Part of the elasticity that you need, in order to continue to try to create, is the foregone conclusion that not all of it is going to be fabulously successful. But it's all going to be part of a long lifetime body of experimentation.

  • -- Elizabeth Gilbert 伊丽莎白·吉尔伯特

为了继续创造,你所需要的弹性的一部分,是预先的结论,并不是所有的都能取得惊人的成功。但这些都将是长期实验的一部分。

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Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists.

写小说使我对人的一生中未知的东西产生了一种持久的敬意,让我有了一种去哪里寻找线索、如何追随、如何联系的感觉,在错综复杂的世界中找到一条清晰的线。

Things happen to everybody in the course of a lifetime. Relationships end, people die, tragedy befalls everyone. So everyone has this wealth of experience, and the older you are the more you have to draw on.

每个人在一生中都会遇到一些事情。关系结束,人们死去,悲剧降临到每个人身上。所以每个人都有丰富的经验,你年龄越大,你就越需要利用这些经验。

It's like, how do you continue to make records that are representative of who you are that your fans will recognize as your band, while still trying to push things forward and present new sounds for people.

这就像,你如何继续制作代表你是谁的唱片,你的歌迷会认出你是你的乐队,同时还努力推动事情的发展,为人们呈现新的声音。

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it; and they must have a sense of success in it.

为了使人们在工作中感到快乐,有三件事是必须的:他们必须适合工作;他们不能做得太多;他们必须有一种成功的感觉。

Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.

爱因斯坦博士在学校里并不成功,但他从自己的想象力和脑力中发现了一些东西,看看他做了什么。

I define success as being comfortable with yourself and your life. And that is about as good as it gets, really.

我把成功定义为对自己和自己的生活感到舒适。真的,这已经是最好的结果了。

My movies continue to be found and be sold because there's something going on in them.

我的电影不断被发现和销售,因为其中有一些东西。

The successful cannot be unhappy -- it was a contradiction in terms.

成功人士不可能不快乐——这是一种矛盾。