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I've noticed that when I am selling a lot of records, certain things become easier. I'm not talking about getting a table in a restaurant.
我注意到,当我卖出很多唱片时,某些事情会变得更容易。我说的不是在餐馆里找个位子。
We live in a world where the laws are getting so tight that management has changed to micro-management to quantum-management to paralysis.
我们生活在一个法律如此严格的世界里,以至于管理已经从微观管理变成了量子管理,最后陷入瘫痪。
Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.
意识本身就是目的。我们折磨自己到达某个地方,而当我们到达那里时却无处可去,因为我们无处可去。
I definitely like taking the dark horse approach and picking people you should not be getting behind, and you figure out a way to get behind them.
我绝对喜欢采取“黑马”式的方法,挑选那些你不应该落后的人,然后想办法落后他们。
That's one of the things about getting older isn't it? You suddenly realise that you are what you set out to be. And there are no role models any more.
这就是变老的原因之一,不是吗?你突然意识到你就是你想成为的那个人。再也没有榜样了。
If it's coming near the end of a chapter and I'm really getting into it, I tend to get up earlier and earlier, just because I'm excited to get to work.
如果快到一章的结尾了,而且我真的很投入,我就会越来越早起床,因为我很兴奋能开始工作。
You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little sense knocked into it.
你可能会想,在经历了几千年的过早生长和被冻僵之后,番红花家族应该有点意识到了这一点。
New Orleans dodged a bullet. It was the moment for viewers and in some respects for me that we understood it was not getting better, it was getting worse.
新奥尔良躲过了一劫。对观众来说,这是一个时刻,从某些方面来说,对我来说,我们明白情况并没有好转,而是在恶化。
Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
政治才能比政治更难。政治是一门与人相处的艺术,而政治家是一门与政治家相处的艺术。
I hope the cooks who are working for me now are getting that kind of experience so they can use what they're learning now as a foundation for a great career.
我希望现在为我工作的厨师们能获得这样的经验,这样他们就能把他们现在所学的知识作为一个伟大事业的基础。
When people don't know who you are, they're seeing your work for the first time. But if they've seen a lot, getting certain things across is a more difficult.
当人们不知道你是谁的时候,他们是第一次看到你的作品。但如果他们已经看到了很多东西,想要把某些东西讲清楚就更难了。
It seems like every spring, early on, I struggle a little to get my feet under me out there. I don't like it, but it's just getting back in the swing of things.
似乎每到春天,在很早的时候,我都会挣扎着站起来。我不喜欢它,但它只是重新适应环境。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
I haven't really focused so much on getting acting work.
我并没有把太多精力放在演戏上。
I feel my belief in sacrifice and struggle getting stronger. I despise the kind of existence that clings to the miserly trifles of comfort and self-interest. I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.
我感到我对牺牲和奋斗的信念越来越强烈。我鄙视那种紧紧抓住舒适和私利这些微不足道的小事不放的生活。我认为,一个人不应该活到他开始衰老的年龄,当照亮他生命中最辉煌时刻的火焰已经减弱的时候。
Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.
魅力是一种不用问清楚问题就能得到肯定答案的方法。
I'd get into a room and disappear into the woodwork. Now the rooms are so crowded with reporters getting behind-the-scenes stories that nobody can get behind-the-scenes stories.
我会走进一个房间,消失在木制品中。现在房间里挤满了报道幕后故事的记者,没有人能知道幕后故事。
The more the years go by, the more difficult it gets. I'm getting old.
岁月流逝得越多,它变得越困难。我老了。
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
除了把事情做完的高尚艺术,还有把事情做完的高尚艺术。生活的智慧在于消除不必要的东西。