Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace.

  • -- Frederick W. Taylor 泰罗

一个称职的工人如果不花大量的时间研究他的工作究竟有多慢,同时又能使他的雇主相信他干得不错,那他是很难找到的。

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I think it's harder than ever to be an artist. I think that you end up, especially as a middle-aged person, you pay such big consequences for saying, 'I'm just going to devote my life to making art,' or 'I'm going to devote my life to writing novels.' You end up with no resources.

我认为成为一名艺术家比以往任何时候都难。我认为你最终,尤其是作为一个中年人,你要为说“我要把我的一生奉献给艺术”或“我要把我的一生奉献给写小说”而付出巨大的代价。“你最终会一无所有。

Seven and half years ago I began my own journey. For me and my family it was a time of adversity. But during that adversity I derived a deeper faith. And born out of that adversity was a commitment to devote myself to those people and to those issues that truly matter to me.

七年半前,我开始了自己的旅程。对我和我的家人来说,这是一个不幸的时刻。但在那次灾难中,我获得了更深的信念。从逆境中诞生的是一种承诺,致力于那些人和那些对我真正重要的事情。

Well, I like to - the game of serve and volley, but it's very tough, you know, against the best players because they return so good and their passing shots are really good. So it's really tough to get there with those players.

嗯,我喜欢发球和凌空抽射,但是和最好的球员比赛很艰难,你知道,因为他们回球很好,传球也很好。所以和这些球员在一起真的很难做到这一点。

It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance.

人们经常注意到,战争的第一个受害者是真相。但这也是个谎言。事实是,大多数战争要开始,真相必须在很长一段时间之前就被牺牲掉。

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.

一个能干而自信的人是不会妒忌任何事情的。嫉妒总是一种神经质的不安全感的症状。

A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable.

一个好的广告应该像一个好的布道:它不仅要安慰受苦的人,也要折磨那些安逸的人。

If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write.

如果你没有时间去阅读,你就没有时间(或工具)去写作。