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限制
Limitations
If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't.
如果人类的大脑如此简单以至于我们能够理解它,那么我们就会如此简单以至于我们无法理解它。
It is also worth asking whether the strict limitations of Geneva make sense in a war against terrorists.
同样值得一问的是,日内瓦的严格限制在反恐战争中是否有意义。
Nations, great nations have limitations. All nations have limitations. Even great powers have limitations.
民族,伟大的民族是有局限性的。所有国家都有局限性。即使是大国也有局限性。
In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it.
如今,一个人说一件事不能做,很容易被某个正在做这件事的白痴打断。
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
人类同样无法看到他从虚无中浮现出来,也无法看到他被吞没在其中的无限。
There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.
只有你和你的相机。摄影的局限在于你自己,因为我们看到的就是我们自己。
Art does imitate life, it has to come from somewhere. To put boundaries and limitations on it doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
艺术的确模仿生活,它必须来自某个地方。给它设定界限和限制对我来说没有多大意义。
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
我宁愿生活在一个充满神秘的世界里,也不愿生活在一个小到我的大脑可以理解的世界里。
The genres are widening. I don't think that there's as many limitations on the kinds of projects that actors can do as there once was.
电影类型正在扩大。我不认为演员所能做的项目种类有以前那么多的限制。
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
我们的局限和成功往往是建立在你对自己的期望之上的。心之所向,身体之所行。
I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.
我只是一个人,但我就是一个人。我不能做所有的事,但我能做一些事。我不会让我不能做的事妨碍我能做的事。
Human fallibility being what it is, victory and truth do not always go together. Therefore, if you have to always win, you can't always be true.
人类的弱点就是如此,胜利和真理并不总是相伴而行。因此,如果你总是赢,你不可能总是对的。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.
只有这一点是上帝所否认的:那就是撤销过去的能力。
No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.
没有人生来就知道真理,知道全部的真理,除了真理什么也不知道;即使是最优秀的人也必须满足于片断,满足于局部的一瞥,而不是全部的果实。
When people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together.
当人们认为地球是平的时候,他们错了。当人们认为地球是球形的时候,他们错了。但是,如果你认为认为地球是球形和认为地球是扁平一样错误,那么你的观点就比这两种观点加起来还要错误。
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
做你能做的,用你所拥有的,在你所处的位置。
If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
如果你总是限制你所做的一切,无论是身体上的还是其他方面的。它会渗透到你的工作和生活中。没有限制。只有停滞不前,你不能停滞不前,你必须超越停滞不前。
Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.
分析你所没有的和你所拥有的是一个职业的必要组成部分。