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“Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.”
“You feel your strength in the experience of pain.”
Силу ощущаешь, переживая боль.
“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
В музыке есть прекрасная вещь — когда она попадает в тебя, ты не чувствуешь боли.
Вариант: One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
“I've come too far, and I don't know how to get back.”
“An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.”
Источник: Man's Search for Meaning (1946; 1959; 1984), p. 32 in the 1992 edition, ISBN 0807014265, Beacon Press
“Everything we are is at every moment alive in us.”
Все, что мы есть, в каждый момент живет в нас.
“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”
Давным-давно мне стало известно, что люди, достигшие успеха, редко отсиживаются и позволяют происходить с ними. Они вышли и случилось с вещами.
“It's no shame to be born stupid. Only to die stupid.”
Не позорно родиться идиотом. Позорно только умереть идиотом.
Источник: Three Comrades
“I have never met a man so ignorant that I could not learn something from him.”
As quoted in The Story of Civilization : The Age of Reason Begins, 1558-1648 (1935) by Will Durant, p. 605
Attributed
“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
Источник: Confucius: The Analects
“The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.”
Дар видеть красоту в самых обычных вещах приносит в дом счастье и делает жизнь прекрасной.
Вариант: The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
“The purpose of life…is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
Цель жизни состоит в том, чтобы прожить ее, испытать опыт в максимальной степени, стремиться протянуть руку и без страха перед новым и более богатым опытом.
Foreword (January 1960)
You Learn by Living (1960)
“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
"A Liberal Decalogue" http://www.panarchy.org/russell/decalogue.1951.html, from "The Best Answer to Fanaticism: Liberalism", New York Times Magazine (16/December/1951); later printed in The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell (1969), vol. 3: 1944-1967, pp. 71-2
1950s
Контексте: The Ten Commandments that, as a teacher, I should wish to promulgate, might be set forth as follows:
1. Do not feel absolutely certain of anything.
2. Do not think it worth while to proceed by concealing evidence, for the evidence is sure to come to light.
3. Never try to discourage thinking for you are sure to succeed.
4. When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavour to overcome it by argument and not by authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.
5. Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always contrary authorities to be found.
6. Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you do the opinions will suppress you.
7. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
8. Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent that in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter.
9. Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.
10. Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.
“I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.”
У меня тоже есть чувства. Я все еще человек. Все, чего я хочу, это быть любимой за себя и свой талант.
“It isn't where you came from; it's where you're going that counts.”
“A thousand Dreams within me softly burn”
“Be yourself. The world worships the original.”
Будьте собой. Мир почитает подлинник.
“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
Не смерти должен бояться человек, он должен бояться никогда не начать жить…
Источник: Meditations
“Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.”
Не переставай думать о жизни как о приключении. У вас нет безопасности, если вы не можете жить смело, захватывающе, творчески; если вы не можете выбрать вызов вместо компетенции.
Источник: The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
“Very few of us are what we seem.”
Очень немногие из нас действительно являются тем, чем кажутся на первый взгляд.
Источник: The Man in the Mist
“The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.”
“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly despairing, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
Мне нравится жить. Иногда я был дико отчаянным, остро несчастным, измученным печалью, но, несмотря на все это, я все еще точно знаю, что просто быть живым - великая вещь.
Foreword
An Autobiography (1977)
“The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.”
“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
Если вы хотите, чтобы ваши дети были умными, читайте им сказки. Если вы хотите, чтобы они были умнее, читайте им ещё больше сказок.
Found in Montana Libraries: Volumes 8-14 (1954), p. cxxx http://books.google.com/books?id=PpwaAAAAMAAJ&q=%22more+fairy+tales%22#search_anchor. The story is given as follows: "In the current New Mexico Library Bulletin, Elizabeth Margulis tells a story of a woman who was a personal friend of the late dean of scientists, Dr. Albert Einstein. Motivated partly by her admiration for him, she held hopes that her son might become a scientist. One day she asked Dr. Einstein's advice about the kind of reading that would best prepare the child for this career. To her surprise, the scientist recommended 'Fairy tales and more fairy tales.' The mother protested that she was really serious about this and she wanted a serious answer; but Dr. Einstein persisted, adding that creative imagination is the essential element in the intellectual equipment of the true scientist, and that fairy tales are the childhood stimulus to this quality." However, it is unclear from this description whether Margulis heard this story personally from the woman who had supposedly had this discussion with Einstein, and the relevant issue of the New Mexico Library Bulletin does not appear to be online.
