Celebrity stories about perseverance and perseverance

Famous Stories

Once, Socrates was walking on the street. Someone hit him on the back with a stick. The pain was so painful that he could not stand and squatted down, but soon, He stood up again as if nothing had happened.

, it was very hard to modify it. His wife told him not to revise it, saying: Why torture yourself like this? Are you still afraid of being scolded by the teacher? Ouyang Xiu smiled and said: I am not afraid of being scolded by my husband, but I am afraid of being laughed at by future generations.

* Mark Twain worked in a newspaper when he was young. Six months later, the editor-in-chief told him not to come back tomorrow. Mark Twain asked why? The editor-in-chief said: Because you are too lazy. Mark Twain smiled and replied: It took you six months to find out that I was lazy, but I knew it on the first day I joined the newspaper office.

* Yang Xiu, a close minister of Cao Cao in the Later Han Dynasty, was very smart at the age of nine. One day, his father Kong Pingping came to visit and he met him. He prepared a treat of bayberries. When Kong Pingping saw it, he jokingly asked: Is this the fruit of your family? Yang Xiu immediately replied: I have never heard that peacocks are your poultry!

* When Su Shi was the magistrate of Hangzhou in the Song Dynasty, there was a county citizen who made a living by making fans. However, the weather was cold and the fans could not be sold, so he owed taxes. Dongpo asked him to take a fan and draw dead wood, bamboo and stone on it. After drawing more than twenty fans, the county people just walked out of the gate of the county government, and people came to buy them. Therefore, all the taxes owed were paid off.

＊The Italian Renaissance painter Raphael painted a portrait of Mary holding the Son of Jesus. On her lower right is an old man and on the lower left is a maid. But there is a large blank space directly below, and I am thinking about what to fill in. At this time, he saw two children from the window of a nearby bakery. The older one, about four or five years old, was holding his chin, looking up at the sky, talking to his younger brother. The younger one was leaning on his arms, looking at the sky as well. Listening to his brother. Raphael thought they were beautiful, so he drew them at the bottom of the painting, and added wings to make them two angels