创富隽语

如果你不喜欢爬山，费力去登顶就毫无意义。
If you don’t enjoy the climb, giving what it takes to get to the top isn’t worth it.
——马尔科姆·福布斯

登上顶峰之前，不要测量山峰的高度。登顶之后你自然就会知道山有多低的。
Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
——前联合国秘书长达格·哈马舍尔德

成功在于攀登。
Success consists in the climb.
——美国作家阿尔伯特·哈伯德

没有你相伴的欢愉，我不怎么在乎自己此生是否能游历另一座山。
Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don’t care if I never see another mountain in my life.
——英国作家查尔斯·兰姆

如果我们不曾冒险，不曾大胆攻击野山羊，不曾在危崖边颤抖，那么，我们就永不应该沮丧。
If we didn’t live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed.
——美国作家弗吉尼亚·伍尔芙

就在几天前，我还豪情万丈，似乎能移山倒海，可今天，我彻底垮了。
I was still full of fervor just a few days ago; it seemed to me that I could move mountains; today, I am crushed.
——法国文学家安德烈·纪德

我采用从上到下的方式。
I started at the top and worked my way down.
——美国电影人奥逊·威尔斯

面向阳光，你就看不到阴影。
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
——美国盲人作家海伦·凯勒

向上看而不要向下看；
向前看而不要向后看；
向外看而不要向内看；
向他人施与援手。
Look up and not down;
Look forward and not back;
Look out and not in;
Lend a hand.
——美国作家爱德华·埃弗雷特·海尔

维持一个人的生命的事物，是他的事业。
Every man’s task is his life preserver.
——美国哲学家拉尔夫·瓦尔多·爱默生

热爱劳动有益身心健康。
Love labor. It is wholesome for thy body and good for thy mind.
——美国宾州的缔造者威廉·潘

上山有很多路，但山顶的风景都一样。
There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same.
——中国谚语

最完美的生活是最热爱的生活。上帝会为我们把握尺度。
He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.
——英国作家塞缪尔·巴特勒

忍受无法忍受的事情才是真正的忍耐。
To endure what is unendurable is true endurance.
——日本谚语

我矮小、丑陋得足以靠自己取得成功。
I’m short enough and ugly enough to succeed on my own.
——美国电影人伍迪·艾伦

得到即是完结，快乐的精髓在于过程。
Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.
——英国诗人威廉·莎士比亚

成功是人类的上帝。
Success is man’s god.
——古希腊悲剧作家埃斯库罗斯

胜利者终究会属于认为自己能行的人。
But soon or late the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
——英国诗人沃尔特·温特尔

我们还记得加拿大短跑选手本·约翰逊以9秒79打破男子百米世界纪录的情景。约翰逊跑到一半时突然爆发出惊人的力量冲过终点线。谁知道那事后查出的兴奋剂起了多大作用？既然违禁药物能够明显提高成绩、强壮肌肉，那么兴奋剂的使用只会有增无减。
We watched Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson run his world record 100-meter dash. Midway, it seemed that he had turned on an afterburner to roar across the finish line way ahead. Who’s to know to what extent the later-detected steroids accounted for it? But since such illicit steroids unquestionably hype performance and are shortcuts to muscle bulging, their use is an ever increasing factor in sports and body-building.
——马尔康姆·福布斯（1988）

世上值得骗取的东西往往是那些值得拥有的东西。
A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.
――美国喜剧演员W·C·费尔德斯

没有良知的生活如同驾驶一辆没有车闸的汽车。
Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the brakes on.
――美国小说家巴德·舒尔伯格

有时为了维护自尊心，我们有必要撒谎和欺骗。
In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.
――美国演员罗伯特·拜恩

除非万不得以，否则绝不撒谎。
Don’t lie if you don’t have to.
――美国核物理学家里奥·西拉德

只有伪君子才是真正堕落的人。
Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
――德裔美国政治理论家汉娜•阿伦特

如果我们一生都活在谎言之中，并且对这些谎言无动于衷，我们就很难看清世间的真面目。
If we live all our lives under lies it becomes difficult to see anything if it does not have anything to do with these lies.
――美国诗人阿米里·巴拉卡

人们需要好谎言，糟糕的谎言太多了。
People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.
――美国作家库尔特·冯内古特

如果愿意，你可以做一个伪君子，但不要像伪君子那样撒谎。
Be a hypocrite if you like; but don’t talk like one!
――法国哲学家丹尼斯·狄德罗

