Jonathan is a black handyman in the White House, and his wife Davis is also a cleaner in the White House. One day, Jonathan said that he found some quails on the lawn of the White House while weeding. Davis had never seen quail before and wanted to know its appearance, but Jonathan refused because he felt very tired after weeding in the White House all day. At that time, Davis was very angry and said angrily, "If you don't give an explanation, I will ask President franklin roosevelt for help!"
I didn't expect Davis to really do this! At that time, Roosevelt gave a detailed answer, put down his book and went to the lawn with Davis, pointing out that the bird with a chestnut yellow head not far away was a quail.
The president is as busy as a bee in dealing with the bad economy. Davis shouldn't bother the president with such a trivial matter. Jonathan blamed Davis for this, thinking that she was ignorant and stupid, and warned: "If you continue like this, you may be fired from the White House tomorrow!"
Later, when Roosevelt learned about it, he said to Jonathan, "I don't think Davis did anything wrong, and I can't see her ignorance and stupidity!" " Jonathan, it's just that you think too complicated. I tell you, if a person can't solve the little things around him, don't expect him to solve the big things! "
Jonathan still "topped" the sentence: "But I am thinking of the president! If everyone bothers you at this time, won't it affect your work? "
"no! As a president, major events need to be solved by themselves, but we cannot ignore the small things around us. " Roosevelt was moved by Jonathan's understanding: "What you said is also very reasonable, but it depends on the occasion. If you are really too busy to answer other people's small questions in time, you should also say you are sorry and explain to others, because you can't answer them immediately because of something urgent. If we meet next time, I will remember ... "
"Quails can be seen at any time on the lawn of the White House. If you don't take this as a trivial matter and promise to take Davis to the appraisal tomorrow, the contradiction between husband and wife will not be so big! " Having said that, Roosevelt's words returned to the topic, "Don't think that these things that can be solved easily are trivial, so you can shirk or ignore them! If this goes on, people's grievances will increase and people's anger will grow. As president, you can not only do great things, but also do small things well. In the face of big things and small things, we can't lose big because of small things! "
"Don't repair with small profits, and don't guard against small losses". Roosevelt can become the longest-serving president of the United States, which is inseparable from his attitude of "no small matter" all his life!
Yu, the founder of New Oriental, was the worst student in his class when he was admitted to college from the countryside. At that time, he spoke Mandarin that no one could understand. His English pronunciation is like Japanese, and his academic performance is very poor, especially among a group of gifted scholars in Peking University. So few top students are willing to talk to Yu, and he can only stay in the circle of poor students and feel sorry for himself.
One day, because of his unsatisfactory academic performance, Yu had the idea of dropping out of school and going back to his hometown, lying in the bed of the dormitory and sighing. At this time, a classmate named in the same dormitory just came back and saw Yu's decadent appearance and gave him an apple. Apple caused the right thinking, and he summoned up the courage to ask, "What is your ideal? My ideal is to have a permanent bike. "
"My dream is to own a Porsche car in the future." Zhou Hua replied. This answer was unexpected, and he suddenly realized; If you continue to stay in your own circle, obsess about the so-called inferiority complex, and don't get in touch with those top students, then the gap between you and others will get bigger and bigger, and eventually you will never be able to cross it. Therefore, I decided to put down my self-esteem and integrate into the circle of outstanding people, thus fundamentally changing myself.
Since then, it's like a different person. He took the initiative to fetch water and sweep the floor and began to learn to make friends with top students. He always pays attention to what books people are reading, doing and discussing. Seeing some students reciting English textbooks, he also began to recite new concept English and tried to write poems. In this process, I found that my thoughts became more and more open.
When she was in college, Yu contracted tuberculosis. During his illness, he remembered that Wang Qiang, his favorite monitor, had said that Shakespeare's sonnets were very classic, so he wanted to borrow them to recite. So he stayed up late and wrote a letter to Wang Qiang, asking him to help borrow books. Unexpectedly, Wang Qiang didn't help after receiving the letter. Instead, he wrote a letter of more than ten pages to educate me, saying that he had not reached the level of reading sonnets, and asked him to read some simple books first.
After receiving the letter, I was not angry, but grateful. Because he learned a lot of new knowledge from Wang Qiang's letter, he didn't feel despised, but was full of joy.
Besides, when I was studying, I admired Mr. of the Youth League Committee, so I often went to talk to him. Xu Xiaoping's eloquence is excellent. He always quotes other people's opinions when he speaks. His eloquence often makes me dumbfounded. In front of me, I can only be a bystander, looking up at each other with inferiority, but he still insists on attending classes and teaching in the Youth League Committee regularly, and he has learned a lot in the communication.
