“Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.”
Vedení není o titulech, pozicích nebo vývojových diagramech. Jde o jeden život ovlivňující druhý.
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“You feel your strength in the experience of pain.”
Svou sílu cítíte, když prožíváte bolest.
“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
Je jedna dobrá věc na hudbě, když vás zasáhne, necítíte žádnou bolest.
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.”
Dostal jsem se příliš daleko a nevím, jak se dostat zpátky.
“An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.”
Abnormální reakcí na abnormální situaci je normální chování.
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.”
Vše, co jsme, v každém okamžiku žije 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 jsem si dávno všiml, že lidé, kteří dosáhli úspěchu, se jen zřídka posadili a nechali, aby se jim věci děly samy od sebe. Oni se raději postavili a zasáhli do procesu dění.
“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”
Starat se o sebe není požitkářství, je to pud sebezáchovy, a ten je aktem politické války.
“It's no shame to be born stupid. Only to die stupid.”
Zdroj: Three Comrades
“I have never met a man so ignorant that I could not learn something from him.”
Nikdy jsem nepotkal nikoho tak hloupého, abych se od něj něčemu nepřiučil.
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, který hýbe horou, začíná přenášením kamínků.
Zdroj: Confucius: The Analects
“The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.”
Schopnost najít krásu v těch nejskromnějších věcech dělá domov šťastným a život krásným.
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.”
Účelem života je žít ho, vychutnávat zážitky v maximální míře, dychtivě a bez obav hledat novější a bohatší 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 se být výstřední ve svých názorech, protože každý názor, který byl nyní přijat, byl kdysi výstřední.
"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.”
Mám také pocity. Jsem stále člověk. Vše, co chci, je být milovaný, pro sebe a pro svůj talent.
“It isn't where you came from; it's where you're going that counts.”
Není důležité, odkud jste přišli, ale kam míříte.
“A thousand Dreams within me softly burn”
Tisíce snů ve mně tiše hoří.
“Be yourself. The world worships the original.”
Buď sám sebou. Svět uctívá originál.
“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
Není to smrt, které by se měl člověk bát, ale měl by se bát, že nikdy nezačne žít.
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.”
Nepřestávejte myslet na život jako na dobrodružství. Nemáte žádnou jistotu, pokud nebudete žít statečně, vzrušeně, nápaditě; pokud si nemůžete vybrat výzvu místo soutěže.
Zdroj: The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
“Very few of us are what we seem.”
Jen málo z nás je tím, kým se zdáme.
Zdroj: The Man in the Mist
“The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.”
Nejlepší způsob, jak uskutečnit své sny, je probudit se.
“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.”
Líbí se mi žití. Někdy jsem byl divoce zoufalý, zkroušený, plný zármutku, ale skrze to všechno stále zcela jistě vím, že jen být naživu je velká věc.
Foreword
An Autobiography (1977)
“The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.”
Jediná stvoření, které jsou natolik vyvinuté, aby vyjádřili čistou lásku, jsou psi a kojenci.
“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.”
Pokud chcete, aby vaše děti byly inteligentní, čtěte jim pohádky. Pokud chcete, aby byly ještě inteligentnější, čtěte jim více pohádek.
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.”
Ať tě méně zajímají lidé a více 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.”
Přirozené rozdělení není ani spravedlivé, ani nespravedlivé; nespravedlivé není ani to, že se lidé rodí do společnosti v určitém postavení. To jsou prostě přirozené skutečnosti. Spravedlivý a nespravedlivý je způsob, jakým instituce s těmito skutečnostmi nakládají.
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.”
Raději být nenáviděni za to, čím jsme, než být milováni za to, čím nejsme.
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.”
Piju, aby byli ostatní lidi zajímavější.
“I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.”
Ve svém životě jsem stále dokola selhával, a proto jsem uspěl.
“Let me be that I am and seek not to alter me.”
Dovolte mi být tím, kým jsem, a snažte se mě nezměnit.
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.”
Jsme tu proto, abychom se smáli na blbostech a žili naše životy tak dobře, že se i smrt bude chvět, když si po nás přijde.
“Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.”
Realita existuje v lidské mysli a nikde jinde.
