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's easy to measure success by the number of dollars spent or by the number of programs initiated, without having too much regard for what was bought and how useful it was to the people who need it - the war fighter and the analyst.
衡量成功的标准很容易是花费了多少美元,或者启动了多少项目,而不需要过多考虑购买了什么,以及它对需要它的人——战争战士和分析师——有多大用处。
If you are going to be a writer, you have to have self-belief, every writer gets rejections, they say the difference between a successful and unsuccessful writer is an unsuccessful writer gives up, if you keep going you will succeed.
如果你想成为一名作家,你必须有自信,每个作家都会被拒绝,他们说成功和不成功作家的区别在于一个不成功的作家放弃了,如果你坚持下去,你就会成功。
Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important to our local and national economies, but their success is central to the well-being of their families.
共同建立和维持企业的已婚夫妇承担着广泛的责任。他们的工作不仅对我们地方和国家的经济很重要,而且他们的成功对他们的家庭的幸福也至关重要。
Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure.
成功的企业家在倾听自己内心的声音和坚持不懈地追求成功之间找到了平衡——因为有时成功就在伪装成失败的过渡阶段的对面等待着。
It will, of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human nature will contribute to our success in controlling human nature and changing it to the advantage of the common weal.
当然,我们将认识到,人类本性科学的每一项进步,迟早都会直接或间接地促进我们成功地控制人类本性,并将其改变为有利于共同福祉。
Women face enough pressures and challenges in a workplace that is still depressingly biased against a female's success. Add to that, the fact that the very thing many women I know find most rewarding (having kids) is now frowned upon.
女性在职场上面临的压力和挑战已经够多了,而在职场上对女性成功的偏见依然令人沮丧。除此之外,我所知道的许多女性认为最有价值的事情(生孩子)现在也令人不悦。
I think that some books are more successful than others to certain readers. People who read my books for the humor, they're going to love one book. People who read my books for the mystery, they might not like that book quite as much.
我认为对于某些读者来说,有些书比其他书更成功。那些为了幽默而读我的书的人,他们会爱上一本书。读过我的神秘小说的人,可能不那么喜欢这本书。
We are constantly emphasizing to people that they need to address anything that affects flight safety or mission success - many pathways to do that. We need to understand better what may be preventing people from using those pathways.
我们不断向人们强调,他们需要解决任何影响飞行安全或任务成功的问题——有很多途径可以做到这一点。我们需要更好地理解是什么阻止人们使用这些途径。
These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.
这些规则可能看起来很简单,但要想遵守它们,需要极大的士气和身体勇气。但是,如果按照严格意义上的“世界”来执行,就一定会取得比不这样做所能取得的更大的成功。
Part of the elasticity that you need, in order to continue to try to create, is the foregone conclusion that not all of it is going to be fabulously successful. But it's all going to be part of a long lifetime body of experimentation.
为了继续创造,你所需要的弹性的一部分,是预先的结论,并不是所有的都能取得惊人的成功。但这些都将是长期实验的一部分。
What I do know is that with a celebrity's death comes an avalanche of media, and in that media is most often another death - it takes a life that is filled with complicated talent, hope, success and drive and reduces it to the 'story.'
我所知道的是,一个名人的死会带来媒体的雪崩,而在这个媒体中,最常见的是另一个死亡——它夺走了一个充满复杂才能、希望、成功和动力的生命,并将其归结为一个“故事”。
On receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided on my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success.
我从人民那里得到了两次对我杰出的前任的神圣信任,他如此忠实和出色地履行了这种信任,我知道我不能期望以同样的能力和成功来完成这项艰巨的任务。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
You've got to work hard for your success and you've got to have a steady presence. That's the secret.
你必须为你的成功努力工作,你必须有一个稳定的存在。这是秘密。
Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.
每一个行动都是强大的或弱小的,当每一个行动都是强大的,我们是成功的。
Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success.
沟通——人际关系——是个人和事业成功的关键。
In a way, a certain amount of self-criticism is a good thing, because it keeps you humble. Realizing that no matter what success you've achieved, you can still make enemies makes you humble, too.
在某种程度上,一定程度的自我批评是一件好事,因为它能让你保持谦逊。意识到无论你取得了多大的成功,你仍然可以树敌,这也会让你变得谦卑。
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。
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。