1. Edison
Edison was working in his lab when he handed his assistant an empty glass bulb without the top spout and said, "You measure the capacity of the bulb." He went back to work with his head down. After a long time, he asked, "What is the capacity? "He didn't hear the answer, and turned his head to see his assistant with a soft ruler measuring the circumference and slope of the bulb, and taking the measured numbers and ambling over the table to calculate them.
He said, "Time, time, how does it take so much time?" Edison came over, took the empty bulb, poured water into it, gave it to his assistant, and said, "Pour the water in it into a measuring cup, and tell me at once its capacity."
The assistant immediately read the number. Edison said, "What an easy way to measure, it's accurate and saves time, why didn't you think of that? And go on counting, wouldn't that be a waste of time?" The assistant's face reddened. Edison murmured, "Life is too short, too short to save time and do more!"
2.? Lu Xun
Lu Xun's success has an important secret, which is to cherish time. Lu Xun twelve years old in Shaoxing City, private school, his father is suffering from a serious illness, the two younger brother is still young, Lu Xun is not only often on the pawnshop, drugstore, but also have to help his mother to do housework; in order to avoid affecting the study, he must make a good and precise time schedule.
Since then, Lu Xun has been making time almost every day. He said, "Time is like water in a sponge, as long as you squeeze it, there is always time. Lu Xun's interest in reading was very broad, and he loved writing, he also had a deep love for folk art, especially legends and paintings.
Because of his wide-ranging and multi-faceted learning, time was/is very important to him. He was sick all his life, and his working conditions and living environment were not good, but he worked late into the night every day before he would give up.?
3. Gathering fireflies to read?
Che Yin, born in the Jin Dynasty, was the son of a rich family, and then his family fell into poverty. However, he was able to self-improvement in the face of adversity. Che Yin was very understanding and hardworking when he was young. Because he had to help his family work during the day, he wanted to use the long night to read more books to enrich himself.
However, his family was so poor that they did not have the money to buy oil for their lamps, so what could they do to break through the limitations of the objective conditions? At first, he had to memorize the contents of his books at night, until one summer night, he saw a few fireflies flying around, and the light of the fireflies flickered in the darkness of the night.
So he came up with a good idea: he caught many fireflies and put them in a small bag sewn with white summer cloth, which was thin enough to let through the light of the fireflies, and he hung this cloth bag up and it became a 'lighting lamp'.
4. Newton Cooks Pocket Watch
Newton was very dedicated to his studies. Once, a friend invited him to a party, during which he remembered that he had a bottle of wine at home, so he asked his friend to wait a little while, and went home to fetch the wine himself. The friend waited and waited, but did not see Newton back, so he had to go and see what happened.
On his way home, Newton remembered the practice of an experiment, and when he arrived home, he plunged into the laboratory and did the experiment, forgetting all about the wine and the friend.
Another time, he was hungry, boiled eggs to eat, but while thinking about the problem, while putting the eggs into the pot, and so on the problem solved, want to eat the eggs, open the lid of the pot, fished out is actually their own pocket watch.
5, pounced on the book Gorky
Gorky, the Soviet Union, Lenin called him "the most outstanding representative of proletarian art". He was born into a family of carpenters in Tsarist Russia, lost his father at the age of four, and was fostered in his grandmother's house. Because of his family's extreme poverty, he only went to elementary school for two years, and at the age of 10, he entered the cold "world". He worked as an apprentice, a porter, a watchman and a baker.
He also wandered twice to the south of Russia and suffered a life of misery. But he loved to read, in any case, he had to take advantage of all the opportunities, pounced on the book hungrily read. As he himself said, "I pounced on books as a hungry man pounces on bread." He suffered humiliation for the sake of reading.
When he was 10 years old, he was apprenticed in a shoe store and had no money to buy books, so he borrowed books from everywhere to read. At that time, the preschool apprentice, in fact, is a slave:Going to the street to buy things, make a stove, scrub the floor, wash dishes with children ...... every day from the morning to half recognized dry. After a tiring day, with a small homemade lamp, insisted on reading. The boss's wife forbade Gorky to read, but also to the attic to search for books, searching for books to tear.
Because of reading, but also received a severe beating from the boss's wife. Gorky, in order to read books, can endure anything, and even willing to endure torture. He said: "If someone proposed to me that: 'You go to the square and beat you with a stick!' I think it is this kind of condition that I can accept." Because of Gorky's lifelong hunger to read and his diligent and unremitting efforts, he wrote a large number of influential works.
6, Galileo curious and good questions
Galileo is a great Italian physicist, astronomer, his contribution to mechanics is the establishment of the law of falling bodies, discovered the law of inertia of the object, the pendulum vibration of isochronism, parabolic motion law, determine the Galilean principle.
