A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
愿景
Vision
I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.
我是一个边缘的幻想家。我能看到未来,但只能走到一边。
I don't want to rule the universe. I just think it could be more sensibly organised.
我不想统治宇宙。我只是认为它可以更合理地组织起来。
You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
你必须知道你要做什么,但它应该是一个模糊的概念。
I think architecture, to be really intense and fulfilling, doesn't have to be large.
我认为建筑,要真正的紧张和充实,并不一定要很大。
I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.
我不想生活在绝望的文化中。我想生活在充满希望的文化中。
Jazz vision is a wordless conversation between musical notes and visual expressions.
爵士乐视觉是音符与视觉表达之间的无言对话。
The finest act of seeing is necessarily always the act of not seeing something else.
能看见的最好的行为,必然总是看不见别的东西的行为。
Our eyes are placed in front because its more important to look ahead than look back.
我们的眼睛放在前面是因为向前看比向后看更重要。
When I look at something, it is certain that for an instant I am one with what I see.
当我看某样东西的时候,可以肯定的是,在某一瞬间,我与我所看到的是同一个人。
Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.
没有异象,民就灭亡。惟遵守律法的,便为有福。
There's no room for being a visionary in the studio system. It literally cannot exist.
在工作室系统中没有空间成为一个有远见的人。它实际上不可能存在。
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
没有什么比高效地做根本不应该做的事情更没用的了。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
你能想象什么取决于你知道什么。
Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.
诗歌不仅仅是一组相互关联的词语;它远不止于此,它能让我们一瞥我们对世界的看法。
Persistence of action comes from persistence of vision
行动的坚持来自于愿景的坚持
Let us fix our attention out of ourselves as much as possible; let us chase our imagination to the heavens, or to the utmost limits of the universe; we never really advance a step beyond ourselves, nor can conceive any kind of existence, but those perceptions, which have appeared in that narrow compass.
让我们尽可能把注意力从自己身上移开;让我们把我们的想象力推向天空,或者宇宙的极限;我们从来没有真正超越自己一步,也不能设想任何一种存在,除了那些已经出现在那个狭窄的范围内的知觉。
One's destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.
一个人的目的地永远不是一个地方,而是一种看待事物的新方式。
Dreams have always expanded our understanding of reality by challenging our boundaries of the real, of the possible.
梦总是通过挑战我们对真实和可能的界限来扩展我们对现实的理解。