Hemingway and His "Tough Guy Image"
Hemingway, an American writer, is a tough guy with great initiative. He tried to eat earthworms and lizards, took photos in the Mexican bullring and crossed the virgin forests of Africa. Both world wars went to war.
During World War I, at the age of 19, he saw an Italian soldier injured and braved the fire of the Austrian army to rescue him. As a result, his leg was injured, but he still carried the wounded man on his back. Suddenly, the shelling stopped, the searchlight turned on, and Hemingway finally returned to his position. It turned out that his heroic behavior touched the Austrian general and ordered him to let go.
Hemingway, as a writer, once said ambitiously that he would surpass Shakespeare, "kill" Turgenev, and beat Mo Bosang and Stendhal to pieces. If you make up your mind, you have to work hard. 1949, his friend Faulkner won the Nobel Prize in Literature, but Hemingway was unconvinced. He scribbled a novel and tried to surpass others, but failed. The stubborn Hemingway got up and did it again, and finally wrote the novel The Old Man and the Sea, which won the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1954.
He wrote a famous saying in the novel The Old Man and the Sea: "Man cannot be defeated. You can destroy him, but you can't beat him! "
Angie Chai
She graduated from a famous university, but she can't find a job. I finally got a job as an assistant playwright, only to find that she is the only employee in the whole company except the boss. After working hard for three months, I only got a month's salary, so I fired my boss and started wandering to help people write short plays and movies. As long as she receives the money on time, the road ahead is boundless and she hopes for a miracle.
By chance, she was hired as a screenwriter for a TV program. Six months later, when making the program, the producer suddenly flew into a rage, said "no more recording" and left. Dozens of staff members were all stunned and didn't know what to do. The host looked around and said to her, "Let's record it ourselves!"
The chance is only three seconds. Three seconds later, she picked up the earphone microphone left by the producer. At that moment, she clearly said to herself, "If you succeed this time, it will prove that you are not only a short script writer, but also a producer who controls the audience, so you can't make a fool of yourself!"
Slowly, she began to become an executive producer. At that time, it was quite rare for a girl her age to be a producer.
A few years later, the little girl became the ace producer who won the Golden Bell Award for three consecutive years, and then produced the idol drama Meteor Garden, which was very popular and was called "the mother of idol drama in Taiwan Province Province".
Looking back, Chai Zhiping bluntly said, "The opportunity is only three seconds, that is, when others leave, you can pick up your headphones."
Analysis: People often complain that God is unfair and always care about others and ignore themselves. But when God gave you a chance, did you catch it in three seconds like Chai Zhiping? If not, you might as well reflect on yourself first. Flowers that miss the flowering period will not bloom. Please cherish every opportunity around you.
The accumulation of classic composition materials and character cases
1. At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, Fan Li helped Gou Jian, the King of Yue, realize his hegemony, resolutely gave up his family property, went into business, and finally became a successful entrepreneur. Wen Zi, his close comrade-in-arms, refused to give up, which eventually led to his death.
2. Don't indulge in pillows
Sima Guang, an ancient China writer, used a log as a pillow to wake himself up and continue writing, and named it "Police Pillow". Mayakovski, a famous Russian poet, often used a large piece of firewood as a pillow to prevent himself from sleeping too long. Inventor Edison often stays up late to work. He was really sleepy, so he put the books on the table as pillows.
Dig the wall and steal the light, read by moonlight.
Kuang Heng, a scholar in the Western Han Dynasty, was poor and studious. There was no light at night, so he dug a hole in the wall to read by his neighbor's candlelight. Jiang Bi was born in a poor family in Nanqi. She makes shoes during the day and finds time to study at night. When he can't light the lamp, he takes the book to the roof and reads by moonlight.
Don't despise reciting.
Reciting is an important learning method. China has always had the theory of "a man of insight, a man of insight". Liang Qichao explained the 7000-word "Public Security Policy" to the students, and recited it without reading. In order to recite an article, Mr. Lu Xun not only read aloud, but also copied it by hand to deepen his impression.
Life is only three days.
When students on the island of Hawaii in the United States attend classes, they always recite a prayer first: a person's life is only three days: yesterday, today and tomorrow. Yesterday has passed and will never come back. I was with you today, but it passed quickly. Tomorrow will come and die. Come on, life is only three days.
5. Song of Tomorrow and Song of Today
In the Ming Dynasty, Qian Fu wrote a Song of Tomorrow, which read: Tomorrow follows tomorrow, and there are several tomorrows! Waiting for tomorrow, everything will be wasted. The world is tired of tomorrow, and tomorrow will be endless. In the morning, the water flows east, and now it grows in the west. What will tomorrow be like in a hundred years? Please listen to my song tomorrow.
In the Ming Dynasty, Wen Jia wrote another Song of Today, which read: Today is today, and today is so rare! If you don't do it today, when will it happen? Today is a hundred years, and today is not a pity. If we wait until the Ming dynasty, there will be something in the Ming dynasty. Say "Today's Poetry" for you, and try to start today.
Composition material celebrity inspirational role model Ma Yun 1999 Alibaba founder Ma Yun 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 is bitter and cold." Through his own efforts, he finally succeeded. He said: dreams, down-to-earth, tears are closely related.
Socrates once assigned an assignment in class, asking his disciples 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, now there is only half left. A year later, he asked again, there is only one person who persists now, and that person is Plato.
Edison Edison spent ten years developing storage batteries. During this period, he never stopped suffering from failure. After about 50 thousand experiments, he finally succeeded in inventing the battery and was awarded the reputation of "the king of invention"
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 asked in surprise, "Oh dear!" How can an iron pestle be ground into a needle when it is so thick? "The old woman walked over and said," As long as you grind it every day, the pestle will become thinner and thinner. Are you afraid it won't work? "Hearing this, Li Bai thought of himself and was 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".
Van Gogh's persistent dream of painting, although it is a pity that his works were not appreciated before his death, he still insisted on his dream and painted the paintings he wanted in an indifferent and poor environment, which was really human.