A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
抱负
Ambition
I've been fortunate to come on places where the question isn't why did I do it? The question to me is always, why didn't anybody else do it before me? Those are the ones that I scratch my head about.
我很幸运地遇到这样的情况，问题不在于我为什么要这么做?我的问题总是，为什么没有其他人在我之前做过?这些就是我绞尽脑汁想要解决的问题。
People thought me a bit strange at first; a blond haired, blue-eyed Norwegian who sang Mexican folk songs, but I used it to my advantage and got a job. And so the music became my ticket to education.
起初人们觉得我有点奇怪;一个金发碧眼的挪威人，唱着墨西哥民歌，但我利用了这一点，找到了一份工作。所以音乐成了我接受教育的门票。
I'm not anybody's judge; I don't know what motivates people to do what they do. But I have a lot of admiration for anybody who can start with absolutely nothing and make a little something out of it.
我不是任何人的法官;我不知道人们做事情的动机是什么。但是，我非常钦佩那些从一无所有开始，然后从中获得一点收获的人。
Halfway through the decade, we realized that we had a great team and that we could do great things, and that we could probably have something here that we believed we had a chance to reach greatness.
在这十年的中期，我们意识到我们有一个伟大的团队，我们可以做伟大的事情，我们可能在这里有一些东西，我们相信我们有机会达到伟大。
I've always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you're doing, or what your ambitions are, where you live, where you find yourself in the social hierarchy.
我一直对日常生活中的政治最感兴趣:你与你所做的任何事情的关系，或者你的抱负是什么，你住在哪里，你发现自己处于社会的哪个阶层。
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。
Balzac's ambition was to be omnipotent. He would be Michelangelesque, and that by sheer force of minuteness. He exaggerated scientifically, and made things gigantic by a microscopic fulness of detail.
巴尔扎克的抱负是无所不能。他将成为米开朗基罗式的人物，这完全是由于他的细致入微。他在科学上夸大其词，用微观的细节使事物变得巨大。
Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.
没有什么比依赖他人的习惯更能摧毁独立的力量了。如果你倾斜，你将永远不会强大或原创。要么独自站着，要么埋没你想成为世界名人的雄心壮志。
I believe that we have been doing this not primarily to achieve riches or even honour, but rather because we were interested in the work, enjoyed doing it and felt very strongly that it was worthwhile.
我认为，我们这样做并不主要是为了获得财富或荣誉，而是因为我们对这项工作感兴趣，享受这项工作，并强烈地感到它是值得的。
It doesn't matter whether you can or cannot achieve high temperature superconductivity or fuel cells, they will always be on the list because if you could achieve them they would be extremely valuable.
无论你能不能实现高温超导或燃料电池，它们都将永远在清单上，因为如果你能实现它们，它们将非常有价值。
If you feel like there's something out there that you're supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, If you're passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too.
如果你觉得有什么事情是你应该做的，如果你对它有激情， 如果你对工作充满激情，你周围的人也会想要参与进来。
And that is that we have never been: a nation of haves and have-nots. We are a nation of haves and soon-to-haves, of people who have made it and people who will make it. And that's who we need to remain.
我们从来没有成为过这样的国家:一个由富人和穷人组成的国家。我们是一个由富人和即将成为富人的人组成的国家，我们的人民创造了这个国家，也将创造这个国家。这就是我们需要留下的人。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.
任何为未来奋斗的人，都活在今天。
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 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。
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。
You have to get up and plant the seed and see if it grows, but you can't just wait around, you have to water it and take care of it.
你必须站起来播种，看看它是否会生长，但你不能只是等待，你必须给它浇水，照顾它。
Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
大人物只是不断出手的小人物。