There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

  • -- Aldous Huxley 奥尔德斯·赫胥黎

才能是无可替代的。勤奋及其所有优点都无济于事。

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So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born.

我们生活中太多的时间都花在考虑自己的缺点上,以至于没有时间去改善我们想象中的优点。事实上,我们只是在完善我们的罪恶,人死后比出生时更坏。

If you had the opportunity and some talent, there was no way you couldn't progress, because it was an open market. There was the advertising world, and there was the documentary world.

如果你有机会和一些天赋,你不可能不进步,因为这是一个开放的市场。有广告界,也有纪录片界。

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

伟大的天才是人类树上最可爱、最危险的果实。它们挂在最细的树枝上,很容易折断。

Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.

谦卑,是低微甜美的根,是一切属天美德的根。