ours。 Deep down I believe that creation of the universe out of nothingness and of life out of inorganic state ultimately aimed at the creation of man。 I believe that man is meant as a great experiment whose possible failure of man’s own guilt would be paramount4 to the failure of creation itself。
Whether this belief be true or not; man would be well advised if he behaved as though it were。
做好每件小事
佚名
几天来,米开朗基罗一直在钻研一尊雕塑。他用了很长时间去修饰每一个细节,但这些细节对旁观者来说似乎毫无意义。当有人问他为什么要这样做的时候,米开朗基罗说道:“琐事成就完美,追求完美并非琐事。”
大多数人会忘记你的工作速度有多快,但他们会记得你做得有多好。
小马丁?路德?金说:“作为一名清洁工,他就应该像米开朗基罗作画、贝多芬作曲或者莎士比亚写诗那样来清扫街道。他应该做得尽善尽美,以至于所有的人都会停下来赞叹:这里有一位杰出的清洁工,他把工作做得这么完美。”
谁也不会在质量和服务面前妥协。据说麦当劳的创始人雷?科洛克有一次在参观一个法式快餐店时看到一只苍蝇,这家餐厅在两周后就失去了加盟权了。雷说道:“你应当为了荣誉和成就而工作,我从小就明白,回报终究会到来的。”
很好地完成一项工作,其本身就是一种回报。做好每件小事,比把许多事情做糟要好得多。
■ 心灵小语
琐事成就完美,追求完美并非琐事。把每一件小事做好,那么,你离成功还会有多远呢?看看,它就在你前方的不远处。
Do Small Things Well
Anonymous
Michelangelo was working on a statue for several days and he was taking a long time to retouch1 every small detail; which seemed rather insignificant to a bystander2。 When asked why he did it; Michelangelo replied: “Trifles make perfection and perfection is no trifle。”
Most people forget how fast you did a job; but they remember how well it was done.
Matin Luther King; JR。 said: “If a man is called to be streetsweeper; he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted; or Beethoven posed music; or Shakespeare wrote poetry。 He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say; here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well。”
One can not promise3 on quality and service。 It is said that Ray Kroc; founder of McDonald’s; found a fly during one of his visits at a franchise。 Two weeks later the franchise lost his franchise。 Ray said:“You should work for pride and acplishment。 I was; brought up to understand that reward will e later。”
The feeling of a job well done is a reward in itself。 It is better to do small things well than do many things poorly.
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梦想与理想(1)
詹姆斯?艾伦
这个世界的救星就是那些梦想家,因为这个现实的世界是由梦想支撑的。所以历经了层层考验、痛苦和磨难的人们,是美丽的梦想滋润了他们孤独的灵魂。人类不能忘记自己的梦想,也不允许自己的理想褪色和逝去;梦想存在于人类的内心之中,并且坚信总有一天会实现。
作曲家、雕塑家、画家、诗人、先知和智者,他们全都是未来的缔造者、天堂的建筑师。这个世界之所以这么美好,都是因为他们的存在;没有了他们,人们会因辛劳而逐渐毁灭。
心中有着美好梦想和崇高理想的人,总有一天会实现愿望。哥伦布对另一个世界怀揣着梦想,于是发现了新大陆;哥白尼对世界的多样性和更为宽广的宇宙有着美好的梦想,于是他翻开宇宙的新篇章;释迦牟尼梦想着一个没有瑕疵、完美祥和的精神世界,于是他如愿以偿了。
珍视你的梦想,珍视你的理想,珍视撩动你心弦的音乐、你心中想象的美好以及内心最纯净美妙的思想,因为一切令人愉悦的环境,一切天堂般的美好均来自于此。如果你为自己的梦想而努力,便终会建起一个自己的梦想世界。
即便是最伟大的成就在最初阶段也仅仅是梦想。橡树沉睡在橡果中,鸟儿在鸟蛋中守候;最崇高的梦想存在于灵魂中,苏醒的天使蠢蠢欲动。梦想孕育着现实。
你周围的环境可能不令人满意,可是假如你胸怀大志,并不断为这个理想而奋力拼搏,那么你周围的环境一定会迅速改变。内心的改变会促使外界环境产生相应的变化。有一个被穷苦和劳作所压迫的年轻人,长期待在一个环境恶劣的车间里,他接受不到教育,也没有接触高雅艺术的机会。可是他怀揣着对美好事物的梦想,他渴望智慧、优雅和美好。这一切督促着他采取行动,利用一切业余时间和一切方法(尽管它们微不足道)来发展他所蕴藏的能量和资源。不久,他的思想产生了巨大变化,那个小车间再也束缚不了他了。他把生活中的所有不如意都扔在了一边,好像扔掉一件旧袍子一样。机会不断出现,他找到了可以自我发挥的空间,开始大展宏图。多年以后,我们眼前的这个年轻人已经是一个成熟之人,他主宰了自己的思想,他独一无二的能力让世界为之惊叹。在他的肩上,背负着艰巨的责任,他的言谈举止和整个生活都发生了天翻地覆的变化。无数人崇拜他,把他视为楷模,他成为万众瞩目的伟人,甚至影响了许多人的一生。他实现了年轻时的梦想,与自己的理想融为了一体。
年轻的读者朋友,不管你的梦想是卑微还是绚丽,或是二者兼而有之。你也肯定会实现你心中的梦想(不是那种脱离实际的幻想),因为你会永远默默地朝着向往的目标努力,你的双手会实现你的所思所想;你所得到的,恰好是你所付出的,不多也不少。不管你现在的处境如何,你都将会追随你的思想、梦想和理想跌宕起伏,或是故步自封。你会变得像你所抑制的欲望一样渺小,也可以变得像你最崇高的理想一样伟大。
那些没有思想、无知、懒惰的人仅看到事物的表层,而不去关注事物的本质,只顾谈论运气、命运和机会,看到有人发财了,他们会惊呼:“他是多么走运啊!”看到有人精明强干,他们会感叹:“命运对他是多么眷顾啊!”看到有人品格高尚、受人景仰,他们会说:“机遇总是在关键时刻助他一臂之力。”
在人类所做的一切事情中,既有努力又有结果,努力的程度是衡量结果的标准。机遇是靠不住的。天赋、能力、物质、智力和精神财富都是努力的硕果;他们是成熟的思想,是达到的目标,是实现的理想。
你头脑中崇尚的梦想和你内心深处的理想,就是你的生命和未来的源泉。书 包 网 txt小说上传分享
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■ 心灵小语
梦想可以创造奇迹,它会赋予我们勇气、力量和不竭的动力。任何人都不应轻易放弃自己的梦想,珍视他们,就一定能够收获成功。
Visions and Ideas
James Allen
The dreamers are the saviors of the world。 As the visible world is sustained by the invisible; so men; through all their trials and sins and sordid vocations; are nourished by the beautiful visions of their solitary dreamers。 Humanity cannot forget its dreamers; it cannot let their ideals fade and die; it lives in them; it knows them as they realities which it shall one day see and know。
