A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
需要
Need
My goal is to strip things down so that you need just the right amount of words or shape to convey what you need to convey. I like editing. I like it very tight.
我的目标是把事情简化，这样你就需要合适的文字或形状来表达你想要表达的东西。我喜欢编辑。我喜欢它很紧。
We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
我们不需要更多的智力，我们需要更多的精神力量。我们不需要更多看得见的东西，我们需要更多看不见的东西。
Don't ask yourself what the world needs ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go and do that because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
不要问自己这个世界需要什么问问自己是什么让你活过来然后去做，因为这个世界需要的是活过来的人。
Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.
要明白朋友来来去去，但你应该把握住一些珍贵的朋友。你年纪越大，就越需要那些在你年轻时就认识你的人。
Some twins feel like they need to compare themselves to each other, but we're not that way. That's because of my parents, though, and having six kids in the family.
有些双胞胎觉得他们需要互相比较，但我们不是这样的。但那是因为我的父母，还有家里六个孩子。
Men, we don't need you to be a knight in shining armor. We just need you to be a little bit brave, just a little bit. And some of them are, and that's what he does.
伙计们，我们不需要你成为一个穿着闪亮盔甲的骑士。我们只需要你勇敢一点，勇敢一点。有些是，他就是这么做的。
The expansion of the market creates a need for enhanced and more regular supply, and this in turn impels commercial capital to acquire control of production as well.
市场的扩大创造了对加强和更有规律的供应的需求，这反过来又促使商业资本获得对生产的控制。
We need to break our dependency on foreign sources of oil, which leaves us at the mercy of foreign powers. To do that, we should increase domestic energy production.
我们需要打破对外国石油资源的依赖，这让我们任由外国势力摆布。为此，我们应该增加国内能源生产。
If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.
如果过去教不了现在，父亲也教不了儿子，那么历史就不必费心继续下去了，世界已经浪费了大量的时间。
We need to have a strong economy that can create employment opportunities and that can also produce the revenue that we need to defend our country at home and abroad.
我们需要有一个强大的经济，能够创造就业机会，也能够产生我们在国内外保卫国家所需要的收入。
Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.
你需要和孩子们、老师们交谈，确保他们尽早在课程中学习诗歌，而不是试图对文学发表高谈阔论。
I don't need to know how they make Coca-Cola. I think it tastes just fine not knowing what the ingredients are. I think there are some things that should be kept secret.
我不需要知道他们是怎么做可口可乐的。我觉得不知道配料是什么味道很好。我认为有些事情应该保密。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper.
我不知道我们一秒钟有多少想法，但这是一个相当惊人的数字，为了确定这些想法的适当顺序，你真正需要的是一支铅笔和一张纸。
Who are you and what are you?... I need to know.
你是谁，你是什么?我想知道。
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
我选择一块大理石，把我不需要的东西砍掉。
The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.
人体有两个末端:一个用来创造，另一个用来坐着。有时人们会适得其反。当这种情况发生时，他们需要从裤子的座位上踢一下。
My life revolves around music and always will. I need to be a part of music and not an observer.
我的生活围绕着音乐，而且永远围绕着音乐。我需要成为音乐的一部分，而不是一个观察者。
Today I start a diary; it is against my usual habbits, but out of a clearly felt need.
今天我开始写日记;这违反了我通常的习惯，但出于明显的需要。