The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

  • -- Arthur C. Clarke 亚瑟·C·克拉克

衡量一个人是否诚实的最好标准不是他的所得税申报表。这是他浴室磅秤上的零点调整。

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The best way to conduct research on a larger scale is to make sure everyone knows what everyone else is doing... The sooner the better - start talking to other people about what you're doing. Because that's what will stimulate things the fastest.

进行大规模研究的最好方法是确保每个人都知道其他人在做什么……越快越好——开始和别人谈论你正在做的事情。因为这是最快的刺激。

I went from sort of trying to get work to all of a sudden being signed up for the next few years on something, and something of this scale with some of the best people in the business involved, acting and directing. It was a dream.

我从试着去找工作,突然间在接下来的几年里,我和一些业内最优秀的人,包括演员和导演,签订了某种规模的合同。那是个梦。

The natural capital is not income, but we spend our natural capital as if it were revenue, as if it were going to come back next year without any problems, whereas these renewals in nature can take hundreds of years.

自然资本不是收入,但我们把自然资本当作收入来使用,就好像它明年会毫无问题地回来一样,而这些自然资本的更新可能需要数百年的时间。

I'm crazy about my father, he's an amazing man, a real adventurer. He took us with him to travel all over the world. We were in places that were so remote, that white people hardly ever reach them.

我为我的父亲疯狂,他是一个了不起的人,一个真正的冒险家。他带我们去环游世界。我们所处的地方非常偏远,白人几乎无法到达。

We are entering an era of heightened disaster, thanks to climate change. Being prepared for disaster will mean being prepared to sift truth from rumour, and being prepared to adjust our worldview.

由于气候变化,我们正进入一个灾难加剧的时代。准备好面对灾难意味着准备好从谣言中筛选出真相,准备好调整我们的世界观。

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

我来到野生动物的和平中,它们不用预先考虑悲伤而耗费生命……我在世界的恩宠中休息了一段时间,我自由了。

For once you have tasted flight, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards for there you have been and there you will long to return.

因为你们尝过飞行的滋味,就必在地上行走,举目向天,因为你们曾在那里,也必盼望归回。

Men who consistently leave the toilet seat up secretly want women to get up to go the bathroom in the middle of the night and fall in.

经常把马桶座圈翘起来的男人会偷偷地想让女人半夜起来上厕所然后掉进去。

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.

一个人只有等到相信行动之后才会行动,这才是你喜欢的,但他不是一个行动派。你必须像呼吸一样行动。

Virtue is not photogenic. What is it to be a nice guy? To be nothing, that's what. A big fat zero with a smile for everybody.

美德不上镜。做一个好人是什么意思?一无所有,就是这样。一个大大的胖胖的零号,对着大家微笑。

On fame: It all happened so fast. I'd wake up in the night and go, 'I can't believe it. I've gotta go to the bathroom!

关于名气:这一切发生得太快了。我会在夜里醒来,然后说,‘我不敢相信。我要上厕所了!

There is zero correlation between IQ and emotional empathy... They're controlled by different parts of the brain.

智商和情感同理心之间没有任何关系。它们由大脑的不同部分控制。

Marginal tax rates are the lowest they've been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts.

边际税率是几代人以来最低的,我们能谈论的只有减税。

Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.

你在任何事业上成功的机会都可以用你对自己的信心来衡量。

Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.

不要在意他们对你的评价。用英寸来测量。

I want to be the best, so whatever comes with that, I'll have to accept.

我想成为最好的,所以无论如何,我必须接受。

True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.

真爱始于不求任何回报。

The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda.

真相是最好的照片,最好的宣传。