A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
劳动
Work
We want to encourage those who are able to work, no question.
毫无疑问，我们要鼓励那些有能力工作的人。
I never earned a dollar that was not somehow through writing.
除了写作，我从未挣过一美元。
But no work from a first rate mind is ever really second rate.
但是一流头脑的工作从来就不是二流的。
Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
小说写作无疑是我所知道的最累人的工作。
There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
工作再好，再卑微，也有一种胜利。
I don't pay to have my dirty work done for me. I do it myself.
我花钱不是为了让别人替我干脏活。我自己做的。
I work hard, and I tend to play hard. I very seldom rest hard.
我努力工作，我也倾向于努力玩耍。我很少努力休息。
I've just been blessed to work with these really great people.
我很幸运能和这些伟大的人一起工作。
It's really a drag to do the same project over and over again.
一遍又一遍地做同一个项目真是件累人的事。
The days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
白天的时间不够她想读的书。
I've never felt fallow in the sense that there's been no work.
我从来没有因为没有工作而感到休闲。
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
当你什么都不想做的时候，开会是必不可少的。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.
一个组织一旦失去了开拓精神，依赖于早期的工作，它的进步就会停止。
Every year in consulting is like three years in the corporate world because you have multiple clients, multiple issues - you grow so much.
在咨询业，每一年都像是在企业界度过的三年，因为你有多个客户，多个问题——你成长得如此之快。
It's so easy to grow apart; marriage takes work.
分开很容易;婚姻需要工作。
To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.
为了个人利益而故意弄虚作假是学者或艺术家在工作或生活中所能达到的最后、最糟糕的深度。
The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.
对一个人辛勤劳动的最高奖赏不是他得到了什么，而是他通过劳动变成了什么。
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
没有什么比忙碌能消除休闲的恶习更确定的了。