A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
选择
Choice
The difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity.
管理和行政之间的区别(这是官员们过去专门做的事情)是选择和僵化之间的区别。
I often say now I don't have any choice whether or not I have Parkinson's, but surrounding that non-choice is a million other choices that I can make.
我经常说现在我没有任何选择，不管我是否患有帕金森症，但是围绕着这种没有选择的情况，我可以做出无数其他的选择。
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
衡量一个人的最终标准不是他在舒适和方便的时刻所处的位置，而是他在挑战和争议的时刻所处的位置。
No one falls in love by choice, it is by chance. No one stays in love by chance, it is by work. And no one falls out of love by chance, it is by choice.
没有人会因为选择而坠入爱河，那是偶然的。没有人能靠偶然的机会保持爱情，而是靠工作。没有人会因为偶然而失去爱，这是一种选择。
Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature of his world.
只有在以本世纪为代表的那个时代，一个物种——人类——才获得了改变其世界本质的巨大力量。
A boy blinds you from the choice so you would settle for the option but a man opens your eyes to the option and makes you realize that he is the choice.
一个男孩蒙蔽了你的双眼，让你无法做出选择，所以你只能接受这个选择;而一个男人让你睁开眼睛，让你意识到他就是那个选择。
The independent role of morphology in mate choice is revealed by the rare instances where the usual association between song and morphology is disrupted.
形态学在择偶过程中所起的独立作用，可以通过一些罕见的例子来揭示，通常情况下，鸣声和形态学之间的联系被破坏了。
The fire trucks are out, there are thousands of people in the streets. You have a choice. You can have this, or you let Negroes eat at the lunch counters.
消防车出动了，街上有成千上万的人。你有一个选择。你可以吃这个，或者让黑人在午餐柜台吃饭。
If somebody believes that a certain practice will get them to heaven, and then other people believe a different way of doing it, I think it's their choice.
如果有人相信某种练习能让他们上天堂，而其他人相信另一种不同的方法，我认为这是他们的选择。
The most decisive actions of our life – I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.
我们一生中最果断的行动——我的意思是那些最有可能决定我们整个未来道路的行动——往往没有得到考虑。
By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
当一个人达到了足以选择方向的年龄时，就已经铸就了决定未来的骰子，决定未来的时刻早已过去。
The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings.
演员不能只从自己的生活中寻找所有的素材，也不能严格从自己的经验中寻找自己的表演选择和感受。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.
把碗装满水，水就会溢出来。继续磨刀，它会钝的。
You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest ambition.
你必须选择最好的，每天，不妥协…以你自己的美德和最高的抱负为指引。
I think I'm learning to be bolder in my career choices and be more confident in my personal life. I haven't always felt very secure as an individual, but now I feel I certain confidence and sense of self that gets me through the day a lot better than before.
我想我正在学习在职业选择上更加大胆，在个人生活上更加自信。作为一个个体，我并不总是感到很安全，但现在我觉得我有一定的自信和自我意识，让我比以前更好地度过这一天。
Age is just a number. Maturity is a choice.
年龄只是一个数字。成熟是一种选择。
People are different. People choose different criteria. But if there is a better way among many alternatives, I want to encourage that way by making it comfortable. So that's what I've tried to do.
人是不同的。人们选择不同的标准。但如果在众多选择中有一个更好的方法，我想通过让它更舒适来鼓励这种方法。这就是我想做的。
When you have no choice, mobilize the spirit of courage.
当你别无选择时，调动勇气。