Life 生命

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

——Helen Keller

生命要么是一场勇敢的冒险，要么什么都不是。

——海伦·凯勒

亚历山大·佩恩

Alexander Payne

美国电影导演、编剧、制片人。2003年，他凭借电影《关于施密特》（About Schmidt）获得了金球奖最佳编剧奖。2005年，他自导自演的作品《杯酒人生》（Sideways）获得第77届奥斯卡金像奖最佳改编剧本奖。2011年，他执导的《后裔》（The Descendants）获得第84届奥斯卡最佳改编剧本奖。佩恩的其他电影代表作还包括《内布拉斯加》（Nebraska）、《缩小人生》（Downsizing）等。

Alexander Payne

Have fun. Life is really, really, really short. So have a lot of fun. Work hard. Play hard. Buy low. Sell high. The way you do anything is the way you do everything. The love you take is equal to the love you make. Don’t die with regrets. You’ll regret it.

——Alexander Payne

享受吧，生命太太太短了。所以尽情享受吧。努力工作，尽情玩乐。买低，售高。始终如一。你得到的爱等量于你付出的爱。不要带着遗憾死去，不然你会后悔的。

——亚历山大·佩恩

Let me tell you the most important thing in life is to have vision, to know exactly where you’re going.

——Arnold Schwarzenegger

告诉你们，人生最重要的就是要有方向，清楚知道你要去往何方。

——阿诺德·施瓦辛格

Ben Bernanke

Many things will happen in your lives, pleasant and not so pleasant, but paraphrasing a Woodrow Wilson School adage from the time I was here, “Wherever you go, there you are.” If you are not happy with yourself, even the loftiest achievements is not going to bring you much satisfaction.

——Ben Bernanke

你们的一生中会发生很多事情，有愉快的，也有不那么愉快的，但是用当初我在普林斯顿伍德罗·威尔逊学院的一句格言说，“不论你去哪里，要随遇而安。”如果你不为自己感到快乐，即使最高的成就都不会给你带来太多的满足。

——本·伯南克

There is no love that’s so right as admiration-based love, and that love should include the instructive dead.

——Charlie Munger

没有一种爱像以崇拜为基础的爱那样适宜，这种爱也应包括爱具有启发意义的先人。

——查理·芒格

Charlie Munger

Generally speaking, envy, resentment, revenge and self-pity are disastrous modes of thought. Self-pity gets pretty close to paranoia, and paranoia is one of the very hardest things to reverse. You do not want to drift into self-pity.

——Charlie Munger

通常来讲，嫉妒、怨恨、报复和自怨自艾，这些思想状态都是极具灾难性的。自怨自艾让人近乎偏执，而偏执又是最难纠正过来的一种心理状态。你可不要陷入自怨自艾中。

——查理·芒格

Christian Louboutin

You should enjoy the process of every day. It is the journey of all these every days which will constitute your career, not a precise target. An achievement is not one day in the future. It is the sum of all these moments where you have learned, and loved, and nourished your passion.

——Christian Louboutin

你应该享受每一天的过程。构建你职业生涯的是你活过的每一天，而不是某一个特定的目标。成就并非未来某一天的功成名就，而是所有你在其中学习过、爱过、滋养过激情的时间总和。

——克里斯提·鲁布托

大卫·布鲁克斯

David Brooks

《纽约时报》（The New York Times）专栏作家，PBS电视台《新闻时间》（NewsHour）节目评论员，美国知名公共知识分子，著有《社会动物：爱、性格和成就的潜在根源》（The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement）一书，该书曾连续24周登上《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜。

David Brooks

That wisdom, I imagine, comes from paying deep and loving attention to the people around you. It comes from many hours of solitary reflection. It comes from reading the greats. It comes from getting out of your own century, thinking outside your own assumptions and embarking on a great lifelong journey toward understanding.

——David Brooks

在我看来，要具备这种睿智，我们需要真情实意地关怀身边的人，需要在长时间的独处中自我反省，需要阅读伟大的著作，需要跳出身处的时代，跳出自有的成见，动身踏上求取理解的终身之旅。

——大卫·布鲁克斯

Our friend Nietzsche said that he who has a why to live for can endure any how. But if you don’t know what your purpose is then the first failure or setback can totally throw you into a crisis and total collapse.

