A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
重要
Matters
If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?
如果谁赢谁输并不重要,那么他们为什么要记分呢?
What you do every day matters more than what you do once in a while.
你每天做的事情比你偶尔做的事情更重要。
All that matters is to give everything, and the quicker, the better.
重要的是付出一切,越快越好。
Will this new play be good or bad? Nothing else matters. Nothing at all.
这部新剧是好是坏?没有什么比这个更重要。什么都不重要。
When you grow up on an island, what matters is how you stand to the sea.
当你在一个岛上长大,重要的是你如何面对大海。
We will not change in matters of policy until such time as dialogue has begun.
在对话开始之前,我们不会改变政策。
It's not the hair on your head that matters. It's the kind of hair you have inside.
重要的不是你头上的头发。这是你内在的头发。
We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.
我们的音乐家。我们以音乐为生。就是这么简单。没有什么比这个更重要。
I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.
我写得很好。我本质上是个记者,所以故事才是最重要的。
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
你来自哪里并不重要。重要的是你要去哪里。
They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.
一心扑在琐事上的人,往往做不成大事。
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
在时尚方面,随波逐流;在原则问题上,要像石头一样坚定。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
No matter where you're going it's the wrong place.
无论你要去哪里,都是错的地方。
My job as a pollster is to understand what really matters.
作为一名民意调查员,我的工作是了解什么才是真正重要的。
But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.
但无论是梦想还是真理,做得好才是最重要的。如果是真的,看在真理的份上。如果没有,那就在我们醒来的时候结交朋友。
Beware of over-confidence; especially in matters of structure.
谨防过度自信;尤其是在结构方面。
It is not where we are that matters nor what we have, it is what we do with where we are and what we have.
我们在哪里并不重要,我们拥有什么并不重要,重要的是我们在哪里做什么,我们拥有什么。