We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win.

  • -- Edward Gibbon 爱德华·吉本

我们通过战胜自己来提高自己。必须有竞争,我们必须赢。

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We may not find the answers. We may not find Bigfoot. We may not find a chupacabra. We may not find out who was responsible for killing JFK, but we're going to keep looking, asking, probing. And one day - you know what? - we may get some of those answers.

我们可能找不到答案。我们可能找不到大脚怪。我们可能找不到卓帕卡布拉。我们可能无法找出谁是杀害肯尼迪的凶手,但我们将继续寻找、询问和调查。有一天,你知道吗?-我们可能会得到一些答案。

I think the real reason for my improvement is because I had such a long period in the off-season just working as hard as I could on all my new dives; making sure I did lots of repetition to get them consistent.

我认为我进步的真正原因是因为我在休赛期有很长一段时间,在我所有的新动作上都尽我所能地努力;确保我做了很多重复来让它们保持一致。

As a consequence of the victories we have registered during our first ten years of freedom, we have laid a firm foundation for the new advances we must and will make during the next decade.

由于我们在自由的头十年中取得的胜利,我们为我们在今后十年中必须和将要取得的新进展奠定了坚实的基础。

Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.

意识本身就是目的。我们折磨自己到达某个地方,而当我们到达那里时却无处可去,因为我们无处可去。

Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.

几乎所有的质量改进都是通过简化设计、制造…布局、过程和过程。

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

有许多胜利比失败更糟糕。