Classic celebrity story 1 In order to cultivate his virtues of temperance, calmness, orderliness, decisiveness, frugality, diligence, sincerity, fairness, steadiness, neatness, tranquility, firmness and modesty, the famous scientist Franklin specially formulated a classification of virtues for himself, prepared a booklet every week to record these thirteen virtues, and then drew seven blank lines. Every night, you should do some introspection. If you make a mistake during the day, you should draw a black dot in the corresponding blank. After a week, change another brochure. He hopes that through years of self-reflection, these black spots representing shortcomings can be eliminated.
We don't think it is necessary for everyone to make a classification table like Franklin's, not to mention that it is the only way to change bad morals. However, we should imitate Franklin's moral cultivation method of "cautious independence" and use celebrity stories to educate when there is no supervision.
When subtle things and ideas sprout without being noticed, we can consciously set strict demands on ourselves and implement self-supervision according to moral norms.
Classic celebrity story 2: My fingers can still move;
My brain can still think;
I have the ideal that I pursue all my life;
I have relatives and friends who love me, and I love them.
"Mr. Hawking, Luger's disease has permanently fixed you in a wheelchair. Don't you think that fate has made you lose a lot of ways out? " After an academic report, a reporter asked the master of mathematics this question. The host's face is full of smiles. After he tapped the keyboard with three fingers that he could still move, the above four paragraphs appeared on the display screen.
Three fingers and a thinking brain are the only moving parts of Hawking. What does this fighter of life, this hero of wisdom rely on besides superman's will? By love, also by high technology. Without the care of people who love him, Luger's disease will not make him live to this day. Maybe he died at the beginning of the illness. Ostrovsky can't move, but he can talk, so that he can finish his masterpiece orally. China historian Liu's Biezhuan and the famous philosopher Feng Youlan's A New History of China's Philosophy were both written orally by the author when he was blind or could not see clearly.
But Hawking only has three fingers that can move weakly and a pair of eyes that can't talk. How can he express his thoughts without a computer? Can he still use his wisdom? Without developed medicine, how can he always use only three movable fingers to move? Without strong financial support, how can his fragile three fingers produce great knowledge? The joy of success and the aura of victory often make people get carried away, but we should never forget those who have helped us.
Therefore, this person who can face life proudly now, after answering the reporter's question, struggled to type the fifth sentence: "Yes, I still have a grateful heart!" " "
Classic celebrity story 3 Fu Lei plays cards and lifts the table
Fu Lei, who is famous for translating Balzac's works, has a high literary attainments, but he has a bad temper. 193 1 year, Fu Lei returned from studying in Paris and just arrived in Shanghai. He often played mahjong and bridge with his friends for recreation. Originally a purely recreational activity, he was very serious. He never cheated others by playing cards "skills" and let others guess his cards clearly. The result was often ten bets and nine losses. For this reason, Fu Lei always flew into a rage and thought that losing was because of his stupidity. Others know his temper and are always unwilling to partner with him, so Fu Lei has to partner with his wife Zhu Meifu. Zhu Meifu was also nervous sitting opposite him. Fu Lei kept shouting, "How can you play cards like this?" Make her more embarrassed. In this way, after several rounds, Fu Lei threw away the cards and stopped playing, but he lifted the table. Zhu Meifu should not only submit to humiliation, but also smile and apologize to his friends. Gradually, friends are reluctant to play mahjong and bridge with him. Fu Lei later simply stopped playing.
Classic celebrity story 4 Russell, the most influential British thinker in the 20th century, came to Sichuan, China in 19 14.
It was summer, and the weather in Sichuan was very sultry. Russell and several people accompanying him sat on a bamboo sedan chair carried by two people and went to Emei Mountain. The mountain road is steep and steep, and several porters are so tired that they are sweating. As a thinker and writer, Russell is not in the mood to see the wonders of Mount Emei, but to think about the mood of several bearers. He thought that the bearers must hate their sedan chairs. In such hot weather, they had to carry them up the mountain. They may even wonder, why did they come from a sedan chair instead of a sedan chair?
Russell was thinking about it when he came to a small platform halfway up the mountain, and the accompanying people stopped the bearers to rest. Russell got off the bamboo sedan chair and carefully observed the expression of the bearers, trying to comfort the hard bearers.
However, he saw the bearers sitting together, taking out their pipes, talking and laughing, telling happy things, and didn't mean to blame the weather or the people in the sedan chair. They also told Russell an interesting joke about his hometown and gave the great philosopher a difficult problem: "Can you draw with 1 1 and write the names of two China people?" Russell admitted that he couldn't. The sedan chair bearer smiled and said the answer: "Wang Yi, Wang Er." Russell suddenly felt a little ashamed and remorse. Why should I comfort them? Why should I think they are unhappy?
