Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

  • -- Benjamin Disraeli 本杰明·迪斯雷利

除了知道什么时候该抓住机会,生活中最重要的是知道什么时候该放弃优势。

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Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

在任何高风险的目标中,创造性的冒险是成功的关键。当然,轻率的风险是具有破坏性的,但可能更浪费的是轻率的谨慎,它促使不作为,并促使未能抓住机会。

I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a large chorus and with it I want to use several of your instruments - augmenting their range as in those I used for my Equatorial - especially in the high range.

我刚刚开始一项工作,其中一个重要的部分是给一个大合唱团,我想用它的几个你的乐器-扩大他们的范围,就像那些我用我的赤道-特别是在高范围。

I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism.

我一直告诉自己要冷静下来,对事情不要那么感兴趣,不要那么激动,但我仍然非常关心新闻自由、言论自由和公正。

I think it's important for girls to be confident. Believe in yourself and... everybody's hot.

我认为自信对女孩子来说很重要。相信你自己……每个人的热。

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

如果你一定要犯法,那就为夺取权力而犯法:在所有其他情况下都要守法。

There's only one thing that can guarantee our failure, and that's if we quit.

只有一件事能保证我们的失败,那就是我们放弃。

That thing about being an icon, the fifth Beatle, I just found it so freaky.

作为一个偶像,第五位甲壳虫乐队成员,我觉得很奇怪。

Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.

微软与贪婪无关。这关乎创新和公平。