poser; sculptor; painter; poet; prophet; sage; these are the makers of the after…world; the architects of heaven。 The world is beautiful because they have lived;without them; laboring humanity would perish。
He who cherishes a beautiful vision; a lofty ideal in his heart; will one day realize it。 Columbus cherished a vision of another world; and he discovered it; Copernicus fostered the vision of a multiplicity of worlds and a wider universe; and he revealed it; Buddha beheld the vision of a spiritual world of stainless beauty and perfect peace; and he entered into it。
Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart; the beauty that forms in your mind; the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts; for out of them will grow all delightful conditions; all; heavenly environment; of these; if you but remain true to them; your world will at last be built。
The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream。 The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg; and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs。 Dreams are the seedlings of realities。
Your circumstances may be uncongenial; but they shall not long remain so if you but perceive an ideal and strive to reach it。 You cannot travel within and stand still without。 Here is a youth hard pressed by poverty and labor; confined long hours in an unhealthy workshop; unschooled; and lacking all the arts of refinement。 But he dreams of better things; he thinks of intelligence; of refinement; of grace and beauty。 Unrest urges him to action; and he utilizes all his spare time and means; small though they are; to the development of his latent powers and resources。 Very soon so altered has his mind bee that the workshop can no longer hold him。 It has bee so out of harmony with his mentality that it falls out of his life as a garment is cast aside; and; with the growth of opportunities; which fit the scope of his expanding powers; he passes out of it forever。 Years later we see this youth as a full…grown man。 We find him a master of certain forces of the mind; which he wields with worldwide influence and almost unequalled power。 In his hands he holds the cords of gigantic responsibilities; he speaks; and lo; lives are changed; men and women hang upon his words and remold their characters; and; sunlike; he bees the fixed and luminous centre round which innumerable destinies revolve。 He has realized the vision of his youth。 He has bee one with his ideal。 电子书 分享网站
梦想与理想(3)
And you; too; youthful reader; will realize the vision (not the idle wish) of your heart; be it base or beautiful; or a mixture of both; for you will always gravitate toward that which you; secretly; most love。 Into your hands will be placed the exact results of your own thoughts; you will receive that which you earn; no more; no less。 Whatever your present environment may be; you will fall; remain; or rise with your thoughts; your vision; your ideal。 You will bee as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration。
The thoughtless; the ignorant; and the indolent; seeing only the apparent effects of things and not the things themselves; talk of luck; of fortune; and chance。 Seeing a man grow rich; they say; “How lucky he is!” Observing another bee intellectual; they exclaim; “How highly favored he is!” And noting the saintly character and wide influence of another; they remark; “How chance aids him at every turn!”
In all human affairs there are efforts; and there are results; and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result。 Chance is not。 Gifts; powers; material; intellectual; and spiritual possessions are the fruits of effort; they are thoughts pleted; objects acplished; visions realized。
The vision that you glorify in your mind; the ideal that you enthrone in your heart—this you will build your life by; this you will bee。
增强信心(1)
罗伯特?斯图伯格
世界在快速地变化,许多人为此颇为担心。其实,更有力、更确切地说,我想可能是大部分人对自己周围发生的一切感到恐惧。
科技进步和创新完全改变了我们生活的各个方面,并且这种变化不会停止。这种变化同时也涉及到经济、社会、科技、政治等各个方面。可是,我们所有人都面临的一个重大问题就是:我们将怎样应对这些变化?
尽管得出具体的答案需要花费时间和心思,可是通向未来