I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.

  • -- Charlie Chaplin 查理卓别林

我宁愿被称为成功的骗子,也不愿被称为贫穷的君主。

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For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment comes when they cease being bodies in other men's command and find that they control their own time, when they learn their own voice and authority.

对于那些迟早会幸运地脱离群体的男人来说,最令人陶醉的时刻是,他们不再是受他人支配的躯体,而是发现自己掌握了自己的时间,学会了自己的声音和权威。

When a man sees something desirable, he must reflect on the fact that with time it could come to involve what is detestable. When he sees something that is beneficial, he should reflect that sooner or later it, too, could come to involve harm.

当一个人看到他想要的东西时,他必须思考这样一个事实:随着时间的推移,它可能涉及到可憎的东西。当他看到有益的事情时,他应该意识到迟早它也会带来危害。

If there is any secret to my success, I think it's that my characters are very real to me. I feel everything they feel, and therefore I think my readers care about them.

如果说我的成功有什么秘诀的话,那就是我的角色对我来说非常真实。我能感受到他们的感受,因此我认为我的读者关心他们。

I've always just worked and tried to do as good a job as possible so that the people who are watching me took notice. That's what's helped me be successful today.

我一直在努力工作,尽可能把工作做好,这样我的观众才会注意到我。这就是我今天成功的原因。

All successful people these days seem to be neurotic. Perhaps we should stop being sorry for them and start being sorry for me - for being so confounded normal.

如今所有成功人士似乎都很神经质。也许我们应该停止为他们感到遗憾,而开始为我感到遗憾——因为我是如此困惑的正常人。

Action is the universal language of success.

行动是成功的通用语言。