“Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.”
Vodcovstvo nie je o tituloch, pozíciách alebo vývojových diagramoch. Ide o jeden život ovplyvňujúci druhý.
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“You feel your strength in the experience of pain.”
Svoju silu pocítite pri prežívaní bolesti.
“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
Jedna dobrá vec, čo sa týka hudby je, že keď sa vás dotkne, necítite žiadnu bolesť.
Varianta: 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.”
Prišiel som príliš ďaleko a neviem, ako sa vrátiť.
“An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.”
Abnormálna reakcia na abnormálnu situáciu je normálne správanie.
Zdroj: 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.”
Všetko, čím sme, žije v každom okamihu v nás.
“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.”
Už som si dávno všimol, že ľudia, ktorí dosiahli úspech, sa len zriedka posadili a nechali, aby sa im veci diali samé od seba. Oni sa radšej postavili a zasiahli do procesu diania.
“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”
Starať sa o seba nie je pôžitkárstvo, je to pud sebazáchovy, a ten je aktom politickej vojny.
“It's no shame to be born stupid. Only to die stupid.”
Nie je hanba narodiť sa hlúpy, len umrieť ako hlúpy.
Zdroj: Three Comrades
“I have never met a man so ignorant that I could not learn something from him.”
Nikdy som nestretol človeka natoľko nevzdelaného, že by som sa od neho nebol niečo naučil.
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.”
Muž, ktorý hýbe horou, začína odnášaním malých kameňov.
Zdroj: Confucius: The Analects
“The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.”
Schopnosť nájsť krásu v tých najskromnejších veciach robí domov šťastným a život krásnym.
Varianta: 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.”
Zmyslom života je … žiť, vychutnať zážitky v maximálnej miere, netrpezlivo a bez strachu prežívať nové a bohatšie zážitky.
Foreword (January 1960)
You Learn by Living (1960)
“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
Nebojte sa byť výstredný, pretože každý názor, ktorý je teraz všeobecne uznávaný, bol kedysi výstredný.
"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
Kontext: 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.”
Tiež mám pocity. Som stále človek. Všetko, čo chcem, je byť milovaná, pre seba a svoj talent.
“It isn't where you came from; it's where you're going that counts.”
Nie to je dôležité, odkiaľ ste prišli; ale to, kam smerujete, je to, na čom naozaj záleží.
“A thousand Dreams within me softly burn”
Tisíc snov vo mne jemne horí
“Be yourself. The world worships the original.”
Buďte sami sebou. Svet uctieva unikátnosť.
“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
Zdroj: 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.”
Neprestávajte rozmýšľať o živote ako o dobrodružstve. Nebudete mať žiadnu istotu, ak nebudete žiť statočne, vzrušene, nápadito; ak si nevyberiete výzvu namiesto kompetencie.
Zdroj: The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
“Very few of us are what we seem.”
Len veľmi málo z nás je tým, kým sa zdajú byť.
Zdroj: The Man in the Mist
“The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.”
Najlepší spôsob, ako si splniť svoje sny, je zobudiť sa.
“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.”
Mám rada život. Bola som už divoko zúfalá, akútne mizerná, plná smútku, ale napriek tomu všetkému, som si stále istá, že už len byť nažive je veľká vec.
Foreword
An Autobiography (1977)
“The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.”
Jediné stvorenia, ktoré sú natoľko vyvinuté, aby vyjadrili čistú lásku, sú psi a dojčatá.
“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.”
Ak chcete, aby boli vaše deti inteligentné, čítajte im rozprávky. Ak chcete, aby boli vaše deti viac inteligentné, čítajte im viac rozprávok.
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
Kontext: 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.”
Nech ťa menej zaujímajú ľudia a viac nápady.
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
Varianta: In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.
“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.”
Prirodzené rozdelenie nie je ani spravodlivé, ani nespravodlivé; nespravodlivé nie je ani to, že sa ľudia rodia do spoločnosti v určitom konkrétnom postavení. To sú jednoducho prirodzené skutočnosti. Spravodlivý a nespravodlivý je spôsob, akým inštitúcie s týmito skutočnosťami narábajú.
Zdroj: A Theory of Justice (1971; 1975; 1999), Chapter II, Section 14, pg. 87-88
Kontext: 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.
Kontext: 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.”
Je lepšie, ak vás nenávidia za to, čím ste, ako by vás mali milovať za to, čím nie ste.
Frequently misattributed to Marilyn Monroe or Kurt Cobain.
Zdroj: https://books.google.com/books?id=xUtdDnEhkMMC&pg=PT12&lpg=PT12#v=onepage&q&f=false
Zdroj: Autumn Leaves, Philosophical eLibrary, 2012, (Feuillets d'automne, 1941, trans. Jeanine Parisier Plottel)
“I drink to make other people more interesting.”
Pijem, aby boli ostatní zaujímavejší.
“I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.”
Opakovane som vo svojom živote zlyhával, a preto sa mi darí.
“Let me be that I am and seek not to alter me.”
Nechajte ma byť tým, kým som, a nesnažte sa ma zmeniť.
