A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
愿景
Vision
I'm not a big believer in a thing called luck. I believe it has a lot to do with fate and just really having a vision of the way you would see your life.
我不太相信所谓的运气。我相信这与命运有很大关系，只是你对自己的人生有一个愿景。
Perhaps I seek certain utopian things, space for human honour and respect, landscapes not yet offended, planets that do not exist yet, dreamed landscapes.
也许我在寻找一些乌托邦式的东西，人类荣誉和尊重的空间，尚未被冒犯的风景，尚不存在的星球，梦想中的风景。
I think writers need windows on a view to remind them that a whole world is out there, not the minutiae with which they might be dealing on a close scale.
我认为作家需要一扇窗户来提醒他们，外面是一个完整的世界，而不是他们可能要近距离处理的细枝末节。
Entrepreneurs are like visionaries. One of the ways they run forward is by viewing the thing they're doing as something that's going to be the whole world.
企业家就像幻想家。他们前进的方式之一就是把他们正在做的事情看作是整个世界。
You have to visualize a second or two ahead of your car what line you are taking, what you are going to do, before you get there because it comes too fast.
你必须想象一两秒钟在你的车前面你要走哪条线，你要做什么，在你到达那里之前，因为它来的太快了。
Being the gateway to a large city, St. Louis, I had felt from the very beginning that somehow this building should symbolize this sense of being a gateway.
作为通往圣路易斯这座大城市的大门，我从一开始就觉得这座建筑应该象征着一种作为大门的感觉。
You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best.
你可以不开心地朝着这个地球上的天堂的愿景漂流，最终这就是建筑的愿景:地球上的天堂，最好。
The question is, what are we to do in order to consolidate peace on a universal and durable foundation, and what are the essential elements of such a peace?
问题是，我们要做些什么才能在普遍和持久的基础上巩固和平?这种和平的基本要素是什么?
The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth their names wants to build a shoebox.
音乐厅最大的问题是鞋盒是音响效果的理想形状，但没有一个名副其实的建筑师愿意建造鞋盒。
Sometimes it's about less is more. It's about the seed. Thinking about this gigantic tree that you think is so beautiful but it started with this just seed.
有时候少即是多。是关于种子的。想想这棵巨大的树，你认为它是如此美丽，但它是从这颗种子开始的。
You just can't get too focused on worrying about what's going to happen in the next quarter. You have to worry about where the business is headed long-term.
你不能太专注于担心下个季度会发生什么。你必须考虑公司的长远发展方向。
He's part of the product and will make no bones about creating that image to bring the value up in his product, bring the value up in everything he touches.
他是产品的一部分，他会毫不犹豫地创造这个形象，在他的产品中带来价值，在他接触的每件事中带来价值。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over - and to let go. It means leaving what's over without denying its value.
优雅的退出是有诀窍的。它始于这样的愿景:认识到一份工作、一个人生阶段、一段关系何时结束，然后放手。它意味着离开过去而不否认它的价值。
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。
We accept it because we have seen the vision. We know that we cannot reap the harvest, but we hope that we may so well prepare the land and so diligently sow the seed that our successors may gather the ripened grain.
我们接受它，因为我们看到了愿景。我们知道我们不能收割，但我们希望我们能如此精心地准备土地，如此勤奋地播种种子，以便我们的后继者能够收获成熟的谷物。
If we cannot see the possibility of greatness, how can we dream it?
如果我们看不到伟大的可能性，我们怎么能梦想它呢?
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。