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Ambition
I would have to say I'm bored with the standard rock, guitar solos, but I've done it for five albums now, and this time I wanted to go in a completely different direction. I wasn't interested in showing off any more.
我不得不说我已经厌倦了标准的摇滚，吉他独奏，但我已经做了五张专辑，这一次我想走一个完全不同的方向。我再也不想炫耀了。
An international race in the relevant technologies is getting under way at this point, not necessarily with an understanding of where that race leads in the long run, but strongly motivated by the short-term payoffs.
目前，一场有关技术的国际竞赛正在进行之中，这场竞赛不一定要了解这场竞赛在长期内的领先地位，而是受到短期收益的强烈推动。
I have never accepted what many people have kindly said---that I inspired the nation. It was the nation and the race living around the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.
我从来没有接受过许多人善意的说法——我激励了这个国家。只有生活在世界各地的国家和民族才有狮子的心。我很幸运地被叫去吼叫。
I came from a lower-middle-class postwar family in a time of austerity and retrenchment, with no one in the family who was in any way artistic or a potential mentor to a budding writer, and yet this is what I became.
我出生在战后一个经济紧缩的中下层家庭，家里没有一个人在艺术方面有任何建树，也没有一个人能成为一个崭露头角的作家的潜在导师，但我却成了这样的人。
I feel that I want what allows me to reach the largest number of people as possible, and I don't feel ashamed of that. I think I'm the kind of artist that's meant to be on a major label because my music is different.
我觉得我想要的是能让我接触到尽可能多的人的东西，对此我并不感到羞耻。我想我是那种注定要出现在大唱片公司的艺术家，因为我的音乐与众不同。
There was a generation of people who moved here to make something of themselves. They had to really struggle and created really something on their own apart from a lot of attention. It was a really exciting time here.
有一代人搬到这里是为了有所成就。他们必须努力奋斗，在不受太多关注的情况下，创造出真正属于自己的东西。在这里是一段非常激动人心的时光。
We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.
我们被强烈的赞美欲望所激励，一个人越优秀，他就越会受到荣誉的激励。就是哲学家自己，甚至在他们藐视荣耀所写的书上，也写上了他们的名字。
It's good to be slightly ambitious, but I believe one shouldn't be too calculative. It's good to be on the edge, but I have never followed my mind. I have always followed my heart. And it has yielded the right results.
稍微有点野心是好的，但我认为一个人不应该太精于算计。处于边缘是件好事，但我从来没有跟随过自己的想法。我一直跟随我的心。它已经产生了正确的结果。
You can' t help being a musician because you've grown up with music, yet being one means being compared to your dad and being slated for it. But I really don't have the ambitions of most people going into the industry.
你无法不成为一名音乐家，因为你是伴随着音乐长大的，然而成为一名音乐家意味着被拿来和你的父亲相比，并因此而受到指责。但我真的没有大多数进入这个行业的人的雄心壮志。
The deepest and most sincere feeling I get is when I meet an artist and they have that steel in their eyes and they have that fire and that passion and all they want is to be a star and to hear themselves on the radio.
当我遇到一位艺术家，他们的眼睛里有钢铁般的光芒，他们有激情，他们想要的只是成为明星，在广播中听到自己的声音。
I don't lobby where work is concerned. As long as I know I've got something coming up, I don't really worry. It's not that I'm not ambitious, but I don't have a drive to be hugely successful and be working all the time.
我不游说与工作有关的人。只要我知道我有事情要做，我就不会真的担心。这并不是说我没有野心，而是我没有动力去取得巨大的成功，并且一直在工作。
Ambition is to be the fastest runner on this planet, to be the first on the South Pole, which is a grotesque perversion of ambition. It's an ego trip, and I'm not on an ego trip. I don't have ambitions - I have a vision.
雄心壮志是成为这个星球上跑得最快的人，成为第一个到达南极的人，这是对雄心壮志的一种荒唐的曲解。这是一次自我之旅，我不是在自我之旅。我没有野心，我有远见。
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Don’t dream to be something but rather dream to do something great!
不要梦想成为伟大的人，而要梦想做伟大的事!
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。
Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make them.
伟大的人物不仅要抓住机会，而且要创造机会。
One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
想要得到果实，就必须爬上树。
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
要奋斗，要探索，要有所发现，而不要屈服。
High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.
崇高的目标造就崇高的品格，伟大的目标造就伟大的心灵。