1. Dickens, the famous British writer, paid great attention to observing and experiencing life, and insisted on going to the streets every day, no matter it was raining or windy, to observe and listen to the streets, and wrote down the words of the pedestrians, thus accumulating a wealth of information about life.
In this way, he wrote wonderful character dialogues in David Copperfield, and left realistic social background descriptions in A Tale of Two Cities, which made him a great literary figure in Britain and a great success in his literary career.
2. Thomas Edison spent ten years developing the storage battery, during which he was constantly suffering from failure, he has been gritting his teeth, and after 50,000 tests, finally succeeded in inventing the storage battery, and was honored with the title of "King of Invention".
3. Helen Keller was blind and deaf, but she worked hard to become a strong woman from a sympathetic and obscure little girl to a strong woman respected by the whole world. If life is really unfair, then it has been unfair to her to the extreme.
She could have given up her dream and hid in a dark corner, crying, and no one would have blamed her, or she could have stayed in bed or in a wheelchair and been served like a vegetable.
But all this, she did not do, she just strained to learn Braille with the help of her teachers, touching things, just by her never-say-die faith and perseverance. She painted the sky of her ideal with the brightest colors of her life.
4. The Wright Brothers, inventors of the airplane . . December 17, 1903 at 10:35 am, the Wright Brothers manufactured the first aircraft "Aviator 1" 1903 human beings took to the skies in the United States, North Carolina test flight success.
They successfully flew a heavier-than-air vehicle of their own design. People were skeptical. Earlier in the year the respected American scientist Simon Newcomb gave his opinion, proving that flight by motorized force was impossible.Expanded:
The following are other examples of celebrities who persevered in their dreams:
1. Duncan, an American female dancer . . was able to teach her young friends to dance at the age of 6, and showed her aversion to the rigid, stereotypical classical ballet by aspiring to build her dance on natural rhythms and movements to interpret and perform the work of musicians. She disdained cheap, commercialized dancing for a living.
Forced to go to England to earn a living at the age of 21, she studied ancient Greek art intensely at the Britannia Museum. She found in ancient sculptures and paintings what she considered to be the ideal expression of dance: barefoot, dressed in a tunic, with movements that resembled the swaying of trees or the tumbling of waves. She drew her inspiration from classical music, seeking a dance that "expresses the human spirit divinely through the movement of the human body".
She believes that technique tarnishes the natural beauty of the human body, that movement comes from a sense of self, and that dance should be an expression of life from beginning to end. So her performance in London was a breath of fresh air. Her image as a forest goddess, dancing barefoot in a gossamer dress, was well received throughout Europe.
2. Beethoven's insistence on the dream of music, even in the case of deafness can still continue to create, his famous work "Symphony No. 9" was created in this period.
3. Van Gogh's persistent dream of painting, although it is a pity that his works were not appreciated by people during his lifetime, but in that kind of environment where the world was indifferent and poor, he still insisted on his dream of painting what he wanted to paint, which is really very human
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