事业 · 创业者自述

奥里森·斯威特·马登:向前进·摘录 463

奥里森·斯威特·马登《向前进》· Pushing to the Front · 领导

Walter Scott was a very punctual man. This was the secret of his enormous achievements. He rose at five. By breakfast-time he had, as he used to say, broken the neck of the day's work. Writing to a youth who had obtained a situation and asked him for advice, he gave this counsel: "Beware of stumbling over a propensity which easily besets you from not having your time fully employed--I mean what the women call dawdling. Do instantly whatever is to be done, and take the hours of recreation after business, never before it."

出处: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21291
定位:Excerpt 463 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录

白话

沃尔特·司各特非常守时,这是他巨大成就的秘密。他五点起床,到早饭时,用他的话说,已经“把一天工作的脖子拧断了”,也就是把最难的部分干完了。他给一个刚找到工作、向他请教的年轻人建议:要当心一种容易缠上你的毛病,就是时间没排满时养成的磨蹭,女人们叫它“闲荡”。该做的事立刻做,娱乐时间放在正事之后,绝不要放在前面。

上下文

司各特是十九世纪英国历史小说家,马登用他的作息说明守时与先苦后乐。

今日一问

你今天能不能先把最要紧的一件事做完,再去放松?

公版作品;原文逐字取自 Project Gutenberg,仅摘录段落并附全书链接。

本文本为公版;底本与原文链接见上。 版权

← 返回原文库