A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
人民
People
Today, when I hire, I look for people who want to be trained and molded.
今天,当我招聘的时候,我寻找的是那些愿意接受培训和塑造的人。
So many people are called but few serve as actors, you know what I mean?
很多人被称为演员,但很少有人当演员,你知道我的意思吗?
People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.
人们不喜欢真实和简单;他们喜欢童话和骗人的东西。
People only see gymnastics on TV and in the Olympics at such an extreme.
人们只在电视上和奥运会上看到体操如此极端。
And as long as people want to hear me sing, I don't know why I'd retire.
只要人们想听我唱歌,我不知道我为什么要退休。
If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will.
如果你在人们的期待中寻找坏的一面,你一定会找到的。
Every time you walk down the street people are screaming, 'You're fired!'
每次你走在街上,人们都在尖叫:“你被解雇了!”
People who do not value you are worthless and those who do are priceless.
不重视你的人是没有价值的,重视你的人是无价的。
I guess people think the taller you are the more dominant you have to be.
我想人们认为你越高,你就越有统治力。
So I think a writer should write what he loves, the people he relates to.
所以我认为一个作家应该写他喜欢的,和他联系的人。
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
我羡慕偏执;他们实际上觉得人们在关注他们。
Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.
绰号能粘住人,而最可笑的绰号却最能粘住人。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
There's no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.
没有坏天气这种事,只有软弱的人。
There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.
在我们准备过高估计别人的时候,可能有一种恶意的成分——可以说,我们是在为自己积累一种乐趣,以便以后把他们的身材缩小。
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
最好的管理者是这样的人:他有足够的判断力去挑选好人做他想做的事,并且有足够的自制力在他们做事的时候不去干涉他们。
I pick out young people and teach them in less time than it would take me to alter the methods of people from the boards, and I get actors who look the parts they have to fill.
我挑选年轻人,在比我改变董事会成员工作方式所需的时间更短的时间内教他们,我还请演员来扮演他们必须扮演的角色。
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 drink to make other people more interesting.
我喝酒是为了让别人更有趣。