Although he made continuous progress, he was the worst student in the class when he graduated. Of the 50 students in the class, 49 are abroad, but he can't get a visa anyway. Later, he had to find another way to set up the New Oriental English training institution, and made his career bigger by his own efforts, and soon he was worth tens of millions.
After making initial achievements in starting a business, Yu decided to find some partners. At this moment, he thought of two friends in college: Wang Qiang and Xu Xiaoping. So he flew abroad with the idea of being a phoenix tail and successfully persuaded two friends to return to China to start a business. Later, Qi Xin and Qi Xin worked together to make the enterprise bigger and stronger, becoming a famous troika in New Oriental, and Yu also changed from a phoenix tail to a phoenix head, becoming a temperament figure in everyone's mind. The film "Chinese Partner" based on their story was also released in China not long ago. Caused a huge response.
Today's success is inseparable from his willingness to be a phoenix tail. Because, if you aim to be a chicken head, you will never get out of the narrow circle, and it is difficult to break through yourself; On the contrary, if you are brave enough to be a phoenix tail, you can constantly improve yourself in the process of dealing with elites, and finally realize the gorgeous transformation in your life and find opportunities to realize your phoenix head dream.
Celebrity Classic Inspirational Short Stories 3 In the 1920s, Peking Opera Farewell My Concubine was popular in China, and Mei Lanfang's Farewell My Concubine was vivid and well received by everyone.
Once, when Mei Lanfang was performing, an old man booed under the stage: "What famous actor, sword dancing, how dare you go on stage!" " "Then he got up and left. After the performance, Mei Lanfang asked about it, and someone advised: "An old man talks nonsense, so why should you care!" Mei Lanfang didn't say much, but asked someone to find out where the old man lived.
On this day, Mei Lanfang came to the old man's residence. As soon as she saw him, she bowed her head and said, "I'm not good at playing. I came to ask you for advice." The old man flatly refused: "You are a famous actor, how dare I teach you?" Mei Lanfang bowed again and said, "The younger generation wholeheartedly promotes the quintessence of the country and hopes to get your guidance." The old man still shook his head, and Mei Lanfang continued to bow his head to plead. Then the old man said, "Look at your sincerity, I'll give you some advice. Actually, you played very well. The only fly in the ointment is that you jumped that man's fencing, which is not in line with Yu Meiren's identity! " Mei Lanfang immediately bowed down and asked the old man for advice.
After that, Mei Lanfang learned different sword dancing methods from the elderly, and applied them to the performance, which received good results. People praised Mei Lanfang for being modest and studious. He said, "I know my swordsmanship is not good. If someone criticizes and corrects me, of course I have to learn with an open mind. "
When a person is in the scenery, he should also keep a modest personality and a cool head, so as to make continuous progress!
Celebrity classic inspirational short story 4 Helen Keller (1880- 1962), an American female scholar, was born in Tuscany, Alabama. She suddenly fell ill at the age of 1 1/2, which made her blind, deaf and dumb. In such unimaginable life adversity, she embarked on a long journey of life. ...
People say that Helen came into this world with a studious and confident temperament. Although fate is so unfair to young Helen, her first teacher Anne? With the help of Sullivan, tenacious Helen learned to write and speak.
Little Helen once confidently declared: "One day, I want to go to college! I'm going to Harvard University! " Today is the last day. Radcliffe Women's College of Harvard University arranged her entrance examination in a special way. I saw that she skillfully touched the raised braille with her hand and then answered the question with a typewriter.
After 9 hours, I passed all subjects and got excellent grades in English and German. Four years later, Helen graduated with honors from Radcliffe College with a parchment certificate in her hand. Helen loves life. She devoted her life to the welfare and education of the blind and deaf, and won the praise of world public opinion.
He has successively completed 14 works such as The Story of My Life, which has produced worldwide influence. Her self-esteem, self-confidence and indomitable spirit of struggle are known as the eternal pride of mankind.
Hawking's learning ability seems to be not strong when he was a child. He learned to read very late. After school, he has never been in the front 10 in his class, and his homework is always "at sixes and sevens". Teachers consider him "hopeless" and students regard him as the object of ridicule.
When Hawking 12 years old, two boys in the class took a bag of candy and bet that he would never succeed. The classmates ironically nicknamed him "Einstein". Who knows, after more than 20 years, the little boy who was not outstanding in those days really became a master of physics. What is the reason?
