A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
事情
Things
When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.
当我年轻的时候，我发现我所做的十件事中有九件是失败的。我不想失败，所以我做了十倍的工作。
Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say something.
我们决定的大多数事情并不是我们所知道的最好的。我们说“是”，仅仅是因为我们被逼到了一个角落，必须说些什么。
So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right.
所以，学会克服你的恐惧。这是我们现在唯一必须掌握的艺术:无所畏惧地看待事物，无畏地做正确的事。
Most people are good at too many things. And when you say someone is focused, more often than not what you actually mean is they're very narrow.
大多数人擅长太多的事情。当你说某人很专注时，通常你的意思是他们很狭隘。
In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I don't want those things in my life.
在我的经验中，欲望只会导致痛苦。所有的怀疑、嫉妒和痛苦都释放了出来。我不想要这些东西出现在我的生活中。
I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.
我讨厌糟糕的戏剧，大多数戏剧都很糟糕，因为它重复、乏味，有时还因为这些东西而受到赞扬，这很危险。
No I'm not a great believer in getting back over things and saying if only, or if, or buts because I don't think we actually get anywhere on that.
不，我不太相信回到过去然后说如果，如果，但是因为我不认为我们在这一点上有任何进展。
When I started this I wanted to get back in the pool, I wanted to race and I wanted to go to the Olympics. I still want to do all of those things.
当我开始这项运动的时候，我想回到游泳池，我想比赛，我想参加奥运会。我仍然想做所有这些事情。
It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better.
努力追求伟大的东西并不是最有效的;它是做一些小事情，共同的责任，一点一点的好。
You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.
除非你主动询问，否则你不会听到关于你公司的不好的事情。听到好消息很容易，但是你必须努力才能听到坏消息。
There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.
只有两件事。真相与谎言。真理是不可分割的，因此它不能认识自己;任何想要认识到这一点的人都必须撒谎。
In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters the most profound misunderstandings in the world.
在所有诉讼所带来的对事物的奇怪的热度下，诉讼的过程本身就会产生世界上最深刻的误解。
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
我习惯了睡觉，也习惯了在梦中想象疯子醒来时所想象的事情。
Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.
爱动物，爱植物，爱一切。如果你热爱一切，你就会领悟到事物的神圣奥秘。一旦你感知到它，你就会开始更好地理解它。你最终会以包容一切的爱来爱整个世界。
One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
衡量友谊的一个标准不是看朋友们可以讨论的事情的数量，而是看他们不再需要提及的事情的数量。
It takes a real soldier to stay in the music industry and live off the things that have been put before me and be able to survive all this time because it has not been easy.
只有真正的军人才能留在音乐行业，依靠摆在我面前的东西生活，并且能够一直生存下去，因为这并不容易。
White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.
怀特（姓氏）不仅仅是缺乏色彩;它是一种闪光的、肯定的东西，像红色一样凶猛，像黑色一样明确……上帝用多种颜色作画;但他从来没有画得这么华丽过，我差点说得这么华丽，当他画白色。
As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
诗歌不是一种职业，而是一种徒劳无益的游戏。没有一个诚实的诗人能对他所写的东西的永久价值有十足的把握:他可能白白浪费了时间，把生活搞得一团糟。