A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
抱负
Ambition
The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands.
媒体经常报道我的抱负和经济需求。
I teach you the Superman. Man is something that should be surpassed.
我教你超人。人是应该被超越的。
Don't exchange what you want most... for what you want at the moment.
不要交换你最想要的…为了你此刻想要的。
Someone's taught me to expect more out of people and never to settle.
有人教导我要对别人有更高的期望,永远不要满足。
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
如果你想走得快,就一个人走。如果你想走得远,就一起走。
Then, for a hot three or four weeks I wanted to be a concert pianist.
然后,在接下来的三四个星期里,我想成为一名音乐会钢琴家。
Above all, I am an opera singer. This is how people will remember me.
最重要的是,我是一个歌剧演员。人们就是这样记住我的。
I believe there is little you cannot do once you set your mind to it.
我相信,只要你下定决心,几乎没有什么是你做不到的。
I grew up thinking that if I wanted to go be prime minister, I could.
我从小到大一直在想,如果我想成为首相,我就能做到。
For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
因为荣耀只归给那些常梦见她的人。
People who dream of something bigger and better are good role models.
梦想做得更大更好的人是很好的榜样。
I've finally reached a stage in my career where I can do what I want.
我的职业生涯终于达到了一个阶段,我可以做我想做的事。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
那些把心思都放在小事上的人,通常不会成就大事。
Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
大人物只是不断出手的小人物。
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.
人若不尽力而为,就会做得不够。
It isn't a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.
摘不到星星不是一种耻辱,但是没有星星可以摘是一种耻辱。
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 a man has put a limit on what he will do, he has put a limit on what he can do.
当一个人对他将要做的事设限时,他也就对他能做的事设限了。