A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
愿景
Vision
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
旅行的作用是用现实来调节想象,而不是思考事情可能是怎样的,而是看到事情本来的样子。
Imagination doesn't always mean looking outside of the box, but taking a closed box and seeing a different world from within it.
想象并不总是意味着往盒子外看,而是从一个封闭的盒子里看一个不同的世界。
The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
孤独的礼物有时是对社会或个人的一种激进的看法,而这种看法以前从未被考虑过。
Music has that ability to be a magical thing, and I was like, maybe music is the vehicle that transports us to that other world.
音乐有成为神奇事物的能力,我想,也许音乐是把我们带到另一个世界的载体。
The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.
作者处在一个特殊的十字路口,时间、地点和永恒以某种方式相遇。他的问题是找到那个位置。
Directing is creating a whole. You're able to combine different elements and create a film that is unique and true to your vision.
导演就是创造一个整体。你可以把不同的元素结合起来,创造出一部独特而真实的电影。
To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.
要成为一个领导者,你必须让人们愿意追随你,没有人愿意追随一个不知道自己要去哪里的人。
We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.
我们必须提高意识;诗人改变世界的唯一方法是提高大众的意识。
If everybody thinks of something, then it will happen. Your mind is part of the universe. It is connected, you can use its energy.
如果每个人都想些什么,那么它就会发生。你的思想是宇宙的一部分。它是连通的,你可以利用它的能量。
The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
领导者必须有远大的目标、远大的眼光、广博的判断,这样才能使自己有别于那些在狭小的空间里辩论的普通人。
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
没有悲观主义者曾发现过星星的秘密,或航行到一个未知的地方,或为人类精神打开了一扇新的大门。
You’re free. And freedom is beautiful. And, you know, it’ll take time to restore chaos and order---order out of chaos. But we will.
你是免费的。自由是美丽的。你知道,恢复混乱和秩序需要时间——从混乱中恢复秩序。但我们会。
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沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Liberty lends us her wings and Hope guides us by her star.
自由借她的翅膀给我们,希望借她的星引导我们。
Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.
想象力是经验的拙劣替代品。
Freedom is not to defy, it is to co-exist. It is a challenge for the imagination.
自由不是反抗,而是共存。这是对想象力的挑战。
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。
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。
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。