2010年8月2日 星期一

On Imagination ~ Mark Twain

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

Against a imagination, demonstration goes for nothing.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

When a man goes back to look at the house of his childhood, it has always shrunk: there is no instance of such a house being as big as the picture in memory and imagination calls for.

< 談想像力>

別接近那試圖貶低你雄心的人。卑鄙的人總是如此,真正偉大的人卻讓你覺得,自己也可變得偉大。

想像力失焦時,不能仰仗你的眼睛。

想像力不健全,再怎麼說明、示範也沒用。

別放棄你的幻想,當它們離去時,你還會存在,只是茍延殘喘罷了。

人們回去看看兒時故居時,房子總是顯得縮小了,在回憶與想像的心版上,房子巍峨龐大,其實根本沒有這樣的房子。

~ 馬克吐溫的智慧

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