Variant: "First, give him fairy tales; second, give him fairy tales, and third, give him fairy tales!" Found in The Wilson Library Bulletin, Vol. 37 from 1962, which says on p. 678 http://books.google.com/books?id=KfQOAQAAMAAJ&q=einstein#search_anchor that this quote was reported by "Doris Gates, writer and children's librarian".
Variant: "Fairy tales … More fairy tales … Even more fairy tales". Found in Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales by Jack Zipes (1979), p. 1 http://books.google.com/books?id=MxZFuahqzsMC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false.
Variant: "If you want your children to be brilliant, tell them fairy tales. If you want them to be very brilliant, tell them even more fairy tales." Found in Chocolate for a Woman's Heart & Soul by Kay Allenbaugh (1998), p. 57 http://books.google.com/books?id=grrpJh7-CfcC&q=brilliant#search_anchor. This version can be found in Usenet posts from before 1998, like this one from 1995 http://groups.google.com/group/rec.music.beatles/msg/cec9a9fdf803b72b?hl=en.
Variant: "If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be very intelligent, read them more fairy tales." Found in Mad, Bad and Dangerous?: The Scientist and the Cinema by Christopher Frayling (2005), p. 6 http://books.google.com/books?id=HjRYA3ELdG0C&lpg=PA6&dq=einstein%20%22want%20your%20children%20to%20be%20intelligent%22&pg=PA6#v=onepage&q=einstein%20%22want%20your%20children%20to%20be%20intelligent%22&f=false.
Variant: "If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales." Found in Super joy English, Volume 8 by 佳音事業機構 (2006), p. 87 http://books.google.com/books?id=-HUBKzP8zsUC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA87#v=onepage&q&f=false
Disputed
Контексте: Fairy tales and more fairy tales. [in response to a mother who wanted her son to become a scientist and asked Einstein what reading material to give him]
“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”
Response to a reporter seeking an interview during a vacation with her husband in Brittany, who mistaking her for a housekeeper, asked her if there was anything confidential she could recount, as quoted in Living Adventures in Science (1972), by Henry Thomas and Dana Lee Thomas
This is stated to be a declaration she often made to reporters, in Madame Curie : A Biography (1937) by Eve Curie Labouisse, as translated by Vincent Sheean, p. 222
Вариант: In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.
Источник: A Theory of Justice (1971; 1975; 1999), Chapter II, Section 14, pg. 87-88
Контексте: Occasionally this reflection is offered as an excuse for ignoring injustice, as if the refusal to acquiesce in injustice is on a par with being unable to accept death. The natural distribution is neither just nor unjust; nor is it unjust that persons are born into society at some particular position. These are simply natural facts. What is just and unjust is the way that institutions deal with these facts.
Контексте: We may reject the contention that the ordering of institutions is always defective because the distribution of natural talents and the contingencies of social circumstance are unjust, and this injustice must inevitably carry over to human arrangements. Occasionally this reflection is offered as an excuse for ignoring injustice, as if the refusal to acquiesce in injustice is on a par with being unable to accept death. The natural distribution is neither just nor unjust; nor is it unjust that persons are born into society at some particular position. These are simply natural facts. What is just and unjust is the way that institutions deal with these facts. Aristocratic and caste societies are unjust because they make these contingencies the ascriptive basis for belonging to more or less enclosed and privileged social classes. The basic structure of these societies incorporates the arbitrariness found in nature. But there is no necessity for men to resign themselves to these contingencies. The social system is not an unchangeable order beyond human control but a pattern of human action. In justice as fairness men agree to avail themselves of the accidents of nature and social circumstance only when doing so is for the common benefit. The two principles are a fair way of meeting the arbitrariness of fortune; and while no doubt imperfect in other ways, the institutions which satisfy these principles are just.
“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
Лучше быть ненавистным за то, кто ты есть, чем любимым за то, кем ты не являешься.
Frequently misattributed to Marilyn Monroe or Kurt Cobain.
