A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
方向
Direction
Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.
正如我们所知,人类是一个可怜的动物;他介于猿与神之间,正朝着正确的方向前进。
You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.
当你做小事情的时候,你必须考虑大事情,这样所有的小事情都会朝着正确的方向发展。
I can count on one hand the directors who actually directed me. I can count on one hand the directors who actually directed me.
我可以用一只手去数那些真正指导我的导演。 我可以用一只手去数那些真正指导我的导演。
The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, and intellect and feeling are only important insofar as they contribute to that.
真正重要的是意志的方向和坚定性,而智力和情感的重要性只在于它们对意志的贡献。
It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.
和比你优秀的人出去玩。挑出行为比你好的同事,你就会朝那个方向发展。
There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation.
没有什么伟大的运动是让子弹朝各个方向飞来飞去,但我发现当子弹在他们中间时,他们的恐惧要比预期中的少。
One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.
一个人不妨试着骑两匹马向不同的方向运动,就像试着以同样的力量维持两种对立或矛盾的欲望。
I truly, truly believe that I was going in that direction and all of a sudden fate took me and put me here. It's like something else has other plans for me.
我真的,真的相信我正朝着那个方向前进,突然命运把我带到了这里。就好像有别的东西为我安排了别的计划。
Obviously, there has to be a profound change in direction. Otherwise, interest on the national debt will start eating up virtually every penny that we have.
显然,必须在方向上发生深刻的变化。否则,国债利息将开始吞噬我们的每一分钱。
It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.
希望所有人都一样高兴是徒劳的。让一个人站在他想要的方向上,他一定要背对半个世界。
A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.
革命既不能进行,也不能停止。唯一能做的就是让它的几个孩子中的一个凭借胜利给它指明方向。
The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece.
各个时代的风尚在这个方向和那个方向上各不相同,但它们在很大程度上不同于一条被希腊的想象所打破的中心道路。
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I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost.
在任何方面,我还没有找到一个不首先想到自己的人。
A good bassist determines the direction of any band.
一个好的贝斯手决定任何乐队的方向。
A palindrome is a word or pattern that instead of developing in different directions it folds in on itself so that the beginning and end mirror each other, that they are the same.
回文是一个单词或图案,它不是向不同的方向发展,而是向内折叠,使开始和结束相互镜像,它们是相同的。
Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
达尔文的自然选择思想让人们感到不舒服,因为它颠覆了传统的方向。
Our thoughts create our reality - where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go.
我们的思想创造了我们的现实——我们把注意力放在哪里,我们就倾向于往哪里走。