In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.

  • -- Christian Nestell Bovee 克里斯蒂安·内斯特尔·博维

野心和爱情一样,成功的人可以宽容他们的对手。这是我们自己的奖赏,它是优雅地承认的优点,徒劳地追求它。

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I just pinch myself, because I think if there's anything I can be proud of, I've survived success, which I think is difficult these days.

我只是掐自己一下,因为我想,如果有什么值得我骄傲的事情,那就是我挺过了成功的考验,而我认为如今的成功是困难的。

With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.

我手里拿着一支笔,成功地攻进了那些用剑和逐出教会的人被击退的堡垒。

I love it when television is shot in a cinematic way and I think to aspire to that is no bad thing.

我喜欢电视以电影的方式拍摄,我想追求那种感觉并不是一件坏事。

We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.

我们尝试,我们失败,我们姿态,我们渴望,我们自以为是——然后我们变老,萎缩,死亡,然后消失。

Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness.

许多伟人的成功与其说是由于聪明,不如说是由于勤奋。

I was very successful from a very early age, and I want to keep it.

我从很小的时候就非常成功,我想保持它。