To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.

  • -- Alexander Calder 亚历山大考尔德

对一个工程师来说,足够好意味着完美。对于一个艺术家来说,没有什么是完美的。

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If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human things of life well lost if only he may attain something, do some good, great work - then I was never an artist.

如果这是艺术家的标志,爱艺术先于一切,放弃一切,为艺术而放弃一切,认为只要他能得到一些东西,做一些好事,伟大的工作,生活中所有美好的东西就会失去,那么我从来就不是一个艺术家。

I've seen a lot of highs and a lot of lows with this team, and one thing I've learned is that even though you have lows, you're not going to have them forever, so you've got to keep fighting.

在这支球队里,我经历了很多高潮和低谷,我学到的一件事是,即使你有低谷,你也不会永远拥有它们,所以你必须继续奋斗。

Good characters make you feel like you have new friends, don’t they? You have to re-read the books just to visit with them again. Grace Awakening. Book one: Awakening Dreams

好的性格会让你觉得你有了新朋友,不是吗?你必须重读这些书,才能再次和他们见面。优雅的觉醒。第一册:唤醒梦想

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

相信我,老年是一件美好而愉快的事情。诚然,你被轻轻地推下了舞台,但随后你作为观众得到了一个如此舒适的前排座位。

Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.

因为政治依赖于一种不可减少的强制手段,它永远不可能成为一个完美的爱与正义的完美王国。

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

如果一个人有良好的性格,还需要什么其他的美德?人若有名声,其馀的妆饰还有什么价值呢?

If you hang around long enough to show these people what you can do, you have a chance in this acting business.

如果你长时间逗留,向这些人展示你的能力,你就有机会进入演艺圈。

An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.

艺术家唯一关心的是追求某种完美,而且是按照他自己的方式,而不是别人的方式。

Let's not kid ourselves here, robots already run most of our world. We'll be their butlers soon enough.

别自欺欺人了,机器人已经控制了我们世界的大部分地区。我们很快就会成为他们的管家。

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

永远要认识到人类个体是目的,不要把它们作为达到目的的手段。

Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.

现实意味着你活到死。真正的事实是没有人想要现实。

Folks, this is perfect weather for today's game. Not a breath of air.

各位,今天的天气非常适合今天的比赛。一点空气也没有。

You're still the first thing that think when they say make a wish.

当他们说许愿时,你仍然是第一个想到的。

My ma is an economist. My dad is a software engineer.

我的硕士学位是经济学家。我爸爸是一名软件工程师。

There's no such thing as a cheap laugh.

世上没有廉价的笑声。