Zdroj: 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.”
Sme tu preto, aby sme sa smiali na blbostiach a žili naše životy tak dobre, že sa aj smrť bude chvieť, keď si po nás príde.
“Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.”
Realita neexistuje nikde inde, len v ľudskej mysli.
Zdroj: 1984
“It all ends in tears anyway.”
Aj tak to všetko skončí plačom.
Zdroj: The Dharma Bums
“The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.”
Duša by mala byť vždy otvorená - pripravená privítať extatický zážitok.
“Strength does not come from winning.”
Sila nepochádza z víťazstva.
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
Kontext: 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.”
Všetko v živote je experiment. Čím viac experimentov urobíte, tým lepšie.
Zdroj: Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, with Annotations - 1841-1844
“God is in everything I do and all my work glorifies Him.”
Boh je vo všetkom, čo robím, a všetka moja práca ho oslavuje.
“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.”
Žiť je také zarážajúce, že na nič iné nezostáva čas.
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.”
Človek, ktorý je tak bolestne zamilovaný, je schopný neuveriteľného sebatrýznenia.
Zdroj: East of Eden
“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
Kráčať tmou s priateľom je lepšie, než kráčať svetlom sám.
Varianta: 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.”
Dokonca aj najtemnejšia noc raz skončí a vyjde slnko.
Zdroj: Les Misérables
“In time we hate that which we often fear.”
Časom často znenávidíme to, čoho sa bojíme.
Zdroj: Antony and Cleopatra
“Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.”
Nemajte strach z dokonalosti - nikdy ju nedosiahnete.
“It is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthword, downword, into the dark, the deep - into evil.”
S človekom je to rovnaké ako so stromom. Čím viac sa usiluje vystúpiť do výšky a svetla, tým prudšie sa jeho korene derú zemou, dolu, do tmy, do hlbín - do zla.
Zdroj: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“The phenomenological world is not the bringing to explicit expression of a pre-existing being, but the laying down of being. Philosophy is not the reflection of a pre-existing truth, but, like art, the act of bringing truth into being.”
Fenomenologický svet nie je explicitným vyjadrením už existujúceho bytia, ale stanovením bytia. Filozofia nie je odrazom už existujúcej pravdy, ale podobne ako umenie aktom uvedenia pravdy do bytia.
Zdroj: Phenomenology of Perception
“When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.”
Keď ste na konci svojich síl, zaviažte uzol a držte sa.
“Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.”
Humor je najväčším požehnaním ľudstva.
“Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.”
Nič nemôže byť horšie ako strach z toho, že sa človek vzdal príliš skoro a nechal nejaké úsilie, ktoré mohlo zachrániť svet, nevyužité.
“The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”
Základnou príčinou problémov je, že v modernom svete sú si hlupáci príliš istí, zatiaľ čo inteligentní sú plní pochybností.
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.”
Kamkoľvek prídem, všade zistím, že tam už bol nejaký básnik predo mnou.
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.”
Všetko, čím sme, je výsledkom toho, čo sme si mysleli. Myseľ je všetko. Na čo myslíme, tým sa stávame.
“I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.”
Zašiel som do najhorších barov v nádeji, že ma zabijú, ale jediné, na čo som sa zmohol bolo, že som sa znova opil.
“What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve.”
Čo si myseľ dokáže predstaviť a čomu dokáže uveriť, a po čom srdce túži, to môžete dosiahnuť.
“We can only learn to love by loving.”
Milovať sa môžeme naučiť len tak, že budeme milovať.
The Bell (1958), ch. 19; 2001, p. 219.
“I die without seeing the dawn brighten over my native land. You who have it to see, welcome it--and forget not those who have fallen during the night!”
Zomriem bez toho, aby som videl úsvit nad mojou rodnou krajinou. Vy, ktorí ho máte možnosť vidieť, privítajte ho - a nezabúdajte na tých, ktorí padli počas noci!
Noli me Tangere
Zdroj: Noli Me Tángere
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
Cesta dlhá tisíc míľ sa začína jediným krokom.
Laozi in the Tao Te Ching, Chapter 64
Misattributed, Chinese
“I like good strong words that mean something…”
Mám rád dobré silné slová, ktoré aj niečo znamenajú …
Zdroj: Little Women
“Half the time you think your thinking you’re actually listening”
Polovicu času, keď si myslíte, že premýšľate, v skutočnosti načúvate.
“All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.”
Všetko, čo som kedy videl, ma učí dôverovať Stvoriteľovi za to všetko, čo som ešte nevidel.
“There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.”
Neexistujú krásne povrchy bez desivej hĺbky.
“Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.”
“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
Knihy sú určené ľuďom, ktorí si želajú byť niekde inde.
“As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.”
Ako dieťa som sa cítil osamelý a stále sa tak cítim, pretože poznám veci a musím poukazovať na veci, o ktorých ostatní zjavne nič nevedia a väčšinou ani nechcú vedieť.
Zdroj: Memories, Dreams, Reflections
“The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.”
Najušľachtilejší pôžitok je radosť z porozumenia.
“Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.”
