A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
抱负
Ambition
I race to win. If I am on the bike or in a car it will always be the same.
我比赛是为了赢。如果我在自行车上或在汽车上,它总是一样的。
To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.
要到达一个港口,我们必须扬帆远航,不能抛锚停泊,不能随波逐流。
First of all, I really never imagined myself being a professional athlete.
首先,我从来没有想过自己会成为一名职业运动员。
Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
自吹自擂总是一种绝望的呼喊,除了在年轻时,它是一种希望的呼喊。
The road to freedom must be uphill, even if it is arduous and frustrating.
通往自由的道路必须是上坡路,即使它是艰难和令人沮丧的。
I am putting pressure on myself to do my best and perform to my potential.
我给自己施加压力,让自己做到最好,发挥自己的潜力。
And I wouldn't take on such a big thing if I didn't think I could nail it.
如果我认为自己做不到,我就不会承担这么大的任务。
Yet they, believe me, who await No gifts from chance, have conquered fate.
然而,相信我,那些不等待机会馈赠的人,已经征服了命运。
The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.
成为职业作家的唯一原因就是你无法控制自己。
It's up to you to make your own destiny and not up to destiny to make you.
你可以创造自己的命运,而不是由命运来创造你。
Advantage lies in a capacity to predict the future before your rivals can.
优势在于比竞争对手更能预测未来。
I don't want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be Kobe Bryant.
我不想成为下一个迈克尔乔丹,我只想成为科比布莱恩特。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.
你所做的每件事的基本条件必须是选择、爱和激情。
Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.
那些想要变得伟大的人,既不应该爱自己,也不应该爱自己的东西,而应该只爱正义的东西,无论是自己做的还是别人做的。
The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.
穷人的真正悲剧是他们的愿望的贫困。
There are some people out there who don't wait for what comes next. They decide what should come next and they go and make it happen.
有些人不会等待下一个结果。他们决定接下来该做什么,然后去实现它。
Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.
每一项对现有条件作出重大改变的大胆尝试,每一项对人类新的可能性的崇高设想,都被贴上乌托邦的标签。
When you want something very dearly, you make the time.
当你非常想要某样东西时,你会挤出时间。