For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

  • -- Arthur Schopenhauer 亚瑟·叔本华

一个作家边写边写,就像他犯了相反的错误一样,应该受到谴责;因为这给他所说的话带来了一种迂腐的效果,同时也使他的话难以理解。

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Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

胜利不是一时的事;这是一个全天候的事情。你不会偶尔获胜,你不会偶尔把事情做对,你会一直把事情做好。胜利是习惯。不幸的是,失败也是如此。

When I left drama school, my fear was that I'd get pigeon holed into comic acting and I did so much to counter it that I got stuck in the opposite.

当我离开戏剧学校的时候,我的恐惧是我会陷入喜剧表演,我做了那么多来对抗它,我被困在相反的方向。

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose.

乐观主义者看到的是玫瑰,而不是它的刺;悲观主义者盯着荆棘,没有注意到玫瑰。

I do believe in living out your own time, unless it's absolutely impossible, which it is for some people.

我确实相信活出自己的时间,除非这是绝对不可能的,对一些人来说确实是这样。

I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric.

我是个平实的人,比较不关心也不太懂修辞。

Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.

在这个只有变革才能持久的世界上,一切都是相对的。

You have to spend time together often to build great friendships.

你必须经常花时间在一起来建立伟大的友谊。

The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.

我们生命中最重要的对话都是在沉默中进行的。

My philosophy is I'm raising future adults, not children.

我的人生哲学是培养未来的成年人,而不是孩子。

People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.

人们害怕死。我正好相反。

Finality is not the language of politics.

终结不是政治的语言。