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“Nothing great was ever achieved without
enthusiasm.” |
Wake up
your life
唤醒你的生命
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作者：Unknown |
来源：www.englishfree.com.cn |
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日期：2008-4-5 |
责编：Emma |
Years ago, when I started looking
for my first job, wise advisers urged, "Barbara, be
enthusiastic! Enthusiasm will take you further than any amount
of experience." How right they were.
Enthusiastic people can turn a
boring drive into an adventure, extra work into opportunity and
strangers into friends. "Nothing great was ever achieved without
enthusiasm," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is the paste that
helps you hang on there when the going gets tough. It is the
inner voice that whispers, "I can do it!" when others shout,
"No, you can't!"
It took years and years for the
early work of Barbara McClintock, a geneticist who won the 1983
Nobel Prize in medicine, to be generally accepted. Yet she
didn't let up on her experiments. Work was such a deep pleasure
for her that she never thought of stopping.
We are all born with wide-eyed,
enthusiastic wonder -- as anyone knows who has ever seen an
infant's delight at the jingle of keys or the scurrying of a
beetle. It is this childlike wonder that gives enthusiastic
people such a youthful air, whatever their age.
At 90, cellist Pablo Casals would
start his day by playing Bach. As the music flowed through his
fingers, his stooped shoulders would straighten and joy would
reappear in his eyes. Music, for Casals, was an elixir that made
life a never-ending adventure.
As author and poet Samuel Ullman
once wrote, "Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm
wrinkles the soul." How do you rediscover the enthusiasm of your
childhood? The answer, I believe, lies in the word itself.
Enthusiasm comes from the Greek and means "God within." And what
is God within is but an abiding sense of love -- proper love of
self and, from that, love of others.
Enthusiastic people also love
what they do, regardless of money or title or power. Patricia
McIlrath, retired director of the Missouri Repertory Theater in
Kansas City, was once asked where she got her enthusiasm. She
replied, "My father, a lawyer, long ago told me, `I never made a
dime until I stopped working for money.'" If we cannot do what
we love as a full-time career, we can as a part-time avocation:
like the head of state who paints, the nun who runs marathons.
Elizabeth Layton of Wellsville,
Kan., was 68 before she began to draw. This activity ended bouts
of depression that had plagued her for at least 30 years, and
the quality of her work led one critic to say, "I am tempted to
call Layton a genius." Elizabeth has rediscovered her
enthusiasm.
We can't afford to waste tears on
"might-have-beens." We need to turn the tears into sweat as we
go after "what-can-be". We need to live each moment
wholeheartedly, with all our senses -- finding pleasure in the
fragrance of a back-yard garden, the crayoned picture of a
six-year-old, the enchanting beauty of a rainbow. It is such
enthusiastic love of life that puts a sparkle in our eyes, a
lilt in our steps and smooths the wrinkles from our souls.
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