The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.

  • -- C. Northcote Parkinson 帕金森

那个一生都致力于文书工作的人失去了主动权。他在处理那些引起他注意的事情,而他自己却什么也没有注意到。

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Basically, there are two things we know: Everybody has less time, and the general public is demanding better food - better in terms of quality and better in terms of flavor.

基本上,我们知道两件事:每个人的时间都变少了,而普通大众要求更好的食物——更好的质量和更好的味道。

When you have lost people like I lost my birth mom at a young age and you remember the whole process of losing her, you want to grab on to something that makes you whole.

当你失去了像我这样的人,在我很小的时候就失去了我的生母,而你还记得失去她的整个过程时,你想抓住一些让你完整的东西。

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

如果一个人郁郁寡欢,就由他自己去好了。没有人有权利在社会上大声疾呼,更糟糕的是,他看起来像是在压抑悲伤。

A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.

在不断的劳动中度过的一生是一种生命的浪费,除非一个人愚蠢到把一个令人生厌的讣告当作足够的报酬。

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

当然,思想开放的问题在于,人们会坚持走过去,并试图把东西放进去。

I accomplished what I set out to do, but I lost my discipline and my career.

我完成了我开始做的事情,但是我失去了我的纪律和我的事业。

A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others.

一个人有时和他自己不同,就像他和别人不同一样。

A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.

美女是你注意到的女人;迷人的人是注意到你的人。