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。
I've achieved a certain amount of success and now I'm thinking about the good things I can do.
我已经取得了一定的成功，现在我在想我能做的好事。
For some unknown reason, success usually occurs in private, while failure occurs in full view.
由于一些未知的原因，成功通常发生在私下，而失败发生在众目睽睽之下。
If you were going to be successful in the world of crime, you needed a reputation for honesty.
如果你想在犯罪领域取得成功，你需要诚实的名声。
I would be humiliated if I found out that anything I did actually became a commercial success.
如果我发现我所做的任何事情实际上都取得了商业上的成功，我会感到很丢脸。
However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them.
不管你有多成功，亲密的关系是无可替代的。我们都需要它们。
A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
一个漂亮的女孩在社交上取得巨大的成功，她会小心翼翼地玩牌，就像她很普通一样。
Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen.
除非你愿意尝试，悲惨地失败，再尝试一次，否则成功是不会发生的。
Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession.
每个语言符号都位于两个轴上:同时性轴和连续性轴。
I never had any real expectations about what sort of success I would have or all the publicity.
我从来没有真正期望过我会取得什么样的成功，也没有期望过会得到所有的关注。
So I'd rather have a defense that's successful where everyone's comfortable in their positions.
所以我宁愿有一个成功的防守，让每个人都能舒服地站在自己的位置上。
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
通过坚持不懈，许多人从看似注定要失败的事情中获得成功。
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
疯狂就是想太多的事情接二连三地想得太快，或者只想到一件事。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
My ambition was to stop waiting tables. That was how I measured success: finally, I was able to stop waiting tables, and I was able to pay the rent, and that was by being a stand-up comic. Not a very good stand-up comic, but good enough to make a living.
我的抱负是不再做服务员。这就是我衡量成功的方式:最终，我不再做服务员了，我付得起房租了，那就是当一名单口相声演员。不是一个很好的单口喜剧演员，但足以谋生。
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。
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。
I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success.
我不认为经济上的成功是衡量我成功的标准。
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。