1. When Lenin started reading, he turned a blind eye to everything around him. Once, his sisters played a practical joke and built an unstable triangular tower with six chairs behind him. As long as Lenin moves, the tower will collapse. However, Lenin, who was absorbed in reading, did not notice or move. It was not until half an hour later that he finished reading the chapter he was scheduled to read. When he looked up, the wooden tower collapsed.

2. When he was young, Hua dropped out of school because of his poor family, and he couldn't afford the tuition after graduating from junior high school. After dropping out of school, he loved mathematics very much. Within five years, he became a self-taught student, and he learned all the basic courses of mathematics from high school to university. However, there are too few learning materials. He only has a book on geometry and algebra borrowed from his teacher, as well as calculus.

Once, when Einstein wanted to replace an old painting on the wall, he moved a ladder to climb it. Suddenly he thought of another question, pondered it, forgot what he was doing, and suddenly fell off the ladder. Regardless of the pain, he immediately thought: Why do people fall straight?

It seems that objects always move along the path of least resistance. Thinking of this, Einstein immediately stood up, limped to the table and wrote down his own thoughts, which greatly inspired the problem he was studying-relativity.

4. Luz once asked Confucius: "I heard that an idea is very good, should it be implemented immediately?" Confucius said, "There are brothers and sisters who are more experienced than you. You should consult them first. Where can I do it right away? " However, You Ran also asked Confucius: "I heard that an idea is very good. Should it be implemented immediately?" Confucius replied, "Of course, it should be implemented immediately.".

Gong Xihua saw the same question and gave different answers. He couldn't figure it out, so he asked Confucius. Confucius said, "Ran Qiu is afraid of things, so we should encourage him to be brave;" Zhong You is reckless when he is in trouble, so he should be careful. "

Mr. Lu Xun has had an indissoluble bond with books since he was a teenager. He scrimped and saved all his life and bought many books. He usually takes good care of books, always washes his hands before reading, and washes them carefully when they are dirty.

He also prepared a set of tools for himself, and he knew everything about ordering and supplementing books. An old book, after finishing by him, often takes on a new look. He usually doesn't lend his old books to others easily. If someone borrows books, he would rather buy a new book and lend it to others.

6. On one occasion, Premier Zhou visited Xinhui County, Guangdong Province. Xiang Min, then the party secretary of the county, felt very sorry after seeing it. On the eve of Premier Zhou leaving Xinhui, he quietly arranged a banquet to see him off.

Cooking is actually some ordinary vegetables and fruits. This is such a simple meal. The Prime Minister said to this comrade, "Comrade Xiang Min, I know your income in January. If you can't afford such a meal, let me pay for it. My treat!

When Shakespeare became famous, he was not respected as he is today. The playwrights at that time were all university elites with higher education. They were deeply puzzled and embarrassed that Shakespeare, who was born in the countryside and had a shallow education, suddenly became a star in the drama world.

In a letter to his peers, the famous playwright Green publicly criticized Shakespeare as a "rising crow, beautifying himself with our feathers and covering the heart of the tiger and the wolf with the actor's coat", and insulted Shakespeare "thinking that he can compete with the best of you by writing a few grandiose blank poems, thinking that he is an out-and-out handyman, but thinking that only he can' shock the stage' in Britain".

8. Franklin got excellent grades as a teenager and was known as the "top of the class". But it didn't last long. Franklin only studied at school for two years. 10 years old, was called home by his father to help. Because poor British immigrants can't find paradise in the United States, the heavy family burden makes their father's shop make ends meet, so they have to give up their extravagant hopes of success.

In this way, Franklin began to do auxiliary labor such as cutting candle hearts, watering candle molds and guarding shops every day. But he didn't give up studying because he dropped out of school. On the contrary, he worked harder and studied hungrily.

9. Han Yu used to be an assistant minister of the official department. At that time, the official department was the most powerful in the official department, because it was locked before, and officials waiting for election and appointment could not come to the official department for meetings. After Han Yu took office, he released the lock and let the candidates in and out. He said: "people are afraid of ghosts because they can't see ghosts;" If you can see it, that person is not afraid of ghosts. "

10, Zheng Banqiao is a middle-aged scholar and a magistrate. In the case of famine, Zheng Banqiao reported the facts and urged people to help. He also ordered wealthy families to take turns to provide porridge for hungry people. He also took the lead in donating his salary. He carved a seal that said, "I can't wait to fill the global hunger debt."

