I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.

  • -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich 托马斯·贝利·奥尔德里奇

我喜欢有人建议我做一件事,而不喜欢有人把全部告诉我。当每一个细节都被给出时,头脑就会得到满足,想象力就会失去使用自己翅膀的欲望。

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My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is generally known, not only in formal logical, mathematical terms, but also intuitively, in images, feelings, poetic usage of language, etc.

我的建议是,在每一种状态下,思维运作的正确顺序都需要对一般已知的东西有一个全面的把握,不仅是在形式上的逻辑、数学术语上,而且在直观上,在形象、情感、语言的诗意运用上,等等。

The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.

极地快车是关于信仰的,以及维持信仰的想象力的力量。它还关乎渴望生活在一个魔法可以发生的世界里,那种我们小时候都相信的世界,但随着年龄的增长就会消失。

There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose of such imaginative suggestion than that the poet's metaphors should spoil his words for the ordinary uses of man.

没有什么比诗人的比喻破坏了他的文字,使其不能用于人类的日常用途更能说明为什么一幅画的特征会被这样富有想象力的暗示所歪曲了。

Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.

孩子们不轻易放弃他们与生俱来的想象力、好奇心、梦想。你必须爱他们,才能让他们这么做。