I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

  • -- Booker T. Washington 布克·华盛顿

我明白了衡量成功的标准不是看一个人在生活中所处的地位,而是看他在努力成功的过程中所克服的障碍。

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Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.

障碍就像野兽。他们是懦夫,但如果可能,他们会吓唬你的。如果他们看到你害怕他们……他们很可能向你扑来;但是如果你直视他们的眼睛,他们就会溜走。

I surrounded myself with women when I was growing up because I had this horrible psycho father. Now I'm trying to really appreciate and like men more.

在我成长的过程中,我身边都是女人,因为我有一个可怕的精神病父亲。现在我试着更欣赏和喜欢男人。

I have no problem with battling for a position. I have no problem trying to beat somebody out. It's a sport, competition, so I'm used to it.

我对争取一个职位没有意见。我可以打败任何人。这是一项运动,一项比赛,所以我已经习惯了。

My bar for being successful is being able to do movies that really mean something to me and being able to make a living off of that.

我成功的标准是能够拍出对我有意义的电影,并以此谋生。

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

我们面临着一个矛盾的事实:教育已成为智力和思想自由的主要障碍之一。

History is not a science. It is an art. One can succeed in it only through the imagination.

历史不是一门科学。这是一门艺术。一个人只有通过想象才能成功。

The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

成功最确定的方法就是再试一次。

Your failures could be stepping-stones to success.

你的失败可能是成功的踏脚石。