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奥里森·斯威特·马登:向前进·摘录 401
奥里森·斯威特·马登《向前进》· Pushing to the Front · 领导
The great difference between those who succeed and those who fail does not consist in the amount of work done by each, but in the amount of intelligent work. Many of those who fail most ignominiously do enough to achieve grand success; but they labor at haphazard, building up with one hand only to tear down with the other. They do not grasp circumstances and change them into opportunities. They have no faculty of turning honest defeats into telling victories. With ability enough, and time in abundance,--the warp and woof of success,--they are forever throwing back and forth an empty shuttle, and the real web of life is never woven.
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定位:Excerpt 401 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录
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成功者和失败者的关键差别,不在于谁干的活多,而在于谁干得聪明。很多一败涂地的人,付出的努力其实足够取得大成就,但他们干活没章法,一只手建、另一只手拆,抓不住环境、更不会把环境变成机会,也没有把失败转化为胜利的本事。他们有能力、有时间——这本是成功的经纬线——却像空梭子来回穿,始终织不出真正的人生之布。所以,别只拼工作量,要先想清楚方向和方法,让每一分力气都用在刀刃上,边干边调整,把不利条件转成有利条件。
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奥里森·斯威特·马登,19世纪末美国励志作家,《奋力向前》鼓励普通人靠自我提升改变命运。
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你最近哪件事是“空梭子来回穿”?怎样把它变成有方向的织布?
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