A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
事情
Thing
The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
中年真正可怕的事情是你会从中成长起来。
All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
所有的好书都有一个共同点——它们都比真实发生过的书更真实。
The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.
接近一件称心如意的东西会使人过分放纵。那条路上有危险。
To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.
做一个牧师，以及所有富有同情心和善良的品质，应该是一回事。
One thing I can say about George... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.
关于乔治，我有一件事要说……他可能找不到工作，但他并不无聊。
It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean.
这是我见过的最蠢的东西，但这是家庭聚会，而且我猜很干净。
The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.
有一件事我很遗憾，我永远没有时间去读所有我想读的书。
Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.
任何名符其实的作家都是要么专注于一件事，要么专注于另一件事。
To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.
对一个工程师来说，足够好意味着完美。对于一个艺术家来说，没有什么是完美的。
So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing.
所以其他的都没问题但是名誉是一块空的土地，不是吗?这是一种空洞的东西。
The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in look as much like home as we can.
我们能做的最好的事情就是让我们迷失的地方看起来像我们的家一样。
Robert De Niro... It seemed like a pretty cool thing to do to put his name on my resume next.
罗伯特•德尼罗……接下来在我的简历上写上他的名字似乎是一件很酷的事情。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
最重要的是保持最重要的东西。
If you work really hard and you're kind amazing things will happen
如果你真的很努力，而且你很善良，奇迹就会发生
We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.
我们应该被教导不要等待灵感来开始一件事。行动总会带来灵感。灵感很少产生行动。
I didn't want to make it a lifetime thing. I don't believe in statutory term limits, but people can limit themselves if they want to, and that's what I decided to do.
我不想让它成为一辈子的事情。我不相信法定期限的限制，但如果人们愿意，他们可以限制自己，这就是我决定做的。
The interesting thing about doing a play is to find a way to make it fresh and do it as though you were doing it for the first time.
写剧本的有趣之处在于，你要想办法让它变得新鲜，就像你第一次写剧本一样。
The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
做好一件事的回报是已经做了。