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信念
Conviction
When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.
当情感信念的强度减弱时,一个有推理习惯的人会寻找符合逻辑的理由来支持他在自己身上找到的信念。
People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk.
人们创造自己的问题,因为他们害怕直视前方。你所要做的就是直视前方,看到前方的路,当你看到它时,不要坐在那里看着它——走过去。
Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.
这些诗打好之前不要太苛刻。我总是认为打字稿提供了某种确定性:至少,如果事情是坏的,那么它们似乎是坏的信念。
Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect, they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a pretty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.
我们最坚定的信念往往是最令人怀疑的,它们标志着我们的局限性和界限。生活是一件美好的事情,除非它被一种想要扩展它的边界的不屈不挠的冲动所感动。
I retired from public Business from a thorough Conviction that it was not in my Power to do any Good, and very much disgusted with Measures, which appeared to me inconsistent with common Policy and Justice.
我退出了公共事务,因为我深信我没有能力做任何好事,我对那些在我看来与共同政策和正义不一致的措施深恶痛绝。
It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.
我首先想到的是,如果每个人都被安排到一个天生适合他的职位上,接受适当的教育,我就会明白这一点,也会明白我们能做些什么。
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.
我现在生活的全部信念都建立在这样一种信念之上:孤独远非我和其他几个孤独的人所特有的一种罕见而奇特的现象,而是人类存在的中心和不可避免的事实。
You have to have conviction and completely question everything and anything you do. No matter how much you study, no matter how much you know, the side of your brain that has the smarts won't necessarily help you in making art.
你必须有坚定的信念,对你所做的每件事都要彻底地提出质疑。无论你学了多少,无论你知道多少,你大脑中有智慧的那一部分并不一定会帮助你创作艺术。
When you take a stand out of deep conviction, people know. They may not even agree, but they ask, 'Do I want someone who is willing to take a hard stand and someone I can trust to do that when the chips are down?' They want that.
当你坚定自己的立场时,人们就知道了。他们甚至可能不同意,但他们会问,‘我想要一个愿意采取强硬立场的人,一个在紧要关头我可以信任的人吗?“他们想要那样。
I'm a capitalist by conviction and profession. I believe the best economic system is one that rewards entrepreneurship and risk-taking, maximizes customer choice, uses markets to allocate scarce resources and minimizes the regulatory burden on business.
我是一个有信念和职业的资本家。我认为,最好的经济体系是奖励企业家精神和冒险精神,使客户选择最大化,利用市场分配稀缺资源,并将企业的监管负担降至最低。
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I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't.
我坚信,当我走到最后,我想要为我做过的事而后悔,而不是为我没有做过的事而后悔。
The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.
如果我们想做,我们就能做,这一坚定的信念是如此多的好人无所事事的原因。
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
对一个领导者的最后考验是,他把信念和意志留给其他人。
I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.
我有一种似曾相识的信念,那就是随着夏天的到来,生活又开始了。
The ruling classes today nourish the conviction that national hatreds and rivalries are inevitable.
今天的统治阶级坚信,民族仇恨和敌对是不可避免的。
A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
领导者拥有梦想成真的远见和信念。他激发了完成任务的力量和能量。