高中英語(yǔ)作文范文：一生中最好的忠告
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人一生中會(huì)得到許多好的建議。什么樣的好建議給成功人士的奮斗注入了強(qiáng)心劑呢?一起來(lái)聽(tīng)聽(tīng)eBay(易趣)的CEO兼總裁Meg Whitman在2005年接受《財(cái)富》雜志75周年專(zhuān)題報(bào)道"The Best Advice I Ever Got"采訪時(shí)是怎么說(shuō)的吧!
Several pieces of advice I've gotten in my life have really made a difference.
"Be nice to people." This sounds like a platitude1), but I'll never forget my father telling me that. I was 10, and I had been mean to someone. He said, "There is no point in being2) mean to anyone at any time. You never know who you're going to meet later in life. And by the way, you don't change anything by being mean. Usually you don't get anywhere."
"Remember that you can do anything you want to do. Don't let anyone say, 'You're not smart enough... it's too hard... it's a dumb idea... no one has done that before... girls don't do that.'" My mom gave me that advice in 1973. And it allowed me to never worry about what others were saying about my career direction.
"Always do the best job you can do at whatever you're assigned3), even if you think it's boring." Jerry Parkinson, an assistant advertising manager and my boss at P&G4), told me this in 1979. Here I was fresh out of Harvard Business School(HBS), and I was assigned to determine how big the hole in the Ivory shampoo5) bottle should be: 3/8 of an inch or 1/8 of an inch. I did research, focus groups6) ... and I would come home at night wondering how I had gone from HBS to this. But later I realized that any job you're given is an opportunity to prove yourself.
"Don't be a credit7) hog8). If you're constantly in the neighborhood of good things, good things will happen to you." Tom Tierney, who was my boss at Bain9) in 1981 and is now on the eBay board, told me this. It's true - you get ahead10) by crediting other people.
Finally, in 1998, I was in New York watching the ticker11) as eBay went public12). My husband is a neurosurgeon13). I called into his operating room and told him the great news. And he said, "That's nice. But Meg, remember that it's not brain surgery.14)"
我在生活中獲得的一些忠告的確產(chǎn)生了十分重大的影響。
"友善待人。"這話聽(tīng)起來(lái)似乎是老生常談,但我永遠(yuǎn)都不會(huì)忘記父親給我這則忠告的情景。當(dāng)時(shí)我十歲,曾對(duì)某人刻薄。于是父親教育我:"不論什么時(shí)候,你都沒(méi)必要對(duì)任何人刻薄,因?yàn)槟阌肋h(yuǎn)都不知道自己在以后的生活中將會(huì)遇到誰(shuí)。而且,刻薄待人于事無(wú)補(bǔ),通常只會(huì)一無(wú)所獲。"
"記住,你能做到自己想做的任何事情。不要讓任何人說(shuō):'你不夠聰明……這太難了……這是個(gè)笨主意……從來(lái)沒(méi)有人做過(guò)那樣的事……女孩子不該那樣做。'"這是母親在1973年給我的建議。這條忠告讓我從不為別人對(duì)我職業(yè)方向的看法而煩惱。
"不論分配給你的任務(wù)是什么,你都必須盡全力做到最好,即使你認(rèn)為那是個(gè)無(wú)聊的任務(wù)。"1979年,我在寶潔公司工作時(shí)的老板、廣告部經(jīng)理助理杰瑞·帕金森給了我以上這條忠告。那時(shí)我剛從哈佛商學(xué)院畢業(yè),公司派給我的任務(wù)是研究"象牙"洗發(fā)水瓶的瓶口該開(kāi)多大才最合適:是3/8英寸還是1/8英寸?為此我做了調(diào)查,還進(jìn)行了專(zhuān)題小組討論……可是晚上回到家,我就會(huì)疑惑:我堂堂一位哈佛商學(xué)院的畢業(yè)生,怎么在做這樣的事情?然而,后來(lái)我意識(shí)到:你接到的任何一項(xiàng)工作其實(shí)都是證明你自己的機(jī)會(huì)。
"不要追名逐利。如果你長(zhǎng)期與好事為鄰,那么好事自然會(huì)發(fā)生在你身上。"這句話是1981年我在貝恩顧問(wèn)管理公司工作時(shí),我的老板湯姆·蒂爾尼對(duì)我說(shuō)的。他現(xiàn)在是易趣的股東。這話說(shuō)得很對(duì)--通過(guò)贊譽(yù)他人,你也會(huì)取得成功。
最后一則忠告出現(xiàn)在1998年,當(dāng)時(shí)我在紐約盯著倒計(jì)時(shí)牌,等待易趣上市時(shí)刻的到來(lái)。我的丈夫是一個(gè)神經(jīng)外科醫(yī)生,當(dāng)我打電話到他的手術(shù)室,告訴他這個(gè)好消息時(shí),他卻答道:"這很不錯(cuò)。不過(guò),梅格,你要切記,它沒(méi)有腦外科手術(shù)那么要緊。"
Several pieces of advice I've gotten in my life have really made a difference.
