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I collect watches because I'm always late, and I need to know exactly how late I'm going to be - in order to come up with a good excuse.
我收集手表,因为我总是迟到,而且我需要确切地知道我要迟到多久——以便找到一个好的借口。
Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get, but if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen.
生活中没有人会得到他们想要得到的,但是如果你真的努力工作,而且你很善良,神奇的事情就会发生。
I knew exactly how I wanted it to play, but you are never sure until you watch the projected images reflect off the screen. That's when you know it worked.
我清楚地知道我想要它如何播放,但你永远无法确定,直到你看到投影图像反射出屏幕。这时你就知道它起作用了。
Galleries needn't be exactly like White Columns purely because times are bad again. But the idea of this special space could - should - help shape what comes next.
画廊不必完全像白色的柱子一样,纯粹是因为时局再次变坏了。但这个特殊空间的概念可能——也应该——有助于塑造未来。
I think things changed as a result of a certain perception of our politics. When we went through our zealous, self-righteous period it didn't exactly win us any friends.
我认为,由于人们对我们政治的某种看法,情况发生了变化。当我们经历了狂热、自以为是的时期,它并没有为我们赢得任何朋友。
I measure everything, because I always think that if I've spent so much time making sure this recipe was exactly the way I want it, why would I want to throw things into a pot?
我测量每样东西,因为我总是在想,如果我花了这么多时间来确保这个食谱就是我想要的,我为什么要把东西扔进锅里?
Auction houses run a rigged game. They know exactly how many people will be bidding on a work and exactly who they are. In a gallery, works of art need only one person who wants to pay for them.
拍卖行操纵着一场游戏。他们确切地知道有多少人会投标一件作品,以及他们是谁。在画廊里,艺术品只需要一个愿意付钱的人。
I always said that you can use the same vehicle although the driver will change, or the same vehicle to go for the race. It's a different driver, this is exactly what's happening to the cabinet.
我总是说,你可以用同一辆车,虽然司机会换,或同一辆车去比赛。这是一个不同的驱动,这正是发生在内阁。
What I learned from Rockefeller that's off-the-hook important is: You need to know exactly where you stand in a business at all times. Measure everything, because everything that is measured and watched improves.
我从洛克菲勒那里学到的很重要的一点是:你需要知道你在企业中处于什么位置。衡量一切,因为被衡量和观察的一切都在改善。
I'm really not sure what people think or expect me to be, but I am surprised when people say, 'You're not supposed to be like that... ' I'm not exactly sure what 'that' is, so I choose to take it as a compliment.
我真的不确定人们对我的看法或期望,但当人们说,‘你不应该是那样的……“我不太清楚那是什么,所以我选择把它当作一种赞美。”
What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
我说不出这种力量是什么;我所知道的是,它的存在,只有当一个人处于一种他确切知道他想要什么,并下定决心不放弃直到他找到它的精神状态时,它才会成为可能。
I knew exactly what I was, and there was no hang-up with me. None whatsoever. The fact that the pigment of my skin maybe being lighter brown than other people of my race, maybe some of them, but you know our race has all colors.
我清楚地知道自己是什么,也没有什么烦恼。一点儿也没有呢。事实上,我皮肤上的色素可能比我们种族的其他人浅棕色,也许是他们中的一些人,但是你知道我们种族有所有的颜色。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
It's not superstition, but I do everything exactly the same on game days. I'm a creature of habit. I eat the same breakfast, and then I drive the same way to practice. Then I come back and eat the same exact same lunch before every game.
这不是迷信,但我在比赛日做的每件事都完全一样。我是一个习惯的动物。我吃同样的早餐,然后开车去练习。然后每次比赛前我都会回来吃同样的午餐。
Finding out exactly what went wrong is key toward preventing future debacles.
准确地找出问题所在是防止未来经济崩溃的关键。
To middle-class parents, the project team may have seemed unfit for children, but it was exactly what I needed.
对于中产阶级的父母来说,这个项目团队似乎不适合孩子,但这正是我所需要的。
In real life we don't know what's going to happen next. So how can you be that way on a stage? Being alive to the possibility of not knowing exactly how everything is going to happen next - if you can find places to have that happen onstage, it can resonate with an experience of living.
在现实生活中,我们不知道接下来会发生什么。那你怎么能在舞台上那样呢?如果你能在舞台上找到这样的地方,就能与生活的体验产生共鸣。
As far as working out, I know exactly what I'm doing.
就锻炼而言,我很清楚自己在做什么。
This may sound strange but I had dreams as a kid of doing exactly what I ended up doing in my life.
这听起来可能很奇怪,但我小时候的梦想就是做我一生中最终要做的事情。