A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
思考
Thinking
As a revelation from God, they have stood the test of many ages; and as such maintained their ground against every species of enemy, and every mode of attack. Truth is mighty, and must prevail.
作为上帝的启示,它们经受了许多时代的考验;就这样,他们坚守阵地,抵御各种各样的敌人和各种进攻方式。真理是强大的,必须战胜一切。
Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the middle class and the upper class, I think it is more complicated than that.
听着,有一种关于阶级的旧观点,是一种非常简单的观点,我们有工人阶级,中产阶级和上层阶级,我认为情况要复杂得多。
Actually ideas are everywhere. It's the paperwork, that is, sitting down and thinking them into a coherent story, trying to find just the right words, that can and usually does get to be labor.
事实上,创意无处不在。这是文书工作,也就是说,坐下来,把它们想成一个连贯的故事,试着找到合适的词,这可以而且通常确实是一件费力的事。
The hardest thing is to ski your count in your head. You are counting and trying to visually look down the hill to stay in synch with who your leader is. You are using visual skills and thinking.
最困难的事情是在你的头脑中滑雪计数。你在数着,试着往山下看,以便与你的领导者保持同步。你在运用视觉技能和思维。
Teenage girls these days are more and more getting lured into thinking they should dumb themselves down, and that's going to attract the wrong kind of guy, and it's serious. It's serious business.
如今,十几岁的女孩越来越容易被诱惑,认为自己应该低调一些,这将会吸引到错误的男人,这是很严重的。这是严肃的事情。
For me, a play is a form of writing which isn't complete until it is interpreted by actors. But it's still a form of writing. And so most of my time is spent thinking about how to write a sentence.
对我来说,戏剧是一种写作形式,只有由演员来诠释才能完成。但它仍然是一种写作形式。所以我的大部分时间都花在思考如何写一个句子上。
When you start thinking about taking pictures, sending an e-mail, receiving an e-mail, speaking into your phone and have it transcript voice into text and then sent as an e-mail, it's mind-boggling.
当你开始考虑拍照,发送电子邮件,接收电子邮件,对着你的手机说话,然后把声音转录成文字,然后以电子邮件的形式发送出去,这是令人难以置信的。
The kind of intelligence a genius has is a different sort of intelligence. The thinking of a genius does not proceed logically. It leaps with great ellipses. It pulls knowledge from God knows where.
天才所具有的智力是另一种智力。天才的思维不合乎逻辑。它以巨大的椭圆跳跃。它从天知道的地方汲取知识。
People think that if you have a huge appetite, then you'll be better at it. But actually, it's how you confront the food that is brought to you. You have to be mentally and psychologically prepared.
人们认为,如果你有一个巨大的胃口,那么你会更好。但实际上,这是你面对食物的方式。你必须做好心理和心理准备。
I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism.
我一直在思考“完美的爱是没有恐惧的”这一概念,以及在一个日益排外、深受原教旨主义和民族主义折磨的世界里,这对我们意味着什么。
I don't think Capote loved Smith. But he did make a deep connection. It upset some people, because that had never been the approach to journalistic crime writing, to look into the mind of the killer.
我不认为卡波特爱史密斯。但他确实建立了很深的联系。这让一些人感到不安,因为这从来就不是新闻犯罪写作的方法,去探究凶手的内心。
Ladies and babies, and mortgages, for that matter, can all wait. Acting has done a strange thing to me, though. I often sit there, thinking, 'I love this, but I wouldn't put my daughter on the stage.'
女士和婴儿,还有抵押贷款,都可以等等。不过,演戏对我来说是件奇怪的事。我经常坐在那里想,‘我喜欢这个,但我不会让我的女儿上台。’
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There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.
所谓思想,有两种截然不同的类型:一类是我们通过反思和思考的行为而产生于自身的思想,另一类则是我们自己的思维。
A film has its own life and takes its own time.
电影有它自己的生活,有它自己的时间。
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
很多人以为他们在思考,其实他们只是在重新整理自己的偏见。
“In such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.”
“在这样一个冲突的世界,一个受害者和刽子手的世界,有思想的人的工作,不是站在刽子手一边。”
The condition of the course is so perfect that if you're on the right section of the greens, there are going to be a lot of birdies made.
球场的条件是如此的完美,如果你在果岭的右边,会有很多小鸟。
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。