Chaplin, who can compose music, direct and act, is a rare all-round filmmaker. Once, he held a film production meeting and a fly circled around him. At first, he hit a few times with his hand, missed, and asked for a fly swatter. During the dinner, he took a fly swatter, posed as a fly swatter and looked at the flies viciously. But I called three times and didn't get it. Later, the fly was on the table in front of him. He slowly picked up the fly swatter and was about to deliver a fatal blow when he suddenly laid down his weapon and let the fly fly away. The man sitting next to him saw it and said, why don't you kill it? The comedian shrugged his shoulders and said, this is not the one just now!
Lincoln who refused to give up
Perhaps the best example of staying the course is abraham lincoln. Want to know who has never given up, don't look!
Lincoln, who was born in poverty, faced setbacks all his life. He failed in eight elections, failed in business twice and even had a nervous breakdown. Many times, he could have given up, but he didn't, and it was because he didn't give up that he became one of the greatest presidents in American history.
The following is Lincoln's resume before he entered the White House: 18 16. His family was driven out of his place of life and he had to work to support them. 18 18 years, mother died; 183 1 year, the operation failed; 1832 ran for state legislature but lost; 1832 I am unemployed and want to go to law school, but I can't get in. 1833, he borrowed money from his friends to do business, but went bankrupt at the end of the year. It took him 16 years to pay off his debts. 1834, he ran for the state legislature again and won! 1835, when he was about to get married after his engagement, his last wife died, so his heart was broken; 1836, he completely collapsed and was ill in bed for half a year; 1838, tried to become a spokesman for state legislators, but failed; 1840, trying to become an elector, failed; 1843 lost in the parliamentary election; 1846, participated in the parliamentary election again and was elected this time! Going to DC Washington, the performance is remarkable; 1848, seeking re-election of members of Congress failed! 1849 I wanted to be a land administrator in my own state, but I was rejected! 1854 ran for the United States Senate and lost; 1856 was nominated as the vice-chairman at the national congress of * * * and the party, with less than 100 votes; 1858, he ran for the United States Senate again and lost again. 1860 was elected president of the United States.
The road is hard and muddy. One foot slipped and the other foot was unstable; But I took a deep breath and told myself, "This is just a slip, not death and I can't get up." -Lincoln said after running for the Senate failed.
Lu Xun cherishes the story of time.
An important secret of Lu Xun's success is to cherish time. When Lu Xun was twelve years old in a private school in Shaoxing City, his father was seriously ill and his two younger brothers were still young. Lu Xun not only often goes to pawn shops and pharmacies, but also helps his mother with housework. In order not to affect his study, he must make accurate time arrangements. Since then, Lu Xun has been squeezing time almost every day. He once said, "Time is like water in a sponge. As long as you squeeze, there is always some. Lu Xun has a wide range of reading interests, and he likes writing. He is also deeply interested in folk art, especially legends and paintings. It is precisely because he has a wide range of knowledge and studies in many ways that time is very important to him. He has been ill all his life, and his working conditions and living environment are not good, but he will not give up until late at night every day. In Lu Xun's eyes, time is like life. Americans say that time is money. But I think: time is life. If you waste other people's time for no reason, it is tantamount to killing people for money. So Lu Xun hates people who "run around all day, sit in the west and make irresponsible remarks". When he is busy at work, if someone comes to chat or chat with him, even if he is a very good friend, he will rudely say to others, "Well, there you go again. Isn't there anything else to do?" " 」
Hollywood inspirational story, Jet Li
When Jet Li first came to Hollywood, few people thought highly of him. Finally, a film company offered him a role, but his salary was very low, only $654,380,000. He played a villain role. Jet Li hesitated, saying that he would give a reply after careful consideration. However, when he agreed to play, the opponent changed his mind and the pay was reduced to $750,000. Money is not the most important thing, but in the Southeast Asian film market in the 1990s, the word "Jet Li" has long been a gold-lettered signboard, and it is hard for Jet Li to accept the decline from "Kung Fu Emperor" to the present situation. However, he decided to play again and again, but he didn't expect the other party to "hit the stone": "500,000 yuan, don't play." 500 thousand dollars, including lawyers, brokers, publicity companies and other expenses, after tax deduction, there is little left. Jet Li happily promised: "I will play." In this way, Jet Li made his first Hollywood film "Deadly Weapon 4". Although there are many superstars in the film, Jet Li won seven on the opening night of the film. 5 points, become the runner-up in the actor list. The next day, the boss of the film company personally came to the door and respectfully said, "How about asking you to play the leading role in the next film?" When strength proves everything, it's Jet Li's turn to speak, and his fourth Hollywood film will earn $654.38+07 billion. Jet Li made progress by retreating, and successfully knocked on the door of Hollywood. He talked about the past and felt a lot. He read a philosophical poem: "put your hand in the field and look down at the water;" Six clean roads are roads, and retrogression is progress. " A gentleman doesn't complain about others, but should respect reality and avoid detours.
Degang Guo's story: Run like hell without an umbrella.
2 1 year-old came to Beijing from other places to learn from the teacher, but he ran into a wall everywhere. Soon, he and some friends set up a small club and made a living by busking in the street.
Whenever night falls and everyone else goes home early, he still stands on the empty stage and practices new jokes repeatedly until his voice is hoarse and his tongue keeps trembling. Friends couldn't stand it anymore, so they advised him privately. Isn't it just to make a living, so hard?
