Men build bridges and throw railroads across deserts, and yet they contend successfully that job of sewing on a button is beyond them. Accordingly, they don’t have to sew buttons.

  • -- Heywood Campbell Broun Jr. 海伍德·坎贝尔·布鲁恩

人们在沙漠中修桥、修铁路,然而他们成功地争辩说,缝钮扣的工作超出了他们的能力范围。因此,他们不需要缝扣子。

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The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?

唯一值得一试的成功是在个人癖好方面的成功。什么是天赋,而不是完全成为一个人的艺术?

I would have preferred to be successful here with a piece that cost me a huge amount of money and effort... rather than sending to Bohemia some ordinary works.

我更愿意在这里获得成功,花了我一大笔钱和精力……而不是寄给波希米亚一些普通的作品。

You know, you want everything you do, obviously, to be a success critically and commercially. But what you find out as you go along is that everything won't.

很明显,你希望你所做的每件事都能在商业上取得成功。但随着时间的推移,你会发现一切都不会。

Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are.

伟大的实干家……别介意有时显得可笑;从某种意义上说,这是他们工作的一部分,有时他们都是。

I don't want to lose myself in football and that's what a coach has to do to be successful.

我不想在足球中迷失自己,这是一个教练成功所必须做的。

Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.

法律把人的短处看得很重。