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抱负
Ambition
It's stunning to me what kind of an impact even one person can have if they have the right passion, perspective and are able to align the interest of a great team.
对我来说,如果一个人拥有正确的激情,正确的观点,并且能够将一个伟大的团队的兴趣结合起来,那么即使是一个人也能产生如此巨大的影响,这让我感到震惊。
What I am most proud of is the legacy of hope that FIFA and football leaves around the world. It makes all of the efforts and energy I pour into this job worth it.
我最自豪的是国际足联和足球给世界留下的希望。这让我为这份工作付出的所有努力和精力都是值得的。
The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest.
奋斗总是值得的,只要目标值得,手段值得;预先知道失败不是退出比赛的充分理由。
I had found myself a new mission - and once more my recurring dilemma between corporate commercial needs and personal scientific ambitions was solved unexpectedly.
我发现自己有了一个新的使命——我在企业商业需求和个人科学抱负之间反复出现的两难境地再次出人意料地得到了解决。
In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.
在个人抱负方面,我们是个人主义者。但是,在我们作为一个国家寻求经济和政治进步的过程中,我们作为一个民族,要么奋发向上,要么集体沉沦。
It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
在世界上崛起是一件大事。这样做的野心是非常可靠的。它是所有企业的母体,是所有改进的事业。
What is the single most important quality in a tennis champion? I would have to say desire, staying in there and winning matches when you are not playing that well.
网球冠军最重要的品质是什么?我想说的是欲望,当你踢得不好的时候,留在那里赢得比赛。
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。
I want to know what it's like to play in a Super Bowl and win one. My career will be great without it. But, personally, selfishly, I want to know what it feels like.
我想知道在超级碗比赛中获胜是什么感觉。没有它,我的事业将会很伟大。但是,就我个人而言,自私地,我想知道那是什么感觉。
I would walk down the hall with my guitar and play for anyone that would listen. As a young kid I was really driven and I was going to make it happen no matter what.
我会拿着吉他走到大厅里,为任何愿意听的人演奏。作为一个年轻的孩子,我真的很有动力,无论发生什么,我都要让它发生。
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
就像轮子上的狗,笼子里的鸟,或链子上的松鼠一样,雄心勃勃的人仍在不停地往上爬,付出了巨大的劳动和无尽的焦虑,却永远爬不到顶端。
The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness.
这个国家的大公司不是由普通人创建的。他们是由具有非凡智慧、雄心和进取心的人建立的。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Share your aspirations only with those who will support you, not those who will respond with doubt or lack of interest.
只和那些支持你的人分享你的抱负,而不是那些怀疑或缺乏兴趣的人。
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。
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
欲望是一切成就的起点,不是希望,不是愿望,而是一种超越一切的强烈的脉动的欲望。
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。
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。
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
要了解一个人的内心和思想,不是看他已经取得了什么,而是看他渴望什么。