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2009年4月22日星期三

关于行动Action的名言


I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

我一直认为人的行动是他的思想最好的传达者。

~John Locke(1632-1704)英国思想家



Well done is better than well said.

说得好不如做得好。

~Benjamin Franklin(1706-1790)美国政治家、科学家



The shortest answer is doing.

最简短的回答就是做。

~Lord Herbert(1591-1658)



Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words.  

只相信动作。生活只发生在事件的层面,而不是言辞。

~Alfred Adler(1870-1937)奥地利精神病学家



We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.

我们应该被教导不要等待灵感来了才行动。行动总是产生灵感。灵感很少产生行动。

~Frank Tibolt



A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain.

承诺是云,履行是雨。

~Arabian Proverb



An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.

一个没有与行动结合的想法永远不会变得比它所占据的脑细胞更大。

~Arnold Glasow



Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.

计划的大事不如完成的小事。

~Peter Marshall



Never mistake motion for action.

不要把移动误认为行动。

~Ernest Hemingway(1899-1961)美国小说家



Action is eloquence.

事实就是雄辩。

~William Shakespeare(1564-1616)英国作家



There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.

有太多的事我们希望在昨天已经做完,而很少有我们想要在今天做的事。

~Mignon McLaughlin(1913-1983)



A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

一只狂吠的狗经常比睡着的狮子更有用。

~Washington Irving(1783-1859)美国作家



Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.

没有什么能比行动更快的消除焦虑。

~Walter Anderson



If ifs were gifts, every day would be Christmas.

如果“如果”是礼物,那每天都会是圣诞节。

~Charles Barkley(1963- )美国前NBA前锋



Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

榜样是人类的学校,而他们不会向其他人学习。

~Edmund Burke(1729-1797)英国政治家



Talk doesn't cook rice.

空谈烧不好饭菜。

~Chinese Proverb



All know the way; few actually walk it.

所有人都知道路;很少有人去走。

~Bodhidharma 菩提达摩(6世纪),禅宗始祖



If your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

如果你的工作为它自己辩驳,请不要打断它。

~Henry J. Kaiser(1882-1967)美国实业家



Action is the antidote to despair.

行动是绝望的解药。

~Joan Baez(1941- )美国歌手、政治活动家



The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.

伟大的作曲家不会因为有了灵感才去工作,而是因为工作而获得灵感。贝多芬,巴赫和莫扎特每天都像惯例般专注于工作,就像会计每天惯例般专注于数字。他们并没有在等待灵感上浪费时间。

~Ernest Newman(1868-1959)英国音乐评论家



We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.

我们都倾向于根据我们的理想来评价自己;对于其他人,则看他们的行动。

~Harold Nicolson(1886-1968)



Don't find fault. Find a remedy.

不要找错误,要找解决方法。

~Henry Ford(1863-1947)美国实业家



What ought to have been done, and what shall be done, often stifle doing between them.

什么事应该做完了,什么事应该做,在它们之间经常是被扼杀的行动。

~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



Success will never be a big step in the future, success is a small step taken just now.

成功永远不会是未来的一大步,成功是现在走的一小步。

~Jonatan Mårtensson



Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.

自然会带走一切没有用到的天赋。

~William R. Inge(1860-1954)



In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.

在薄冰上滑的时候,我们的安全来自于我们的速度。

~Ralph Waldo Emerson(1803-1882)美国作家



One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.

行动应当来自获得的静止:而不是单纯的不停往前冲。

~D.H. Lawrence(1885-1930)英国作家



Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

不是每件事去面对就会改变,但是不去面对,一切都不会改变。

~James Baldwin



Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve.

实践会消除理论无法解决的疑问。

~Tehyi Hsieh



Men expect too much, do too little.

期待最多的人,做的最少。

~Allen Tate(1899-1979)美国诗人



When deeds speak, words are nothing.

当事实说话的时候,言辞将空洞无物。

~African Proverb



As I grow older I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

我年纪越大,就越少注意人们说什么。我只看他们做什么。

~Andrew Carnegie(1835-1919)美国实业家



All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them but confront them.

所有问题都会变小,如果你不是逃避而是勇敢面对。

~William F. Halsey(1882-1959)美国海军上将



The best way out of a problem is through it.

摆脱一个问题最好的办法是穿过它。

~Author Unknown



I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.

我相信人生一半的不愉快源自人们不敢直面问题。

~William J. Lock



People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

人们可能会怀疑你所说的,但他们会相信你所做的。

~Lewis Cass(1782-1866)美国将军



The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

君子欲讷于言而敏于行。

Confucius (前551  - 前479 )  儒家创始人



Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

没有行动的言辞是理想的杀手。

Herbert Hoover (1874 - 1964)  美国前总统



Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

不要对你的行动太过拘谨和在意。人生就是实验,你做的实验越多,就做的越好。

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

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