英語勵(lì)志文章：變老的那一天

1、英語勵(lì)志文章：變老的那一天 英語勵(lì)志文章：變老的那一天 "i dread to come to the end of the year,said a friend to me recently, 'it makes me realize i am growing old."william james, the great psychologist, said that most men are 'old fogies at twenty-fivehe was right. most men at twenty-five are satisfied with

2、their jobs. they have accumulated the little stock of prejudices that they call their "principles, ' and closed their minds to all new ideas; they have ceased to grow.the minutea man ceases to grow-no matter what his years-that minute he begins to be old. on the other hand, the really great

3、 man never grows old.goethe passed out at eighty-three, and finished his faust only a few years earlier; gladstone took up a new language when he was seventy. laplace, the astronomer, was still at work when death caught up with him at seventy-eight. he died crying, "what we know is nothing; wha

4、t we do not know is immense.'and there you have the real answer to the question, "when is a man old?'laplace at seventy-eight died young. he was still unsatisfied, still sure that he had a lot to learn.as long as a man can keep himself in that attitude of mind, as long as he can look ba

5、ck on every year and say , "i grew,' he is still young.the minute he ceases to grow, the minute he says to himself, "i know all that i need to know,'-that day youth stops. he may be twenty-five or seventy-five, it makes no difference. on that day he begins to be old."我懼怕臨近歲末年尾

6、'，一位朋友最近對我說："它使我意識到我正在變老。'偉大的心理學(xué)家威廉？詹姆斯就曾說過，大多數(shù)人"25歲時(shí)就成了守舊落伍者'。他的話是對的。大多數(shù)人25歲時(shí)就滿足于他們的工作。他們已經(jīng)積存了一些他們稱之為"原則'的偏見，對所有新的思想關(guān)閉心靈之門；他們已經(jīng)停止成長。一個(gè)人一旦停止成長-不管他年齡多大-他就開始衰老。反之，真正的偉人從來不會(huì)衰老。歌德享年83歲，逝世前幾年才完成浮士德；格萊斯頓70歲時(shí)又開始學(xué)習(xí)一門外國語；法國天文學(xué)家拉普拉斯78歲死時(shí)還在工作著。臨死前，他大聲喊道："我們所知的太少太少，我們所不知的太多太多。'"一個(gè)人何時(shí)變老？'，從這類事例中對這個(gè)問題你已經(jīng)有了真正的答案。拉普拉斯78歲逝世時(shí)依舊年輕。他依舊不滿足，依舊感到許多東西要學(xué)。一個(gè)人，只要他能夠堅(jiān)持這種心態(tài)，只要他在回首過去的一年時(shí)能夠說"我在成長'，他就依舊年輕。他一旦停止成長，他一旦對