A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
记者
Journalist
I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature.
我从一个有艺术天赋的男孩开始……作为一个视觉艺术家…我想这就是我现在的样子，在我十几岁的时候，我开始阅读严肃的文学作品。
I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started each day. Let's face it, writing is hell.
当我做得很好的时候，我有一种很好的温暖的感觉，但是这种快乐被每天开始的痛苦抵消了。让我们面对现实吧，写作是地狱。
No journalist has ever been in my house and no photographs have ever been taken of where I live. I don't parade my family out for display, which is the way it will stay.
从来没有记者来过我的房子，也没有人拍过我住的地方的照片。我不会为了炫耀而炫耀我的家人，这将是我的生活方式。
Any man who makes a speech more than six times a year is bound to repeat himself, not because he has little to say, but because he wants applause and the old stuff gets it.
任何一年演讲超过六次的人注定要重复自己的演讲，不是因为他没什么可说的，而是因为他想要掌声，而老东西能得到掌声。
If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.
如果你在生活中专注于自律，那么你在写作时就会比在和朋友一起玩或从事其他工作时更聪明。
True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed.
当假定的秩序和假定的混乱达到平衡时，才会产生真正的稳定。一个真正稳定的系统期待着意想不到的事情，准备着被打破，等待着被改变。
I was a very bad journalist. Awful. I would just invent everything. If I did an interview, I had a preconception of what that person should say and I would put my words in his mouth.
我是个很糟糕的记者。糟透了。我会发明一切。如果我做一个采访，我对那个人应该说什么有一个先入之见，我会把我的话放进他的嘴里。
Yes, we have the freedom to do what we please, but it only works because we don't do everything we might please - we should exercise some degree of personal, and corporate, responsibility.
是的，我们有做自己喜欢做的事情的自由，但这只是因为我们没有做所有我们可能喜欢做的事情——我们应该行使一定程度的个人和公司责任。
For almost anyone who chooses to be a writer, since so very few writers are able to learn a living from their work that is equivalent to the living earned by the average dentist or accountant.
对于几乎所有选择成为作家的人来说，因为很少有作家能够从他们的工作中获得相当于一般牙医或会计师的收入。
I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.
我相信，成功意味着在你生活的许多领域拥有成功故事的平衡。如果你的家庭生活一团糟，你在事业上就不可能真正被认为是成功的。
Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
你是否只从那些仰慕你、温柔待你、支持你的人身上吸取了教训?那些与你争竞，与你争竞的，岂不是给你大教训吗?
Nothing is better for a young journalist than to go and write about something that other people don't know about. If you can afford to send yourself to some foreign part, I still think that's by far the best way to break in.
对于一个年轻的记者来说，没有什么比去写一些别人不知道的东西更好的了。如果你能负担得起把自己派到国外去，我仍然认为这是目前为止最好的闯入方式。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
I was in my yard and thought that the tree was a living being. We take trees for granted. We don't believe they are as much alive as we are.
我在院子里，以为这棵树是有生命的。我们认为树木是理所当然的。我们不相信他们像我们一样活着。
To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
对于人类真正的艺术家来说，所谓的不礼貌往往是最生动和最重要的。
Time granted does not necessarily coincide with time that can be most fully used.
给予的时间不一定与最能充分利用的时间一致。
I don't want it to be all that self-conscious or artificial, but it really grows out of my having invented myself as a listener so that I could hear her voice.
我不想让它变得那么自觉或做作，但它真的是我把自己变成了一个倾听者，这样我就能听到她的声音。
I prefer the country life. I live in Kingston, but there is lots of trees.
我更喜欢乡村生活。我住在金斯敦，但是那里有很多树。