相比大谎言和小谎言，民众更容易相信的是前者。
The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.
――阿道夫·希特勒

最信任的人往往最容易欺骗你。
Those you trust the most can steal the most.
――美国剧作家劳伦斯·立夫

人生的艺术在于真诚。有时你会因真诚失去一些，但会让你得到更有价值的东西。没有什么比伪装门面更麻烦的了。
The art of life is to show your hand. There is no diplomacy like candor. You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do. Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.
――英国散文家爱德华·卢卡斯

在体育比赛中，如果一个人越是表现出一副正常的样子就越有作弊的倾向，我相信这是人的天性中的怪癖。
In athletics there’s always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you’re not cheating. I think that’s just a quirk of human nature.
――美国篮球运动员卡里姆·阿卜杜尔·贾巴尔

某些家伙在比赛中只会使用兴奋剂，因为他们靠天分根本没有机会赢得胜利。真是太差劲了！
There are guys in the game only because of steroids. They couldn’t make it with their natural talent. It sucks.
――美国棒球运动员大卫·威尔士

我从来没有使用过兴奋剂和激素，将来也不会。
I did not use steroids or human growth hormone, and I’ve never done so.
――美国棒球投手罗格·克莱门斯

自由无束的艺术达到了一个新的高潮。就独创性来说，它赶得上弗朗茨·克莱因、海伦·弗兰肯塔尔和马克·罗斯科等画家了。它就是那些限制民主进程的聪明人的才艺，他们在每十年的人口新普查之后规划新的选举区。但是，他们改变选举区的操纵艺术，应当受到法庭的审判。
There’s a new pinnacle in formless, shapeless art. For ingenuity, it rivals the fascinating intertwined drips of Pollock, the extraordinary slashes of Franz Kline, the splashed stains of Helen Frankenthaler, the drifting masses of Mark Rothko. It’s the accomplishment of those brilliant circumscribers of the democratic process who design new congressional districts after every decade’s new census. Their gerrymandering art, though, should be judged by the courts.
——马尔康姆·福布斯 (1983)

一行诗或许会耗费我们数个小时，但是如果它没有反映我们某个瞬间的思想，我们对语言的反复推敲工作就是毫无意义的。
A line will take us hours maybe; yet if it does not seem a moment’s thought, our stitching and unstitching has been naught.
——爱尔兰诗人、剧作家威廉·勃特勒·叶芝

关于写作，它就像夜间开车一样，你永远只能看到车灯所及的地方，但你仍能让整个旅程朝着既定方向行进。
On writing: It’s like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
——美国作家E·L·多克特罗

如果你绕街区踱上一圈仍找不到灵感，那就绕两个街区吧——但别绕第三个了。
If you can’t find your inspiration by walking around the block one time, go around two blocks–but never three.
——美国画家罗伯特·马瑟韦尔

一想到我能拿起画框，作出好画，让洛克菲勒那样的人用钞票来买它，我就感到非常愉快。
It gave me great pleasure to think that I could take wood, make it good, and make people like Rockefeller buy it with paper money.
——美国画家路易斯·内罗丽森

很少有人在35岁之后做出有创造性的事情，原因是很少有人在35岁之前做些有创造性的事。
Very few people do anything creative after the age of 35. The reason is that very few people do anything creative before the age of 35.
——化学家乔尔·希尔德布兰德

不能理解的东西，我无法创造。
What I cannot create I do not understand.
——美国物理学家理查德·费曼

我为什么要去画那些毫无生气的鱼、洋葱和啤酒杯？女孩们要漂亮多了。
Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier.
——法国画家玛丽·洛朗桑

写作就像在一条荒废的街道上漫步，用街上的灰尘制作泥团。
Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make mud pie.
——英国间谍小说作家约翰·勒卡雷

创造性大脑不会被任何糟糕的培训毁灭。
Creative minds have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
——奥地利心理学家安娜·弗洛伊德

作曲家不能思考太多——抄袭的念头会侵扰他思考的过程。
Composers shouldn’t think too much–it interferes with their plagiarism.
——音乐家霍华德·迪斯

不管创造性是什么，它在某种程度上都是某个问题的一个解决方案。
Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.
——科幻作家布莱恩·欧迪斯

在我看来，5岁孩子的思想就像一座火山，它有两个出口，一个是破坏性，另一个是创造性。
I see the mind of the 5-year-old as a volcano with two vents: destructiveness and creativeness.
——作家希尔维芽·阿什顿·华纳