開始

 

 

"Beginning is not only a kind of action.

It is also a frame of mind, a kind of work, an attitude, a consciousness."

~Edward Said

開始不只是一種行動。

開始也是一種心態、一種工作、一種態度、一種意識。

 

 

"If we don't start, it's certain we can't arrive."

~Zig Ziglar

如果不出發，就無法抵達。

 

 

"The beginning of things,

of a world, especially,

is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic,

and exceedingly disturbing."

~Kate Chopin

一切的開始，特別是一個世界的開始，

必定是模糊、糾結而混亂的

令人憂心。

 

 

"It is the nature of beginning

something new is started

which cannot be expected from whatever may have happened before.

This character of startling unexpectedness is inherent to all beginnings."

~Hannah Arendt

開始的本質

充滿不確定性，全然無法預期。

所有的開始都蘊含驚人的不可預期性。

 

 

"Never lose an opportunity to use a practical beginning,

however small,

for it is wonderful how often in such matters

the mustard seed germinates and roots itself."

~Florence Nightingale

不要放棄任何一個開始的機會

不管多微不足道，

因為小小的芥菜子常常就這樣著地札根了

多麼美好。

 

 

"Things are always at their best in their beginnings."

~Blaise Pascal

萬物之初皆美好