A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
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Purpose
If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and consumate artifice, in order to effect their purpose.
如果我们对动物创造的经济只给予很少的关注,我们就会发现明显的预谋、毅力、决心和完善技巧的例子,以便达到它们的目的。
It's not a matter of becoming a superstar. Fame and money aren't the purpose of all this. No actor's going to say, 'I don't want to be famous.' But the main purpose for doing what I'm doing is the passion in the work.
这不是成为超级明星的问题。名利并不是这一切的目的。没有演员会说,‘我不想出名。但我现在做这件事的主要目的是对工作的热情。
But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.
但是生活中有苦难,也有失败。没有人能避免它们。但是,在为梦想而奋斗的过程中,宁可输掉一些战斗,也不要在不知道自己在为什么的情况下被打败。
Where am I? Who am I? How did I come to be here? What is this thing called the world? How did I come into the world? Why was I not consulted? And If I am compelled to take part in it, Where is the director? I want to see him.
我在哪儿?我是谁? 我怎么会在这里? 这个东西叫什么? 我是怎么来到这个世界上的? 为什么没有征求我的意见? 如果我被迫参与其中, 导演在哪里? 我想见他。
I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the source of national action, the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas
我相信人的尊严是国家目标的源泉,人的自由是国家行动的源泉,人的心灵是国家同情的源泉,人的思想是我们发明和思想的源泉
Although we talk so much about coincidence we do not really believe in it. In our heart of hearts we think better of the universe, we are secretly convinced that it is not such a slipshod, haphazard affair, that everything in it has meaning.
虽然我们经常谈论巧合,但我们并不真正相信它。在我们的内心深处,我们对宇宙有了更好的认识,我们暗自相信,宇宙并不是一件马虎、随意的事情,其中的一切都有意义。
One of the problems with even suggesting that purpose of a Federal law is for law enforcement officers to assist in protecting the public outside their jurisdictions is that it may give them encouragement or even a sense of obligation to do so.
甚至认为联邦法律的目的是让执法人员协助保护其管辖范围之外的公众,其中一个问题是,这可能会鼓励他们这样做,甚至会给他们一种义务感。
What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.
人真正需要的不是一种没有紧张的状态,而是为一个值得自己去追求的目标而奋斗。他所需要的不是不惜任何代价释放紧张,而是一种潜在意义的召唤,等待着他去实现。
A person of definite character and purpose who comprehends our way of thought is sure to exert power over us. He cannot altogether be resisted; because, if he understands us, he can make us understand him, through the word, the look, or other symbol.
一个有明确性格和目标的人,他理解我们的思维方式,一定会对我们施加力量。不能完全抗拒他;因为,如果他了解我们,他可以让我们了解他,通过文字、表情或其他符号。
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
忙碌并不总是意味着真正的工作。所有工作的目标都是生产或成就,而要达到其中任何一个目标,都必须有先见之明、系统、计划、智慧、诚实的目标,以及勤奋。表面上做,实际上没有做。
I work really hard at trying to see the big picture and not getting stuck in ego. I believe we're all put on this planet for a purpose, and we all have a different purpose... When you connect with that love and that compassion, that's when everything unfolds.
我非常努力地工作,试图看到大局,而不是陷入自我。我相信我们来到这个星球上都是有目的的,我们都有不同的目的……当你与那种爱和同情联系在一起时,一切都展现出来了。
A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the "why" for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any "how."
一个人如果意识到自己对一个深情地等待着他的人所承担的责任,或者意识到自己对一项尚未完成的工作所承担的责任,他就永远不能抛弃自己的生命。他知道他的存在的“为什么”,并将能够忍受几乎任何“如何”。
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The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
最后一个诱惑是最大的背叛:以错误的理由做正确的事。
Some men see things as they are and say, "Why?" I dream of things that never were and say, "Why not?"
有些人看到事情的本来面目,会说:“为什么?”我梦想着从未有过的事情,我说:“为什么不呢?”
Visualization is daydreaming with a purpose.
想象是有目的的白日梦。
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live life in purpose.
人类伟大而光荣的杰作是知道如何有目标地生活。
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
每件事都有寓意,只要你能找到它。
When I talk of the purpose of life, I am thinking not only of human life, but of all life on Earth and of the life which must exist upon other planets throughout the universe.
当我谈到生命的目的时,我不仅想到了人类的生命,而且想到了地球上所有的生命以及宇宙中其他行星上必须存在的生命。