The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.

  • -- William Hazlitt 威廉·哈兹里特

世人以职业上的才能来判断一个人,我们也以同样的标准来判断自己:因为我们在生活中成功与否,也取决于这个标准。

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A married vicar is likely to regard his vocation as a job - a tough and ill-paid one, to be sure - but a priest is seen as a pillar of the community, answerable only to his parishioners and his God, rather than to a wife and children.

一个已婚的牧师很可能把他的职业看作是一份工作——当然,这份工作既艰苦又报酬微薄——但牧师被视为社区的支柱,只对他的教区居民和他的上帝负责,而不是对妻子和孩子负责。

As an actor there's a lot of scrutiny and, even when you've had success, it becomes about sustaining that success. A friend of mine described it as a peakless mountain. Even for De Niro there's Pacino and for Pacino there's De Niro.

作为一个演员,有很多审视,即使你已经成功了,也要保持成功。我的一个朋友把它描述成一座没有山峰的山。即使是德尼罗也有帕西诺,帕西诺也有德尼罗。

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.

最重要的自由是做真实的自己。你用现实换取了一个角色。你放弃了感觉的能力,作为交换,戴上面具。

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

我们的欲望总是使我们失望;因为虽然我们遇到了一些让我们满意的事情,但它从来没有完全满足我们的期望。

Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.

我们的环境,我们生活和工作的世界,是我们态度和期望的一面镜子。

My ability to concentrate and work toward that goal has been my greatest asset.

我集中精力朝着这个目标努力的能力是我最大的财富。

My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant.

我人生的终极使命就是成为一个刺激物。

Temerity is not always successful.

鲁莽并不总是成功的。