A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
自己
Themselves
They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money.
那些认为金钱万能的人，很可能会被怀疑为金钱而不择手段。
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
现代艺术是当画家不再看着女孩，而是说服自己他们有更好的主意时所发生的事情。
Psychoanalysts believe that the only 'normal' people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anyone else.
精神分析学家认为，“正常”的人是那些既不会给自己也不会给别人带来麻烦的人。
Everybody wants to be somebody. The thing you have to do is give them confidence they can. You have to give a kid a dream.
每个人都想成为大人物。你要做的就是给他们信心。你必须给孩子一个梦想。
I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time.
我认为阿富汗妇女的解放必须来自内部，通过阿富汗人自己，逐步地，随着时间的推移。
It sounds gross to say that I like myself more. But not everyone likes themselves that much. Especially in the comedy world.
说我更喜欢自己听起来很恶心。但并不是每个人都那么喜欢自己。尤其是在喜剧界。
Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected.
那些首先反对一件好作品的人，在奠基石和立碑的时候抓住它，把它变成自己的作品。
We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.
我们教导人们，他们会让自己难过。我们无法改变过去，所以我们要改变人们今天的想法、感受和行为。
On average, people should be more skeptical when they see numbers. They should be more willing to play around with the data themselves.
一般来说，当人们看到数字时应该更加怀疑。他们应该更愿意自己摆弄数据。
One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and give to every part its just proportion.
我的主要目标之一是形成工具，这样工具本身就能塑造作品，并使每一个部分都有其合理的比例。
Nobody knows through how many thousands of years fighting men have made a place for themselves while the weak and peaceable have gone to the wall.
没有人知道过了多少千年，战士们为自己建立了一个地方，而软弱和平的人却去了长城。
With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.
对有些人来说，孤独不是逃避他人，而是逃避自己。因为他们在别人的眼中只看到自己的影子。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun.
影子在太阳的镜子里看不见自己。
The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.
领导者的品质反映在他们为自己设定的标准上。
The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.
诸神自己也记不起他们的恩赐。
It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.
这是魔鬼有时对善良的人所采取的一种报复，他以他们所压抑的、自以为高人一等的激情的力量把他们迷住了。
I cannot but think that it would be a great step if mankind could familiarise themselves with the idea that they are spirits incorporated for a time in the flesh re spirits incorporated for a time in the flesh.
我不得不认为，如果人类能够使自己熟悉这样一种观念，即他们是一段时间内与肉体结合的灵魂，而灵魂又是一段时间内与肉体结合的灵魂，那将是一大步。
My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn't dare do themselves.
我的工作是让人们了解他们自己不敢做的事。