I was a nerd academically. But I was also an athlete and a musician. I never wanted to be shut out of any situation. I think it was that more than anything.

  • -- Brian McKnight 布莱恩·麦肯奈特

我在学术上是个书呆子。但我也是一名运动员和音乐家。我从来不想被排除在任何情况之外。我想这是最重要的。

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Just as an individual's ability to delay gratification at a young age is a powerful predictor of future academic and professional achievement, discipline is also central to the long-run economic health of nations.

正如一个人在年轻时推迟满足的能力是未来学术和专业成就的有力预测器一样,纪律对于国家的长期经济健康也至关重要。

If the large power voluntarily abstains from using its full power or feels the strategic situation to be such that it cannot do so, it in effect loses the advantage of being a big power.

如果大国主动放弃使用自己的全部力量,或者觉得自己的战略形势无法做到这一点,实际上就失去了大国的优势。

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

我觉得我真的想完全远离音乐,以某种方式在视觉艺术中工作。那时我开始非常热情地画画。

For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.

对我来说,诗歌是一种情境——一种存在的状态,一种面对生活和历史的方式。

A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.

文学学者不能通过书店,正如酒鬼不能通过酒吧一样。

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.

经验是当你没有得到你想要的东西时所得到的。