People want to hear about the extremes of human nature. They want things that are larger than their own lives, and more romantic, and not necessarily of their own experiences.

  • -- Richard John Thompson 理查德·约翰·汤普森

人们想听到人性的极端。他们想要的东西比他们自己的生活更大,更浪漫,不一定是他们自己的经历。

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Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.

经典的经济学理论是建立在一个不充分的人类动机理论的基础上的,它可以通过接受更高的人类需求的现实,包括自我实现的冲动和对最高价值的热爱,来进行革命性的变革。

Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.

我们的生活不是由发生在我们身上的事情决定的,而是由我们对发生的事情的反应决定的,不是由生活带给我们什么决定的,而是由我们对生活的态度决定的。

The thing I don't understand is why so often one hears discussion of the fruits of human labor as if it's all the creation of some alien race.

我不明白的是,为什么人们经常听到关于人类劳动成果的讨论,就好像它是某个外星种族创造出来的一样。

The poet lives as long as his lines are imprinted on the minds of his readers.

诗人只要把他的诗句铭刻在读者的心中,他就永远活着。