A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
成功
Success
成功的讨论不只有结果,也包括学习、实践、挫折和判断。把这些表达放回自己的处境中阅读,比把一句话当作万能答案更有帮助。
The value of a moment is immeasurable. The power of just ONE moment can propel you to success and happiness or chain you to failure and misery.
一个时刻的价值是不可估量的。只有一刻的力量可以推动你走向成功和幸福,也可以把你锁在失败和痛苦中。
The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
失败与成功之间的界线是如此之细,以至于我们几乎不知道什么时候会跨过它;
I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.
我讨厌失败。我对婚姻的失败既恨又恨。我愿意用我所有的钱来换取一次持久的婚姻成功。
Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job.
诗歌要求人们要有价值观,形成观点,除了赚钱和工作上的成功,还要关心其他的一些经验。
The success or failure of any relationship depends not just on how we feel about each other, but on how we make each other feel about ourselves.
任何关系的成败不仅取决于我们对彼此的感觉,还取决于我们如何让对方对自己有感觉。
My role model was my grandfather. He instilled in me the feeling that no matter how successful you are you have a responsibility to help others.
我的榜样是我的祖父。他灌输给我的感觉是,无论你有多成功,你都有责任帮助别人。
An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match.
演员的名气是稍纵即逝的。他的成功有一个小男孩的预期寿命,他即将用一根点燃的火柴往油箱里看。
I did everything I could to stay in college and pay my own way, so I think that if success hadn't come so quickly, I would still be pursuing it.
我尽我所能留在大学里,支付自己的学费,所以我想,如果成功来得不是那么快,我仍然会追求它。
Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.
时间是人类生存中最宝贵的元素。成功的人知道如何把精力投入时间,如何从时间中汲取成功。
To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful.
改革意味着打破一种形式,创造另一种形式;但是,这项法案的两方面并不总是同样有意或同样成功。
The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever.
一个成功研究项目的经典例子是牛顿引力理论:这可能是有史以来最成功的研究项目。
If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.
如果你只是为了钱而工作,你永远不会成功,但是如果你热爱你所做的,并且总是把客户放在第一位,成功将属于你。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
性格不能在安逸和平静中培养。只有经历了试炼和痛苦,灵魂才能得到强化,视野才会清晰,雄心才会被激发,成功才会实现。
A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.
一个成功的人是能够用别人扔给他或她的砖头打下坚实基础的人。
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。
Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've seen some very talented actors go into analysis and really lose it.
心理分析。几乎跑了三次——几乎。然后我决定我的特别之处可能就是我成功的原因。我看到过一些非常有天赋的演员进入了分析领域,但却迷失了方向。
My ambition was to stop waiting tables. That was how I measured success: finally, I was able to stop waiting tables, and I was able to pay the rent, and that was by being a stand-up comic. Not a very good stand-up comic, but good enough to make a living.
我的抱负是不再做服务员。这就是我衡量成功的方式:最终,我不再做服务员了,我付得起房租了,那就是当一名单口相声演员。不是一个很好的单口喜剧演员,但足以谋生。