A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
行动
Action
I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.
我只是一个人,但我就是一个人。我不能做所有的事,但我能做一些事。我不会让我不能做的事妨碍我能做的事。
Olivier was another case of a genius, who couldn't understand why anybody would have any trouble doing this, because for him it came so easily.
奥利维尔是另一个天才,他不明白为什么任何人在做这件事时都会遇到困难,因为对他来说,这来得太容易了。
Action is the pulse of any good story, but the character is the heart. If the action has no consequence to the character, the story loses heart.
行动是任何好故事的脉搏,但人物是心灵。如果行为对角色没有影响,故事就会失去信心。
He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already in his heart.
真正相信促使他去做某件事的东西的人,已经看到了促使他去做某件事的欲望,他已经在心里做了这件事。
I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.
当密苏里妥协案的废除再次引起我的兴趣时,我对政治失去了兴趣。从那时起,我所做的一切都是众所周知的。
I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.
我从很小的时候就知道,如果我追求真正让我兴奋的东西,它们会以更重要的方式回报我,比如幸福。
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
优秀的品德是习惯的结果。我们通过正义的行为变得正义,通过有节制的行为变得有节制,通过勇敢的行为变得勇敢。
I think there's no reason the Davis Cup couldn't be as powerful and popular and profitable as any of the four majors are today, given some changes.
我认为,考虑到一些变化,戴维斯杯没有理由不像四大巨头那样强大、受欢迎和盈利。
A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.
剧作家认为纯粹的事件,涉及人类的行为,比任何评论都更引人注目。
Why - because as a oil and gas small business owner - I know if someone is not doing their job, they should not get paid. Again leadership by example.
为什么?因为作为一个石油和天然气小企业主,我知道如果有人没有做好本职工作,他们就不应该得到报酬。还是要以身作则。
The action stuff is only good if you get the character stuff in there as well. Sometimes that get lost in amongst all the trying to make stuff blow up.
动作类的东西只有在角色类的东西也在里面的时候才有用。有时候他们会迷失在制造爆炸的过程中。
One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to the full, for, while it is a time of great tragedy, nothing is being lost but money.
人们可以尽情地品味人类在恐慌时期的各种愚蠢行为,因为尽管这是一个巨大的悲剧时刻,但除了钱,什么也没有失去。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
始终致力于思想、言语和行为的完全和谐。时刻致力于净化你的思想,一切都会好起来的。
I think all of us are shaped by the choices we make.
我认为我们所有人都是由我们所做的选择所塑造的。
Happy is the bride that the sun shines on.
阳光普照的新娘是幸福的。
Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.
你遇到的每一个人都知道一些你不知道的事情。
The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
不管我们知不知道,这个世界取决于我们的每一个行动和每一个疏忽。
In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.
在我们这个时代,通往圣洁的道路必然要经过行动的世界。