Zdroj: 1984
“It all ends in tears anyway.”
Vše nakonec končí slzami.
Zdroj: The Dharma Bums
“The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.”
Duše by měla být vždy otevřená - připravena přivítat extatický zážitek.
“Strength does not come from winning.”
Síla nepochází z vítězství.
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.”
Celý život je experiment. Čím více experimentů uděláte, tím lépe.
Zdroj: Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, with Annotations - 1841-1844
“God is in everything I do and all my work glorifies Him.”
Bůh je ve všem, co dělám, a celá moje práce ho oslavuje.
“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.”
Žít je tak ohromující, že na nic jiného nezbývá 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.”
Tak bolestně zamilovaný člověk je schopen neuvěřitelného sebetrýznění.
Zdroj: East of Eden
“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
Kráčet tmou s přítelem je lepší, než kráčet světlem 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.”
Dokonce i ta nejtemnější noc skončí a vyjde slunce.
Zdroj: Les Misérables
“In time we hate that which we often fear.”
Časem nenávidíme to, čeho se často bojíme.
Zdroj: Antony and Cleopatra
“Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.”
Neměj strach z dokonalosti. Nikdy jí nedosáhneš.
“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 člověkem je to stejné jako se stromem. Čím více se snaží vystoupat do výšky a ke světlu, tím prudčeji se jeho kořeny propadají do země, do temnoty, do hlubin - 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 svět není explicitním vyjádřením již existujícího bytí, ale položením bytí. Filosofie není reflexí již existující pravdy, ale stejně jako umění aktem uvádění pravdy do bytí.
Zdroj: Phenomenology of Perception
“When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.”
Když jste na konci lana, uvázejte uzel a držte ho.
“Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.”
Humor je největším požehnáním lidstva.
“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.”
Není nic horšího než strach, že se člověk vzdal příliš brzy a zanechal jedno nevyužité úsilí, které mohlo zachránit svět.
“The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”
Základní příčinou potíží je to, že v moderním světě jsou hloupí sebejistí, zatímco inteligentní jsou 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.”
Kamkoli přijdu, všude zjistím, že tam byl básník přede 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.”
Vše, čím jsme, je výsledkem toho, co jsme si mysleli. Mysl je všechno. Na co myslíme, tím se stáváme.
“I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.”
Chodil jsem do těch nejhorších barů v naději, že mě zabijí, ale jediné, co jsem dokázal, bylo znovu se opít.
“What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve.”
Co si mysl dokáže představit, čemu věří a po čem srdce touží, toho můžete dosáhnout.
“We can only learn to love by loving.”
Milovat se můžeme naučit jen tak, že budeme milovat.
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!”
Zemřu, aniž bych spatřil svítání nad svou rodnou zemí. Vy, kteří máte možnost ho spatřit, přivítejte ho - a nezapomeňte na ty, kteří padli během noci!
Noli me Tangere
Zdroj: Noli Me Tángere
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
Cesta dlouhá tisíc mil začíná jediným krokem.
Laozi in the Tao Te Ching, Chapter 64
Misattributed, Chinese
“I like good strong words that mean something…”
Mám rád dobrá silná slova, které také něco znamenají …
Zdroj: Little Women
“Half the time you think your thinking you’re actually listening”
Polovinu času, kdy si myslíš, že přemýšlíš, ve skutečnosti posloucháš.
“All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.”
Vše, co jsem viděl, mě učí věřit Stvořiteli kvůli všemu, co jsem neviděl.
“There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.”
Neexistují krásně povrchy bez děsivé hloubky.
“Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.”
Vyhýbejte se cigaretám, alkohol a drogy jako alternativy k tomu, abyste byli zajímavou osobou.
“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
Knihy jsou určeny lidem, kteří si přejí být někde jinde.
“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.”
Jako dítě jsem se cítil osamělý a cítím se tak stále, protože vím a musím naznačovat věci, o kterých ostatní zřejmě nic nevědí a většinou ani vědět nechtějí.
Zdroj: Memories, Dreams, Reflections
“The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.”
Nejušlechtilejším potěšením je radost z porozumění.
“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.”
Nechme budoucnost ať odhalí pravdu a hodnotí každého podle jeho práce a úspěchů. Přítomnost je jejich, budoucnost, pro kterou jsem skutečně pracoval, je má.
