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想法
Ideas
When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.
我读研究生的时候，哈佛大学的领军人物对思想史很感兴趣。
The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.
最难的是想法。想法来自某个地方，但就我们所知，它们来自任何地方。
A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on.
一个年轻人必须让他的思想成长，而不是不断地把它们生根发芽，看它们进展如何。
A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.
语言系统是一系列的语音差异与一系列的思想差异相结合的产物。
And I liked that whole idea that energy comes from not disseminating your ideas and talking about them.
我喜欢这样的观点，能量来自于不传播你的想法，不谈论它们。
I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.
我试图处理关于历史、名望、传闻以及公众身份如何构建的观点。
Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.
产生于互不相识的全体人民之间的统一思想必须有一个共同的真理基础。
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
没有想法总比没有想法强;什么都不相信，总比相信错的好。
An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
一个发展起来并付诸行动的想法，比仅仅作为一个想法而存在的想法更重要。
The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.
伟大剧作家的思想几乎总是比最优秀的演员的经验还要丰富。
Every writer or wanna-be writer has ideas for books. The problem isn't finding an idea, it's choosing one.
每个作家或想成为作家的人对书都有自己的想法。问题不在于找到一个想法，而在于选择一个。
I'll know when the ideas aren't fresh anymore. And I'll know when writing doesn't give me a thrill anymore.
我知道什么时候这些想法不再新鲜了。当写作不再让我兴奋时，我就知道了。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
It isn't where you come from, it's where you're going that counts.
重要的不是你来自哪里，而是你要去哪里。
You're alone in your ideas, because you're the only one who knows what's possible.
你的想法是独一无二的，因为你是唯一知道什么是可能的人。
One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee.
制作这张唱片的想法之一是我不想让委员会来制作它。
The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.
有一个好主意的最好方法就是有很多的主意。
I crave ideas, and when an idea hits me, it grips me and it tortures me until I master it.
我渴望灵感，当灵感来袭时，它抓住我，折磨我，直到我掌握它。
Ideas move rapidly when their time comes.
当时机成熟时，思想会迅速发展。