有一个年青人,从他很小的时候起,就有一个梦想,希望自己可能成为一名杰出的赛车手。他在部队服役的时候,曾经开过卡车,这对他的纯熟驾驶技巧,起到了很大的辅助作用。
退役之后,他抉择到一家农场里开车。在工作之余,他一直参加一支业余赛车队的技巧练习。只要有遇到车赛,他都会想尽所有方法参加。因为得不到好的名次,所以,他在赛车上的收入基本为零,这也使得他欠下一笔数量不小的外债。
那一年,他加入了威斯康星州的赛车竞赛。当赛程进行到一半多的时候,他的赛车位列第三,他有很大的希望,在这次比赛中,能取得好的名次。
忽然,他前面那两辆赛车,发生了碰撞事故,他敏捷地摆动赛车的方向盘,试图避开他们。但毕竟因为车速太快,未能如愿。结果,他撞到车道旁的墙壁上,赛车在焚烧中停了下来。当他被救出来时,手已经被烧伤,鼻子也不见了。体表烧伤面积达百分之四十。医生给他做了七个小时的手术之后,才使他从死神的手中摆脱出来。
经历这次事故,只管他命保住了,可他的手萎缩得像鸡爪一样。医生告知他:“以后,你再也不能开车了。”
然而,他并没有因此灰心失望。为了实现那个长远的梦想,他接收了一系列植皮手术,为了恢复手指的机动性,天天他都不停地训练,用手指的残余部分去抓木条,有时疼得浑身大汗淋漓,而他依然保持着。他始终深信自己的才能。在做完最后一次手术之后,他回到了农场,换用开推土机的方法,使自己的手掌从新磨出老茧,并持续训练赛车技巧。
仅仅是在九个月之后,他又重返了赛场!他首先参加了一场公益性的赛车比赛。但没有获胜,由于他的车在半途意外的熄了火。不久,在随后的一次全程200英里的汽车比赛中,他获得了第二名的荣誉。
又过了两个月,还是在上次产生事变的那个赛场上,他满怀信信心驾车驶入赛场。经由一番剧烈的角逐,他终极获得了250英里比赛的冠军。
他,就是美国颇具传奇颜色的巨大赛车手——吉米·哈里波斯。当吉米第一次以冠军的姿势,面对热忱而猖狂的观众时,他流下了激动的眼泪。一些记者纷纭将他围住,并向他提出一个雷同的问题:“你在遭遇那次繁重的打击之后,是什么力量使你重新抖擞起来的呢?”
此时,吉米手中拿着一张此次比赛的招贴图片,上面是一辆赛车迎着太阳飞奔。他不答复,只是微笑着用玄色的水笔,在图片的背地,写上一句凝重的话,把失败写在背面,我相信自己一定能胜利!
吉米·哈里波斯的坚韧、不服输,碰到挫折不灰心,不丧气的执着,永不言败的精神。让我不禁想起,知名的心理学巨匠卡耐基,常常提示自己的一句规语就是:“我想赢,我一定能赢;结果我又赢了。”
因此,正在跟筹备创业的友人们,请也把所有的'失败,写在反面吧,把你的泪水擦干,让你的微笑常在脸上,把悲伤珍藏,把梦想点燃,假如昨天是一道伤痕,把创痕永远忘却吧!只有你也有一颗永不服输的心,有一种愈挫愈勇的意志,心里就会升腾起一股一往无前的勇气,从而也就不会再埋怨上苍的不公。只要相信自己能赢,就必定能赢;结果就一定能赢!
迈入高三,我们即将开始新的征程。
跨过高考,我们必将拥有新的明天。
在高三这条接近终点的跑道上,我们渴望将美丽的身影留给别人,但你我都应该明白,成功来之不易,我们需要动力,更需要努力。
失败,是任何人都不愿面对的结果。或许有人将失败当作教训,但是,对我们来说,这个教训的代价太大了。这个世界从不会给一个伤心的失败者颁发奖牌。但我们要明白,这场比赛的结果的决定者不是别人,而是我们自己。
我们主宰着我们的命运!
现在,高三悄无声息地靠近了,我既兴奋又恐慌。兴奋的是,十二载的求学生涯即将呈现曙光,我期盼着走出小天地的羁绊,奔向大世界的怀抱;恐慌的是,十二载的艰辛万一付诸流水,我该如何面对?高考本身就是残酷的,但是,我们不能埋怨高考的残酷,因为只有通过这样的形式,我们才能磨砺出铁一般坚忍不拔的意志,才能在以后的道路上畅行无阻。
高考的脚步声离我们越来越近了,我们距梦想的天堂也越来越近。感谢高考,搭建了实现我们梦想的桥梁;感谢高考,赋予了我们翱翔高空的翅膀;感谢高考,让我们学会了人生中的执著??
我坚信,即便高考是座独木桥,我们凭借自己的努力,也一定能走在前排;我坚信,只要付出,就有收获,辛苦的汗水定能浇灌出累累的硕果;我坚信,皇天不负有心人,必胜的信念定能让我们赢得这场没有硝烟的战争。
成败在此一举,相信你我都已满怀信心;在这紧要的关头,相信你我都早已暗下决心欲与天公试比高!
那么,就让我们咬紧牙关,抖擞精神,迈出雄健的步伐,摆动有力的双臂,奔跑在那接近终点的跑道上,将美丽的身影留给他人吧!
来吧,成功属于爱拼搏的我们!
Some people are born with the belief that they are masters of their own lives。 Others feel they are at the mercy of fate。New research shows that part of those feelings are in the genes。
Psychologists have long known that people confident in their ability to control their destinies are more likely to adjust well to growing old than those who feel that they drift on the currents of fate。
Two researchers who questioned hundreds of Swedish twins report that such confidence, or lark of it, is partly genetic and partly drawn from experience。
They also found that the belief in blind luck—a conviction that coincidence plays a big role in life is something learned in life and has nothing to do with heredity。
The research was conducted at the Karolinska Institute—better known as the body that annually awards the Nobel Prize for medicine by Nancy Pedersen of the Institute and Margaret Gatz, a professor of psychology at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles。 Their results were recently published in the United States in the Journal of Gerontology。
People who are confident of their ability to control their lives have an "internal locus of control,"and have a better chance of being well adjusted in their old age, said Pedersen。
An "external locus of control," believing that outside forces determine the course of life, has been linked to depression in latter years, she said。
"We are trying to understand what makes people different。 What makes some people age gracefully and others have a more difficult time?" she said。
The study showed that while people have an inborn predilection toward independence and self—confidence, about 70 percent of this personality trait is affected by a person's environment and lifetime experiences。
Pedersen's studies, with various collaborators, probe the aging process by comparing sets of twins, both identical and fraternal, many of whom were separated at an early age。
The subjects were drawn from a roster first compiled about 30 years ago registering all twins born in Sweden since 1886。 The complete list, which was extended in 1971, has 95,000 sets of twins。