I think the extent to which I have any balance at all, any mental balance, is because of being a farm kid and being raised in those isolated rural areas.

  • -- James Earl Jones 詹姆斯·厄尔·琼斯

我想,我之所以能在心理上保持平衡,是因为我是一个农村孩子,在那些与世隔绝的农村长大。

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In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent that is supported by other patterns: the larger patterns in which it is embedded, the patterns of the same size that surround it, and the smaller patterns which are embedded in it.

简而言之,没有模式是孤立的实体。每种模式只能在其他模式支持的范围内存在:嵌入它的较大模式、与它相同大小的模式以及嵌入其中的较小模式。

So I let them be responsible for there particular areas. Then by the time it gets to me that means that there is a problem. I have my eyes open and I need to know something about every department but you don't want to micro manage any particular department.

所以我让他们负责特定的领域。然后当它到达我的时候,这意味着有一个问题。我睁大了眼睛,我需要了解每个部门的情况,但你不想微观管理任何一个特定的部门。

I had to jump on the tractor and do my chores. I would have just killed to be in town, to be able to Rollerblade hand-in-hand with somebody I had a crush on. I just wanted to get off the farm, to find my outlet.

我不得不跳上拖拉机做家务。如果能在城里,能和我喜欢的人手拉手滑旱冰,我一定会死的。我只是想离开农场,找到我的出路。

When a man lacks mental balance in pneumonia he is said to be delirious. When he lacks mental balance without the pneumonia, he is pronounced insane by all smart doctors.

当一个人在肺炎中缺乏精神平衡时,我们说他神志不清。当他在没有肺炎的情况下缺乏精神平衡时,所有聪明的医生都说他疯了。

It seems to me that the idea traditionally defended of endeavoring to maintain existing ethnic balances simply doesn't work any more.

在我看来,传统上为维护现有的种族平衡而辩护的想法已经行不通了。

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

写作使生活变得有意义。你一生都在工作,也许你已经理解了一个小领域。

Data allow your political judgments to be based on fact, to the extent that numbers describe realities.

数据可以让你的政治判断建立在事实的基础上,就像数字可以描述现实一样。

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.

一个好的艺术家应该被孤立。如果他没有被孤立,那一定是出了什么问题。

The way I spend my time is very isolated and cut off.

我消磨时间的方式是非常孤立和隔绝的。