As it turns out, with the growth of age, Hawking became interested in how everything works. He often takes things apart to get to the bottom of them, but when he reassembles them, there is nothing he can do. However, his parents didn't punish him for it, and his father even served as a "coach" in mathematics and physics for him.
At the age of thirteen or fourteen, Hawking found himself very interested in the study of physics. Although middle school physics is too easy and simple, it is particularly boring, but he thinks it is the most basic science, which is expected to solve the problem of where people come from and why they are here. Since then, Hawking has started a real scientific exploration.
When Franklin was a child, one day he met a man with an axe at the door. The man stopped and said kindly, "Hello, little fellow, do you have a grindstone at home?" Franklin answered yes, and then the man said, "You are such a kind boy. May I borrow your whetstone to sharpen this axe? "
Franklin heard this compliment and said, "Of course there is no problem." Then he immediately turned around and brought a grindstone from home.
"I can see at a glance that you are a clever and kind boy. I'm exhausted from the walk. Can you help me sharpen my axe for a few minutes? "
The man's praise once again made Franklin listen to My Sweetie's heart, so he agreed to help him sharpen his axe. Seeing that it was almost time for school, Franklin still couldn't sharpen his axe, but he couldn't stop, so he decided to give up his studies and help men sharpen their axes.
When the axe was finally sharpened, Franklin thought that the man would thank him well, but he shouted at Franklin, "You are such a clumsy child. You haven't polished it for so long, which has delayed my work! "
Franklin was very angry. He never thought that he worked so hard to help people, but he was scolded.
However, this incident gave Franklin a lifetime warning. When he tells others about this matter in the future, he will finally say, "In the face of flattery and praise from others, you must first understand what you should do and never lose yourself."
Celebrity Classic Inspirational Story 7 When Zhang Haidi was in Chengguan Hospital of Shenxian County, Liaocheng District, Shandong Province, many people knew that she could prick needles, so people came to see her in an endless stream. She was enthusiastic and earnest, and took pains to answer every question raised by the patient. At work, she went to the hospital in advance, but after work, she went to see all the patients. I'll be home late. As soon as I get home, I will lie in bed like mud and say; "Mom, I don't want to eat today." At this time, the mother picked up a hair, put it around her daughter's neck, and sent the food to bed. Mother didn't know that Heidi even endured great pain at dinner. She leans on the armrest of the wheelchair with her arms so that she can sit up straight. When she pricked a needle with her hand, her abdomen became slack for a long time, and the intercostal nerve was in severe pain. Because she can only measure her own body, she pressed her right rib on the armrest of the wheelchair and forced the patient to stick a needle. Over time, her right rib collapsed, and she was completely trapped in a punch, and her spine was bent into an "S" shape.
Sometimes she doesn't attend class, and people often beg her for injections. Whenever someone comes to ask her for help, she always happily works for others, as if there is nothing wrong: she does. In the world, it is not uncommon for doctors to work with illness, but who has ever seen such a doctor: at the expense of his own pain, he does not hesitate to damage his already sick body to maintain the health of others, and he does not hesitate to shorten his own life to continue others' lives.
Cameron, the director of Celebrity Classic Short Inspirational Story 8, said to the boss of the film company, "I want to shoot Romeo and Juliet on the boat and show the audience a three-hour love story." Cameron refers to the original intention of the movie Titanic. But the boss of the film company shook his head when he heard this, because Cameron used to be good at making kung fu movies, which were only two hours long at most. But Cameron insisted on his own ideas. He asked his boss, "Are there any films I used to make that didn't make money?" You tell me. "The boss was tongue-tied. In fact, every movie made by Cameron is very good at the box office.
Based on Cameron's past successful experience, the boss finally let go: "OK, but we have to control the budget." Cameron smiled: "The budget will not be very big. Anyway, there is the boat on the scene. " But as soon as the film started shooting, the daily cost was as high as $250,000, and sometimes even exceeded $500,000. The film has not been filmed for a year, and all the budgeted money has been used up.
The boss felt that he should stop investing immediately, but Cameron was firm: "The film must be made. I don't need all personal rewards." Cameron's remarks mean that he will give up tens of millions of dollars in salary. The boss thought about it and finally accepted Cameron's request: the film will continue to be filmed, but the salary of Cameron will be paid.
Later, the movie became an instant hit! The boss gave Cameron1.800 million dollars in box office income.
You can't just see the immediate interests, you must have a long-term vision to succeed.