The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again.
事業成功伴隨的沉重不見了,取而代之的是重回起跑線的那種輕盈。
Less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods in my life.
對于一切都不再確信無疑。我獲得了解放,進而開始了我一生中最富有創造力的時期。
During the next five years I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife.
在接下去的五年中,我建立了一家名叫 NeXT 的公司,另一家公司是Pixar,并與一位奇妙的女士共墮愛河,她后來成為了我的太太。
Pixar went on to create the world's first computer-animated feature film "Toy Story", and is now the most successful animation studio in the world.
Pixar 創作出了世界上第一部電腦動畫電影《玩具總動員》,現在它已經是世界上最成功的動畫工作室了。
In a remarkable turn of events. Apple bought NeXT and I returned to Apple.
再后來,一次引人注目的事件產生了轉機,蘋果公司買下了 NeXT,我重返蘋果。
And the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance.
而且我們在 NeXT 開發的技術現在成為了蘋果復興事業的核心。
And Lorene and I have a wonderful family together.
Lorene 跟我也組建了一個美好的家庭。
I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple.
我很確定,假如蘋果沒有開除我,所有這一切都不會發生。
It was awful-tasting medicine but I guess the patient needed it.
我想,這也正是良藥苦口利于病吧。
Sometimes life's going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.
有時候,生活會給你當頭一棒。不要失去信心。
I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.
我確信,唯一支撐我前進的東西就是:我愛我所做的事。
You've got to find what you love, and that is as true for work as it is for your lovers.
你必須找到你所愛的東西,這句話不僅適用于你的工作也同樣適用于你的愛情。
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work, and the only way to do great work is to love what you do.
你的工作構成了你生活的大部分,而唯一能讓你真正感到滿足的就是去做你認為偉大的工作,而做偉大的工作的唯一途徑是愛你所做的工作。
If you haven't found it yet, keep looking, and don't settle.
倘若你還沒有找到它,請你繼續,不要停下腳步。
As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. and like any great relationship it just gets better and better as the years roll on.
同所有與心靈相關的東西一樣,當你找到它時,你就會明白。而且它會像那些美好的愛情一樣,它會隨著歲月的流逝而愈加醇美。
So keep looking. Don't settle.
所以,保持前行,永不止步。