只要保持对整个真理的参照,就可以简单地再现出来。但重要的不是机智,而是真实。
Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears.
除了一些简单的原则外,我认为英语散文的声音和节奏很重要,作家和读者都不应该太相信规则,而应该相信自己的耳朵。
I think the theater work and the on-camera work feed off each other. My theater work has become more simple, and my on-camera work has become more energized or more spontaneous.
我认为戏剧工作和摄像机工作是相互影响的。我的戏剧工作变得更简单了,我的镜头工作变得更有活力或更自然。
Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.
创造力不仅仅是与众不同。任何人都可以做出奇怪的计划;这很简单。难的是像巴赫一样简单。让事情变得简单,非常简单,这就是创造力。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.
坠入爱河极其简单,而失恋则极其可怕。
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
每件事都应该尽可能地简单,但不是越简单越好。
I always go back to how people behave. If you watch how people actually behave in a situation, it's very simple and honest and contained. You don't need to use as much expression, as much feeling. Some characters will boil over, and that's another thing, but a lot of times I think you can just do very, very little.
我总是回到人们的行为。如果你观察人们在某种情况下的实际行为,你会发现它非常简单、诚实和包容。你不需要用太多的表情,更多的感觉。有些角色会沸腾,这是另一回事,但很多时候我认为你能做的非常非常少。
My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable.
我的画是有形的图像,没有任何隐藏…它们唤起了神秘感,当你看到我的照片时,你会问自己一个简单的问题“这是什么意思?”它没有任何意义,因为神秘也没有任何意义,它是不可知的。
It's very simple. We are asking baseball to come clean and set the record straight. Either baseball officials seriously want to rid their sport of doping, or they want to brush the issue under the carpet. So far, we haven't seen much evidence of the former.
很简单。我们要求棒球坦白交代,澄清事实。棒球官员要么是认真地想让他们的运动摆脱兴奋剂,要么就是想把这个问题掩盖起来。到目前为止,我们还没有看到太多关于前者的证据。
Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.
把谎言说得大一点,简单一点,不断地说,最终他们会相信的。