过去是一个跟随我们的影子,但它不必定义我们。
The past is a shadow that follows us, but it doesn't have to define us.
"You have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate."
Old paint on canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens it is possible, in some pictures, to see the original lines: a tree will show through a woman's dress, a child makes way for a dog, a large boat is no longer on an open sea. That is called pentimento because the painter 'repented,' changed his mind. Perhaps it would be as well to say that the old conception, replaced by a later choice, is a way of seeing and then seeing again.
【释义】喜欢高谈阔论的人,会因为说话太多而失言。【延伸】祸从口出,言多必失,话太多的人,说得越多,往往错的就越多,而且,没有人会喜欢一个多嘴多舌的人。会说话是好事,要讲分寸,说过头了,还不如不说。