While he was a student at the University of Pisa, he was very curious and often asked questions such as "Why don't the planets go in a straight line?" Some of his teachers thought he was asking too many questions, but he never cared.
On one occasion, Galileo learned that the mathematician Leach had traveled to Pisa, and he prepared a number of questions to ask Leach. This time it was great, the teacher was tireless, and the student asked endless questions. Galileo soon learned about plane geometry, three-dimensional geometry, etc., and y grasped Archimedes' theorem about levers.
7, Xu Beihong patriotic story
"After the July 7 Incident", the Japanese invaders everywhere burning and looting, so that tens of thousands of refugees fled their homes. Xu Beihong pondered: "How to do for the country. For the people, for the war of resistance to make a little effort?" He decided to go to Singapore to hold a painting exhibition to raise money to donate to the refugees, while publicizing the war of resistance to overseas Chinese.
He came to Singapore at the end of 1938, in the middle of the summer weather. In order to prepare a large number of works to be sold at the exhibition, he stood in front of the painting table every day, sweating and painting, working day and night. An overseas Chinese friend to discourage him not to have to be so round-the-clock painting, Xu Beihong said: "I am in the country's suffering compatriots painting ah!"
Day and night torment so that Xu Beihong suddenly fell ill, severe pain in the lower back, he was forced to lie down in the hospital bed. Back pain has not yet healed, he tenaciously picked up the brush. The exhibition opened as scheduled, overseas Chinese people enthusiastically support the motherland war, competing to buy Xu Beihong's works. After the end of the exhibition, he sold a huge amount of paintings, all donated to the relief of hard to get, they do not take a penny, even the travel expenses are also their own burden.
8, Xu Beihong motivation to learn to paint
One day, a foreign student was very rude to Xu Beihong, said: "Mr. Xu, I understand that the da Yang is very important to you, but you do not think that into the door of the da Yang can be a painter. You Chinese can't become talented even if you go to heaven for further study!" Xu Beihong was enraged, but he realized that he could not change other people's ignorance and prejudice by arguing, and he must use facts to make them reacquaint themselves with the real Chinese.
From then on, Xu Beihong more hard work. He is like a tireless horse, day and night, the courage to go forward. The foreign student, looking at Xu Beihong's work, was very shocked. He found Xu Beihong, bowed and said: "I recognize that the Chinese are very talented. It seems I have made a mistake, which in Chinese is 'having eyes but not recognizing Mt. Tai'."
9, Qian Zhongshu on behalf of his father to write the preface
Qian Zhongshu was 18 years old when he was admitted to the American Episcopal Church Wuxi Fu Ren Senior High School. He often wrote letters on behalf of his father, Qian Jiabo, by dictating and writing on behalf of his father, and by writing on behalf of his father and making articles on behalf of his father.
On one occasion, Qian Zhongshu wrote an epitaph on behalf of his father for a large family in the countryside. By chance, he heard his father praising the article to his mother. It was the first time Qian Zhongshu heard his father praising him, and he was so happy that he practically jumped up. Yang Jiang recalled in his later years that Qian Mu's An Introduction to Chinese Studies was published by the Commercial Press in 1931, and he asked Qian Jibo to write a foreword for it.
Qian Jibo asked Qian Zhongshu to write the preface for him. After the preface was written, my father did not change a word. When the book was published, no one could tell that the preface had been written by a young man who had just turned 20.
10. Qian Zhongshu's life as a teenager
Because his uncle had no son, Qian Zhongshu was succeeded by his uncle as a matter of practice. When Zhongshu was four years old, his uncle taught him how to read and write. At the age of six, he was sent to Qin's elementary school, but in less than half a year, because of an illness, his uncle told him to stay at home and not to go to school. Later, when he entered a private school, his uncle thought it was too inconvenient, so he simply taught Zhongshu himself.
In the morning, his father went out for tea and gave him a copper plate to buy shortbread to eat, and two copper plates to let him read books. Zhongshu often went with his father to his aunt's house, where there was a large manor. Zhongshu played all day long and missed some schoolwork, and his aunt's family all smoked cigarettes and always ate dinner at midnight, leading an irregular life. Once he came back, his father saw that Zhongshu had contracted many bad habits and scolded him, but he always refrained from scolding him in front of the other children.
When Zhongshu was eleven years old, he was admitted to Donglin Elementary School, and his uncle died soon afterward. Although his father was responsible for his school fees, he couldn't make up for other expenses. When he didn't have a workbook, he used an old one that his uncle had once pinned up; when the nib of a pen broke off, he sharpened bamboo chopsticks to use it instead.
Zhongshu was fourteen years old when he was admitted to Taowu Middle School, his father was teaching at Tsinghua University, and he was never satisfied with Zhongshu's compositions, and from then on he worked hard on his studies and read a lot of books, and gradually he was able to write letters and poems on his father's behalf, and his father's face finally showed a smile of complacency.