有关可能的20句名人名言哲理格言警句语录

我们想象得出，有的人有诗人的忧郁却又世事洞明，有的人夸夸其谈却很迷人，有的人有口臭却让人想亲近，这些都是可能的。但是人往往是敏感的，这意味着如果说出负面的看法，多半会危及彼此的交情。我们总以为人家背后对自己的议论多是出于恶意（或是不满之意），而对刚刚与我们闲聊的人就觉得近乎，我们会嘲笑他的习惯，却依然对他有好感。

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一个运作良好的世俗社会也会同样慎重地思考自己的行为楷模，它并非只向我们推出影星和歌星。放弃宗教信仰决不等于不再继续需要勇气、友谊、忠贞、耐心信任、怀疑等品质的“守护神”。当我们把内心空间留给那些比自己更平衡、更勇敢、更博大之人物的音容笑貌时，不管是林肯还是惠特曼，丘吉尔还是司汤达，沃伦·巴菲特还是保罗·史密斯，我们依然可以从中获益，并且可望通过他们，与自己内心最庄严的可能性取得联系。

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在每一个社会里，总有一个特定的人群能够获得高度的尊崇--其他的人群则因为没有具备合适的技能、口音、气质、性别或肤色而受到贬抑或忽略。但这些对成功的定义远远不是一成不变或普遍适用的。一些素质和技能在一个地方能够带来较高的社会地位，而在另外一个地方则有可能变得无关紧要或为人不齿。

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在输赢的过程中有太多偶然，今日我们太讲求所有事情的正义和公平，政治人物总是在谈论正义，我非常支持正义，我只是觉得那不可能，我们应该尽力，尽力去追求正义，但我们也应该记得，我们所面对的，无论在他们人生中发生过什么，偶然总是一个强烈的因素，我希望大家留一点空间这么想，不然真令人有一种幽闭恐怖症的感觉。

I think it's merely the randomness of the winning and losing process that I want to stress, because the emphasis nowadays is so much on the justice of everything, and politicians always talk about justice. Now I'm a firm believer in justice, I just think that it's impossible. So we should do everything we can to pursue it, but we should always remember that whoever is facing us, whatever has happened in their lives, there will be a strong element of the haphazard. That's what I'm trying to leave room for; otherwise, it can get quite claustrophobic.

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我对成功有一些观察，你不可能在所有事情上成功。我们常听到有关工作和休闲的平衡，鬼话。你不可能全部拥有。你就是不能。所有对成功的想象，必须承认他们同时也失去了一些东西，放弃了一些东西。我想一个智者能接受，如我所说，总是有什么是我们得不到的。

Here's an insight that I've had about success: You can't be successful at everything. We hear a lot of talk about work-life balance. Nonsense. You can't have it all. You can't. So any vision of success has to admit what it's losing out on, where the element of loss is. And I think any wise life will accept, as I say, that there is going to be an element where we're not succeeding.

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我一直在谈论成功和失败。成功的有趣之处是，我们时常以为我们知道成功是什么，如果我现在说，这个屏幕后面站着一个非常成功的人，你心里马上就会产生一些想法。你会想，这个人可能很有钱，在某些领域赫赫有名，我对成功的理解是。首先，我是一个对成功非常有兴趣的人，我想要成功，我总是想着“要怎样我才能更成功？”，但当我渐渐长大，我越来越疑惑，究竟什么是“成功”的真正意义。

What I think I've been talking about really is success and failure. And one of the interesting things about success is that we think we know what it means. If I said that there's somebody behind the screen who's very successful, certain ideas would immediately come to mind. You'd think that person might have made a lot of money, achieved renown in some field. My own theory of success -- I'm somebody who's very interested in success, I really want to be successful, always thinking, how can I be more successful? But as I get older, I'm also very nuanced about what that word "success" might mean.

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换句话说，最好在你开口评论他人之前悬崖勒马，你很有可能不知道他人的真正价值，这是不可测的。于是，我们不该为人下定论，还有另一种慰藉，当我们想象人生中的失败，我们恐惧的原因并不只是失去收入，失去地位，我们害怕的是他人的评论和嘲笑，它的确存在。

In other words, hold your horses when you're coming to judge people. You don't necessarily know what someone's truevalue is. That is an unknown part of them, and we shouldn't behave as though it is known. There is another source of solace and comfort for all this. When we think about failing in life, when we think about failure, one of the reasons why we fear failing is not just a loss of income, a loss of status. What we fear is the judgment and ridicule of others. And it exists.

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这种我们能创造一个每个人的能力都忠实地被分级，好的就到顶端，坏的就到底部，而且保证过程毫无差错，这是不可能的。这世上有太多偶然的契机，不同的机运，出身，疾病，从天而降的意外等等，我们却无法将这些因素分级，无法完全忠实的将人分级。

The idea that we will make a society where literally everybody is graded, the good at the top, bad at the bottom, exactly done as it should be, is impossible. There are simply too many random factors: accidents, accidents of birth, accidents of things dropping on people's heads, illnesses, etc. We will never get to grade them, never get to grade people as they should.

