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。
All successful people these days seem to be neurotic. Perhaps we should stop being sorry for them and start being sorry for me - for being so confounded normal.
如今所有成功人士似乎都很神经质。也许我们应该停止为他们感到遗憾,而开始为我感到遗憾——因为我是如此困惑的正常人。
This success led my theoretical group to the chemical reactivity theory, extending more and more widely the range of compound and reactions that were discussed.
这一成功将我的理论小组引向了化学反应理论,使所讨论的化合物和反应的范围越来越广。
No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start.
没有什么幻觉比幻想更重要的了:巨大的成功和巨额的金钱能让你免除人类的常见疾病,比如汽车发动不起来。
A person has to remember that the road to success is always under construction. You have to get that through your head. That it is not easy becoming successful.
一个人必须记住成功之路总是在建设中。你得把它记在脑子里。成功并不容易。
I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.
我觉得我想照顾好每一个人,如果我做不到,我也会感到内疚。自从所有这些成功开始以来,我一直有这种感觉。
It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative side is offset by advances in technology and cultural exchanges.
的确,人类经历了一连串的危机、战争和暴行,但科技和文化交流的进步抵消了这些负面影响。
If I had been at a University I don't think I would have been able to have the experience I had in my Smithsonian work. I don't think I have been as successful.
如果我上的是大学,我想我就不会有我在史密森学会工作时的经历了。我想我没有那么成功。
I grew up and I became very successful at what I did as a young man. I became a work addict because this was the only way I could get any relief from this pain.
我长大了,在我年轻时所做的一切都非常成功。我成了一个工作狂,因为这是我能从这种痛苦中得到解脱的唯一途径。
What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power.
什么是公共历史?它不过是那些参与权力争夺者的成功与失望、罪恶、愚蠢和争吵的记录。
Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
一个人可以和美丽、聪明、成功的人打一场无情的战争,却不能和不漂亮的人打一场。
The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.
世人以职业上的才能来判断一个人,我们也以同样的标准来判断自己:因为我们在生活中成功与否,也取决于这个标准。
My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success.
我早期的战争经历使我怀疑纪律的价值,即使是在纪律常常被认为是成功的首要条件的领域。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
如果每个人都在一起前进,那么成功就会自然而然地到来。
He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.
他是一个白手起家的人,他的失败不能归因于任何人。
Failure is success in progress.
失败是进步中的成功。
The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can.
奖品将颁发给那些成功应对紧急情况的人。应对紧急情况的方法是尽我们所能做好每一项日常工作。
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
每一个在一次伟大的冒险中获得成功的人,在遇到问题时都能迎刃而解。他们帮助自己。在他们起航的时候,有他们所知道的,也有他们所不知道的。他们不顾遇到的困难继续前进。
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。