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成功
Successful
I went from being totally unknown to getting stopped every time I went out. I always wanted to be successful, but I have never wanted to become a celebrity. I never, ever, craved that.
我从一个完全不认识的人变成了每次出门都会被人拦住的人。我一直想要成功，但是我从来没有想过要成为一个名人。我从来没有，从来没有，渴望那样。
Men build bridges and throw ra ilroads across deserts, and yet they contend successfully that the job of sewing on a button is beyond them. Accordingly, they don't have to sew buttons.
人们在沙漠中架起了桥梁，修筑起了公路，然而他们成功地争辩说，缝一颗钮扣的工作超出了他们的能力范围。因此，他们不需要缝扣子。
Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.
似乎在那之前我在广播和作为一名球员所做的一切都很成功。我是成功了。我在广播的各个方面都达到了顶峰。
Designers need to be mavericks, because the best way to design a successful object is to pretend that either it never existed or that people will be able to have a new behavior with it.
设计师需要标新立异，因为设计一个成功的对象的最好方法是假装它从未存在过，或者人们将能够对它有一个新的行为。
I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command.
我首先是个作家，其次是个编辑……或者是第三，甚至第四。成功的编辑需要一套非常具体的技能，我并不声称我掌握了所有这些技能。
The visa lottery system poses a national security threat. Under the program, each successful applicant is chosen at random and given the status of permanent resident based on pure luck.
签证抽签制度对国家安全构成了威胁。根据该计划，每个成功的申请人都是随机挑选的，并根据纯粹的运气获得永久居民身份。
Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn't much. But the things that I'm really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I'm not successful, what do I have?
没有人喜欢失败。我想在我所做的每一件事上取得成功，这并不多。但是我真正热爱的事情，如果我失败了，如果我没有成功，我还有什么?
If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.
如果你想获得真正的成功，那就在自己身上投资，获取你需要的知识，找到你的独特因素。当你找到它，专注于它，坚持下去，你的成功就会开花结果。
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。
The main problem is that for a boycott to be effective, you must first persuade thousands - maybe even millions of others - to go along, which is a lot of work and usually not successful.
主要的问题是，要使抵制有效，你必须首先说服数千人——甚至数百万人——同意，这是一项艰巨的工作，通常不会成功。
We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
我们不可能成功地操纵我们的地球飞船，除非我们把它看作是一艘完整的宇宙飞船，我们的命运也一样。要么是所有人，要么是没有人。
I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that's making me successful.
我发现我被批评的地方，通常是与众不同，做自己的事情，保持原创，正是这些让我成功的地方。
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The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.
成功人士与其他人的区别不在于缺乏力量，不在于缺乏知识，而在于缺乏意志。
A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.
一本成功的书不是由书里的内容组成，而是由书中遗漏的内容组成。
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
这是我们在一项艰巨任务开始时的态度，它比任何其他事情都更将影响其成功的结果。
The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.
最成功的政治家是用最响亮的声音说出人们的想法的人。
He or she must be successful in economic terms, but always within an ethical framework. Whether his or her constituency is a corporation and its shareholders or the customers in a small and privately held business, his or her first responsibility is to serve that constituency.
他或她必须在经济上取得成功，但总是在道德框架内。无论他或她的支持者是一家公司及其股东，还是一家小型私营企业的客户，他或她的首要职责都是为该选民服务。
My dad was the baby. When he was born they were already successful. They sent him to business school - he probably would have loved to have been a poet or a writer or something, and he was very creative.
我爸爸是婴儿。当他出生时，他们已经很成功了。他们把他送进了商学院——他可能很想成为一名诗人或作家之类的，而且他非常有创造力。