Because he helped the poor people who were affected by the disaster to complain about relief and offended his boss, he simply resigned and said, "If an official doesn't make decisions for the people, he might as well go home and sell sweet potatoes." Go back to Yangzhou to sell paintings for a living.

1 1. After Tao Yuanming resigned, he took part in agricultural labor while studying as a writer. Later, due to the continuous disaster of farmland, the house was burned down and the family situation deteriorated. But he didn't want to be an official any more, and even refused to accept the rice and meat sent by Jiangzhou assassins. The court once called him a writer, but he refused.

12. One day, Goethe was walking in Weimar Park. On the sidewalk, he met a critic who sharply criticized his work.

The two men stopped face to face, and the critic shouted proudly, "I never give way to fools." Goethe said, "But I am just the opposite!" Laugh and say, let it go. The critic walked over and became more angry, but he didn't say a word for a long time.

Once upon a time, there was a very clever man in Greece named Socrates. Young people from all over the country come to him to study. He said many happy things. The way he tells stories is so vivid that no one who listens is bored. One summer, he built himself a house The house is so small that his neighbors are confused. How can this house satisfy him?

"You are such a big shot, but you built your house into such a small box. Is there any reason? " "It really doesn't make any sense." He said, "But this place is small, but if I can make it accommodate real friends, I will consider myself very happy."

14, Xu Teli was thrifty all his life, pursued his ideals and never bent down. After going to France, he actively supported student organizations to oppose the activities of Chinese and French reactionaries. In order to win him over, the domestic warlord government told him through the embassy that he could be given an annual salary of 1000 yuan in the name of "visiting France" Xu Teli scoffed at this and worked part-time in a steel plant to cook for students who had difficulty in doing heavy work.

15, 1802 On July 24th, Dumas was born in Pierre Coatley, Aina province in northeast France. His grandfather was a nobleman, but his father was a half-blood bastard born to his grandfather and a black slave. When his father wanted to join Napoleon's army, his grandfather thought his background was shameful, so he had to use the name of Dumas, a slave.

16. When the Meng family was still living by the market in Miaohuying village, Mencius saw his neighbor killing pigs and asked his mother, "Why did the neighbor kill pigs?" Meng Mu was busy at that time, so he casually said, "I'll give you the meat when it's cooked!" Mencius was very happy, waiting for meat.

Meng Mu knows that honesty is the so-called "keep your word", and she knows that example is more important than words. In order not to break his promise to his son, despite the difficulties at home, Meng Mu took money to buy a piece of pork from his neighbor in the east and let his son have a good time.

17, Tong Dizhou became a placement student in Grade Three after being admitted to Xiaoshi Middle School in Ningbo, but his grades were the lowest in the class. One night, Mr Chen, a math teacher, found Tong Dizhou under a dim street lamp, doing the problem by the street lamp. Teacher Chen advised Tong Dizhou to go back to rest, but not far away, Tong Dizhou stood reading under the street lamp with a book.

In the final exam, Tong Dizhou, with his own efforts, scored 70 points in all subjects, with full marks in geometry, which sensationalized the whole school.

18 Zeng Guofan's nickname was "Zeng shaved his head", not because he killed the Taiping Army, but because he opened a trial bureau in Changsha and killed too many so-called "bandits" in Hunan.

At that time, the magistrate in Changsha was called Cang. He wrote a memoir which recorded the case of Zeng Guofan. At least four people were killed by mistake because of a case. It was an unjust case, but Zeng Guofan killed the good guys and set the bad guys free.

19, Newton was very absorbed in learning knowledge. Once, a friend treated him. During the dinner, he remembered that there was a bottle of good wine at home, so he told his friends to wait and go home to get the wine himself. Friends were waiting around, but Newton didn't come back, so we had to investigate. It turned out that Newton thought of an experiment on his way home. When he got home, he plunged into the laboratory and started the experiment, completely forgetting about entertaining his friends with wine.

20. One day, Beethoven came to a restaurant for dinner. After ordering food, he was suddenly inspired, so he grabbed the menu on the dining table and made a song on the back of the menu. After a while, he was completely immersed in the beautiful melody. About an hour later, the waiter finally came to Beethoven and asked her if she wanted to serve.

