I was always very leery of my piano playing. As a young kid, I wanted to be a jazz musician, but my taste was far greater than my ability.

  • -- Mike Stoller 斯托勒

我对自己的钢琴演奏一向很挑剔。小时候,我想成为一名爵士音乐家,但我的品味远远超过了我的能力。

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At the Harvard Business School, I really felt I had gained the ability to resolve difficult issues. But I also felt that I wasn't in the mainstream with my fellow students. During job-hunting season, for example, everybody shaved their beards for interviews. I thought, 'This is crazy.' So I grew a beard.

在哈佛商学院,我真的觉得自己获得了解决难题的能力。但是我也觉得我和我的同学们并不是主流。例如,在求职季,每个人都要刮胡子去面试。我想,‘这太疯狂了。于是我留了胡子。

And as I grew older, I then auditioned for the Royal Academy of Music in London, and they said, well, no, we won't accept you, because we haven't a clue - you know - of the future of a so-called 'deaf' musician. And I just couldn't quite accept that.

随着年龄的增长,我参加了伦敦皇家音乐学院的试镜,他们说,不,我们不接受你,因为我们对一个所谓的“聋人”音乐家的未来一无所知。我只是不能完全接受。

I'm confident in my own ability. If that wasn't the case you might as well pack it in now. If you think too much, you start doubting yourself, doubting your quality, so you have to train yourself in a certain way.

我对自己的能力很有信心。如果不是那样的话,你最好现在就把它收起来。如果你想得太多,你开始怀疑自己,怀疑自己的品质,所以你必须以某种方式训练自己。

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

但是友谊是宝贵的,不仅在阴影中,而且在生活的阳光下,由于一个仁慈的安排,生活的大部分是阳光。

I have musician friends who play too much golf, and they're not as good at music anymore.

我有一些音乐家朋友经常打高尔夫球,但他们的音乐水平已经不如以前了。

Whatever the dangers of the action we take, the dangers of inaction are far, far greater.

无论我们采取行动的危险有多大,无所作为的危险要大得多。