A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
身份
Identity
You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living.
你必须敢于冒着身份的风险去追求比你现在生活的更伟大的未来。
Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.
在我告诉我的生活我想做什么之前，我必须听我的生活告诉我我是谁。
An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.
一种身份似乎是通过一个人面对和使用他的经验的方式获得的。
But to do this kind of work, you have to be very strong, otherwise you lose your personality, your identity.
但是要做这种工作，你必须非常坚强，否则你会失去你的个性，你的身份。
In every story I have heard, good teachers share one trait: a strong sense of personal identity infuses their work.
在我听过的每个故事中，好老师都有一个共同的特点:强烈的个人认同感渗透到他们的工作中。
You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
当你发现，不是你能集中精力做什么，而是你不能集中精力做什么时，你就有了自己的身份。
If we decide too positively what we are, we will not be able to take advantage of what, at different times, we happen to be.
如果我们过于积极地决定自己是什么，我们就无法利用我们在不同时期碰巧是什么。
One of the things my parents taught me, and I'll always be grateful for the gift, is to not ever let anybody else define me.
我父母教给我的一件事是，永远不要让别人定义我，我也会永远感激这份礼物。
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
大多数人都是其他人。他们的思想是别人的观点，他们的生活是模仿，他们的激情是引用。
The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization.
民族认同的丧失是一个民族所能经历的最大失败，是当代殖民形式下不可避免的。
When you have a global mush, people lose their identity, they become pseudonyms, they have no investment and no consequence in what they do.
当你有一个全球性的混乱，人们失去他们的身份，他们成为假名，他们没有投资和后果，他们所做的。
All the world is a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and entrances; Each man in his time plays many parts.
整个世界就是一个舞台， 所有的男人和女人都只是演员。 他们有他们的出口和入口; 每个人在他的时代都扮演着许多角色。
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My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general; if you become a monk, you'll end up as the Pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
妈妈对我说:“如果你成为一名士兵，你就会成为一名将军;如果你成为一名僧侣，你最终会成为教皇。”相反，我成了一名画家，最后成了毕加索。
The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others.
当你放弃国家权力时，你就放弃了自己的身份，这种想法毫无用处。不，实际上恰恰相反:如果以明智的方式来做，你就能获得与其他国家合作更好地解决国家问题的主权。
I look at my voice and my abilities as a gift. I don't feel that I can even take any credit for it, but it's such a huge presence in my life. It is my life. It's my identity, it's everything. And it's given me a great deal of joy and a sense of purpose - I can't imagine my life without it.
我把自己的声音和能力看作是上天赐予我的礼物。我觉得我甚至不能为此邀功，但它在我的生活中如此重要。这就是我的生活。这是我的身份，这是一切。它给了我很大的快乐和使命感——我无法想象没有它的生活。
Maybe if I act well enough, I'll come to believe it myself.
也许如果我表现得足够好，我自己也会相信的。
What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied advice of political scientists.
穷人、弱者和口齿不清的人迫切需要的是权力、组织，以及一种认同感和使命感，而不是政治科学家的稀罕建议。
You are not who you think you are.
你不是你想的那样。