He accepted the kindness of his friends, but he still tried his best to record, recite and practice various traditional jokes. For a whole year, he hasn't seen a movie, been to a shop or even had a good sleep. After all, the sweat paid off. In just one year, he was able to perform more than 600 traditional jokes freely and became famous in the circle of friends.
But fate always seems to joke with hard-working people. Failure comes again and again, and success becomes an unreachable goal. Working silently and being ignored is extremely depressing. Once, he practiced late into the night as usual before riding home. But just how far I rode, my bike broke down. In the street in the middle of the night, the bus has stopped, and he has no money to take a taxi. There was an important performance the next afternoon. He stamped his foot, bit his teeth, left his bike on the side of the road, and crustily skin of head walked to the rental house in the suburbs.
It was the rainy season, and the sky was dim. When he returned to his residence, he was all wet. He was dizzy, collapsed on the bed and began to have a high fever. He knows in his heart that something will happen if it goes on like this. So, I finally propped myself up, rummaged through everything to find a broken pager, took it to the street and sold it for more than ten dollars. I bought two steamed buns and several packs of cold medicine, but I just survived.
In the afternoon, when he arrived at the performance site with a sallow face, his partner was startled and asked him what had happened. He smiled and said what happened last night. Looking at his haggard face, his partner's tears swirled in his eyes. His partner patted him on the shoulder and helped him to the front desk without saying anything.
With nothing, he just used this stubbornness to gain a firm foothold in the fiercely competitive Beijing. A few years later, in a competition, his self-confidence, calmness and humor attracted the attention of the famous crosstalk actor Hou. Hou expressed his intention to accept him as an apprentice through others. Hearing the news, he asked his partner Yu Qian to hit himself twice. Yu Qian slapped him twice, and tears suddenly fell down. The two big men hugged each other tightly and the children burst into tears.
A few years later, he, Degang Guo, has become famous all over the country. A reporter dug up his stories over the years and asked him why he could persist until now. He smiled and replied, "When I was young, my family was poor. It was raining at school, and other children were standing in the classroom waiting for the umbrella. But I knew there was no umbrella at home, so I ran home in the rain. Children without umbrellas have to run like hell! People like us who have no background, no family and no money have nothing. What's the point of living if you don't work hard and run hard? "
Li Guizhen learns to draw tigers.
Li Guizhen, a famous tiger painter in the Five Dynasties, liked painting since he was a child, especially tigers. However, because he has never seen a real tiger, he always paints it as a sick cat. So he decided to go deep into the forest to see the real tiger. With the help of Uncle Orion, he finally saw the real tiger. Through a lot of sketching and copying, his tiger painting skills have advanced by leaps and bounds, and the tigers in his works are vivid and confusing. Since then, he has traveled many famous mountains and rivers for most of his life, met many birds and animals, and finally became a generation of painting masters.
Shen Kuo went up the mountain to see peach blossoms.
"In April, the flowers in the world are exhausted, and the peach blossoms in the mountain temple are open." When reading this poem, Shen Kuo's eyebrows condensed into a knot. "Why are the flowers here defeated and the peach blossoms on the mountain open?" In order to solve this mystery, Shen Kuo and some friends made a field trip in the mountains. On the mountain in April, it was warm and cold at first sight, and the cool wind came, making people tremble with cold, and Shen Kuo was in full bloom. It turns out that the temperature on the mountain is much lower than that under the mountain, so the flower season comes later than that under the mountain. With this searching spirit and empirical method, Shen Kuo wrote a written talk about Meng Xi when he grew up.
Xu Xiake is full of the world.
One day, a strange thing happened by the river. Many people are salvaging the fallen stone lion, but they can't find it. At this time, a child named Xu Xiake said that as long as you go up the river, you can find the stone lion. Sure enough, the stone lion was found, and everyone praised the child for his cleverness. It turned out that he was Xu Xiake who became a great geographer and traveler when he grew up.
Hua tuo learns from his teacher.
Hua Tuo was born in the Three Kingdoms period (now Bo County, Anhui Province) at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. He was a famous doctor in ancient China. "Leprosy Powder" invented by Hua Tuo is a very effective general anesthetic, which is about 1600 years earlier than western anesthetics. Hua Tuo has made great contributions to world medicine. Don't think that Hua Tuo was born as an imperial doctor. When he was a child, he studied medicine and went through a lot of hardships.
Deng Yaping: Practice hard.
As we all know, Deng Yaping loves playing table tennis since she was a child, and she dreams of being able to show her talents in the world arena one day. But he was rejected by the national team because of his short stature and short hands and feet. But instead of being discouraged, she turned failure into motivation, practiced her skills hard and made persistent efforts, and finally pushed the bud of her dream away-she got her wish and stood on the podium of the world champion. In her sports career, she always won 18 world champion medals. Deng Yaping's outstanding achievements not only brought great glory to himself, but also changed the traditional concept of selecting athletes only among tall people in the world table tennis.
Hillary: A little girl with leadership.
A glib tongue? Brave and wise? Aggressive People always seem to have different views on Hillary, but you can't deny that she is definitely a world-class female politician. Hillary is not inferior to her husband Clinton. Not only did she get excellent grades from childhood, but she also showed strong leadership and social skills.
Hillary was born in a middle-class family in Chicago. At the age of 4, one thing tempered the strong will and determination of little Hillary. At that time, there was an overbearing little girl in the community who always bullied Hillary. Hillary was frightened and complained to her mother in tears. Mother told Hillary that if she was bullied, she must fight back without fear. Little Hillary did it. Since then, Hillary's talented leadership has gradually emerged, and a large group of children have gathered around her.