A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
成功
Successful
Your big picture will never be a masterpiece if you ignore the tiny brushstrokes. You're trying so hard to be successful that true success is eluding you.
如果你忽略了那些细小的笔触,你的大图永远不会成为杰作。你如此努力地想要成功,以至于真正的成功都在躲避你。
Of course. I favor passive investing for most investors, because markets are amazingly successful devices for incorporating information into stock prices.
答案是肯定的。你我倾向于对大多数投资者进行被动投资,因为市场是一种非常成功的将信息整合到股价中的工具。
For our welfare reform efforts to be successful, we must empower local charitable organizations with the resources to address their local community needs.
为使我们的福利改革工作取得成功,我们必须赋予本地慈善机构资源,以满足本地社区的需要。
The entire time I was modeling, I was trying and failing at businesses. In fact, we would have started our business much sooner had I been more successful.
在我做模特的整个过程中,我一直在尝试,但在商业上失败了。事实上,如果我更成功的话,我们早就开始做生意了。
Well, I don't think everything necessarily that I touch turns to gold, but I think I get great joy out of it regardless of whether it is successful or not.
嗯,我不认为我接触到的每样东西都一定会变成金子,但我认为无论它是否成功,我都能从中获得巨大的快乐。
I think long-lasting, healthy relationships are more important than the idea of marriage. At the root of every successful marriage is a strong partnership.
我认为持久健康的关系比婚姻更重要。每段成功婚姻的基础都是牢固的伙伴关系。
And there's no guarantee that if you get HIV and you take these triple therapies, or whatever comes along next, that they're going to be successful for you.
如果你感染了艾滋病毒并接受了这三种疗法,或者不管接下来会发生什么,都不能保证它们会对你成功。
I know I had been successful in football. I had been successful in broadcasting. I didn't think that anything could touch me. I thought, I can beat anything.
我知道我在足球上很成功。我在广播事业上取得了成功。我不认为任何东西能碰我。我想,我能打败任何东西。
When you're that successful, things have a momentum, and at a certain point you can't really tell whether you have created the momentum or it's creating you.
当你这么成功的时候,事情就有了动力,到了一定的程度,你就不知道是你创造了动力,还是它在创造你。
There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.
有一种追求完美的激情,你很少能看到这种激情得到充分的发展;但你可能会注意到,在成功的人生中,它从来不是完全缺乏的。
Who can wonder at the attractiveness... of the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of the successful orator?
谁会对它的吸引力感到惊讶呢……对于我们这些雄心勃勃的年轻人来说,当社会上最高的贿赂都拜倒在成功的演说家的脚下时,律师的地位又会如何呢?
The biggest problems were to do with... well, to get that successful when you're so young, it attracts hangers-on, parasites, people who want to feed off you.
最大的问题是……嗯,为了在你这么年轻的时候就取得成功,它吸引了马屁精、寄生虫,以及那些想以你为食的人。
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People who say they're not nervous - I would be kind of curious to see how successful you are at what you do and how long you've done it. And what is success in your eyes? Have you separated yourself from everyone else in that craft? Or have you settled amongst the pack?
那些说他们不紧张的人——我很好奇你在你所做的事情上有多成功,你已经做了多久。你眼中的成功是什么?在那个行业里,你把自己和其他人分开了吗?或者你已经在人群中安顿下来了?
A manager is not a successful manager until he succeeds in managing managers successfully.
只有成功地管理好经理,经理才能成为成功的经理。
Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.
行动能极大地恢复和建立信心。无所作为不仅是恐惧的结果,而且是恐惧的原因。也许你所采取的行动会成功;或许接下来必须采取不同的行动或做出调整。但是任何行动都比什么都不做要好。
A successful woman is one who can build a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at her.
成功的女人是用别人扔给她的砖头打好坚实的基础的人。
One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
一个成功的科学家不可能不认识到,与报纸和科学家母亲所支持的流行观念相反,有相当数量的科学家不仅心胸狭窄、沉闷,而且愚蠢。
As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
一般来说,生活中最成功的人是拥有最好信息的人。