——David Brooks

我们的朋友尼采说，一个人知道自己为什么而活，就可以忍受任何一种生活。但若不清楚自己为何而活，那么你所遭遇的第一次失败或挫折便足以让你身处危机、全线崩溃。

——大卫·布鲁克斯

David Brooks

Life will offer you a diminishing number of opportunities to show how smart you are. It will offer an infinite number of occasions that require kindness, mercy, grace, sensitivity, sympathy, generosity and love. Life will require that you widen your repertoire of emotions, that you throw yourself headlong into other people.

——David Brooks

生活中可以让你去显示自己有多聪明的机会将不断减少，但生活却会提供无数个场合，需要你去展示善良、仁慈、风度、敏感、同情、慷慨和爱。生活将要求你丰富自己的情感，一头扎进人群中去。

——大卫·布鲁克斯

Denzel Washington

The chances you take, the people you meet, the people you love, the faith that you have—that’s what’s going to define you.

——Denzel Washington

你冒的险，你遇到的人，你爱的人，你拥有的信念——这些将定义你是什么样的人。

——丹泽尔·华盛顿

Don’t always worry about what your next line is supposed to be, what you’re supposed to do next. There’s no script. Live your life. Be in this moment, be in this moment. Now be in this moment.

——Dick Costolo

不要总是担心你的下一句台词应该是什么，你接下来该做什么，没有剧本。过好生活，活在当下，活在当下。此时，就活在当下。

——迪克·科斯托洛

Conan O’Brien

Your path at 22 will not necessarily be your path at 32 or 42. One’s dream is constantly evolving, rising and falling, changing course. This happens in every job.

——Conan O’Brien

你在22岁时选择的路并不一定会跟32岁或42岁时相同，人的梦想会不断演变、起伏、改变方向。各行各业都是如此。

——柯南·奥布莱恩

杰西卡·兰格

Jessica Lange

美国女演员，代表作有《红伶劫》（Frances）、《芳心的放纵》（Blue Sky）、美国恐怖故事》（American Horror Story）等。她曾5次荣获金球奖，3次荣获艾美奖，2次荣获奥斯卡金像奖。近年来，兰格在《美国恐怖故事》中扮演的形象为中国观众所熟知，影迷们戏称她为“兰姨”。除拍摄电影、电视剧外，兰格还是一位摄影师。

Jessica Lange

I would encourage you, with all my heart, to just be present. Be present and open to the moment that is unfolding before you, because, ultimately, your life is made up of moments. So don’t miss them by being lost in the past or anticipating the future. Don’t be absent from your own life.

——Jessica Lange

我衷心地建议你们，活在当下。活在当下，珍惜眼前展现的瞬间。因为，从根本上说，人生就是由这些瞬间组成。不要因怀念过去或展望未来而忽视当下的日子。不要缺席你自己的生活。

——杰西卡·兰格

Jessica Lange

A certain slant of light on a winter’s afternoon.

The sound of spring peepers at twilight.

The taste of a fresh picked strawberry still warm from the sun.

Your child’s laughter.

Your mother’s voice.

These are the things that shape our lives and settle into the fiber of our beings. Don’t take them for granted. Slow down for them. They will take root.

——Jessica Lange

冬日午后斜射进来的一缕阳光，

黄昏时刻的蛙鸣，

沾染着一丝阳光暖意的新摘草莓的味道，

儿女的欢笑，

母亲的声音。

这些片段塑造了我们的人生，也浸染进我们的灵魂。别把这些美好视作理所当然。为它们驻足，让它们生根。

——杰西卡·兰格

Love is all-consuming—it infiltrates your body, it allows you to experience bliss, joy and true friendship. You’ll be more disappointed when something goes wrong. You might fall harder. But the only way you’ll reach any height in life and in love is by taking that chance that you might fall.

——John Legend

爱会占据你生活的全部——它会渗入你的身体，它让你尝到美满、喜悦和真挚的友情的滋味。当出现问题时，你将体会到更强烈的失落感。你也许会伤得更重。但是，唯有冒着可能会受伤的风险，你才能在人生和爱情中有所收获。

——约翰·传奇

肯·伯恩斯

Ken Burns

美国历史纪录片导演，代表作有《美国南北战争》（The Civil War）、《棒球》（Baseball）、《爵士乐》（Jazz）, 以及《北美国家公园全纪录》（The National Parks: America’s Best Idea）等。伯恩斯曾凭借其作品两度获奥斯卡提名，另有两部获得艾美奖。

Ken Burns

History is a mysterious and malleable thing, constantly changing, not just as new information emerges, but as our own interests, emotions and inclinations change. Each generation rediscovers and reexamines that part of the past which gives its present new meaning, new possibility and new power.

