A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
思考
Thinking
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
人们放弃权力最常见的方式是认为自己没有权力。
I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.
我认为你可以把艺术,无论优劣,留给人类的良知去决定。
Unthinking faith is a curious offering to be made to the creator of the human mind.
不加思索的信心是一种奇妙的礼物,要献给人类心灵的创造者。
We look at each other wondering what the other is thinking but we never say a thing.
我们看着对方,不知道对方在想什么,但我们从来没有说过一句话。
Places are people as well as rocks, trees and buildings. Places are moments in time.
除了岩石、树木和建筑物,还有人居住的地方。地点是时间的瞬间。
Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down.
艺术不是凭空想出来的东西。它是相反的-得到一些东西下来。
It wasn't my best. You take the bad with the good. Sometimes the bad is good enough.
那不是我最好的。你接受坏的和好的。有时候坏的就足够好了。
I don't spend a lot of time thinking about regrets because there's nothing I can do.
我不会花很多时间去想后悔,因为我无能为力。
I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
我想我写小说是为了有机会超越自己生活的极限。
I think acting can bring you closer to yourself and help you understand other people.
我认为表演可以让你更接近自己,帮助你理解别人。
One day I caught myself smiling for no reason, then I realized I was thinking of you.
有一天,我突然发现自己在无缘无故地笑,然后我意识到我在想你。
My motivations are thinking I can write better songs, that the concerts can be better.
我的动机是我能写更好的歌,音乐会能更好。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Don't think, just do.
不要想,只管做。
We feel this is a very promising concept for a vaccine for traveler's diarrhea.
我们认为这是一个非常有前途的概念,为旅行者的腹泻疫苗。
I think a moratorium probably is legal, and we should probably for a short period of time impose a moratorium so that we don't permit any additional landfill permits for the time being, so we don't exacerbate the problem.
我认为暂停填埋可能是合法的,我们可能应该在短时间内暂停填埋,这样我们就不会允许任何额外的填埋许可,这样我们就不会使问题恶化。
I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand.
我没有想过我是否在写诗。我在想。我想的越多,我就越不明白。
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen, and thinking what nobody has thought.
发现包括看到每个人都看到的,思考没有人思考的。
There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.
阅读是一门艺术,思考也是一门艺术,写作也是一门艺术。