A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
灵感
Inspiration
He grows daily more capable of following any inspiration without technical effort, and also of letting inspiration come to him through meticulous observation.
他每天都在成长，变得更有能力跟随任何灵感，而不需要技术上的努力，也让灵感通过细致的观察来到他的身边。
Kids can have great passion and great ability but if you have the facilities for your particular sport that can give you the inspiration to become a sportsman.
孩子们可以有很大的热情和能力，但如果你有你的特定运动的设施，可以给你成为一名运动员的灵感。
If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.
如果你试着虚构一段时间，你就会明白，虚构的人物有时比有身体和心跳的人更真实。
I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.
在大自然如此美丽的时刻，我经历了一段令人恐惧的清晰时期。我不再对自己有信心，这些画就像在梦里一样出现了。
Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.
没有纪律的天才就像溜冰鞋上的章鱼。有很多的运动，但你永远不知道它是向前，向后，还是向旁边。
What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.
浪漫主义所谓的天才、才能或灵感，无非是凭经验找到正确的道路，跟着鼻子走，走捷径。
You are the embodiment of the information you choose to accept and act upon. To change your circumstances you need to change your thinking and subsequent actions.
你是你选择接受和行动的信息的化身。要改变你的环境，你需要改变你的想法和随后的行动。
Without a doubt my mother was an inspiration for my writing. This is true in many ways, but mostly because she is a wonderful storyteller, without even knowing it.
毫无疑问，我的母亲是我写作的灵感来源。这在很多方面是正确的，但主要是因为她是一个出色的故事讲述者，甚至不知道这一点。
A deadline gets a writer's work done done better and faster than any inspiration, if only because inspirations don't always come, but the deadline is always there.
截止日期比任何灵感都能更快更好地完成作家的作品，这仅仅是因为灵感并不总是会来，但截止日期总是存在的。
I would like to be called an inspiration to people, not a role model - because I make mistakes like everybody else. When I'm offstage, I'm just like everybody else.
我希望被称为激励人心的人，而不是榜样——因为我和其他人一样会犯错误。当我离开舞台时，我和其他人一样。
Whether one agrees or disagrees with the tactics of the Occupy Wall Street movement, it's easy to understand the inspiration for its anger as well as its impatience.
无论人们是否同意“占领华尔街”运动的策略，都很容易理解其愤怒和不耐烦的动机。
Imitation is not inspiration, and inspiration only can give birth to a work of art. The least of man's original emanation is better than the best of borrowed thought.
模仿不是灵感，灵感只能产生一件艺术作品。人最微小的独创能力，也胜过最好的借来的思想。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
让改变变得有意义的唯一方法就是投入其中，跟随它前进，并加入其中。
If you can dream and not make dreams your master.
如果你能梦想而不让梦想成为你的主人。
Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
你的良心是衡量你的自私是否诚实的尺度。仔细听。
Imagination is the true magic carpet.
想象力是真正的魔毯。
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
一个人的作品不过是一次缓慢的跋涉，通过艺术的弯路，重新发现那两三个伟大而简单的形象，在他们面前，他的心第一次打开了。