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。
Too many writers are trying to write with too shallow an education. Whether they go to college or not is immaterial...a good writer needs a sense of the history of literature to be successful as a writer.
太多的作家试图用太肤浅的教育来写作。他们是否上大学并不重要。一个好的作家要想成为一个成功的作家，就需要对文学史有所了解。
Successful men usually snatch success from seeming failure. If they know there is such a word as defeat they will not admit it. They may be whipped, but they are not aware of it. That is why they succeed.
成功的人通常从表面上的失败中攫取成功。如果他们知道有“失败”这个词，他们就不会承认。他们可能被鞭打，但他们没有意识到。这就是他们成功的原因。
There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success.
在工作中，在生活中，在商业中，有一种永恒的冲突，在和平与混乱之间，有一种永恒的斗争。两者都不能被掌握，但都可以被影响。如何去做是成功的关键。
When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.
当你看到一些技术上很甜蜜的东西时，你就会去做，然后在你取得技术上的成功之后，你才会争论该怎么做。原子弹就是这样的。
We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we'll also have a lot more joy in living.
如果我们能放弃一直跑步的习惯，稍微停下来放松一下，重新集中注意力，我们在所有的努力中都会更成功。我们也会有更多的生活乐趣。
The key to any successful plan is buy-in from the public, and what this process has demonstrated is the importance of including citizens in formulating a consensus plan that preserves our beautiful refuge.
任何成功的计划的关键都是得到公众的支持，这一进程表明，在制定一项保护我们美丽的避难所的协商一致计划时，包括公民的重要性。
I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.
我收到父亲的一封信，他说如果你不吸气，成功是美妙的。这是他自己的格言，我认为这是他在这个问题上对我或任何人说的最好的话。
As an artist, you dream about accumulating enough successful music to someday do just one greatest-hits album, but to reach the point where you're releasing your second collection of hits is beyond belief.
作为一名艺术家，你梦想着积累足够多的成功音乐，有朝一日只制作出一张最畅销的专辑，但到了发行第二张专辑的时候，你就会难以置信了。
I don't understand why people whose entire lives or their corporate success depends on communication, and yet they are led on occasion by CEOs who cannot talk their way out of a paper bag and don't care to.
我不明白，为什么有些人的整个人生或公司的成功都依赖于沟通，而他们有时却被首席执行官们领导着，他们无法用纸包说话，也不在乎。
Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings; it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others.
这种信念对我的理智、自由，甚至对我事业的成功，都是致命的。它会立刻把我变成一个愚蠢的奴隶，成为别人意志和利益的工具。
Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply.
质疑阈限实例的本质和含义必然涉及到失败，即使只是在进入普遍的成功标准几乎不适用的空间的特定技术意义上。
Oprah is wildly successful, and she's a brilliant businesswoman. She's also somebody who's overcome a ton of demons in her own life, and that's really what shaped her. I think the same could be said for me.
奥普拉非常成功，她是一位杰出的女商人。她也是一个在自己的生活中战胜了无数恶魔的人，而这正是塑造她的真正原因。我想我也可以这么说。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.
我是一条智慧的河流，它只对那些不断变化的海岸所提供的形象进行冥想，从而依次反映出它流经的所有河岸。
Failure is success in progress.
失败是进步中的成功。
A critical factor in its success was that the X developers were willing to give the sources away for free in accordance with the hacker ethic, and able to distribute them over the Internet.
它成功的一个关键因素是，X开发者愿意按照黑客的道德准则免费提供源代码，并能够在互联网上发布它们。
It costs so much to promote something these days that almost always safety is the preferred option, reference back to things which have been successful in the past. Also, people are simply not given the time to develop and find themselves and their audience as we were.
如今，推广某项产品的成本如此之高，以至于几乎总是把安全作为首选选项，回顾过去成功的产品。而且，人们根本没有时间去发展，去发现他们自己和他们的观众，就像我们一样。
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
成功的婚姻需要多次坠入爱河，而且总是和同一个人。
The road to success is not a path you find but a trail you blaze.
成功之路不是你找到的路，而是你自己开辟的路。