Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization.

  • -- Edmund White 埃德蒙·怀特

小说是对一个人想说什么,有什么感觉,有什么意思的不断探索,从这个意义上说,是一种行为艺术,而传记需要不同的技巧——研究和组织。

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Organizations endure, however, in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends upon the quality of leadership; and that quality derives from the breadth of the morality upon which it rests.

然而,组织的存在与它们所受道德规范的范围成正比。因此,组织的持久性取决于领导的素质;这种品质来自于它所依赖的道德的广度。

The short-term vision is: I research on something which I can use tomorrow, and for some politicians it is even better if it's today. But if you do this, you can only do targeted research. If you only do targeted research, you lose the side-routes.

我的短期愿景是:研究一些明天可以使用的东西,对一些政客来说,如果是今天就更好了。但如果你这样做,你只能做有针对性的研究。如果你只做有针对性的研究,你就会迷失方向。

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

你必须参与进来才能产生影响。没有人对裁判丢球的记录印象深刻。

I always had to keep improving my skills in order to remain competitive and keep winning.

我必须不断提高我的技能,以保持竞争力和不断获胜。

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

如果我们知道我们在做什么,就不会被称为研究,对吗?

The willingness to learn new skills is very high.

学习新技能的意愿非常高。