But I'm a rock 'n' roll singer; that's my livelihood, my occupation.
但我是一个摇滚歌手;那是我的生计，我的职业。
A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
劳动
Work
You can spend your time daydreaming or make use of it in other ways.
你可以把时间花在白日梦上，或者用其他方式来利用它。
All I know is that I am constantly intrigued by something I'm doing.
我所知道的是，我总是对我正在做的事情很感兴趣。
When it ceases to be fun, I'll stop and just stay in my restaurants.
当它不再有趣时，我就会停下来，呆在我的餐馆里。
They say you get what you can handle, and I can handle it just fine.
他们说你能搞定，我也能搞定。
Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part.
倾听比行动更难。倾听是最难的部分。
I'm in this for the long haul. I've been making music my whole life.
我要在这干很长时间。我一生都在创作音乐。
All work done mindfully rounds us out, helps complete us as persons.
所有用心去做的工作都能使我们更加完美，帮助我们成为一个完整的人。
The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.
世界上最伟大的教育是观察大师们的工作。
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
有罪的良心需要承认。一件艺术品是一种忏悔。
True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.
真正的艺术家几乎是唯一以工作为乐的人。
People wait around too long for love. I'm happy with all of my lusts!
人们等待爱情的时间太长了。我对我所有的欲望都很满意!
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman.
当一件作品振奋了你的精神，激发了你大胆而高尚的思想时，不要寻找任何其他的标准来评判:这是一件好作品，出自一位技艺精湛的工匠之手。
Don't worry about being successful but work toward being significant and the success will naturally follow.
不要担心成功，而是朝着有意义的方向努力，成功自然会随之而来。
All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.
人类创造的所有最伟大的技术发明——飞机、汽车、电脑——很少提到他的智力，但却充分说明了他的懒惰。
No sensible person will deny that the works of Nature are in the highest degree simple, necessary and as economical as possible. Therefore machines devised by mankind will doubtlessly likewise attain most success if they are as far as possible modelled on works of Nature.
任何明智的人都不会否认，大自然的杰作在最大程度上是简单的、必要的，而且是尽可能经济实惠的。因此，如果人类设计的机器尽可能地模仿自然，它们无疑也会获得最大的成功。
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
对一个人辛勤劳动的最高奖赏不是他们得到了什么，而是他们通过劳动变成了什么人。
A LITTLE ENCOURAGEMENT
给此刻的你，一点向前的力量。
关于学习、善意与成长，读一句，再想一想。
Never turn down a job because you think it's too small; you never know where it may lead.
永远不要因为工作太小而拒绝它;你永远不知道它会引向何方。
It is no good saying we journalists must report only what is true because what is true cannot always be proven.
说我们新闻工作者必须只报道真实的东西是不对的，因为真实的东西不能总是得到证实。