An example of diligence

Wang Xizhi was a famous calligrapher in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. He keeps practicing calligraphy every day, and then washes his pen in the pond near his home. In this way, day after day, the water in the whole pond was dyed black, like ink, so people called this pond Mo Chi, also known as the pen washing pool.

2. Da Vinci painted eggs (specific events omitted) ... Since then, Da Vinci has devoted himself to studying sketches, and after long-term hard study and artistic practice, he has finally created many immortal famous paintings.

3. Sima Qian began to write historical records at the age of 42 and completed it at the age of 60, which lasted 18 years. If he didn't collect historical materials and interview on the spot until he was 20 years old, then this historical record took him 40 years.

Genius comes from diligence. Edison had 1000 inventions in his life. In order to invent the electric light, he read a lot of materials. His notes alone have more than 40 thousand pages. Before he invented the electric light, he had experimented with thousands of substances and made tens of thousands of experiments.

Achievement and sweat

① Wang Xianzhi, a famous calligrapher in Jin Dynasty, wrote with 18 jar of water and eventually became a master of calligraphy.

(2) Li Shizhen spent 3 1 year, read more than 800 kinds of books, wrote tens of millions of notes, traveled to seven provinces and collected thousands of prescriptions. In order to understand the detoxification function of some herbs, he swallowed some poisonous herbs, and finally wrote the brilliant masterpiece of China's medicine-Compendium of Materia Medica.

Li Shizhen, a great medical scientist, visited hundreds of farmers, woodcutters and fishermen all over the country in order to study the properties of drugs and develop Chinese medicine, and finally wrote the world-famous Compendium of Materia Medica.

It took Marx 40 years to write Das Kapital. When Marx wrote Das Kapital, it took him 40 years to write his masterpiece. In order to collect information, he recorded 1300 articles in his diary. Because I often love pacing when I think, I left a deep impression on the ground.

Darwin, a British biologist, studied the theory of evolution and spent 22 years writing The Origin of Species.

⑤ After 12 years of experiments, Madame Curie, a famous French physicist, did not fear setbacks and failed to extract 0. 1g radium from dozens of tons of minerals. Throughout the ages, diligence is a necessary prerequisite for people's success. It is also a good character that each of us should have. Only diligence can create the success and glory of one's career.

⑥ Chinese mathematician Hua once said: "Diligence is a good training, and one point of hard work is one point of talent." At all times and in all countries, many successful people, because of their diligence, stand out from many people and become the objects of people's admiration. In order to prove Goldbach's conjecture, Chen Jingrun, a mathematician in China, buried himself in mathematics day after day and year after year, often forgetting to eat and sleep. French writer Flaubert, whose window faces the Seine River, is often regarded as a beacon by people who fly at night because he often studies hard and stays up all night. His student Mo Bosang started writing at the age of 20, and didn't write his first short story "The Road to Suicide" until he was 30. In his room, you can see that the draft paper is as high as a table. There are many examples of great men. But their life experiences all illustrate a truth: genius comes from diligence, and success comes from diligence!

The prosperity of our motherland is inseparable from the hard work of the people. Once upon a time, people were always self-centered, which made China have a shame for hundreds of years. Nowadays, people have realized that China can succeed step by step only by diligently studying scientific and cultural knowledge, constantly creating and changing itself.

In the final analysis, only by being diligent can the people of China erase the plaque of "the sick man of East Asia" and become the oriental dragon that resounds all over the world! Only by being diligent can a person become a great person.

Viewpoint: Diligence makes wisdom.

Demosthenes, an ancient Greek, stuttered when he was a child. When he spoke on the stage, his voice was vague and his pronunciation was inaccurate. So he recited to the sea every day, regardless of spring, summer, autumn and winter, for fifty years, and finally became the most famous speaker in Greece.

Qu Yuan studied hard in the cave. When Qu Yuan was a child, he hid in a cave and secretly read the Book of Songs, regardless of the opposition of his elders. For three years, he familiarized himself with 305 Poems of the Book of Songs, and gained rich nutrition from these folk songs, eventually becoming a great poet.

Pu Songling's grass pavilion asks for directions. Pu Songling, a writer in Qing Dynasty, built a thatched pavilion on the roadside to record the stories told by passers-by. After decades of hard collection and his own creation, he finally completed the epoch-making brilliant masterpiece Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio in the history of China ancient literature.

A hole was drilled in the wall to get light from the neighbor's house.

In the Western Han Dynasty, there was a great scholar named Kuang Heng. He loved reading when he was a child, but his family was too poor to buy candles, so he couldn't read at night. He often worries about it. That night, Kuang Heng was surprised to find that there seemed to be some lights on his own wall. When he got up, he saw the wall cracked and the neighbor's candle was sticking out of the crack. Kuang Heng saw this and immediately came up with a solution. He found a chisel and made a small hole in the crack in the wall. Immediately, a candlelight rose, and Kuang Heng read the book carefully under this candlelight. From then on, every night, Kuang Heng would lean against the wall and read by the neighbor's candlelight. He has been studious since he was a child. Later, Kuang Heng became a learned Confucian scholar.

