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 central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.
保守主义的核心真理是,决定一个社会成功的是文化,而不是政治。自由主义的核心真理是,政治可以改变一种文化,并将其从自身中拯救出来。
You can have unbelievable intelligence, you can have connections, you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end, hard work is the true, enduring characteristic of successful people.
你可以拥有令人难以置信的智慧,你可以拥有人脉,你可以拥有从天而降的机会。但最终,努力工作才是成功人士真正的、持久的特征。
In a sense, a hit belongs to the person who made it popular, but if a tune is good enough to attain tremendous success, then it certainly deserves more than one version, one treatment, one approach.
从某种意义上说,一首热门歌曲属于让它流行起来的人,但如果一首曲子好到足以取得巨大成功,那么它肯定值得不止一个版本、一种治疗方法和一种方法。
It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
认为人通过成功而成功是错误的;他们往往通过失败获得成功。教训、学习、忠告和榜样永远不能像失败那样教会他们。
Honestly, a lot of people thought that I was on top of the world selling so many millions of records, and that this is the life that everybody would want, but I never got to enjoy any of my success.
老实说,很多人认为我是世界上销售数百万张唱片的冠军,这是每个人都想要的生活,但我从来没有享受过我的任何成功。
Success doesn't mean that you are healthy, success doesn't mean that you're happy, success doesn't mean that you're rested. Success really doesn't mean that you look good, or feel good, or are good.
成功不意味着你健康,成功不意味着你快乐,成功不意味着你休息好。成功并不意味着你看起来很好,或者感觉很好,或者很好。
The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.
承担生活责任的关键是接受这样一个事实:无论你如何定义这些术语,你的每一个选择都在无情地引导你走向成功或失败。
For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.
对于一场成功的革命来说,仅仅有不满是不够的。所需要的是对政治和社会权利的正义、必要性和重要性的深刻和彻底的信念。
As to my success here I cannot say much as yet: the Indians seem generally kind, and well-disposed towards me, and are mostly very attentive to my instructions, and seem willing to be taught further.
至于我在这里的成功,我还不能说得太多:印第安人似乎普遍对我很友好,对我很有好感,对我的指示大都很认真,似乎愿意接受进一步的教育。
God lets you be successful because he trusts you that you will do the right thing with it. Now, does he get disappointed often? All the time, because people get there and they forget how they got it.
上帝让你成功,因为他相信你会用它做正确的事。现在,他经常感到失望吗?一直都是,因为人们到了那里,却忘记了他们是怎么得到它的。
The choice of personnel, perhaps the most important choice (because 'people are policy'), never proceeds according to plan, but there have been some successful transitions that upheld high standards.
人员的选择,也许是最重要的选择(因为“人就是政策”),从来不会按照计划进行,但也有一些成功的过渡支持高标准。
And really, the basis, I think, of achieving some success in what I want to do today comes from my mother's push to get me to read and to make something of myself from the standpoint of an education.
我认为,我今天想做的事情之所以能取得一些成功,是因为我母亲鼓励我读书,让我从教育的角度来认识自己。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
A manager is not a successful manager until he succeeds in managing managers successfully.
只有成功地管理好经理,经理才能成为成功的经理。
Action is the foundational key to all success.
行动是一切成功的基础。
The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.
强者把克服困难当作自己的首要兴趣;成功只会来得更晚。
The road to success is always under construction.
成功之路总是在建设之中。
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
如果一个人自信地朝着他的梦想前进,努力过他想象中的生活,他会在平常的时间里遇到意想不到的成功。
You'll never be brave if you don't get hurt. You'll never learn if you don't make mistakes. You'll never be successful if you don't encounter failure.
如果你不受伤,你就永远不会勇敢。如果你不犯错,你就永远学不会。如果你不遇到失败,你永远不会成功。