59.
Which
of the following statements best describes William?
A. He needs to improve his attitude on certain subjects.
B. His potential has been fully reflected in science classes.
C. His grade in maths makes him a born scientist.
D. He has made great progress in language classes.
B
Years ago, when I started looking for
my first job, wise advisers advised, “Barbara, be enthusiastic! Enthusiasm will take you further than any amount of
experience. ”How right they were!
“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 Mclintock, a geneticist who won the
1983 Nobel Prize in medicine, to be generally accepted. Yet she didn’t stop working 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 and it
is this childlike wonder that gives enthusiastic people such 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. As author and poet Samuel
Ulman once wrote, “Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.”
Enthusiastic people also love what they do, regardless of money or title
or power. Patricia Mellratl retired director of the Missouri Repertory Theater in Kansas City, was once
asked where she got her enthusiasm. She replied, “My father, 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 hobby. Elizabeth Layton Wellsville，Kan，was 68 before she began to
draw. This
activity ended periods of depression that troubled her for at least 30 years and the quality of her work
led one critic to say, “I am tempted into a genius. ”
We can’t afford to waste tears on“might-have-been”. We need to turn the tears
into sweat as we go after“what-can-be”. We need to live each moment whole-heartedly, with all our senses-finding
pleasure in the sweet smell of a back-yard garden, the simple picture of a
six-year-old, the beauty of a rainbow.