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.)