The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

  • -- Abraham Lincoln 亚伯拉罕·林肯

每个公众人物都有闭上嘴的时候。

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Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

一旦你掌握了时间,你就会明白,大多数人高估了他们一年能完成的事情,而低估了他们十年能完成的事情。

Actually, most things I say in public lead more or less directly to my own compositional practice, so I should be careful about generalizing lest they come back to haunt me.

事实上,我在公共场合说的大多数话或多或少都会直接导致我自己的写作实践,所以我应该谨慎地进行概括,以免它们再次困扰我。

The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.

作为一个公众人物,作为一个公民,衡量你的素质的标准是你做什么和你说什么之间的差距。

Through the cold time she holds me with evergreen devotion she bears up my whiteness.

在寒冷的岁月里,她以常青的忠诚拥抱着我,她承载着我的洁白。