A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
愿景
Vision
The ranch was raw land when I bought it and, for better or worse, I have designed every aspect of it from the corrals, the arena, to the barn, to the house.
当我买下牧场的时候，它还是一片未开发的土地，无论好坏，从畜栏、竞技场、谷仓到房子，它的方方面面都是我设计的。
Sometimes I'll hear a phrase or a word and write it down in my little black notebook (a writer's best mate), then come back to it and work a plot around it.
有时候我会听到一个短语或单词，然后把它写在我的黑色小笔记本上(一个作家最好的伴侣)，然后再回过头来，围绕它构思一个情节。
But I don't think we'll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base for living and working and transporting ourselves through space.
但我不认为我们会去那里，直到我们回到月球，开发一个技术基地，在太空中生活，工作和运输我们自己。
If we stop exploring space, we're going to lose the same part of us that found vaccines and penicillin, the part that searches for cures to cancer and AIDS.
如果我们停止探索太空，我们将失去我们身上发现疫苗和青霉素的那部分，也就是寻找癌症和艾滋病治疗方法的那部分。
When you stand on the stage you must have a sense that you are addressing the whole world, and that what you say is so important the whole world must listen.
当你站在舞台上，你必须有一种感觉，你是在向全世界讲话，你说的话是如此重要，全世界都必须倾听。
Everybody has to be reminded that there's another way to be. Another more mysterious, unpredictable way to be that's not necessarily based upon contrivances.
每个人都必须被提醒，还有另一种方式。另一种更神秘，不可预测的方式不一定是基于发明。
Our educational system is like an automobile which has strong rear lights, brightly illuminating the past. But looking forward things are barely discernible.
我们的教育体系就像一辆汽车，它的尾灯很亮，照亮了过去。但展望未来，却几乎看不出来。
I always wondered if there was a purpose to the universe, if there was a plan, if there was some sort of organizing factor, hopefully that I played a role in.
我一直想知道宇宙是否有一个目标，是否有一个计划，是否有某种组织因素，希望我能在其中发挥作用。
It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.
这句话的意思是:“你最好还是把头埋在云里，知道你现在在什么地方。比在他们下面呼吸更清新的空气，并认为你是在天堂。
I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.
我不认为建筑只是一个庇护所，只是一个非常简单的围墙。它应该能够让你兴奋，让你平静，让你思考。
First and foremost - our vision for a united and peaceful Georgia is based on respect for the desire - and respect for the right - to South Ossetian autonomy.
首先，也是最重要的是，我们对一个统一与和平的格鲁吉亚的愿景是基于尊重南奥塞梯自治的愿望和权利。
He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.
他每天早上都在计划着一天的事务，并遵循着这个计划，他身上带着一根线，这条线将指引他穿过最忙碌生活的迷宫。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
感恩使我们的过去变得有意义，为今天带来和平，为明天创造愿景。
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。
Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.
想象力是经验的拙劣替代品。
The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
人的一生不在于看见异象和做梦，而在于积极的慈善和乐意的服务。
Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.
每一项伟大的工作，每一项伟大的成就，都是通过坚持理想而实现的，往往就在取得伟大成就之前，就会出现明显的失败和挫折。
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。