Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

  • -- Andre Gide 安德烈·吉德

艺术始于反抗——在反抗被克服的那一刻。没有一件人类杰作是不经过巨大劳动就能创造出来的。

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It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, blackening the ground, that you begin to see the whole beast, and now you observe it thinking, planning, calculating. It is an intelligence, a kind of live computer, with crawling bits for its wits.

只有当你看到密集的成千上万的蚂蚁,聚集在山上,把地面涂黑,你才开始看到整个野兽,现在你观察它思考,计划,计算。它是一种智能,一种活生生的计算机,它的智慧来自于爬行的比特。

Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn't been any radio that did that. And so they weren't trained - they had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.

是的,但是你需要一个经验丰富的电台老手,一个自由主义的拥护者。当时没有任何一台收音机能做到这一点。所以他们没有受过训练——他们养成了所有这些客观、平衡的坏习惯,诸如此类。

Many have argued that a vacuum does not exist, others claim it exists only with difficulty in spite of the repugnance of nature; I know of no one who claims it easily exists without any resistance from nature.

许多人认为真空并不存在,另一些人则认为,尽管自然令人生厌,但真空的存在却很困难;据我所知,没有人声称它的存在没有任何来自大自然的阻力。

Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the "environmentalist" view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.

也许是时候停止称其为“环保主义者”的观点了,就好像它是人类活动主流之外的一种游说努力,而开始称其为现实世界的观点。

There is a great advantage in training under unfavorable conditions. It is better to train under bad conditions, for the difference is then a tremendous relief in a race.

在不利条件下训练有很大的优势。在恶劣的条件下训练是最好的,因为这样的差别在比赛中是一个巨大的解脱。

I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions.

我相信,那些具有大师般智慧的伟大画家,曾试图将这种不情愿的绘画和画布媒介,强行记录下他们的情感。

The unproductive tillage of human cattle takes that which of right belongs to free labor, and which is necessary for the support and happiness of our own race.

人类对牛的不劳而获的耕作剥夺了属于自由劳动的权利,这是我们人类赖以生存和幸福所必需的。

The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.

艺术家的世界是无限的。它可以在任何地方找到,远离他住的地方或几英尺远。它总是在他的门阶上。

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands.

如果太阳、月亮和星星恰好在人类掠夺者的手中,它们早就消失了。

Without adversity, there would be no growth, and without growth, there would be no lesson to be learned.

没有逆境,就没有成长;没有成长,就没有可以吸取的教训。

I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to.

我有一种抗拒去改变那些让我感到舒服和习惯的事情。

On the contrary, woman is the best equipped fighting machine that ever went to battle.

相反,女人是有史以来装备最好的战斗机器。

On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.

周一早晨,我致力于一个观点:所有的人都是天生的混蛋。

The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise.

学习名著的效果是让我欣赏和做其他事情。

What you are is what you have been. What you'll be is what you do now.

你现在的样子就是你过去的样子。你要做的就是你现在所做的。

The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

一美元的价值是社会性的,因为它是由社会创造的。

Many a man labours for the day he will never live to see.

许多人都在为他活不到的那一天而劳动。

There's no point apologizing about where you come from.

为自己的出身道歉是没有意义的。

You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache.

如果你不感到腹痛,你就能克服任何困难。

Ever since I got on Days I've been doing theater.

自从我上了几天班,我就一直在演戏剧。

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

思想不能战胜恐惧,行动才能。

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

生活是一门没有橡皮擦的绘画艺术。

The important thing is somehow to begin.

重要的是开始。

I'm good where I am at this moment.

我现在的状态很好。

I'm short and to the point.

我短小精悍。