Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us.

  • -- Frances Wright 弗朗西丝·莱特

当然,现在是时候研究语言的意义和事物的本质,并得出一些简单的事实,这些事实不是根据有学问的权威的格言而得到的,而是根据我们对周围发生的事情的仔细观察而得到的。

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Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it "creative observation." Creative viewing.

除非观察到,否则什么也不存在。艺术家通过观察使某种东西存在。他对其他人的希望是,他们也会通过观察来让它存在。我称之为“创造性观察”。创造性的观察。

Any time you can give consumers more of what they want, it's a good thing. Unbundling the album is a good thing. In the case of music - because it is content that you can slice into songs - doing that is of huge benefit to consumers.

任何时候你能给消费者更多他们想要的东西,这都是一件好事。把相册拆开是一件好事。就音乐而言——因为它是你可以分割成歌曲的内容——这样做对消费者有巨大的好处。

I learned very early that an audience would relax and look at things differently if they felt they could laugh with you from time to time. There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter.

我很早就知道,如果观众觉得他们可以时不时地和你一起笑,他们就会放松下来,用不同的眼光看问题。有一种能量是通过释放紧张而来的,那就是笑。

Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.

奇怪的是,他们花了这么多年才明白一个简单的事实:前方的奖赏、下一份工作、出版、恋爱、婚姻似乎总是掌握着获得满足感的关键,但从长远来看,这些都不够。

The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is and the man he wants to be.

许多广告背后的哲学是基于一个古老的观点,即每个人都是两个真正的男人——他是他自己,他想成为的人。

There is no private domain of a person's life that is not political, and there is no political issue that is not ultimately personal.

一个人的生活中没有不涉及政治的私人领域,也没有不涉及个人的政治问题。

It's also a more personal medium. It seems to go directly to one's brain. There are no pictures to distract.

它也是一种更加个人化的媒介。它似乎直接进入一个人的大脑。没有图片可以分散注意力。

It's all very simple. But maybe because it's so simple, it's also hard.

一切都很简单。但也许因为它很简单,也很难。