A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
自己
Themselves
I really do feel like I know myself, and I'm so happy to be by myself and I'm so happy to be with other people; I just know myself really, really well, and I think that is an amazing thing. I think a lot of people don't know themselves that well.
我真的觉得我了解自己，我很高兴一个人待着，也很高兴和其他人在一起;我非常非常了解自己，我认为这是一件了不起的事情。我想很多人都不太了解自己。
You know a lot of times wrestlers get too full of themselves. They can't separate themselves from the characters. They get used to the excitement, the energy, the lifestyle and the money and with a lot of these guys, when it stops, they self-destruct.
你知道很多时候摔跤运动员都太自以为是了。他们不能把自己和角色分开。他们习惯了兴奋、精力、生活方式和金钱，和很多这样的人在一起，一旦停止，他们就会自我毁灭。
Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and magical claims that never get tested, while their students derange themselves with weird ideas, empty rituals, and other affectations.
精神生活当然可以遵循人们在假武术中看到的模式，大多数老师都做出含糊而神奇的声明，而这些声明从来没有经过测试，而他们的学生则用奇怪的想法、空洞的仪式和其他矫揉造作来扰乱自己。
Professional farmworkers who know how to do a number of different jobs, whether it be pruning or picking or crafting, they see themselves as professionals, and they take a lot of pride in that work. They don't see themselves as doing work that is demeaning.
专业的农场工人知道如何做很多不同的工作，不管是修剪、采摘还是手工制作，他们认为自己是专业的，他们对自己的工作感到非常自豪。他们不认为自己所做的工作是有辱人格的。
For a crowd to be smart, the people in it need to be not only diverse in their perspectives but also, relatively speaking, independent of each other. In other words, you need people to be thinking for themselves, rather than following the lead of those around them.
要想让一群人变得聪明，其中的人不仅需要在观点上多样化，而且相对而言，还需要彼此独立。换句话说，你需要人们为自己考虑，而不是跟随周围人的领导。
Political reporters no longer get to decide what's news. The days when a minister gave briefings to a dozen lobby correspondents, and thereby dictated the next day's headlines, are over. Now, a thousand bloggers decide for themselves what is interesting. If enough of them are tickled then, bingo, you're news.
政治记者不再有权决定新闻内容。一位部长向十多位游说记者作简报，从而决定第二天的头条新闻的日子已经一去不复返了。现在，一千名博主自己决定什么是有趣的。如果有足够多的人被逗乐了，那么，宾果，你就是新闻了。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.
那些最不拿自己开玩笑的人，会被别人的笑话逗乐。
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。
And as they pass, turn back and laugh at me.
当他们经过时，转过身来嘲笑我。
People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.
人们醉心于工作，所以他们看不到自己的真实状态。
They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods.
他们似乎突然间找到了幸福，好像他们在冬天的树林里捉到了一只蝴蝶。
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。