Later, Russell came to a famous outlook on life: it is wrong to look at the happiness or pain of others with self-righteous eyes.
Classic celebrity story 5 Jiang Jingguo has the habit of employing people. He should see his wife first, because if the wife is not decent, the husband can't do things well. On one occasion, he went to the home of the "Minister of Finance". At that time, the official exchange rate of "Taiwan dollar" was 1: 25, and the black market was 1: 40. When chatting with the "Finance Minister" couple, Jiang Jingguo suddenly asked the minister's wife, "What exchange rate did you remit it at?" The minister's wife casually replied, "1: 40." The next day, the minister was dismissed.
Classic celebrity story 6 the touch of gold for lambs
He is not tall, thin, with a faint melancholy in his eyes, and his personality is as shy and gentle as his surname Lamb. He was unknown all his life and suffered many misfortunes. However, no matter how frustrated he is, he can turn decay into magic and pain into joy with his unique touch of gold-he is the famous British writer Charles Lamb (1775- 1834).
Lamb was born in a poor family in London, and his father was an assistant and servant of a law school deacon. There is a small library in the deacon's house. Xiaolan, who often goes to the deacon's house to play with her father, has read all the deacon's books since she was a child. This is the first touch of gold in Lamb's life: he used his diligence and eagerness to learn to transform an ignorant teenager who was born in poverty and had no chance to study into a well-read young talent.
Due to his poor family, Lamb had to drop out of school to make a living at the age of 14. First, he worked for the South China Sea Company in London for several months, and then he worked for the East India Company. Although he works hard, he is not willing to be a clerk who deals with accounts all his life, so he fantasizes that he can turn stone into gold with a quill pen and change his fate. Every day on the way to work, he began to think that sometimes walking would bump into a tree, but a poem or an essay was born in this collision.
Just as Lamb was deeply immersed in the writer's dream, 1792, his father's employer, the respected deacon, died and his father lost his job. However, this is not the biggest misfortune. Four years later, his sister Mary, 10 years old, had a crazy attack and killed her mother with a knife. This year, Lamb was 2l years old, which was the most precious time for an ambitious young man to sprint to his ideal.
In order to support his father and take care of his sister, Lamb shouldered all the family burdens. After his father died, the two brothers and sisters became more interdependent. Lamb's dream of being a professional writer was shattered because he had to support his sister, but his amateur writing continued. At the same time, he encouraged his sister to write with him. When Mary was not ill, reading and writing together became their happiest time. The Tales of Shakespeare's Plays, which they wrote together, has now become a must-read introductory book for beginners of Shakespeare's plays all over the world.
1825, Lamb retired from the East India Company after 36 years of service. This year, he is 50 years old. I have worked hard all my life, and now I have time to create with peace of mind, but God seems to be deliberately giving him a hard time. Due to the deterioration of his health, he died only nine years after retirement. When he died, his biggest regret was that his sister was still alive, that is to say, he didn't know how to take care of this crazy sister for the rest of his life.
In order to take care of her sister, Lamb never got married. He has been busy all his life between tedious work and the burden of his family, but he still insists on writing a lot of excellent works, including poems, plays, Shakespeare's essays, art reviews and so on. His "Essays on Ilya" even crossed the long "Just Visiting" and presented it to later readers in an eternal manner, becoming one of the few classic essays of our time.
The protagonists in Lamb's novels are all "little people" like him. The petty clerks, beggars and even thieves who disdain his contemporaries immediately become lifelike after his humorous description. If Lamb has a quill pen that turns decay into magic, we can't help sighing about his golden touch of life that turns pain into joy: Although Lamb is most qualified to talk about the injustice of fate, you can't find a tear in life or his prose, and you can't see his slightest complaint about life.
So, how did Lamb have this ability to turn stone into gold? Perhaps, we can find the answer from a letter he sent to a friend: "All the streets and alleys in London are paved with pure gold-at least, I know that a touch of gold can turn mud in London into gold, and that is the heart that loves to live in the crowd." In fact, Lamb's touch of gold is not complicated, that is "love". This ability is not unique to Lamb. We all have it.
Classic celebrity story 7 This story happened in the Tang Dynasty. One year at the end of spring, a handsome young man suddenly moved in at the home of a nun named "Yongmuguan" on the outskirts of Chang 'an. What's going on here? The story begins as a teenager. His name is Yang Zhi. He likes music since he was a child, especially playing the pipa. At the age of fifteen, he became famous in Chang 'an. However, he is not satisfied with this, and always asks for advice from the pipa master with an open mind.
