A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
人民
People
There are thousands and thousands of people out there leading lives of quiet, screaming desperation, where they work long, hard hours at jobs they hate to enable them to buy things they don’t need to impress people they don’t like.
有成千上万的人过着平静、绝望的生活，他们长时间、辛苦地做着自己讨厌的工作，为的是能买到自己不需要的东西，给自己不喜欢的人留下深刻印象。
The burden of originality is one that most people don't want to accept. They'd rather sit in front of the TV and let that tell them what they're supposed to like, what they're supposed to buy, and what they're supposed to laugh at.
创意的负担是大多数人都不想接受的。他们宁愿坐在电视机前，让电视告诉他们应该喜欢什么，应该买什么，应该嘲笑什么。
My career has been different from most people, but I knew what I was not going to do. I knew I was not going to be controlled. I knew there was a price for this, but I did not know there was as large a price as it turned out to be.
我的职业生涯与大多数人不同，但我知道我不会做什么。我知道我不会被控制。我知道这是有代价的，但我不知道有这么大的代价。
For too long, decisions have been taken behind closed doors - tablets of stone have simply been past down to people without bothering to involve people, listen to their views or give them information about what we are doing and why.
长久以来，决策都是在紧闭的门后做出的——石碑只是简单地传递给人们，而没有费心让人们参与进来，倾听他们的观点，或者告诉他们我们在做什么以及为什么要做。
I think because people are passing - people that we are aware of are passing at - I don't say a great pace, but it seems like people are dropping, and I think it's just making - there's a consciousness and there's sensitivity to it.
我认为，因为人们正在超越——我们意识到的人正在超越——我不说速度有多快，但似乎人们在下降，我认为这只是在形成一种意识，一种对它的敏感性。
One of the towering people in this industry said, why don't you go and make a five-year contract with somebody, make yourself several million dollars and put it away, then go and do whatever you want, work for public TV if you want.
这个行业的一位杰出人士说，你为什么不去和别人签一个五年的合同，挣几百万美元存起来，然后去做你想做的任何事情，如果你想的话，为公共电视台工作。
I've always seen myself as one of those 'show people.' My earliest memories are wanting and needing to entertain people, like a gypsy traveler who goes from place to place, city to city, performing for audiences and reaching people.
我一直认为自己是那种“爱秀的人”。“我最早的记忆是想要并需要娱乐人们，就像一个吉普赛旅行者从一个地方到另一个地方，从一个城市到另一个城市，为观众表演，接触人们。”
The best thing I've learned is, if you're going out, never go out alone - you leave yourself vulnerable. If you've got someone else there you trust, they can say, be wary of that person. I probably used to be too trusting of people.
我学到的最好的一件事是，如果你要出去，永远不要一个人出去——你会让自己变得脆弱。如果你信任另外一个人，他们会说，小心那个人。我以前可能太信任别人了。
I think there needs to be a way to allow people to become educated if they've paid taxes, they've been here a long time. And I think, actually, we need to think about young people are not making the decision on whether to come here.
我认为需要有一种方式让人们接受教育，如果他们已经纳税，他们已经在这里生活了很长时间。我认为，实际上，我们需要考虑的是，年轻人并没有决定是否来这里。
The last few years have been my happiest. I'm happy in the years that most people are blue and sad and waiting to die. I don't feel that a bit. Smiling has a lot to do with it. You can just lift your spirits by smiling a little bit.
过去的几年是我最快乐的几年。我很高兴在那些年里，大多数人都是蓝色的，悲伤的，等待死亡。我一点也不觉得。微笑与此有很大关系。你只要微微一笑就能使你的精神振作起来。
I have to concentrate more intently when people speak. I always have to position myself on their right side so that I can hear out of my left ear. I sometimes get a crick in my neck from listening. But I don't there's too much else.
当人们说话时，我必须更加专心。我总是把自己放在他们的右边，这样我就可以用左耳听了。我有时因为听别人说话而感到脖子发麻。但我没有，还有很多。
Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.
不要每天都炫耀自己，否则你就不会再给别人惊喜了。一定会留下一些新奇的东西。每天多表现一点的人会保持期望，没有人会发现他才能的极限。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
没有人有足够的记忆力成为一个成功的说谎者。
If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.
如果人们破坏了人类创造的可替换的东西，他们被称为破坏者;如果他们破坏了上帝创造的不可替代的东西，他们就被称为开发者。
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
客人就像鱼一样，过了三天就开始发臭。
If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
如果自由意味着什么，那就是告诉人们他们不想听的话的权利。
I think people who have faults are a lot more interesting than people who are perfect.
我认为有缺点的人比完美的人更有趣。
Month after month, Wizard Academy equips people who want to make a difference. This is why journalists and scientists and artists and educators and business owners and advertising professionals and ministers are attracted to our little school.
一个月又一个月，巫师学院为那些想有所作为的人提供装备。这就是为什么记者、科学家、艺术家、教育家、企业主、广告专业人士和部长们都被我们的小学校所吸引。