The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

  • -- Henri Cartier-Bresson 布列松

这种创造性的行为只持续了很短的一段时间,就像闪电一样的给予和接受,这段时间刚好够你把相机调平,把稍纵即逝的猎物困在你的小盒子里。

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The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.

我们思考和行动的范围受到我们没有注意到的东西的限制。因为我们没有注意到我们没有注意到,所以我们对改变几乎无能为力;直到我们注意到没有注意是如何塑造我们的思想和行为的。

When looking at the evidence of feeding on large prey, you can see every size tooth from hatchling to adult in one spot. The babies may have been fed in the nest until they were full grown, like in eagles and hawks.

当你看到以大型猎物为食的证据时,你可以在一个地方看到从刚孵化到成年的所有大小的牙齿。这些婴儿可能在巢中被喂养,直到他们完全长大,就像老鹰和老鹰一样。

The thing that stood out above and beyond all the experiences was this relationship with the nine-month-old baby. On weekends, I'd be thinking about going back to set on Monday just to see the baby.

在所有的经历中,最突出的是和这个九个月大的婴儿之间的关系。周末的时候,我会考虑周一回去看孩子。

When you put on the suits, when you pretend you're honest and you're robbing at a far higher level, these guys deserve to... well, to be in my novels, and I have special fates reserved for them.

当你穿上西装,当你假装你很诚实,你在更高层次上抢劫,这些家伙应该……嗯,在我的小说里,我为他们保留了特殊的命运。

I don't know about you, but every time some joker points me out as I walk through an airport wearing extra-small Dolfin shorts, a tank top and leg warmers, I get a little upset.

我不知道你是怎么想的,但每次当我穿着超短裙、背心和暖腿裤走过机场时,总会有一些爱开玩笑的人指着我,让我感到有些不安。

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

当你结婚的时候,问自己这个问题:你相信在你年老的时候你能和这个人很好地交谈吗?婚姻中的其他一切都是短暂的。

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

孤独,虽然像光一样沉默,却像光一样,是最强大的中介;因为独处对人是必不可少的。所有的人都是独自来到这个世界上,然后离开它。

We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.

我们决不能允许我们对死者的尊重或对生者的同情导致我们对生者的平衡采取一种不公正的行动。

There is no such thing as a good or bad ad in isolation. What is good at one moment is bad at another. Research can trap you into the past.

广告没有好坏之分。一时的好,一时的坏。研究能让你陷入过去。

The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.

在关键时刻,一些身居高位的平庸之辈的随意性决定会影响事件的进程达一百年之久。

Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.

生意上的利润来自回头客,他们吹嘘你的项目或服务,并带来了朋友。

An instant-read thermometer is your best bet for making sure that meat and fish are cooked to the proper temperature.

即时读数温度计是确保肉和鱼煮到适当温度的最佳选择。

When I was a little kid I wanted to be an artist or a painter. But once I got into boxing, all I wanted was to box.

当我还是个孩子的时候,我想成为一名艺术家或画家。但是一旦我开始打拳击,我想做的就是拳击。

In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.

在睡眠中,你是安全的,从令人反感的生活机制,并成为一个令人发指的财富的猎物。

As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.

作为一个有创造力的人,你只是把一些东西放入你所生活的社会的意识中。

I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.

我是一个来自天地、雷电、风雨、星系的存在。

Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.

有些人的记忆就像一个盒子,一个人应该把他的珠宝和他的旧鞋混在一起。

The moment when you miss one step on the stairs, and you think you're about to die.

那一刻,你错过了楼梯上的一步,你觉得自己就要死了。

I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of it's meaning.

我担心如果你对一件事看得太久,它就失去了所有的意义。

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

什么是艺术?它是人类创造性灵魂对现实召唤的回应。

Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way.

愚蠢加上傲慢和自负会让你走得很远。

Have you ever heard of a good marriage growing in front of the cameras?

你听说过在镜头前有一段美满的婚姻吗?

There is no such thing as a value trap. There are investing mistakes.

没有所谓的价值陷阱。这是投资失误。

But some people act like they think I live in the jungle someplace.

但有些人表现得好像我住在丛林里似的。

I would say on a creative level I put a lot of pressure on myself.

我想说,在创作层面上,我给自己施加了很大的压力。

I can zero in on subtle things because I'm holding the camera.

因为我拿着相机,所以我可以把注意力集中在细微的事情上。

I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.

我认为愤世嫉俗是永恒的。多愁善感的年龄,约会很快。

Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology.

仅仅为了好玩而说谎,不是艺术就是病理学。

I just sort of lost my head for a little while.

我只是一时糊涂了。

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

荣耀转眼即逝,而平凡才是永恒。

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

永远不要过于简短以至于变得晦涩难懂。

If I have enough money to eat I'm good.

如果我有足够的钱吃,我很好。

There are no instant solutions.

没有立竿见影的解决办法。