——Ken Burns

历史是神秘的，是可塑的，是不断变化的，不仅随着新信息的涌现而变化，而且随着我们自身的兴趣、情感和偏好的变化而改变。每一代人都会重新发现、重新检视那段给现在带来新的意义、新的可能和新的力量的历史。

——肯·伯恩斯

Ken Burns

The past often offers an illuminating and clear-headed perspective from which to observe and reconcile the passions of the present moment, just when they threaten to overwhelm us.

——Ken Burns

过去常常可以提供一种具有启发性、使人清醒的视角，在当下的热情将要冲昏我们的头脑之际，让我们得以审视并调和它们。

——肯·伯恩斯

Be curious, not cool. Feed your soul, too. Every day.

——Ken Burns

要怀有好奇心，不要麻木不仁。滋养你的灵魂。每天如此。

——肯·伯恩斯

Matthew McConaughey

The sooner that we become less impressed with our life, with our accomplishiments, with our career, with whatever that prospect is in front of us, the sooner we become less impressed and more involved with that and these things, the sooner we get a whole lot better at doing them.

——Matthew McConaughey

对于我们的生活，我们的成就，我们的职业，我们的前程——无论什么样的前程，我们越快速地以平常心待之，越多地投入其中，就能越早做得更好。

——马修·麦康纳

Don’t be deceived by life’s outcomes. Life’s outcomes, while not entirely random, have a huge amount of luck baked into them.

——Michael Lewis

不要被生活的结果所欺骗。生活的结果虽然不完全是随机的，但的确有不少的运气成分在里面。

——迈克尔·刘易斯

Neil Gaiman

And for me, and for so many of the people I have known, that’s been a lifesaver. The ultimate lifesaver. It gets you through good times and it gets you through the other ones.

——Neil Gaiman

对于我和我认识的许多人而言，艺术创造就是救赎，最终的救赎。它让你享受美好时光，也助你度过人生低谷。

——尼尔·盖曼

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next.

——Nina Tassler

生命在于未知，被迫改变，把握当下，过好每一天，没人知道接下来会发生什么。

——妮娜·塔斯勒

Randy Pausch

It is not the things we do in life that we regret on our deathbed. It is the things we do not.

——Randy Pausch

临终时，让我们感到后悔的不是人生中那些做过的事，而是那些未做过的事。

——兰迪·波许

史蒂夫·乔布斯

Steve Jobs

美国企业家、苹果公司联合创办人、Pixar动画公司创始人。乔布斯被认为是计算机业界与娱乐业界的标志性人物，他经历了苹果公司几十年的起落与兴衰，先后领导和推出了麦金塔计算机（Macintosh）、iMac、iPod、iPhone、iPad等风靡全球的电子产品，深刻改变了现代通讯、娱乐、生活方式。2011年10月5日，乔布斯因患胰腺癌病逝，享年56岁。

Steve Jobs

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life, because almost everything—all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure—these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

——Steve Jobs

“记住生命即将终结”是我一生中用过的帮我下重大决定的最重要的工具，因为几乎所有的事情，包括所有外界的期望，所有的骄傲，所有对难堪或失败的恐惧，在死亡面前都会烟消云散，只留下真正重要的东西。

——史蒂夫·乔布斯

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

——Steve Jobs

没有人愿意死，人们即使想上天堂，也不会为了去那里而死。但是死亡是我们每个人共同的终点，从来没有人能够逃脱。这也是注定的，因为死亡可能是生命中最好的一个发明。它是生命的转化媒介，它将旧的清除，以便给新的让路。

——史蒂夫·乔布斯

Steve Wozniak

I came up with a formula, H equals S minus F. Happiness is what life’s about. It doesn’t matter how many yachts you have, what your title is, how much money you make, how many awards you got in life. The day you die if you’ve been running everything tight, but another person is out on the streets homeless, smiling, telling jokes, having a fun time, who would you rather be when you die? And I decided I’d rather be the fun person. So H equals S minus F, happiness equals smiles minus frowns.

——Steve Wozniak

我想出了一个公式：H=S-F。幸福是人生的真谛，不论你有多少游艇，你的头衔是什么，你挣了多少钱，你一生得过多少奖项。你即将离开人世的那一天，如果还在紧锣密鼓地安排着一切，可是另外一个人露宿街头，无家可归，但却面带微笑，讲着笑话，非常快乐。你希望自己死的时候是哪一个呢？我决定我要成为那个快乐的人。因此，H=S-F，就是幸福（happiness）等于笑容（smiles）减去愁容（frowns）。

——史蒂夫·沃兹尼亚克