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。
Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a perpetual succession of miracles rising into view.
欣赏是一种很短暂的激情，但一旦你对它的对象熟悉了，这种激情就会立即消失。
I think people with open minds will observe the way we do things and realize that our goal is to have successful, happy, productive adults, and they will take our ideas and implement them elsewhere for their own children.
我认为，思想开放的人会观察我们做事的方式，并意识到我们的目标是拥有成功、快乐、富有成效的成年人，他们会把我们的想法带到别处，为自己的孩子实施。
A woman finds the natural lay of the land almost unconsciously; and not feeling it incumbent on her to be guide and philosopher to any successor, she takes little pains to mark the route by which she is making her ascent.
女人几乎是无意识地发现了这片土地的自然布局;她并不觉得自己有义务成为任何继任者的向导和哲学家，而是不厌其烦地标出自己的上升道路。
Well, the crazy thing for me is I think out of anything that's happened in the last year, all the success, people always ask what do you guys do with the money? I don't think they realize we're not really making any money.
对我来说，最疯狂的事情是，我认为从去年发生的所有事情中，所有的成功，人们总是问，你们用这些钱做什么?我认为他们没有意识到我们并没有真正赚到钱。
And basically I always said when I was little that if I ever became successful or a celebrity, I would buy her this huge house and she would never have to work anymore. And I've done that. So I feel happy about doing that.
基本上，我小时候总是说，如果我成功了，或者成为名人，我会给她买一栋大房子，她就再也不用工作了。我做到了。所以我很高兴这样做。
Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.
专注、努力是成功的真正关键。把你的眼睛盯在目标上，然后朝着目标迈出下一步。如果你不确定用哪种方法做某件事，两种方法都做，看看哪种效果更好。
Everyone has determination - it's a question of how you use it. Hers is based on power and success and conquering; she doesn't care what she has to do or who gets hurt in the process. In that way we're very, very different.
每个人都有决心——问题是你如何使用它。她的基础是权力、成功和征服;她不在乎她要做什么，也不在乎谁在这个过程中受伤。在这方面，我们非常非常不同。
While I was doing stand-up, I thought I knew for sure that success meant getting everyone to like me. So I became whoever I thought people wanted me to be. I'd say yes when I wanted to say no, and I even wore a few dresses.
当我在做单口相声时，我想我肯定成功意味着让每个人都喜欢我。所以我成为了人们想让我成为的那个人。当我想说“不”的时候我会说“是”，我甚至还穿了几件衣服。
Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.
在你开始工作之前，总是问自己三个问题——我为什么要做这件事，结果可能是什么，我是否会成功。只有当你深入思考并对这些问题找到满意的答案时，才去做。
But the history of the changes produced by a universal idea is not a history of changes in the individual, but of changes brought about by the successive efforts of millions of individuals in the course of many generations.
但是，由一种普遍观念所产生的变化的历史并不是关于个人的变化的历史，而是关于在许多代人的过程中由数百万个人的连续努力所带来的变化的历史。
We need to take our best ideas, our strongest intuitions, and we need to test them. We need to measure whether we've been successful, and we have to be willing to fail, to be wrong, to start over again with lessons learned.
我们需要用我们最好的想法，我们最强的直觉，我们需要测试它们。我们需要衡量自己是否成功，我们必须愿意失败，愿意犯错，愿意从失败中吸取教训，重新开始。
We had some major successes and we did so because the country embraced the spirit of Earth Day and embraced this concept that we have to have forward-looking, visionary environmental policy and energy policy in this country.
我们取得了一些重大的成功，之所以这样做，是因为这个国家接受了地球日的精神，接受了我们必须在这个国家制定前瞻性、前瞻性的环境政策和能源政策的理念。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
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。
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
没有人有足够的记忆力成为一个成功的说谎者。
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。
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 idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.
今天的偶像把昨天的英雄从我们的记忆中推开;反过来，他也将被明天的继任者所取代。