I was lucky to learn from someone who believed this deeply. Someone who knew that changing the world starts with " following a vision, not a path" . He was my friend and mentor, Steve Jobs.

我很幸运，能够从一位坚信这条理念的人那里了解到这点。他坚信要追随自己的理想，不循规蹈矩。他就是我的良师益友，史蒂夫•乔布斯。

In all England, I do not believe that I could have fixed on a situation so completely removed from the stir of society. A perfect misanthropist's heaven: and Mr Heathcliff and I are such a suitable pair to divide the desolation between us.

个英格兰境内，我不相信我竟能找到这样一个能与尘世的喧嚣完全隔绝的地方，一个厌世者的理想的天堂。而希刺克厉夫和我正是分享这儿荒凉景色的如此合适的一对。

They found that givers reliably chose the desirable gifts.

他们发现送礼者确实会选择理想型的礼物。

The ideal employee is someone who is willing to work hard and someone who can adapt to the way we work.

理想的员工是一位愿意努力工作的人，同时还能够适应我们的工作方式。

The ideal companion machine would not only look, feel, and sound friendly but would also be programmed to behave in an agreeable manner.

理想的伴侣机器将不仅看起、摸起和听起友善，还会编程使其拥有一种令人愉快的行为方式。

And of course, when your motivation is high, you work more efficiently and you have more time, both for the fun things but also for pursuing some things that can help you get ahead.

当然，你积极性高的时候，学习效率更高，就会有更多的时间，这既是为了快乐，也是为了追求一些能帮助你崭露头角的理想。

We grow old by deserting our ideals.

理想丢弃，方堕暮年。

Yet for some time America has been straying from this ideal.

但是，一段时间，国正离这个理想渐行渐远。

The prairie was ideal for growing wheat.

大草原是理想的小麦田。

Well, ideally, an enclosed, selfsustaining biodome in New Mexico.

理想状态下应该是一个封闭自给自足的位于墨西哥的生态环境。

Mark Twain suggested that an ingredient was missing in the American ambition when he said: " What a robust people, what a nation of thinkers we might be, if we would only lay ourselves on the shelf occasionally and renew our edges."

马克·吐温认为，国人的理想中缺少了一种成分。他说：“如果我们能偶尔地躺下好好放松休息一下，使我们的棱角始终保持锋利，那么我们将有可能成为一个多么朝气蓬勃的民族，一个多么富有思想的民族啊！

That air of respectability was carefully concocted by her mother. My grandmother, LaRue, had come of age in the 1950s, in the decade of idealistic fever that burned after World War II.

这种表面的体面是她母亲精心炮制的结果。我的外婆拉鲁成年于二十世纪五十年代，当时正值二战后理想主义成为狂热思潮的十年。

Ambitious. - And -- and so interesting.

很有理想 -真有意思。

One of the most common tendencies we have when our heart is broken is to idealize the person who broke it.

当我们心碎时，最常见的倾向之一，就是会理想化那个让我们心碎的人。

But in terms of who's running sports, who's making the decisions, it wasn't perfect.

但是运营比赛和做决策方面，分数并不理想。

He's in it for the principle of creating sustainability and transport, as an ideology really.

他是为了创造一种可持续交通方式的理念，这是他的理想。

In the idealized version of how science is done, facts about the world are waiting to be observed and collected by objective researchers who use the scientific method to carry out their work.

科学研究的理想状态下，关于世界的事实正等待着那些客观的研究者观察和搜集，研究者们会用科学的方法进行他们的工作。

Pay attention to the words they use to describe the candidate they're looking for.

注意他们用形容理想求职者的词语。

When I was a child, my father always told me, Ivanka if you're going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big.

当我还是个孩子时，我父亲总是告诉我，“伊万卡，如果你有什么理想，一定要目标远大。”

To help you come to the right conclusion and avoid a life slumped over a desk, here's seven steps that you should follow when trying to find your ideal career path.

为帮助你得出正确的结论并避免一生一事无成，寻找理想的专业时，你应该遵循下七个步骤。