Источник: https://books.google.com/books?id=xUtdDnEhkMMC&pg=PT12&lpg=PT12#v=onepage&q&f=false
Источник: Autumn Leaves, Philosophical eLibrary, 2012, (Feuillets d'automne, 1941, trans. Jeanine Parisier Plottel)
“I drink to make other people more interesting.”
Я пью, чтобы окружающие меня люди становились интереснее.
“I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.”
Я терпел неудачу снова и снова и снова в своей жизни, и именно поэтому я добился успеха.
“Let me be that I am and seek not to alter me.”
Источник: Much Ado About Nothing
“We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”
Мы здесь, чтобы смеяться над шансами и жить так хорошо, что Смерть будет дрожать, чтобы взять нас.
“Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.”
Реальность существует в человеческом сознании и более нигде.
Источник: 1984
“It all ends in tears anyway.”
Всё заканчивается слезами в любом случае.
Источник: The Dharma Bums
“Strength does not come from winning.”
From a 1982 interview with Boston Globe journalist Marian Christy. Christy, Marian. "Winning according to Schwarzenegger." https://secure.pqarchiver.com/boston/doc/294151457.html Boston Globe: Boston, MA. 9 May 1982: p 51. Accessed 25 Jun 2016.
1980s
Контексте: Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. When you make an impasse passable, that is strength. But you must have ego, the kind of ego which makes you think of yourself in terms of superlatives. You must want to be the greatest. We are all starved for compliments. So we do things that get positive feedback.
“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”
Жизнь - бесконечное путешествие. И чем больше поворотов на пути, тем лучше!
Источник: Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, with Annotations - 1841-1844
“God is in everything I do and all my work glorifies Him.”
“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.”
The Letters of Emily Dickinson (1958), edited by Thomas H. Johnson, associate editor Theodora Ward. Quoted in "The Conscious Self in Emily Dickinson's Poetry" by Charles A. Anderson: American Literature, Vol. 31, No. 3 (Nov. 1959), pp. 290-308.
“A man so painfully in love is capable of self-torture beyond belief.”
Источник: East of Eden
“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
Ходить в темноте с другом лучше, чем ходить во свете одиночестве.
Вариант: Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
Источник: Les Misérables
“In time we hate that which we often fear.”
Источник: Antony and Cleopatra
“When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.”
Когда вы достигаете конца веревки, завяжите узел и держитесь.
Often paraphrased as "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."
Compare: "One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." B. Russell, New Hopes for a Changing World (1951). Compare also: "The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity." W. B. Yeats, The Second Coming (1919).
See also: Dunning-Kruger effect, Historical Antecedents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect#Historical_antecedents.
1930s, Mortals and Others (1931-35)
“Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.”
As quoted in In factor of the sensitive man, and other essays (1976 edition) by Anais Nin, p.14
Attributed from posthumous publications
“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.”
Все, чем мы являемся, - это результат того, о чём мы думали. Сознание - это все. О чем мы думаем, теми мы и становимся.
“I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.”
Я пошел в худший из баров, надеясь, что буду убит, но все, что я мог сделать, это напиться снова.
“We can only learn to love by loving.”
The Bell (1958), ch. 19; 2001, p. 219.
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
Laozi in the Tao Te Ching, Chapter 64
Misattributed, Chinese
“I like good strong words that mean something…”
Источник: Little Women
“Half the time you think your thinking you’re actually listening”
“All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.”
Все, что я видел, учит меня доверять Творцу всему, чего я не видел.
“There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.”
“Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.”
“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
Книги для людей, которые хотят, чтобы они были где-то еще.
“The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.”
Вершина удовольствия - это радость понимания.
On patent controversies regarding the invention of Radio and other things, as quoted in "A Visit to Nikola Tesla" by Dragislav L. Petković in Politika (April 1927); as quoted in Tesla, Master of Lightning (1999) by Margaret Cheney, Robert Uth, and Jim Glenn, p. 73 ISBN 0760710058 </small> ; also in Tesla: Man Out of Time (2001) by Margaret Cheney, p. 230 <small> ISBN 0743215362
“The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I?”
Люди, которые пытаются сделать этот мир хуже, не делают выходных, почему я должен?
