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决定
Decisions
Now we have to contend with overstimulation and too many opportunities all the time, and too many decisions all the time.
现在我们不得不与过度刺激和太多的机会，以及太多的决定做斗争。
If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.
如果我们能首先知道我们在哪里，我们要去哪里，我们就能更好地判断要做什么，以及如何去做。
What I learned is that policymakers have to force consideration of actions that may not have occurred to them at the time.
我学到的是，政策制定者必须强制考虑他们当时可能没有想到的行动。
Look, I'm a member of the House of Lords and I'm the first to admit that I don't understand how one gets new laws through.
听着，我是上议院的一员，我是第一个承认我不明白新法律是怎么通过的。
When you do say Yes, say it quickly. But always take a half hour to say No, so you can understand the other fellow's side.
当你说“是”的时候，说得快一点。但总是要花半个小时说“不”，这样你才能理解对方的立场。
When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed.
当你从众多方法中选择一种时，所有你不选择的方法都像蜡烛一样熄灭了，仿佛它们从未存在过。
Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable.
尽管我们喜欢选择的想法——我们的文化几乎崇拜它——我们还是在熟悉和舒适中寻求庇护。
Just because something is three months away and seems far off, doesn't mean you will want to be there when the time comes.
仅仅因为三个月后的某件事看起来很遥远，并不意味着你会想要在那一刻到来。
That's the thing about freewill: Every decision we make is a choice against something as much as it is for something else.
这就是自由意志的问题:我们所做的每一个决定都是对某件事的反对和对另一件事的支持。
It's easy to fall in love among the winding cobblestone streets and snow-covered castles of Prague, but is it a good idea?
在布拉格蜿蜒的鹅卵石街道和白雪覆盖的城堡之间很容易坠入爱河，但这是个好主意吗?
I don't know how one would define an affirmative-action hire. I ultimately do not know what role race played in my hiring.
我不知道如何定义一个平权雇佣。我最终不知道种族在我的招聘中扮演了什么角色。
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
每个人都必须决定是走在创造性利他主义的光明中，还是走在破坏性自私的黑暗中。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Stubborn people get themselves in a lot of trouble, but they also get things done.
固执的人会给自己带来很多麻烦，但他们也会把事情做好。
A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
要有决心的心，要有计划的头脑，要有执行的手。
Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination.
永远不要忘记，解决问题的关键在于决心，而不是想象。
Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
思考是容易的，行动是困难的，把一个人的思想付诸行动是世界上最困难的事情。
If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.
如果两个朋友让你评判一场争论，不要接受，因为你会失去一个朋友;另一方面，如果两个陌生人有同样的要求，接受吧，因为你会得到一个朋友。
While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.
当我们停下来思考的时候，我们经常会错过机会。