Yang Zhi has an aunt who is a court musician and plays the pipa very well. Later, he retired from the palace because of old age and physical weakness, and lived in an alley in Chang 'an. Yang Zhi naturally won't miss the opportunity to ask her aunt for advice. However, my aunt has a strange temper. She never passes on skills, even her own flesh and blood. Yang Zhi has been there several times, but he has been turned away. Later, in order to avoid the entanglement of Yang Zhi, my aunt simply moved to "Yongmuguan", which is more than 20 miles away from the city, to live in seclusion. She thought she could be pure from now on, but it wasn't long before Yang Zhi persuaded a nun in "Forever Close Eyes" to live quietly in buddhist nun.
Whenever his aunt played the pipa, he walked softly to the window of her living room, listened to the beautiful music like a jade plate, and studied her various fingering through the window. It was not until his aunt put down the pipa to sleep that he returned to his hut and practiced with it. In order not to reveal the secret, he removed the four strings on the pipa and replaced them with strings that are not easy to make noise. He played and played until the cock crowed and the east turned white.
Unconsciously, a month passed. One morning, Yang Zhi walked into her aunt's living room with her pipa in her arms. When my aunt saw it, she thought he was pestering for advice again, and her face immediately showed displeasure. Without saying anything, Yang Zhi sat on the stool and began to play music.
Aunt was surprised to hear that my nephew played all the songs he often played, and the style of playing was similar to his own. She asked Yang Zhi how he learned it. Yang Zhi told the whole story to his aunt. Listen, aunt's eyes are shining with tears. She said guiltily, "Good nephew, from today on, my aunt will accept you as an apprentice!" " "
Yang Zhi got what he wanted, smiled, immediately hugged the pipa and repeatedly saluted his aunt. ...
Classic celebrity story 8 Kate Ritchie, a famous professor at Harvard University in the United States, is an authority on Shakespeare studies. Once, when he was teaching Shakespeare on the pulpit, he accidentally stepped on the air and fell under the pulpit. He stood up and said to the students with great momentum: I have been teaching for forty years now, and this is the first time I have fallen to the level of the audience!
On August 29th, 20XX, German Chancellor Angela Merkel ended her visit to Nanjing. As a national leader, Chancellor Merkel did not stay in the presidential suite of more than 400 square meters on the top floor of the hotel, but lived in an ordinary suite of more than 70 square meters like a business guest. As early as more than a month ago, Germany visited the hotel, but the Prime Minister thought that the presidential suite with two rooms, one living room, one study room and one conference room was too luxurious, and the ordinary suite facilities were already perfect, which could fully meet the needs.
At breakfast, Chancellor Merkel politely declined the invitation specially prepared for her by Sofitel Club, and went to the western restaurant on the 7th floor for dinner like an ordinary hotel guest. Instead of entering the VIP room, she had a buffet breakfast in the hall with the accompanying German staff and took her own food like ordinary people. When Merkel picked up an oatmeal bread, she accidentally dropped a piece of bread on the ground. As usual, the hotel staff will help the guests pick it up and change it, but Merkel refused the service staff. She leaned down to pick up the piece of bread that had fallen to the ground, carefully wiped off the dust and put it directly on her plate. Merkel's breakfast is very simple, omelet, cheesecake, watermelon, bread, including the piece of bread that fell to the ground.
Classic celebrity story 10 More than 30 people, including Peng, commander-in-chief of the Third Army of the Red Army, inspected the terrain at the frontier, and the messenger shouted to get out of the way while holding a red flag. Only one soldier sat still. Peng shouted a few words when he saw someone in the way. The soldier stood up and gave General Peng two punches. Mr. Peng told him to hurry. Later, the messenger tied up the soldiers and went to see General Peng. General Peng immediately told him to go back. The soldiers knew that they were in trouble and they were afraid. I was deeply moved to see that Mr. Peng was able to shrug off. Later, everyone said, "The Commander-in-Chief is so generous!
Classic celebrity story 1 1 lev tolstoy lived a dissolute life when he was young and had some bad hobbies, such as playing and gambling. But soon, he woke up immediately. He thinks his debauchery is equivalent to an animal and is very dissatisfied with himself. He also listed the reasons for the mistakes in detail and wrote them in his diary. * * * There are eight points: 1, lacking perseverance; 2. Deceive yourself; 3, there is a wind of juvenile frivolous 4, neither humble nor humble; 5, the temper is too embarrassing; 6. Life is too indulgent; 7. Too much imitation; 8. Lack of introspection. This time, it was like a thunderbolt hit him. Determined to end his dissolute life and correct his bad habits, he came to Caucasus with his brother Nikolai, became a junior officer in the artillery unit and embarked on the road of literary creation.
