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。
It is true I had been successful on a small scale in overcoming one of the main difficulties in the new process, but there was still much to invent, and much that at that period I necessarily knew nothing about.
的确,我在小范围内克服了新进程中的一个主要困难,并取得了成功,但仍有许多东西需要发明,而在那个时期,我必然对许多东西一无所知。
My brother and I had a real love-hate relationship with my success. There was some bitterness there that I didn't understand until recently, but I told him that if I ever did a record I wanted him to play on it.
我和哥哥对我的成功有一种爱恨交加的感情。直到最近我才明白其中的一些苦涩,但我告诉他,如果我要录制一张唱片,我希望他能在上面演奏。
I'm glad I'm successful at it, because it's allowed me to live very well financially, and give my kids a lot of things. It's enabled me to do stuff that I otherwise wouldn't be able to do. But it's not who I am.
我很高兴我成功了,因为它让我在经济上生活得很好,给了我的孩子很多东西。它使我能够做一些我无法做的事情。但这不是我。
If I can bring joy into the world, if I can get people to stop thinking about their pain for a moment, or the fact the tomorrow morning they're going to get up and tell their boss off... then I'll be successful.
如果我能给这个世界带来快乐,如果我能让人们暂时停止思考他们的痛苦,或者让他们明天早上起来斥责他们的老板……那我就成功了。
Nashville has a formula, and it works a lot of the time, but it wasn't right for me. They're afraid to step outside the box - even though, with me, my success came because I was outside of the box to begin with.
纳什维尔有一个公式,它在很多时候都是有效的,但它并不适合我。他们害怕跳出框框——尽管我的成功是因为我一开始就跳出了框框。
Thus they have an idol that they petition for victory in war; another for success in their labors; and so for everything in which they seek or desire prosperity, they have their idols, which they honor and serve.
因此,他们有一个偶像,他们祈求战争的胜利;另一个是他们工作上的成功;所以凡他们所寻求、所羡慕的事、都有他们所敬拜所事奉的偶像。
Literature is not an abstract science, to which exact definitions can be applied. It is an Art rather, the success of which depends on personal persuasiveness, on the author’s skill to give as on ours to receive.
文学不是一门可以应用精确定义的抽象科学。这是一门艺术,它的成功取决于个人的说服力,取决于作者给予的技巧,也取决于我们接受的技巧。
No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.
没有一个学生仅仅因为做了要求他做的事情就获得了卓越的成就:正是超出要求的事情的数量和卓越,决定了最终卓越的伟大。
I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music world and have been able to play exactly what I have wanted the way I have wanted.
我不知道我是否有资格成为主流。我想我已经成功地在音乐世界的边缘发挥了作用,并且能够以我想要的方式演奏我想要的东西。
Once you're in the game and it's a part of your life, you never want to leave it. But you have to be committed to be able to travel and do the things you need to do to be successful in whatever role you're doing.
一旦你进入游戏并成为你生活的一部分,你就再也不想离开它了。但是你必须有能力去旅行,做你需要做的事情,无论你在做什么,你都要成功。
We're not afraid of risking what was our success yesterday in order to explore some new field. We're adventurous. We like the challenge of unknown territory, unknown artistic field, and that's what stimulates us.
为了探索一些新的领域,我们不怕冒昨天成功的风险。我们冒险。我们喜欢未知领域的挑战,未知的艺术领域,这就是激励我们的东西。
The way you continue to be a successful business is you don't wait for the car to go off the cliff. You have to manage yourself. And make sure you do it in the right way so you are not making decisions in crisis.
要想继续成为一家成功的企业,你不能等着汽车掉下悬崖。你必须管理好自己。确保你用正确的方式做这件事,这样你就不会在危机中做出决定。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
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。
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。
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
我知道成功的代价:奉献、勤奋和对你想看到的事情的不懈奉献。
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。