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有什么方法可以解决刚才提到的这些焦虑呢？是有的。我想提出几项，先说“功绩主义”，也就是相信每个人的地位忠实呈现他的能力，我认为这种想法太疯狂了，我可以支持所有相信这个想法的，无论是左倾还是右倾的政治家，我同样相信功绩主义，但我认为一个完全彻底以能力取决地位的社会，是个不可能的梦想。

Is there any relief from some of thesepressures that I've been outlining? I think there is. I just want to turn to afew of them. Let's take meritocracy. This idea that everybody deserves to getwhere they get to, I think it's a crazy idea, completely crazy. I will support any politician of Left and Right, with any halfway-decent meritocratic idea; I am a meritocrat in that sense. But I think it's insane to believe that we will ever make a society that is genuinely meritocratic; it's an impossible dream.

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我们可以从书店中感受到这些问题所造成的后果，当你像我一样到大型书店里的，自我帮助书籍类。如果你分析现在出版的这些自我帮助类书籍，它们基本上分成两种，第一种告诉你“你做得到！你能成功！没有不可能！”另外一种则教导你如何处理，我们婉转地称呼为“缺乏自信”，或是直接了当地称为“自我感觉极差”。

The consequences of this problem make themselves felt in bookshops. When you go to a large bookshop and look at the self-help sections, as I sometimes do -- if you analyze self-help book sproduced in the world today, there are basically two kinds. The first kind tells you, "You can do it! You can make it! Anything's possible!" The other kind tells you how to cope with what we politely call "low self-esteem," or impolitely call, "feeling very bad about yourself."

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今日最主要的势利，就是对职业的势利。你在派对中不用一分钟就能体会到，当你被问到这个21世纪初，最有代表性的问题：你是做什么的？你的答案将会决定对方接下来的反应，对方可能对你在场感到荣幸，或是开始看表，然后想个借口离开。

The dominant kind of snobbery that exists nowadays is job snobbery. You encounter it within minutes at a party, when you get asked that famous iconic question of the early 21st century, "What do you do?" According to how you answer that question, people are either incredibly delighted to see you, or look at their watch and make their excuses.

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我提出这件事是因为，我认为不只有我这么感觉。你可能不这么认为，但我感觉我们活在一个充满事业恐慌的时代，就在我们认为我们已经理解我们的人生和事业时，真实便来恐吓我们。

I'm mentioning all this -- I'm mentioning all this because I think this is not merely a personal problem; you may think I'm wrong in this, but I think we live in an age when our lives are regularly punctuated by career crises, by moments when what we thought we knew -- about our lives, about our careers -- comes into contact with a threatening sort of reality.

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西方思想中有一个悠久而阴森的传统，这个传统认为爱最终只能被认为是一种无法得到回应的东西，是一种倾慕，是马科斯兄弟崇拜者的行事；看到爱情得到回报的可能越渺茫，欲望就越旺盛。根据这个观点，爱只是一个方向，不是一个地点，达到目的，拥有被爱之人后则会自行销蚀。

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真正的爱情（恰恰总是诞生在我们知道之前）与常情背道而驰，不断增加的了解，既可能是一种吸引力，有可能是一种障碍——因为它使乌托邦与现实发生危险的冲突。

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美丽并没有恰当地符合比例的数学原则，美丽产生吸引力的地方正是可能使自己显得丑陋的地方。美丽也许需要承受与丑陋共存的风险。

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候机区的气氛充满了落寞。奇怪的是，这股气氛却因为弥漫于所有人身上而显得颇为怡人，不想孤身待在充满欢乐气息的环境中那么令人不自在，于是反倒比拥挤热闹的都市就把更让人觉得有可能结识新朋友。

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在这种时刻，感觉就像是自己逃过了死神的追杀——不过，同时涌现的另一种感受又会使得这个时刻更令人哀伤，也就是觉得自己不可能永远都能这么骗过死神。

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这些屏幕隐含了一种无穷无尽而且能够立即实现的可能性：望着这些屏幕，我们可以想象自己在一时的冲动下走到售票柜台前，然后不到几个小时，即可出发前往某个遥远的国家。在那里，祈祷仪式的呼唤声回荡在白色石灰墙的屋宇上空，我们不懂当地的语言，也没有人知道我们的身份。屏幕上显示的各个目的地没有任何说明描述，却因此更在我们内心激起怀旧与渴望的情绪：特拉维夫、的黎波里、圣彼得堡、迈阿密、经由阿布扎比转机至马斯喀特、阿尔及尔、由拿骚转机至大开曼岛……每个地点都承诺着不同于我们既有人生的生活形态。我们一旦对自己的生活感到羁束滞闷，就不免向往这些遥远的地方。