A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
成功
Successful
It is something that most parents hope for in life: That their children will be moderately successful, polite, decent human beings. Anything on top of that is something you have no right to hope for, but we all do.
这是大多数父母在生活中所希望的:他们的孩子将是适度成功、有礼貌、正派的人。除此之外,你没有权利对任何事情抱有希望,但我们都有。
Fiction writing was in my blood from a very young age, but I never considered writing as a real career. I thought you had to have some literary pedigree to be a successful author, the son of Hemingway or Fitzgerald.
我从小就有写小说的天赋,但我从未想过把写作作为一种真正的职业。我以为你必须有文学背景才能成为一个成功的作家,海明威或菲茨杰拉德的儿子。
What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.
成功的秘诀是什么?在我看来,只有四个基本要素:选择一个你热爱的职业,发挥你最好的一面,抓住机会,成为团队的一员。
The whole point of being in this business and being blessed and being successful is that you're able to do things for your friends or your family, which means that they can have something special in their lives, too.
在这个行业中,被祝福和成功的全部意义在于你能够为你的朋友或家人做一些事情,这意味着他们在他们的生活中也可以有一些特别的东西。
I don't think the process was successful and should be inspected closer. I am not afraid to say I am not familiar with the entire process, so before commenting further I would have to study the process more in depth.
我不认为这个过程是成功的,应该更仔细地检查。我不害怕说我不熟悉整个过程,所以在进一步评论之前,我必须更深入地研究这个过程。
The irony of that is, what makes it kind of ironic, is when you do become successful as a professional athlete in particular, a lot of the young children who are emulating these stars do have a different perspective.
具有讽刺意味的是,让它具有讽刺意味的是,当你成为一名成功的职业运动员时,尤其是,很多模仿这些明星的孩子确实有不同的观点。
Here's the funny thing about the response I've been aware of to my dating famous people: It's been very negative. I'm either not good-looking enough, not a good enough actor or not successful enough for these people.
有趣的是,当我和名人约会时,我注意到他们的反应是非常消极的。对这些人来说,我要么不够好看,要么不够优秀,要么不够成功。
Also, it was a cultural moment that wasn't being represented in terms of women who were successful and had choices they didn't have before. They needed a show that they can watch that they felt like represented them.
而且,这是一个文化时刻,没有表现为女性谁是成功的,并有他们以前没有的选择。他们需要一个能让他们看的,能让他们感觉代表他们的节目。
Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.
眼泪有时是对死亡的一种不恰当的反应。当一个人完全诚实地、完全成功地、或者仅仅是完全地活着,对死亡完美的标点符号的正确反应就是一个微笑。
I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.
我必须在此强调一点,我欣赏明确性、秩序、意义、结构和合理性:它们对于我们所拥有的任何临时稳定都是必要的,并且它们可以成为渐进和成功变革的推动者。
I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.
我拒绝了耶鲁大学的奖学金。大学教育的问题在于,人们往往会把准备工作错当成是提高工作效率。你可以准备你想要的一切,但如果你不掷骰子,你永远不会成功。
People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.
那些相信自己有能力控制自己生活的人比那些不相信自己有能力改变生活的人更健康、更有效、更成功。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Once you're in the game and it's a part of your life, you never want to leave it. But you have to be committed to be able to travel and do the things you need to do to be successful in whatever role you're doing.
一旦你进入游戏并成为你生活的一部分,你就再也不想离开它了。但是你必须有能力去旅行,做你需要做的事情,无论你在做什么,你都要成功。
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。
However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them.
不管你有多成功,亲密的关系是无可替代的。我们都需要它们。
If you want to be successful,you must respect one rule. Never lie to yourself.
如果你想成功,你必须遵守一条规则。永远不要欺骗自己。
No matter how well you do, no matter how successful you are, they're always going to criticize you.
不管你做得多好,不管你有多成功,他们总是会批评你。
Whether it is successful or not is not the exercise for me. It is not up to me. It is out of my hands now. I am not going to in two years have hindsight and say I made a big mistake.
它是否成功对我来说不是练习。这不是我能决定的。现在我已经无能为力了。我不会在两年后回过头来看,然后说我犯了一个大错误。