When, instead of merely associating some act with some situation in the animal way, we think the situation out, we have a set of particular feelings of its elements.

  • -- Edward Thorndike 桑代克

当我们不只是把某些行为与动物的某些情境联系起来,而是把情境想清楚时,我们就会对其中的元素有一套特定的感觉。

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Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

很少有人有真正的艺术才能。因此,通过努力来刺激局势既不合适,也没有效果。如果你有一种强烈的,不安分的写作或绘画的冲动,只要吃点甜食,这种感觉就会过去。

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.

诗歌可以使我们不时地对构成我们存在的基础的更深层的、无名的感情有更多的认识,而我们很少能深入到这种感情中去;因为我们的生活大多是对我们自己的不断逃避。

If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe at the initial moment, we could predict exactly the situation of the same universe at a succeeding moment.

如果我们确切地知道自然规律和宇宙在最初时刻的情况,我们就能准确地预测同一宇宙在随后时刻的情况。

I don't feel like singing should be taken lightly. It's one of the hardest things I've ever done, but it's coming along.

我觉得唱歌不应该被轻视。这是我做过的最困难的事情之一,但它正在发生。