A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
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Too
Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.
谦卑是一种优雅,它在高尚的环境中闪耀光芒,但在卑微的环境中却无法同样闪耀光芒,因为一个人在卑微的环境中可能已经过于谦卑了。
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
今天的很多教育都非常低效。我们常常在应该教年轻人自己种花的时候,却给他们插花。
Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.
很多时候,机会来了,但是当你推开链子,推开门闩,打开两把锁,关掉防盗警报器的时候,已经太晚了。
But, then again, I had to stop because there was too much pain or too much trouble. After I retired I still had one more elbow surgery just to be able to do normal things.
但是,再一次,我不得不停下来,因为有太多的痛苦或太多的麻烦。退休后,我还做了一次肘部手术,只是为了能做一些正常的事情。
A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.
总质量的一个基本原则逃过了太多管理者的注意:只有逐步完善相互依赖的人际关系,才能不断改进相互依赖的系统和过程。
A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.
一个孩子也永远无法理解这样一个事实:同样是这位母亲,她做饭做得那么好,那么关心他的咳嗽,那么慈祥地帮助他做作业,在某些情况下,她对他的感情不过是隐藏在他内心世界的一堵墙。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
When you stop doing the little things, you stop doing the big things too.
当你停止做小事的时候,你也就停止做大事了。
Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.
政治太严肃,不能太严肃;同样,它也有许多可笑之处,令人惋惜。
I know what i want but i am too scared to go after it.
我知道我想要什么,但我太害怕去追求它。
I just want to explore is that too much to ask for ?
我只是想探索一下这是不是要求太高了?
If you like her, tell her. Maybe she likes you too...
如果你喜欢她,就告诉她。也许她也喜欢你……
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
生活太重要了,不要太认真。