A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
抱负
Ambition
The thing that I want to do, the most important thing to me is winning. How we do it, I really don't care.
我想做的事,对我来说最重要的事就是赢。我们怎么做,我真的不在乎。
I definitely want to be involved but only while I think I can make a contribution and I make a difference.
我当然想参与其中,但前提是我认为我能做出贡献,我能做出改变。
It starts this way: The worth of a job is not defined by what it allows you to do when you're not working.
它是这样开始的:一份工作的价值并不取决于它允许你在不工作的时候做什么。
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。
The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
真正富有成效的工作,属于越来越少、越来越精英的领域。
Jealous in honour, sudden, and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon’s mouth.
争名夺利,急功近利,争名夺利,甚至在炮口上也要找泡沫。
Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably will not themselves be realized.
不要做小计划。他们没有魔法来激起人们的热血,而且他们自己可能也不会被实现。
Let me but make a beginning, let me but strike the world in a vulnerable spot, and I can take it by storm.
让我开始吧,让我在这个脆弱的地方打击这个世界,我可以用风暴来征服它。
I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas.
我认为自己是一个有伟大想法的坏作家,但我宁愿成为一个有伟大想法的坏作家。
The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.
财富能加诸于人的最大罪恶,就是赋予他们渺小的才能和远大的抱负。
Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.
每个人都是为某种特定的工作而生的,每个人心中都有这种工作的渴望。
I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
我没有发财的野心。单纯的赚钱从来都不是我的目标,我有一个野心去建立。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
We need to ask ourselves what are we here for and what have we worked so hard to be here for.
我们需要问问自己,我们来这里是为了什么,我们这么努力工作是为了什么。
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
智慧而无志向,犹如鸟儿没有翅膀。
Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.
任何为未来奋斗的人,都活在今天。
It's better to dare to dream big and achieve half of your dreams than to dream small dreams and achieve all.
敢于做大的梦,实现一半的梦想,比做小的梦,实现所有的梦想要好。
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。
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。