A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
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Ambition
When I started this I wanted to get back in the pool, I wanted to race and I wanted to go to the Olympics. I still want to do all of those things.
当我开始这项运动的时候，我想回到游泳池，我想比赛，我想参加奥运会。我仍然想做所有这些事情。
When I need to push myself, I think of all those nicely polished trophies waiting to be lifted up by the winner - and how that winner might be me.
当我需要督促自己的时候，我就会想到所有那些精心打磨的奖杯，等待着胜利者举起来——而那个胜利者可能就是我自己。
The desire definitely comes from within. There are only a few people who make it to this level and those are the ones who have that innate desire.
这种渴望肯定来自内心。只有少数人能达到这样的水平，而那些人正是拥有这种与生俱来的欲望的人。
I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude.
我希望我接触过的数以百万计的人有乐观的态度和愿望，分享他们的目标和努力工作，坚持积极的态度。
I've always wanted to be the best in the world as a baseball player, so when I started to think about opening a business, it was with that mindset.
我一直想成为世界上最好的棒球运动员，所以当我开始考虑创业的时候，我就是抱着这种心态。
Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done.
每个人生来就是为了做一些独特的事情，如果他或她不做，就永远不会做。
If you don't have a mountain, build one and then climb it. And after you climb it, build another one; otherwise you start to flatline in your life.
如果你没有一座山，建一座，然后爬上去。爬上之后，再建一个;否则你的生活就会变得平淡无奇。
When I was fresh out of law school, I had a burning desire to do something important, to have an impact in some way, but I didn't know what it was.
当我刚从法学院毕业的时候，我有一种强烈的愿望，想要做一些重要的事情，想要以某种方式产生影响，但我不知道那是什么。
I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work as an artist to survive in this world.
我有一个艺术家的总体规划。我一直说我不会浪费任何人的时间。我将作为一个艺术家在这个世界上生存。
The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.
真正的势利小人从不休息;总有一个更高的目标要达到，同样的道理，总有越来越多的人要瞧不起。
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
人往往能做比他们所做的更伟大的事情——他们被送到这个世界上的时候，身上带着信用的票据，却很少能充分发挥。
If you're competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering.
如果你是专注于竞争的人，你必须等到有竞争对手在做什么。以客户为中心让你更有开拓精神。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.
没有献身于伟大理想的生活是无用的。就像一块石头，浪费在田野上，不能成为任何建筑物的一部分。
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
智慧而无志向，犹如鸟儿没有翅膀。
If you want to achieve your dreams, you must follow them, and the best way to follow them is not to think about wanting to be very rich, but to think about doing something that you really want to do.
如果你想实现你的梦想，你必须追随它们，追随它们的最好方法不是想变得非常富有，而是想做一些你真正想做的事情。
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。
Know your limits but never stop trying to exceed them.
知道自己的极限，但永远不要停止超越它们。
If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.
如果你不让事情发生，那么事情就会发生在你身上。