2. Once in class, Socrates gave his disciples an assignment to do one thing and shake hands a hundred times a day. After a week, he asked how many people still insisted on doing it, and 90% people insisted on doing it. A month later, he asked again, when only half the people were there. A year later, he asked again. At this moment, only one person persisted, and that person was Plato.
Dickens, a famous British writer, usually pays great attention to observing life and experiencing it. No matter whether it is windy or rainy, he insists on going to the streets to observe and listen every day, recording the odds and ends of pedestrians and accumulating rich living materials. In this way, he wrote a wonderful dialogue description in david copperfield and a vivid social background description in A Tale of Two Cities, thus becoming a generation of English writers and achieving great success in his literary career.
1999 Ma Yun, the founder of Alibaba, never gave up his dream. He once wanted to enter a key primary school, but failed. I also failed in key middle schools; It took three years to enter the university; I missed Harvard University and didn't succeed. However, he has perseverance and courage. As the saying goes, "the blade comes from sharpening, and the plum blossom fragrance comes from bitter cold." Through his own efforts, he finally succeeded. He said: dreams, down-to-earth, tears are closely related.
Marx, the outdoor tutor of the world proletarian revolution, spent many years reading Das Kapital and read a lot of materials in the British Museum, but a layer of cement was worn off on the concrete floor under the seat. Through unremitting efforts, Marx finally wrote Das Kapital, which the proletarians all over the world needed.
Helen Keller is blind and deaf, but she has changed from a compassionate little girl to a strong woman who is respected by the whole world. If life is really unfair, then life is extremely unfair to her. She can put down her dreams and hide in a dark corner and cry loudly. No one will blame her. She can also lie in bed or sit in a wheelchair and be served like a vegetable. But all this, she didn't do it. She just labored to learn blind language and get in touch with things with the help of her teacher, only relying on her never-giving-up faith and perseverance. She painted her ideal sky with the brightest color of life.
6. Sima Qian dabbled in group books when he was a teenager and decided to inherit his father's business. Just when the Historical Records he wrote was progressing smoothly, he was jailed because of the Liling Incident. In response to this great shame, he did not sigh and sink, but forged ahead, "quiet but not angry." After decades of injustice and smearing, he finally wrote Historical Records, which will be handed down to future generations.
7. Li Bai, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, didn't like reading when he was a child. One day, while the teacher was not at home, he sneaked out to play. He came to the river at the foot of the mountain and saw an old woman grinding an iron pestle on a stone. Li Bai was puzzled and asked, "Old woman, what are you doing grinding the iron pestle?" The old woman said, "I am grinding the needle." Li Bai was surprised and asked, "Oh dear! As thick as a pestle, how can it be ground into a needle? " The old woman smiled and said, "As long as you grind it every day, the pestle will become thinner and thinner. Are you afraid it won't be a needle? " Hearing this, Li Bai thought of himself and felt ashamed. He turned and ran back to the bookstore. From then on, he kept in mind the truth that "as long as the kung fu is deep, the iron pestle is ground into a needle", studied hard, and finally became a great poet, known as the "poet fairy".
8. leonardo da vinci, a famous painter in Renaissance Europe, loved painting since he was a child. His father sent him to Florence, a famous Italian city at that time, to learn from the famous painter Fo Rocchio. The teacher asked him to start by drawing eggs. He painted for more than ten days. Seeing that he was a little impatient, the teacher said to him, "I don't think it is easy to draw an egg." You know, two eggs will never be exactly the same; " Even the same egg, as long as the shape is different from another angle, the oval outline of the egg will be different. Therefore, if you want to express it perfectly on drawing paper, you have to work hard. "From then on, Leonardo da Vinci devoted himself to studying sketches, and after a long period of hard and diligent artistic practice, he finally created many immortal paintings.
Before the expedition to Persia, Alexander the Great distributed all his property to his officials. One of the ministers named Pildigas was very surprised. Q: "Your Majesty, what are you carrying?" "I wish I only brought this kind of baby." Alexander replied. Upon hearing this answer, Pildigas said, "Then please share it." So he declined the property allocated to him. Expectation is the signpost of creating life. Do not let go at any time.
10. Edison spent ten years developing batteries. In the meantime, he has been gritting his teeth and insisting. After about 50 thousand experiments, he finally succeeded in inventing the battery and was awarded the reputation of "the king of invention"
Persevering famous aphorisms
The Doctrine of the Mean: "It is difficult for a gentleman to give up halfway with the Tao.
If you are constant, why do you sleep at night and get up at night? The most useless thing is that it will be cold for ten days a day
The Peking Opera "String Dragonballs": "Men work hard and women work hard, each doing his own thing and persevering in the play."
Genius is the power of hard work. Dwight
Will lies in tempering, and success lies in persistence. Zhou Haizhong
As long as you keep working hard and make unremitting efforts, there is nothing you can't conquer. Seneca
There is no double diligence, neither talent nor genius. Mendeleev
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent diligence. Edison