Mary Bran is a famous singer. She once said, "If I don't practice for a day, I can feel the gap myself. If you don't practice for two days, your friends will feel it. If you don't practice for a week, then the whole world will feel it. " For her, unremitting efforts are the price she pays for success.
People admire those who are decisive and persistent, and Malcus Merton is the best example. He ran for the governor of Massachusetts 16 times in his life, and in the end he was elected by one vote! The whole secret of his victory is to persist and never give up.
audubon is a naturalist. With a gun and a notebook, he spent two years searching for various birds in the American jungle and drawing their shapes. After all this, he sealed all the information in a seemingly safe box and went on a leisure vacation. However, when he returned home from his 33-year holiday, he found that the box containing the information had already become a mouse's nest, and the pictures he had worked so hard to draw had been destroyed. However, this heavy blow did not dishearten audubon. He picked up his gun and notebook again, stepped into the jungle for the second time, and painted one by one again, even better, more specific and more complete than the first time.
"As long as the kung fu is deep, the iron pestle is ground into a needle." It is about a scholar in the Tang Dynasty in China who almost wanted to drop out of school after repeated failures. At this time, he saw an old woman grinding an iron pestle and said that she would grind it into a needle. The literati was very moved, and this perseverance inspired him at once and he was determined to continue studying his studies. In the end, he became one of the most famous writers in China history.
On one occasion, Dickens was invited to recite an excerpt from his work in public, and Dickens quickly argued that there was not enough time. It turns out that every time he wants to read his works in public, he will make preparations six months in advance until he knows his works by heart, which has become a habit of him.
A young man asked the famous violinist Gradini, "How long did it take you to learn the piano?" "2 years, 12 hours a day." Gradini replied. Some people also asked the famous Presbyterian pastor Lieman Beecher a similar question: How long did he prepare for the famous sermon about "the government of God"? "About 4 years." He replied.
As we all know, Carlyle suffered misfortune when he wrote The History of the French Revolution. He lent the first volume of the manuscript to his neighbor in order to let him have a sneak peek. Unexpectedly, the neighbor put it on the table after reading it, and the result was taken by the maid to light the fire. This great blow didn't discourage Carlisle. He spent several months trying to rewrite the burned manuscript.
Benjamin Franklin is world-famous for his perseverance and perseverance. At the beginning of his business, he worked in the printing industry in Philadelphia, pushing his own trolleys and running around the streets every day to transport those materials. He rented a small room, which is both a studio and a bedroom. Franklin had a strong competitor in Philadelphia. He specially invited that person to his home, and then pointed to a small piece of bread he had just left for lunch and said, "Unless you live like this, I won't be defeated by you."
Webster is a famous American politician. When he was studying at Philip Esek School, he never dared to speak in front of the whole school. In the room, he also practiced his speech over and over again, but every time he heard his name called and saw everyone staring at him, his brain went blank, and the familiar speech didn't know where to go. However, it is such a person who is afraid of speaking, but in the end he became a great orator in American history. Webster's speech refuting Heine in the Senate is a world-famous speech, and even Destini, Webster's most admired Athenian speaker, himself will not speak it so well.
From a little incident at school, Webster's memory is amazing. Once, he shot a pigeon with a slingshot, but he was caught by the headmaster, so he was punished for reciting 1 lines of poems by Virgil, an ancient Roman poet. Webster knew that the headmaster was going out by train that afternoon, so he immediately went back to his room and recited 7 lines in one breath. Just as the train was about to start, he found the headmaster and recited it sentence by sentence. 1, 2, 3 sentences ... Webster didn't mean to stop, but the headmaster seemed impatient and kept looking at his watch, but Webster turned a blind eye to these and just recited it. The headmaster finally interrupted him and asked him how many lines he could recite. "About 5 lines." Webster answered, and then back. "Now that you are free, you can play whatever you want." The headmaster had no choice but to say so.
Perseverance is the secret of all great writers' fame. Their works are noble and elegant, not by the inspiration of genius, but by careful carving and removing all traces of imperfections.
Euripides, an ancient Athenian tragic writer, was once ridiculed by his opponent, saying that he could only write three lines in three days, while that man could write 3 lines. Euripides replied, "The hundreds of lines you wrote in three days will not be remembered, but my three lines will last forever." The notes of great writers such as Hawthorne and Emerson can really give us a glimpse of the hard work behind great works. It takes them years to prepare a book, but we can finish it in a few hours. Bishop Butler devoted 2 years of time and effort to his book On Analogy. However, despite this, he was still dissatisfied with the work and wanted to destroy it. Virgil's Enette took 11 years to complete. It took Montesquieu 25 years to write The Spirit of Law, and we can finish reading it in an hour. Adam Smith spent ten years writing The Wealth of Nations. Rousseau believes that his fluent and elegant writing style mainly benefits from constant revision and polishing.
Burke's Correspondence with a Noble is the most magnificent and solemn work in the history of literature. When proofreading, Burke made very careful and meticulous changes, so that when the final sample reached the publisher's hand, it was almost unrecognizable, and the printer even refused to correct it, so he had to typeset and print again. The Italian poet Ariosto tried 16 different forms to write his Tempest, but it took him 1 years to write Crazy Orlando, although only 1 copies of this book priced at 15p were sold. Thoreau's New England pastoral "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers" did not attract people's attention at all. Although 1 copies were printed, 7 copies were finally returned to the author. Thoreau wrote in his diary: "My library has 9 million books, of which 7 million were written by myself." Even so, he still keeps writing and his spirit is undiminished. It took Adam Tucker 18 years to write his famous book Light of Nature.
"Perseverance and endurance are the souls of conquerors," Bulwer once said. "It is the most powerful support for human beings to resist fate, individuals to resist the world, and souls to resist matter, and it is also the essence of the Gospels. From a social point of view, considering its impact on ethnic issues and social systems, its importance cannot be overemphasized. "
as the saying goes, a rolling stone gathers no moss. A persistent tortoise can outrun a nimble hare. If you can study for an hour every day for 12 years, you will certainly learn more than what you have learned by sitting in school for four years of higher education. Similarly, a good book is never tired of reading for thousands of times, which has a greater influence on shaping people's minds than that kind of reading.
the root cause of many people's failure is that they can't persevere. Today, you still have a million family assets, and tomorrow you may beg along the street. I would like to ask, so far, which achievement of mankind has not been achieved by perseverance? One of Titian's famous paintings has been placed on his easel for 8 years, and the other has been placed for 7 years. Nowadays, how do the famous writers we admire gain their reputation? It is the result of years of hard writing without pay. In order to finally write a book, they used countless words as writing practice before, devoted most of their energy to their beloved literary career, and even worked hard like slaves, and finally won their immortal reputation.
Burke warned the world: "Never despair. If you can't do this, then work hard with despair forever."
According to legend, there are two Tiger Claw in the jaw of Hercules wearing a tiger's head. Its moral is to encourage people to bravely fight against all kinds of difficulties and obstacles. If we overcome these difficulties, they will in turn become the force to push us forward. Ah! All glory and glory belong to the willpower of never giving in!