A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
成功
Successful
Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.
成功在于成功，而不在于有成功的潜力。任何一块宽阔的土地都有可能成为宫殿的所在地，但在它建成之前没有宫殿。
Look at all the marriages that have been wonderfully successful where fellows finished their army service and came home to go to college on G.I. bills and their wives worked.
看看那些非常成功的婚姻吧，在这些婚姻中，男人们服完兵役，靠退伍军人福利回家上大学，而他们的妻子在工作。
If Bret went in there and stunk the place out, then they probably wouldn't have brought the little brother in. So just by being successful himself, it opened the door for me.
如果布雷特进去，把这地方弄得臭气熏天，他们大概就不会把小弟弟带进来了。因此，通过自己的成功，它为我打开了一扇门。
I don't think an actor ever wants to establish an image. That certainly hurt me, and yet that is also what made me successful and eventually able to do more challenging roles.
我不认为演员想要树立自己的形象。这当然伤害了我，但这也是我成功的原因，并最终能够胜任更具挑战性的角色。
I think the Pistons have such a well rounded team, which is why they're so successful. All you have to do is look at the stats defensively and at their rebounding and scoring.
我认为活塞有一支如此全面的球队，这就是他们如此成功的原因。你所要做的就是从防守角度看数据，看他们的篮板和得分。
And I tell you that's one of the reasons why I didn't have the friendships with the media, maybe like I could have. But I had to do what I had to do to make myself successful.
我告诉你们，这就是我没有和媒体建立友谊的原因之一，也许我本可以和媒体建立友谊。但是我必须做我必须做的来让自己成功。
And it just made me realize again because I have know it for some time, that you never get comfortable in this. No matter who you are. No matter who... how successful you are.
这让我再次意识到，因为我已经知道一段时间了，你永远不会适应这样的生活。不管你是谁。不管谁……你是多么成功。
I was less successful in my attempts to effect preventive vaccination against typhus by using the virus and in trying to produce large quantities of serum using large animals.
我曾尝试用这种病毒来预防接种斑疹伤寒，并试图用大型动物生产大量血清，但都没有成功。
I was very strongly influenced by women's magazines and I really believed tha a woman could not be married and raise a family and have a successful career all at the same time.
我深受女性杂志的影响，我真的认为一个女人不可能同时结婚、养家和事业有成。
Intelligent, successful, attractive people can be intimidating. They force us to hold a mirror to ourselves; we can be disappointed, jealous or inspired toward personal growth.
聪明、成功、有吸引力的人可能令人生畏。他们强迫我们对自己照镜子;我们可能会感到失望、嫉妒，或者受到个人成长的鼓舞。
Think of all the really successful men and women you know. Do you know a single one who didn't learn very young the trick of calling attention to himself in the right quarters?
想想你认识的所有真正成功的男人和女人。你是否认识一个人，他在很小的时候就没有学会在适当的时候引起别人的注意?
The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
获得一段成功恋情的秘诀很简单:你应该把所有的灾难都当作小事来对待，但绝不要把小事当作灾难来对待。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
There are a lot of people who think that's what's needed to be successful is always being right, always being careful, always picking the right path.
有很多人认为成功所需要的就是永远正确，永远小心，永远选择正确的道路。
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。
Over time, a successful company will acquire much in the way of resources and momentum, and these things often insulate it from reality once it has stopped being successful.
随着时间的推移，一家成功的公司将获得大量的资源和动力，而一旦它不再成功，这些东西往往会将它与现实隔离开来。
Making cartoons means very hard work at every step of the way, but creating a successful cartoon character is the hardest work of all.
制作卡通意味着每一步都要非常努力，但是创造一个成功的卡通人物是所有工作中最难的。
The qualities of an exceptional cook are akin to those of a successful tightrope walker: an abiding passion for the task, courage to go out on a limb and an impeccable sense of balance.
一位杰出厨师的品质类似于一位成功的走钢丝者:对任务持久的激情，敢于冒险的勇气，以及完美的平衡感。