A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
抱负
Ambition
I think when you begin to think of yourself as having achieved something, then there's nothing left for you to work towards. I want to believe that there is a mountain so high that I will spend my entire life striving to reach the top of it.
我认为，当你开始认为自己已经取得了一些成就，那么你就没有什么可以为之努力的了。我想要相信，有一座山是如此之高，我将用我的一生努力达到它的顶端。
If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human things of life well lost if only he may attain something, do some good, great work - then I was never an artist.
如果这是艺术家的标志，爱艺术先于一切，放弃一切，为艺术而放弃一切，认为只要他能得到一些东西，做一些好事，伟大的工作，生活中所有美好的东西就会失去，那么我从来就不是一个艺术家。
A rock band is a mysterious thing. Somehow, every once in a while, a few individuals bump into one another, and they look exactly right together and share a focus and an aspiration and the right balance of musical similarities and differences.
摇滚乐队是一个神秘的东西。不知怎的，每隔一段时间，就会有几个人撞到一起，他们看起来非常般配，有着共同的关注点和抱负，在音乐的相似性和差异性之间找到了恰当的平衡。
I didn't always know, but I always wanted to. I always wanted to be the very best receiver the Cowboys ever had. That was my goal coming in as a rookie and my goal throughout my career: being the best they ever had, going up in the Ring of Honor.
我并不总是知道，但我总是想知道。我一直想成为牛仔队最好的接球手。这就是我作为新秀的目标，也是我整个职业生涯的目标:成为他们最好的球员，在荣誉的光环中成长。
We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.
我们需要摆脱这种缺乏雄心壮志的状态，人们想要开豪车、穿好衣服、住好公寓，却不想为实现这些目标而努力工作。每个人都应该充分发挥自己的潜力。
We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.
我们继续认识到一些人比其他人挣得更多的能力更强。但是，我们确实主张，个人获得适当安全的野心是一种比追求巨大财富和权力更可取的野心。
Creating a top team and being in a position to win the Tour de France will give me a nice feeling. But I know it is not easy to create a top team from zero. You need good riders, good staff, a lot of preparation and, most important, a lot of sponsors.
创造一支顶级球队，并有能力赢得环法自行车赛冠军，会给我一种很好的感觉。但我知道从零开始组建一支顶级球队并不容易。你需要好的车手，好的工作人员，大量的准备工作，最重要的是，大量的赞助商。
Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.
企业家是敢于冒险的人，他们愿意用自己的金钱或声誉去冒险，以支持一个想法或企业。他们愿意为企业的成败承担责任，并对企业的方方面面负责。
One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
如果可能的话，一个人想成为伟大的英雄;但如果不是，为什么还要尝试呢?一个人想成为非常了不起、非常伟大、非常英勇的人;或者如果不是这样，那么至少非常时尚，非常时尚。正是这种永远的平庸使我厌烦。
I have seen entrepreneurs ask for hundreds of millions of dollars on a concept and try to sell because of 'their passion' for an idea. If the idea is that good, why wouldn't I cut you out and hire someone who is just as passionate for much, much less?
我见过一些企业家为了一个概念要价数亿美元，然后因为对一个想法的“热情”而试图卖掉它。如果这个主意真的那么好，我为什么不把你排除在外，雇一个和你一样热情的人呢?
Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity.
每个人在生活中都有自己特定的职业或使命;每个人都必须完成一项具体的任务，这需要实现。在其中，他是不可替代的，他的生命是不可重复的，因此，每个人的任务都是独特的，作为他的特定机会。
I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot. I've started a record label, so I get to nurture new talent and talk about music, which is a passion of mine. I've written another book. And I get to come to work and do the TV show, which is always really fun.
我很容易感到无聊，所以我需要做很多。我已经成立了一个唱片公司，所以我可以培养新的人才，谈论音乐，这是我的激情。我又写了一本书。我开始工作，做电视节目，这总是很有趣。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all he can do.
除非一个人承担超过他所能做的，否则他永远也做不到他所能做的。
The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.
一个人最想做的事情可能是最值得做的事情。
When you limit a woman's potential, you limit your own.
当你限制一个女人的潜力时，你也限制了你自己的潜力。
To be of use in even a single burst of flame and sound is worth more than a lifetime of achieving nothing.
即使在一次火焰和声音的爆发中发挥作用，也比一辈子一事无成更有价值。
When you decide to follow a certain path, you should follow it to the end and not be diverted from it for personal reasons.
当你决定沿着某条路走下去时，你应该坚持到底，不要因为个人原因而偏离它。
Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.
高尚的精神更多地与单纯而非炫耀有关，与智慧而非财富有关，与承诺而非野心有关。