Behavioral research discloses that human relations at work are just easier, perhaps because they are more regular and predictable and thus simpler to adjust to than the sporadic¹, the more intense and less regular relationship in the community. (R.Sayles Leonard, British writer)

行为科学研究提示，工作中人与人之间较好相处。这或许是因为工作上的人际关系较有规律，而在社会上，人与人之间的关系是断断续续的，比较紧张，而且也较少有规律可循。(英国作家 伦纳德.R.S.)

Don't gild² the lily. (William Shakespeare, British dramatist)

不要给百合花镀金/画蛇添足。(英国剧作家 莎士比亚.W.)

Every man's work, whether it be literature of music of pictures or architecture of anything else, is always a portrait of himself. (Samuel Brtler, Averican educator)

每个人的工作，不管是文学、音乐、美术、建筑还是其他工作，都是自己的一幅画像。(美国教育家 勃特勒.S.)

Growth and change are the law of all life. Yesterday's answers are inadequate³ for today's problems ----just as the solutions of today will not fill the needs of tomorrow. (Franklin Roosevelt, Averican president)

生长与变化是一切生命的法则。昨日的答案不适用于今日的问题——正如今天的方法不能解决明天的需求。(美国总统 罗斯福.F.)

Happiness, I have discovered, is nearly always a rebound⁴ from hard work. (David Grayson, American journalkist)

我发现，辛勤工作的报酬几乎总是幸福。(美国记者 格雷森.D.)

I can live for two months on a good compliment. (Mark Twain, American writer)

只凭一句赞美的话我就可以充实地活上两个月。(美国作家 马克·吐温)

I do not like work ---no man does --but I like what is in the work -----the chance to find your self. (Conrad Joseph, British novelist)

我不喜欢工作——没有人会喜欢工作。但是我喜欢在所从事的工作中——找到发现自己的机会。(英国小说家 约瑟夫.C.)

In order that people may be happy in their work, these things are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do much of it; and they must have a sense of success in it. (John Ruskin, British writer)

为了使人们在工作的时感到快乐，必须做到以下三点；他们一定要胜任自己的工作，他们不可做得太多；他们必须对自己的工作有成就感。(英国作家 罗斯金.J.)

In our efforts to adjust differences of opinion we should be free from intolerance of passion, and our judgements should be unmoved by alluring⁵ phrases and unvexed by selfish interests. (Grover Cleveland, American president)

在我们努力协调意见的分歧时，应当抛弃偏执与意气用事；我们的判断不应当被花言巧语蒙骗，也不应被个人私利扰乱。(美国总统 克利夫兰.G.)

In silence, in steadiness, in severe abstraction, let him hold by him-delf, add observation to observation, patient of neglect, patient of reproach , and bide⁶ his own time , happy enough if he can satisfy himself alone that thia day he has seen something truly. (Ralph Waldo Emersom, American thihker)

学者应该高度集中精力，坚定信仰与追求，坚持缄默，继续观察。他要忍耐人们的忽视与责备，等待自己因为发现了某些真理而满怀欣喜的时机。(美国思想家 爱默生.R.W.)

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly⁷ unless one has plenty of work to do. (Jerome Klapka Jerome, British humorist)

除非有大量的工(英国幽默家 杰罗姆.J.K.)

It is no use doing what you like; you have got to like what you do. (Winston Churchill, British prime minister)

不能爱哪行才干哪行，要干哪行爱哪行。(英国首相 丘吉尔.W.)

My philosophy of life is work. (Thomas Alva Edison, Averican inventor)

我的人生哲学就是工作。(美国发明家 爱迪生.T.A.)

One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown⁸ is the belief that one's .work is terribly important, and that to take a holiday would bring all kinds of disaster, If I were a medical man , I should precribe a holiday to many patient who consicered his work important. (Bernard Russell, British philosopher)

神经即将崩溃的症状之一是相信自己的工作极端重要，休假将会带来种种灾难。如果我是医生，我给这样的病人开的药方是：休假。(英国哲学家 罗素.B.)

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today. (Elbert Hubbard, Bitish writer)

为把明天的工作做好，最好的准备是把今天的工作做好。(英国作家 哈伯德.E.)

The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, American thinker)

学者的工作就是通过向大众提示存在于现象中的事实来鼓舞大众、教育大众、引导大众。(美国思想家 爱默生.R.W.)

To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious⁹. (Samuel Bubler, American educator)

要从事伟大的工作，一个人必须既非常勤劳又非常空闲。(美国教育家 勃特勒.S.)

To him I owe the discovery that even very short periods of time add up to all useful hours I need, if I plunge¹⁰ in without delay. (Johm Erskine, American educator)

我感激他使我 发现即使是很短的时刻，只要我分秒必争的一头钻进工作，积累起来就成为我需要的特别有用的几个钟头。(美国教育家 厄斯金.J.)

To youth I have three words of counsel ---work, work and work. (Otto Btismarck, Greman statesman)

对于青年，我的忠告只有三个词——工作，工作，工作。(德国政治家 俾斯麦.O.)

We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine cases out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety. (John Lubbock , British banker)

我们常常听人说，人们因工作过度而垮下来，但是实际上十有八九是因为饱受担忧或焦虑的折磨。(英国银行家 卢伯克.J.)

Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.

不管是谁，匆匆忙忙只能说明他不能从事他从事的工作。

We should work be such a significant source of human satisfaction.A good share of the answer rest in the kind of pride that is stimulated¹¹ by the job , by the activity of accomplishing. (Leonard R.Sayles, British writer)

为什么工作竟然是人们获得满足的如此重要的源泉呢？最主要的答案就在于，工作和通过工作所取得的成就，能激起一种自豪感。(英国作家 塞尔斯.L.R.)

Work banishes¹² those three great evils: boredom¹³, vice¹⁴ ,and poverty. (Voltaire, French Philosopher)

工作撵跑三个魔鬼：无聊，堕落和贫穷。(法国哲学家 伏尔泰)

Work is more that a necessary for most human beings; it is the focus of their lives , the souece of their identity and creativity. (Leonard R.Sayles, British writer)

对大多数人来说，工作不仅仅是一种必需，它还是 人们生活的焦点，是他们的个性和创造性的源泉。(英国作家 塞尔斯.L.R.)

Work is the grand cure for all the maladies and miseries¹⁵ that ever beset¹⁶ mankind. (Thoas Carlyle, British historian)

工作是良药，能医治一切困扰人的疾苦。(英国历史学家 卡莱尔.T.)

Work is worth doing of worth doing well. (Thomas Carlyle, British historian)

一件事如果值得做好，就值得去做。(英国历史学 爱卡莱尔.T.)