Response, after being asked why he went ahead and performed in the concert "Smile Jamaica", two days after he, his wife and manager were wounded inside his home after an assault by unknown gunmen, thought to be politically motivated (5 December 1976), as quoted in Bob Marley The Father of Music (2010) by Jean-Pierre Hombasch, p. 5
Вариант: The people that are trying to make the world worse never take a day off, why should I?
“We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.”
Мы не можем командовать ветром, но мы можем отрегулировать паруса.
“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.”
Как ни редко встречается настоящая любовь, настоящая дружба встречается еще реже.
“Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.”
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
Когда мы больше не в состоянии изменить ситуацию, мы вынуждены изменить самих себя.
Источник: Man's Search for Meaning
“When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion.”
Когда я делаю добро, я чувствую себя хорошо. Когда я поступаю плохо, я чувствую себя плохо. Вот моя религия.
Quoted in 3:439 Herndon's Lincoln (1890), p. 439 http://books.google.com/books?id=rywOAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA439&dq=%22when+i+do+good+i+feel+good%22: Inasmuch as he was so often a candidate for public office Mr. Lincoln said as little about his religious code as possible, especially if he failed to coincide with the orthodox world. In illustration of his religious code I once heard him say that it was like that of an old man named Glenn, in Indiana, whom he heard speak at a church meeting, and who said: "When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion."
Posthumous attributions
“The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
Я разговариваю сам с собой, потому что я единственный человек, чьи ответы мне нравятся.
“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”
Интеллект плюс характер — вот цели настоящего образования.
Вариант: Intelligence plus character — that is the goal of true education.
“The mind wants to forget because it weighs so much on the heart and soul. I am tired of crying and feeling so helpless. I want to breathe again -just for a little while.”
Разум хочет забыть, ведь это так тяжко для сердца и души. Я устала плакать и чувствовать себя такой беспомощной. Я хочу снова дышать — просто ещё немного времени.
“Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together.”
Иногда, разбив хорошее, можно сложить что-то лучшее.
Вариант: Sometimes good things fall apart so that better things can fall together.
“I must also have a dark side if I am to be whole.”
У меня также должна быть темная сторона, если я хочу быть полноценным.
“Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”
Никогда не спорьте с идиотами. Вы опуститесь до их уровня, где они вас задавят своим опытом.
Вариант: Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
Свобода — это право говорить людям то, чего они не хотят слышать.
Sometimes paraphrased as "Liberty is telling people what they do not want to hear."
Вариант: Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
Источник: Original preface to Animal Farm; as published in George Orwell: Some Materials for a Bibliography (1953) by Ian R. Willison
“Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”
Каждый знает о том, как должны жить другие, но никто не имеет представления о том, как правильно прожить свою собственную жизнь.
Источник: The Alchemist
“I am I, and I wish I weren't.”
Я это я, а желал бы не быть.
Источник: Brave New World
“The past has no power over the present moment.”
Прошлое не имеет силы в настоящем моменте.
“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”
“Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.”
Воспитывайте детей, и тогда не нужно будет наказывать взрослых.
As quoted in Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists (2007) by James Geary
“We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.”
“We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.”
Мы встретимся в месте, где нет темноты.
Источник: 1984
“Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.”
Жизнь не намеревалась создать нас совершенными. Тому, кто совершенен, место только в музее.
“Creativity is intelligence having fun.”
“We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.”
Источник: All Quiet on the Western Front
“No man is free who cannot control himself.”
“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
В мире нет ничего опаснее искреннего невежества и честной глупости.
Источник: 1960s, Strength to Love (1963), Ch. 4 : Love in action, Sct. 3
“Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.”
Признание - не предательство. То, что ты говоришь или делаешь, не имеет значения; важны только чувства. Если бы они могли заставить меня разлюбить тебя - вот это было бы настоящим предательством.
Источник: 1984
“If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.”
Если вы теряете свою душу и знаете это, значит, у вас еще есть душа, которую можно потерять
“I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.”
Мне очень нравится говорить с вами. Ваше сознание влечет меня. Я вижу там отголоски своего, за исключением того, что вы оказались безумны.
Источник: 1984
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
Брак делает несчастным не недостаток любви, а недостаток дружбы.
As quoted in Meditations for Women Who Do Too (1991) by Anne Wilson Schaef
