A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
生产力
Productivity
Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.
生产力是能够做你以前从未做过的事情。
Simplicity boils down to two steps: Identify the essential. Eliminate the rest.
简单归结为两个步骤:识别本质。消除了休息。
The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.
工作效率不是工人的责任，而是经理的责任。
I have always advocated for funding and programs that increase our productivity and competitiveness.
我一直主张为提高我们的生产力和竞争力的项目提供资金。
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
把你所有的思想集中在手头的工作上。太阳光线在聚焦之前不会燃烧。
Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.
生产力从来不是偶然的。它总是对卓越的承诺、明智的计划和专注的努力的结果。
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done. Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal.
如果你花太多的时间想一件事，你永远也做不成。每天至少向你的目标迈出一步。
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
在一个把工作和生产力混为一谈的工业社会里，生产的必要性一直是创造欲望的敌人。
I couldn't understand why my productivity went down when I had deliberately made more time available to write. Then I realized it was because I wasn't flying as much.
我不明白，当我故意腾出更多的时间来写作时，为什么我的效率会下降。然后我意识到，这是因为我不常坐飞机。
Productivity and the growth of productivity must be the first economic consideration at all times, not the last. That is the source of technological innovation, jobs, and wealth.
在任何时候，生产率和生产率增长都必须是首要的经济考虑因素，而不是最后一个。这是技术创新、就业和财富的源泉。
For a long time, I would write without music, because I thought it was distracting until I appreciated that it actually unlocks a certain unconscious productivity vault in my mind.
很长一段时间，我都不写音乐，因为我认为它会分散注意力，直到我意识到它实际上打开了我头脑中某个无意识的生产力宝库。
Trade helps bring us products cheaply, but there is no guarantee whatsoever to assume that it will allow us to replace the jobs that have been lost, and there is no mechanism under productivity that says that, either.
贸易为我们带来了廉价的产品，但我们不能保证它会让我们取代失去的工作岗位，生产率下也没有这样的机制。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.
我拒绝了耶鲁大学的奖学金。大学教育的问题在于，人们往往会把准备工作错当成是提高工作效率。你可以准备你想要的一切，但如果你不掷骰子，你永远不会成功。
Being lazy does not mean that you do not create. In fact, lying around doing nothing is an important, nay crucial, part of the creative process. It is meaningless bustle that actually gets in the way of productivity. All we are really saying is, give peace a chance.
懒惰并不意味着你不创造。事实上，无所事事是创作过程中一个重要的，甚至是至关重要的部分。毫无意义的忙碌实际上阻碍了生产力的发展。我们真正想说的是，给和平一个机会。