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?”
Lidé, kteří se snaží zhoršit tento svět, si neberou dovolenou. Tak proč bych ji tedy měl mít já?
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.”
Nemůžeme rozkazovat větru, ale můžeme upravit plachty.
“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.”
Vzácná je skutečná láska, skutečné přátelství je vzácnější.
“Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.”
Bohatí lidé mají malé televize a velké knihovny a chudí mají malé knihovny a velké televize.
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
Když již nemůžeme změnit situaci, jsme vyzýváni změnit sami sebe.
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.”
Věřte v lásku, která se pro vás ukládá jako dědictví, a důvěřujte v to, že v této lásce je síla a požehnání tak velké, že budete moci dojít tak daleko, jak se vám zlíbí, aniž byste z něj museli vystoupit.
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.”
Když dělám dobře, cítím se dobře, když dělám špatně, cítím se špatně, a to je moje víra.
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.”
Důvodem, proč si povídám sám se sebou je to, že jsem jediný, jehož odpovědi přijímám.
“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”
Inteligence plus charakter - to je cíl skutečného vzdělání.
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.”
Mysl chce zapomenout, protože příliš zatěžuje srdce a duši. Jsem unavená z pláče a pocitu bezmoci. Chci se znovu nadechnout - jen na chvíli.
“Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together.”
Někdy se věci rozpadnou proto, aby se mohly dát dohromady lepší věci.
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.”
Mám-li být úplný, musím mít i temnou stránku.
“Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”
Nikdy se nehádejte s hloupými lidmi, stáhnou vás dolů na svou úroveň a pak vás porazí zkušenostmi.
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.”
Jestliže svoboda slova vůbec něco znamená, potom je to právo říkat lidem to, co nechtějí slyšet.
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 se, že každý má jasnou představu o tom, jak by ostatní měli vést své životy, ale nikdo o svém vlastním.
Zdroj: The Alchemist
“I am I, and I wish I weren't.”
Já jsem já a přál bych si, aby to tak nebylo.
Zdroj: Brave New World
“The past has no power over the present moment.”
Minulost nemá v současnosti žádnou moc.
“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”
Život je květina, pro kterou je láska medem.
“Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.”
Vzdělávejte děti a nebudete pak muset trestat dospělé.
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)”
Lidské bytosti činí život tak zajímavým. Podařilo se jim vymyslet nudu ve vesmíru plném zázraků.
Zdroj: Hogfather
“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.”
Potkáme se na místě, kde nebude tma.
Zdroj: 1984
“Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.”
Život nás nechtěl udělat dokonalými. Kdo je dokonalý, patří do muzea.
“Creativity is intelligence having fun.”
Kreativita je hrající si inteligence.
“We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.”
Všichni jsme najednou byli ukrutně osamělí a každý sám jsme to museli dotáhnout až do konce.
Zdroj: All Quiet on the Western Front
“No man is free who cannot control himself.”
Žádný člověk není svobodný, kdo se nedokáže ovládat.
“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
Nic na světě není nebezpečnější, než upřímná neznalost a svědomitá hloupost.
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.”
Nejlepší vůdce nemusí být nutně ten, kdo dělá nejlepší věci. Je to ten, kdo přiměje lidi dělat ty nejlepší věci.
“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.”
Zpověď není zrada. Na tom, co řeknete nebo uděláte, nezáleží; záleží jen na pocitech. Kdyby mě donutili přestat tě milovat - byla by to skutečná zrada.
Zdroj: 1984
“If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.”
Pokud ztrácíš svou duši a ty to víš, pak ještě musíš ztratit duši.
“I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.”
Rád si s vámi povídám. Vaše mysl mě oslovuje. Podobá se mé vlastní mysli, až na to, že vy jste shodou náhod šílený.
Zdroj: 1984
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
Ne nedostatek lásky, ale nedostatek přátelství zaviňuje nešťastná manželství.
“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.”
Nechci se dostat na konec svého života a zjistit, že jsem ho jenom prožil. Chci prožít i jeho šíři.
As quoted in Meditations for Women Who Do Too (1991) by Anne Wilson Schaef