Constant polishing turns iron bars into needles; Drip wears away the stone; constant dripping water wears through the rock—persistence leads to success

This is what an old woman advised Li Bai to study hard.

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Song Zhu Mu's "Yu Fangsheng, Lan Mei, Zhou Mozhen Xi": According to legend, Li Bai once studied in the mountains, so he abandoned it when he finished his studies. "After the stream, you can grind the iron pestle when you are old. Ask him,' I want to be a needle.' Taibai feels its meaning and returns to school. "

It is said that there were "three eccentrics" in the pear garden in the late Qing Dynasty, all of which were successful because of hard work.

The blind man, Shuang Kuoting, started playing in primary school and became blind due to illness. Since then, he has studied harder and practiced basic skills. He needs help when he walks off the stage, but he never walks on the stage. His acting skills are superb. Finally, he became a famous student with deep foundation.

The other is Meng Hongshou, a cripple. When he was a child, he suffered from rickets, with short legs, small head, big feet and unstable walking. So he made up his mind to study hard, practice hard, foster strengths and avoid weaknesses, and later became a clown master in one fell swoop.

There is also a mute Wang Yifen, born unable to speak. He watched his parents' performances on weekdays and remembered them one by one. Although no one teaches him, he gets up early every day and practices in the dark all the year round. After his artistic achievements, he became a blockbuster, became a famous Wu Hualian in the theater, and was regarded as a mentor by the troupe.

◎ Lu Xun chewed pepper to drive away the cold. Mr. Lu Xun studied hard since he was a child. When I was a teenager, I attended Jiangnan Naval Academy and got excellent results in the first semester. This school won a gold medal. He immediately took it to the street of Nanjing Gulou and sold it. Then he bought some books and a bunch of red peppers. Whenever it's cold at night and he can't stand reading at night, he picks a pepper and chews it in his mouth, making his forehead sweat. In this way, he insisted on studying. After studying hard, he finally became a famous writer in China.

Wang Yanan studied hard and became a genius. Wang Yanan sleeps in a three-legged bed. When Wang Yanan was a child, he was ambitious and loved reading. When he was in middle school, in order to gain more time to study, he deliberately sawed off one foot of his wooden bed and turned it into a three-legged bed. I read until late at night every day. I went to bed when I was tired, and then I turned over in a daze. The bed leans in the direction of short feet. He woke up suddenly, got out of bed at once and read at night. Every day, without interruption. As a result, he achieved excellent results every year and was praised as one of the three outstanding figures in his class. Because he studied hard as a teenager, he eventually became an outstanding economist in China.

◎ Su Dongpo, one of the eight masters in Tang and Song Dynasties, thought that he had no books to read when he was young, so he wrote a book: "I know all the words in the world; Read all the books on the earth. " After an old man pointed out it, he changed it to: "Make great efforts to govern and know all the people in the world; Determined to read all the books on earth. "

◎ Guo Moruo once wrote a pair of reading couplets: "Reading is not in the middle of the night and five drums, but it is cold in ten miles." This means that you should study hard at ordinary times and not work overtime on a whim. If you want to succeed, you must persevere, never be diligent and slack, and fish for three days and dry the net for two days.

◎ Hua attributed the reading process to two stages: from thick to thin and from thin to thick. When you really have a thorough understanding of the content of the book, grasp the main points of the book, and master the spiritual essence of the book, reading will change from thick to thin, and the more you read, the more you feel thin. If in the process of reading, you discuss each chapter in depth, add notes on each page and supplement the reference materials, then the book will become thicker and thicker. So reading is a two-way process from thick to thin and from thin to thick.

◎ Hou Xiangsheng, a master of language, only attended primary school for three years. Thanks to his diligence and study, his artistic level has reached perfection, and he has become a famous language expert. On one occasion, in order to buy the joke book "The Waves" of Amin Dynasty that he wanted to buy, he went to all the second-hand book stalls in Beijing but failed to buy it. Later, he learned that Beijing Library had this book, so he decided to copy it back. In winter, he braved the heavy wind and snow and ran to the library to copy books for 18 days in a row. A book of more than 100,000 words was finally copied by him.

Zhang Guanghou, a mathematician who was studying in Zhang Guanghou, once saw a paper on deficit value and thought it was very useful for his research work, so he read it again and again. This paper has more than 20 pages, and he has read it repeatedly for more than half a year. Because of repeated groping, clear black marks were left on the white pages. His wife joked with him that it was not reading, but eating books.

Gorky saved the world of books. Gorky has a deep affection for books and loves them as much as his life. Once, his room caught fire. The first thing he picked up was a book, and nothing else was considered. He almost burned to death to save the book. He said: "Books enlighten my wisdom and soul and help me stand up in the muddy pond. If it weren't for books, I would sink in this muddy pond, and I would be drowned by stupidity and filth. "