A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
现实
Reality
Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.
生活不分学期。你并没有暑假可以休息，也没有几位雇主乐于帮你发现自我。
A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines.
报纸编辑的一个残酷现实是，截止日期不允许你在书中甚至杂志中期待的润色。
The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.
人的灵魂对理想的需要比现实的需要更大。我们是通过真实存在的;我们生活在理想之中。
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
只要数学定律适用于现实，它们就是不确定的;只要它们确定，它们就不适用于现实。
There is a reality. We are that reality. When you understand this, you see that you are nothing, and being nothing, you are everything.
这是现实。我们就是这样的现实。当你明白了这一点，你就会明白你什么都不是，你什么都不是，你就是一切。
The ability to suspend reality and go into a make-believe world can be really, really difficult if there's something really big going on.
如果真的发生了什么大事，想要把现实抛诸脑后，进入一个虚构的世界是非常非常困难的。
Two hundred or more years ago most people on the planet were never aware of any reality other than the one into which they were brought up.
两百多年前，这个星球上的大多数人都只知道他们成长的环境。
One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality.
我和泰勒着迷的一件事，也是我们着迷于魔法的原因之一，就是幻想和现实之间的区别。
The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.
通过非我们自己的模式来解释我们的现实，只会让我们变得越来越不为人知，越来越不自由，越来越孤独。
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
梦想变成了行动。从行动中再次萌生梦想;这种相互依赖产生了最高形式的生活。
One cannot properly appreciate the human realities so long as one labors under the adolescent delusion that people get the fates they deserve.
一个人不可能正确地欣赏人类的现实，只要他在青少年的幻想下工作，人们得到他们应得的命运。
It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.
在商业中，文字就是文字，解释就是解释，承诺就是承诺，这是一条不可改变的定律——但只有业绩才是现实。
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Gone are the days when reality fed the feminist movement.
现实滋养女权主义运动的日子一去不复返了。
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
人类无法承受太多的现实。
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
宇宙不仅比我们想象的要陌生，而且比我们想象的还要陌生。
Innovation is this amazing intersection between someone's imagination and the reality in which they live. The problem is, many companies don't have great imagination, but their view of reality tells them that it's impossible to do what they imagine.
创新是一个人的想象力和他们所生活的现实之间惊人的交集。问题是，很多公司没有很好的想象力，但是他们对现实的看法告诉他们，不可能做他们想象的事情。
Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.
面对现实的本来面目，而不是你想要的样子。