When you do a job like this you have to like having cold sweat on your back.

当你做这样的工作时，你必须喜欢汗流浃背。

When you walk away from a really wonderful job like that, you start messing with everyone's priorities. It's like you're dissing them.

当你离开一份像那样的好工作时，你开始打乱每个人的优先顺序。就像你在嘲笑他们一样。

Whenever I fill out the job description I put 'songwriter,' never 'singer' or 'artist.' Singers come and go.

每当我填写职位描述时，我都会写上“词曲作者”，而不是“歌手”或“艺术家”。“歌手来来去去。

While a lab Director can get done the things that he regards as important, he has the more important job of bringing out the best ideas of the broader scientific community.

虽然实验室主任可以完成他认为重要的事情，但他更重要的工作是为更广泛的科学界提出最好的想法。

Why compare yourself with others? No one in the entire world can do a better job of being you than you.

为什么要拿自己和别人比较?世界上没有人能比你做得更好。

Work on yourself more than you do on your job.

多锻炼自己，少工作。

Writers are not here to conform. We are here to challenge. We're not here to be comfortable—we're here, really, to shake things up. That's our job.

作家在这里不是为了随大流。我们是来挑战的。我们在这里不是为了舒适——我们在这里，真的，是为了改变现状。这是我们的工作。

Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.

写作是一项工作，一种才能，但也是你思考的地方。它是想象中的朋友，你在下午和他一起喝茶。

Writing is a lonely job unless you're a drinker, in which case you always have a friend within reach.

写作是一项孤独的工作，除非你是一个酒鬼，在这种情况下，你总是有一个朋友在身边。

You build a successful career, regardless of your field of endeavor, by the dozens of little things you do on and off the job.

不管你在哪个领域努力，你都可以通过工作中或工作之外做的几十件小事来建立一个成功的职业生涯。

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

你总能告诉一个真正的朋友:当你出丑时，他并不觉得你做了一份长期的工作。

You can't do things for money. You just can't act them. There's gotta be something about the script that you really want to do. I wouldn't do a job if I didn't think I could do the best work I possibly could.

你不能为了钱做事。你就是演不出来。剧本里一定有你真正想做的东西。如果我认为自己不能把工作做到最好，我就不会去做。

You can't stand for too many things. You can't use the bully pulpit for too many things. So, I promise you, every day, I am going to talk about jobs, spending, and education.

你不能忍受太多的事情。你不能把天字第一号讲坛用在太多的事情上。所以，我向你们保证，每一天，我都会谈论工作、消费和教育。

You cannot be the leader of the free world and sit on the sidelines and tweet and think you're going to get the job done.

作为自由世界的领导者，你不能袖手旁观，发推特，然后认为你能完成工作。

You don't need to be defined by your job.

你不需要被你的工作定义。