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Simplicity
Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.
不必要的财产是不必要的负担。如果你有它们,你必须照顾它们!简单的生活有很大的自由。最幸福的人是那些拥有足够但不太多的人。
What's really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the extraneous. If you strive for simplicity, you are more likely to reach the viewer.
真正重要的是简化。如果大多数摄影师能做一件事,他们的作品将会得到极大的改善:摆脱多余的东西。如果你追求简单,你更有可能接触到观众。
To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.
对我来说,武术的非凡之处在于它的简单。简单的方法也是正确的方法,武术没什么特别的;越接近武术的真道,表达的浪费就越少。
Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.
现在的创造性数学家和过去一样,只受他们对对称性、简明性和普遍性的感觉以及对事物适应性的一种无法定义的感觉的指导,他们受到数学艺术的启发,而不是受到任何最终有用的前景的启发。
However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
不论你的生活如何卑贱,你要面对它生活,不要躲避它,更别用恶言咒骂它。视贫穷如园中之花而像圣人一样耕植它吧。不要麻烦自己去找新的东西,无论是衣服还是朋友。万物不变,是我们在变。卖掉你的衣服,保留你的思想。
I find that kid actors are great reminders of the simplicity of acting. As you get older, you can sometimes complicate things a little more. You can become too aware of, 'Okay, this is the scene emotionally. This is where we need to be. We've got the climax coming up.' You can start to analyze it too much.
我发现童星能很好地提醒我们表演的简单性。随着年龄的增长,你有时会把事情复杂化。你可能会意识到,‘好吧,这就是情感上的场景。这是我们需要做的。高潮就要到了。你可以开始过多地分析它。
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When Van Halen started out, there was no path to fame. We just played what we liked. Even today it always comes down to the simplicity of rock and roll.
范海伦刚出道的时候,并没有成名之路。我们只是玩我们喜欢的。即使在今天,它总是归结为摇滚的简单。
When the solution is simple, God is answering.
当答案很简单的时候,上帝在回答。
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
不是每天的增加,而是每天的减少。清除不必要的东西。
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
简化的能力意味着消除不必要的东西,以便必要的东西可以发言。
I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it.
我不能同意我这必死无疑的躯体将被埋葬在一个为皇帝或国王准备的宝库中。我的共和情怀和原则禁止我这样做。
Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
大多数科学的基本概念本质上都很简单,而且通常可以用一种人人都能理解的语言来表达。