Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

  • -- Frank Lloyd Wright 弗兰克·劳埃德·赖特

把建造鸡舍和建造大教堂看作是同样可取的。

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I don't know if I was a desirable person, not just physically but emotionally and mentally and intellectually. I still have a long way go and a lot to learn, but I'm on my way, I don't think I'm terribly attractive, but I'm comfortable with my looks.

我不知道我是否是一个理想的人,不仅是身体上,而且是情感上、精神上和智力上。我还有很长一段路要走,还有很多东西要学,但我已经在路上了,我不认为自己很有吸引力,但我对自己的长相很满意。

I have friends who are capable of writing a very rough draft and then going back and embroidering - they're sort of the cathedral builders of fiction. I never really know what I'm doing, and all my pleasure's on the level of the line.

我有一些朋友,他们能够写一个非常粗略的草稿,然后回去刺绣——他们有点像小说的大教堂建造者。我从来都不知道自己在做什么,我所有的快乐都在这条线上。

It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now.

我们花了三年时间造出了下一代计算机。如果我们能满足客户的需求,我们就能在与他们交谈一年后制造出一台他们满意的电脑——而不是他们现在想要的东西。

But I'm able to just keep going, and that's the challenge. It's the next song. And then just enjoying the shows and people who come out to the shows. It's pretty organic, really.

但我能坚持下去,这就是挑战。这是下一首歌。然后只是享受表演和人们出来表演。真的很有机。

We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.

我们不知道它,因为我们在浪费时间与外在的和正在灭亡的事物,并睡在对那是真正的在我们自己。

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

我从不厌倦伟大的教会。这是我最喜欢的一种山景。人类从没有像建造一座大教堂那样受到如此快乐的启发。

When a good thing goes bad, It's not the end of the world, It's just the end of a world that you had with one girl.

当一件好事变坏,这不是世界末日,这只是你和一个女孩的世界末日。

The house itself is of minor importance. Its relation to the community is the thing that really counts.

房子本身并不重要。它与社区的关系才是真正重要的。

The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last.

一个人对经济的重视,就像我们对一位老阿姨的重视一样,她最终会给我们留下一些东西。

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.

一切的关键是耐心。要得到鸡,先要孵化蛋,而不是打碎蛋。

The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.

接近一件称心如意的东西会使人过分放纵。那条路上有危险。

A chicken is hatched even from such a well-sealed thing as an egg.

即使是像鸡蛋这样密封良好的东西也能孵出小鸡。

I wasn't a businesswoman, so I didn't know how to build a career.

我不是一个商人,所以我不知道如何建立自己的事业。

The house with an old grandparent harbors a jewel.

有一位年迈祖父的房子藏有一颗宝石。