Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.

  • -- Gian Carlo Menotti 梅诺蒂

艺术是不断的努力,以竞争的美丽的花朵-从来没有成功。

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Privatization of the state-owned economy is not yet on the agenda. We cannot do it immediately; my colleagues would not agree to it. But we must put all forms of ownership on an equal footing immediately and let different types of ownership compete with the state firms.

国有经济的私有化还没有提上议程。我们不能马上做这件事;我的同事们不会同意。但是,我们必须立即把所有形式的所有制平等起来,让不同类型的所有制同国有企业竞争。

Whatever I do, I attempt to do it fully. I try, and don't always succeed, to be thorough. There are musicians who do not know their worth, and if they knew it at one time, it has eluded them. I know my worth. You try not to dwell in the past.

无论我做什么,我都尽力把它做好。我努力做到彻底,但并不总是成功。有些音乐家不知道自己的价值,如果他们曾经知道,他们就会逃避。我知道我的价值。你试着不沉湎于过去。

They were always...getting more credit than they deserved, more sorrow than they could bear, climbing into jobs before they were ready and failing just when they were succeeding.

他们总是……他们得到了超出他们应得的荣誉,承受了超出他们承受能力的悲伤,在他们还没有准备好之前就爬上了工作岗位,在他们成功的时候却失败了。

Sometimes, no matter how much faith we have, we lose people. But never forget them. And sometimes, it's those memories that give us the faith to go on.

有时候,不管我们有多少信仰,我们都会失去一些人。但永远不要忘记他们。有时候,正是这些记忆给了我们继续前行的信心。

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

生活中从不道歉是一个好习惯。正确的人不需要道歉,而错误的人会利用他们。

I really just compete against myself. I look at my previous material and try to surpass what I've done.

我只是在和自己竞争。我看了看以前的材料,试图超越我所做的。