Nech budúcnosť prezradí pravdu a nech hodnotí každého podľa ich práce a úspechov. Súčasnosť je ich; budúcnosť, pre ktorú som skutočne pracoval, je moja.
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?”
Ľudia, ktorí sa snažia zhoršiť tento svet, nemajú deň voľna. Prečo by som teda mal mať ja?
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
Varianta: 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.”
Vietor nemôžeme riadiť, ale môžeme nastaviť plachty.
“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.”
Vzácnejšie ako skutočná láska, je len skutočné priateľstvo.
“Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.”
Bohatí ľudia majú malé televízory a veľké knižnice a chudobní ľudia majú malé knižnice a veľké televízory.
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
Ak už nedokážeme zmeniť situáciu, musíme zmeniť seba.
Zdroj: Man's Search for Meaning
“Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.”
Verte v lásku, ktorá je pre vás uložená ako dedičstvo, a verte, že v tejto láske je taká veľká sila a požehnanie, že môžete putovať tak ďaleko, ako si želáte, bez toho, aby ste museli vystúpiť z jej rámca.
Zdroj: Letters to a Young Poet
“When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion.”
Keď konám dobro, cítim sa dobre, keď sa konám zlo, cítim sa zle - to je moje náboženstvo.
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.”
Dôvodom, prečo sa rozprávam sám so sebou je to, že som jediný, ktorého odpovede prijímam.
“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”
Inteligencia plus charakter - to je cieľom skutočného vzdelania.
Varianta: 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.”
Myseľ chce zabudnúť, pretože veľmi zaťažuje srdce a dušu. Som unavená z plaču a pocitu bezmocnosti. Chcem sa opäť nadýchnuť - aspoň na chvíľu.
“Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together.”
Niekedy sa veci rozpadajú, aby sa lepšie veci mohli dať dohromady.
Varianta: 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.”
Ak mám byť úplný, musím mať aj temnú stránku.
“Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”
Nikdy sa nehádajte s hlúpymi ľuďmi, stiahnu vás na svoju úroveň a potom vás porazia skúsenosťami.
Varianta: 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.”
Sloboda je právo hovoriť ľuďom to, čo nechcú počuť.
Sometimes paraphrased as "Liberty is telling people what they do not want to hear."
Varianta: Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
Zdroj: 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.”
Zdá sa, že každý má jasnú predstavu o tom, ako by mali ostatní žiť svoj život, ale nikto nevie, ako má žiť ten svoj.
Zdroj: The Alchemist
“I am I, and I wish I weren't.”
Ja som ja a kiežby to tak nebolo.
Zdroj: Brave New World
“The past has no power over the present moment.”
Minulosť nemá v súčasnosti žiadnu moc.
“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”
Život je kvet, pre ktorý je láska medom.
“Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.”
Vychovávajte deti a nebude potrebné trestať mužov.
As quoted in Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists (2007) by James Geary
“HUMAN BEINGS MAKE LIFE SO INTERESTING. DO YOU KNOW, THAT IN A UNIVERSE SO FULL OF WONDERS, THEY HAVE MANAGED TO INVENT BOREDOM. (Death)”
Ľudské bytosti robia život tak zaujímavým. Podarilo sa im vymyslieť nudu vo vesmíre plnom zázrakov.
Zdroj: Hogfather
“We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.”
Všetci žijeme s cieľom byť šťastní; naše životy sú rôzne, a predsa rovnaké.
“Creativity is intelligence having fun.”
Kreativita je zabávajúca sa inteligencia.
“We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.”
Všetci sme boli naraz strašne osamelí; a osamelí sme to museli zvládnuť.
Zdroj: All Quiet on the Western Front
“No man is free who cannot control himself.”
Nikto nie je slobodný, kto sa nedokáže ovládať.
“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
Nič na svete nie tak nebezpečné ako úprimná ignorancia a svedomitá hlúposť.
Zdroj: 1960s, Strength to Love (1963), Ch. 4 : Love in action, Sct. 3
“The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.”
Najlepší vodca nemusí byť nevyhnutne ten, kto robí tie najlepšie veci. Je to ten, ktorý prinúti ľudí robiť najlepšie veci.
“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.”
Vyznanie nie je zrada. Nezáleží na tom, čo hovoríte alebo robíte; záleží iba na pocitoch. Keby ma prinútili k tomu, aby som ťa prestal milovať - to by bola skutočná zrada.
Zdroj: 1984
“If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.”
Ak strácate svoju dušu a viete o tom, tak ešte stále máte dušu, ktorú môžete stratiť.
“I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.”
Rád sa s vami rozprávam. Vaša myseľ ma oslovuje. Podobá sa mojej vlastnej mysli, až na to, že vy ste zhodou okolností blázon.
Zdroj: 1984
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
Nie nedostatok lásky, ale nedostatok priateľstva zaviňuje nešťastné manželstvo.
“I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to live the width of it as well.”
Nechcem sa dostať na koniec svojho života a zistiť, že som prežil len jeho dĺžku. Chcem ho prežiť aj do šírky.
As quoted in Meditations for Women Who Do Too (1991) by Anne Wilson Schaef