Beethoven paid the bill as if he had just woken up from a dream. The waiter was completely at a loss and said, "Sir, you haven't eaten yet!" " ""no! I'm sure I've eaten. " Beethoven didn't listen to the waiter's repeated explanations at all. After paying the price on the menu, he grabbed the menu full of notes and rushed out of the restaurant.

Diligence and success

1, Wang Xizhi and Mo Chi: 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. Day after day, the water in the whole pond was dyed black, like ink. So people call this pond "Mo Chi", also known as "Xiyan Lake" and "Pen Washing Pool".

2. Leonardo painted eggs. From then on, Leonardo devoted himself to sketch, and after long-term hard work and artistic practice, he 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 you add up the work of collecting historical materials and field interviews after he was 20 years old, this history book 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, including more than 40 thousand pages in his notes. He experimented with thousands of substances and did tens of thousands of experiments before he invented the electric light.

Achievement and sweat

5. Wang Xianzhi, a famous calligrapher in Jin Dynasty, wrote with 18 tank of water and finally became a master of calligraphy.

6. Li Shizhen spent 365,438+0 years, read more than 800 books, wrote tens of millions of notes, traveled to seven provinces and collected thousands of prescriptions. In order to understand the detoxification effect of some herbs, he swallowed some poisonous drugs and finally wrote the brilliant masterpiece of China 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 finish Das Kapital. When Marx wrote Das Kapital, it took him 40 years to write his masterpiece. In order to collect information, he recorded more than 1300 in his diary alone. Because I often love pacing when I think, I left a deep impression on the ground.

8. Darwin, a British biologist, spent 22 years studying the theory of evolution and wrote The Origin of Species.

9. After 12 years of experiments, Madame Curie, a famous French physicist, did not fear setbacks and failed to extract 0 from dozens of tons of minerals. 1 gram of radium. 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.

10, China mathematician Hua once said: "Diligence is a good training, and one point of hard work is only one point." 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 can make up for it.

Demosthenes in ancient Greece suffered from stuttering 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.

12, 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.

13, Pu Songling asked 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.

14, hanging beam and stabbing stocks: In the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was a man named Sun Jing, who was a famous politician. When he was young, he was eager to learn. He often closed the door and kept reading alone. Reading from morning till night every day, often forgetting to eat and sleep. After studying for a long time, I am tired, but I still don't rest. After a long time, I was too tired to doze off.

Afraid of affecting his study, he came up with a special method. In ancient times, men had long hair. He found a rope and tied it firmly to the beam. When he is tired of reading, he dozes off. When his head is lowered, the rope will hold his hair and hurt his scalp, wake up immediately and continue to study. This is the story of Sun Jing's hanging beam, and what Han Yu said about studying hard and practicing hard is shown in him.

15 During the Warring States Period, there was a man named Su Qin, who was also a famous politician. When I was young, because of the lack of knowledge, I went to many places to do things and was not taken seriously. After returning home, his family was also very cold and looked down on him. This is a great stimulus to him. So, he made up his mind to study hard.

He often studies late into the night, is very tired, often takes a nap and wants to sleep. He also figured out a way to prepare an awl. Once he dozed off, he stabbed himself in the thigh with the awl. In this way, I suddenly felt pain, woke up by myself, and then insisted on reading. This is the story of Su Qin's "stabbing stocks".

Note: This idiom comes from the story of Sun Jing and Su Qin studying, and is used to describe the spirit of hard work. Their spirit of studying hard is good, but their methods of studying hard need not be imitated.

16, poaching.

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.

17, as long as the kung fu is deep, the iron pestle is ground into a needle. This is an old woman's advice to persuade Li Bai to study hard: quote a short story: Zhen Sheng of Song Dynasty: It is said that Li Bai studied like an ear mountain, but he gave up his studies without success. "Crossing the river is a way to meet the old people." Taibai feels its meaning and returns to school. "It is said that there were' three monsters' in the pear garden in the late Qing Dynasty, all of which were made by 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.

18, 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 studied at 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.

19, 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: "Know the words of 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. "

2 1, Guo Moruo once wrote a reading couplet: "If you don't study in the middle of the night, you will be afraid of ten chills." 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.