Educational significance: You can know yourself more clearly by listing your shortcomings one by one, which is a good way to change them. As long as you make up your mind, even Tolstoy with so many shortcomings can turn over a new leaf. What cannot be changed? The prodigal son's behavior of not changing money deserves our respect.
Applicable themes: introspection, youth, change
Classic celebrity story 12 A young woman and her new husband sat in the high front seat of a freight car and drove to a sparsely populated corner in the northern United States. It was a cold day in February of 65438. "I think the weather will definitely get better." Salle said to her husband Tom. No matter what she sees, she always wants to see the bright side.
Just the day before, Tom rode to Elizabeth, Kentucky, where Salle lived. He made a special trip from a farm in the northern wilderness. As soon as they met, Tom told her directly what he wanted: "Salle, we grew up together and know each other very well. I don't think there is anything to say. " I've come to propose to you. You lost your husband and I lost my wife. If you like, let's get married tomorrow. "
The rented carriage was packed with boxes and furniture, and Salle's three children had almost no place to sit. Tom also has two children, but he didn't tell them before he came that he would bring back a new mother. At the thought of this, Salle's blue-gray eyes were full of anxiety.
The carriage crossed the Ohio River on a raft, entered Indiana, and finally reached a wooden house by the river. The hut has neither windows nor door panels, and the door is only covered with a deerskin. The trees around the house were cut down and turned into farms.
A little boy ran out of the house when Tom called. He looks sallow and emaciated, his clothes are dirty, and his buckskin pants are torn. But the child's eyes immediately attracted Salle. She jumped out of the car and held the child tightly with open arms.
"Hello, Abe Lincoln!" She said kindly, "I think we will be good friends."
Classic celebrity story 13 Feng Yuxiang sent a "gift"
1928 One day, Liu Jiwen, the mayor of Nanjing at that time, gave a big wedding banquet. There were many predecessors in his house, and all kinds of gifts piled up into mountains. At this time, the police reported: "Feng Yuxiang's gift has arrived." Hearing this, the Liu Jiwen immediately beamed. He knew that Feng Yuxiang never gave gifts to officials. When he sent a wedding invitation to Feng Yuxiang, Feng Yuxiang just said lukewarm: "I have never been addicted to alcohol and tobacco, but you are an official in Nanjing, and when the wedding day comes, I will definitely give you a small gift."
Liu Jiwen thought Feng Yuxiang was just being polite, but he didn't expect to really give gifts. This face is really big. So he announced loudly that he would bring the gift in and open it in public. When the guests here heard of Feng Yuxiang's gift, they all felt very rare and were waiting to see what had happened. The gift is a wooden box wrapped in red cloth, and there is a thick stack of paper in the box. A closer look shows that these papers are all complaints and grievances of Nanjing citizens. Seeing this, Liu Jiwen couldn't say a word.
Classic celebrity story 14 when Xiong Shili, a master of Chinese studies, taught at Peking University, several colleagues organized an "eight noes", that is, participants must abide by the eight precepts: no smoking, no drinking, no whoring, no gambling, no taking drugs, no being an official, no greedy for money and no flattering. Colleagues thought that Xiong Shili was content with poverty and devoted himself to studying, so he was a natural candidate for "eight won't", so he invited Xiong Shili to participate. Xiong Shili said: "If you don't want to set up an organization, you are cronyism. I want a' nine noes' and a' don't organize'. " His "nine noes" means not taking part in this "eight noes".
Classic celebrity stories 15 With the increasing popularity of Gu Long, his novels are becoming more and more popular. Driven by interests, many people began to imitate him, and some even began to write novels under the name of Gu Long.
When a friend found Gu Long holding a pirated book, he didn't get angry, but read it with relish. My friend couldn't bear to press it and asked him why he didn't pursue it.
Gu Long said with a smile: "I know who wrote this novel at a glance. I am also disgusted with these filthy behaviors of copying and imitating the use of pseudonyms. But I know this author. His family is poor, but he just makes a living from it. If I report him, his whole family may be hungry and have to forgive others. " After listening to him, my friend cried. Gu long finally really didn't pursue this matter again.
Gu long's struggle is not rash, but bloody, fighting for his dignity and national honor; Gu Long's resignation is not cowardice, but fraternity, regardless of small profits, providing opportunities for more talented and ambitious people, which is even more admirable.
Life is like a soaring eagle. Bloody and tolerance are the two wings of an eagle-indisputable, not enough to survive; Don't let it, success is not enough. Knowing the true meaning of struggle and concession, let Gu Long soar in the sky all his life.
Editor's note: A tolerant heart treats people around you, and the more tolerant you are, the happier you will be.
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