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。
If you're going to be successful, you better have a goal, you better find really good people, better understand where all the money's coming from. And you better measure the living daylights out of it.
如果你想成功，你最好有一个目标，你最好找到真正优秀的人，更好地理解所有的钱从哪里来。你最好测量一下它的光照强度。
Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.
我认为成功和失败之间只有一线之隔。我认为，如果你在没有资金支持的情况下创业，你很可能会走错那条分界线。
Unless you are really grounded and have a true sense of reality, you can get lost in that and a lot of people do and that's why you see so many people with successful careers but with destructive lives.
除非你真的脚踏实地，对现实有真正的认识，否则你可能会迷失其中，很多人都是这样，这就是为什么你会看到这么多事业有成但生活充满破坏性的人。
We would prefer to see the House run by a philistine with the requisite financial acumen than by the succession of opera and ballet lovers who have brought a great and valuable institution to its knees.
我们宁愿看到一个有必要的财务头脑的庸人来管理这座房子，也不愿看到一个接一个的歌剧和芭蕾爱好者把一个伟大而宝贵的机构拖垮。
But it's a blessing to be so successful within a year; it's the greatest feeling in the world, making money and doing the things that I'm doing, and I definitely trying to continue doing what I'm doing.
但能在一年内如此成功是一件幸事;这是世界上最棒的感觉，赚钱，做我正在做的事情，我肯定会继续做我正在做的事情。
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 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。
In Aristotle the mind, regarded as the principle of life, divides into nutrition, sensation, and faculty of thought, corresponding to the inner most important stages in the succession of vital phenomena.
在亚里士多德的思想里，被认为是生命的原则的心灵，分为营养、感觉和思维的能力，与生命现象连续的最重要的内在阶段相对应。
The joy of songwriting only gets messed up if you are trying to follow up a big success, or you are trying to create a hit single, or if you have conscious thoughts of a particular outcome for the music.
只有当你想要取得巨大的成功，或者你想要创作一首热门单曲，或者你对音乐有一个特定的想法时，写歌的乐趣才会被打乱。
Young people need the hands-on training that comes with a summer job. They need to know how to dress for success and nail job interviews. But most of all, they need mentorship, guidance, and inspiration.
年轻人需要暑期工作所带来的实践训练。他们需要知道如何着装才能获得成功，如何在面试中脱颖而出。但最重要的是，他们需要导师、指导和灵感。
The first stage in a technology's advance is that it'll fall below a critical price. After it falls below a critical price, it will tend, if it's successful, to rise above a critical mass, a penetration.
一项技术进步的第一阶段是它将跌破一个关键价格。在跌破临界价格后，如果成功，它将倾向于突破临界质量，进入市场。
The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
衡量成功的唯一真正标准是，一方面我们可能已经做了什么和可能会成为什么，另一方面我们已经做了什么和我们自己做了什么之间的比例。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
A successful work of art is not one which resolves contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of harmony negatively by embodying the contradictions, pure and uncompromised, in its innermost structure.
一件成功的艺术作品，不是在虚假的和谐中消解矛盾，而是在其最内在的结构中，把纯粹的、毫不妥协的矛盾，以消极的方式表达和谐的理念。
Prepare yourself for success. You have to see it coming to get there.
做好成功的准备。你必须看到它的到来。
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
一个好的领导者的天才之处在于，他留下了一个没有天才风度的常识可以成功处理的局面。
The best revenge is massive success.
最好的报复是巨大的成功。
There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.
有一种追求完美的激情，你很少能看到这种激情得到充分的发展;但你可能会注意到，在成功的人生中，它从来不是完全缺乏的。
Why be a man when you can be a success?
当你可以成功时，为什么要做一个男人?