"Be nice to people." This sounds like a platitude1), but I'll never forget my father telling me that. I was 10, and I had been mean to someone. He said, "There is no point in being2) mean to anyone at any time. You never know who you're going to meet later in life. And by the way, you don't change anything by being mean. Usually you don't get anywhere."
"Remember that you can do anything you want to do. Don't let anyone say, 'You're not smart enough... it's too hard... it's a dumb idea... no one has done that before... girls don't do that.'" My mom gave me that advice in 1973. And it allowed me to never worry about what others were saying about my career direction.
"Always do the best job you can do at whatever you're assigned3), even if you think it's boring." Jerry Parkinson, an assistant advertising manager and my boss at P&G4), told me this in 1979. Here I was fresh out of Harvard Business School(HBS), and I was assigned to determine how big the hole in the Ivory shampoo5) bottle should be: 3/8 of an inch or 1/8 of an inch. I did research, focus groups6) ... and I would come home at night wondering how I had gone from HBS to this. But later I realized that any job you're given is an opportunity to prove yourself.
"Don't be a credit7) hog8). If you're constantly in the neighborhood of good things, good things will happen to you." Tom Tierney, who was my boss at Bain9) in 1981 and is now on the eBay board, told me this. It's true - you get ahead10) by crediting other people.
Finally, in 1998, I was in New York watching the ticker11) as eBay went public12). My husband is a neurosurgeon13). I called into his operating room and told him the great news. And he said, "That's nice. But Meg, remember that it's not brain surgery.14)"
我在生活中獲得的一些忠告的確產(chǎn)生了十分重大的影響。
"友善待人。"這話聽(tīng)起來(lái)似乎是老生常談,但我永遠(yuǎn)都不會(huì)忘記父親給我這則忠告的情景。當(dāng)時(shí)我十歲,曾對(duì)某人刻薄。于是父親教育我:"不論什么時(shí)候,你都沒(méi)必要對(duì)任何人刻薄,因?yàn)槟阌肋h(yuǎn)都不知道自己在以后的生活中將會(huì)遇到誰(shuí)。而且,刻薄待人于事無(wú)補(bǔ),通常只會(huì)一無(wú)所獲。"
"記住,你能做到自己想做的任何事情。不要讓任何人說(shuō):'你不夠聰明……這太難了……這是個(gè)笨主意……從來(lái)沒(méi)有人做過(guò)那樣的事……女孩子不該那樣做。'"這是母親在1973年給我的建議。這條忠告讓我從不為別人對(duì)我職業(yè)方向的看法而煩惱。
"不論分配給你的任務(wù)是什么,你都必須盡全力做到最好,即使你認(rèn)為那是個(gè)無(wú)聊的任務(wù)。"1979年,我在寶潔公司工作時(shí)的老板、廣告部經(jīng)理助理杰瑞·帕金森給了我以上這條忠告。那時(shí)我剛從哈佛商學(xué)院畢業(yè),公司派給我的任務(wù)是研究"象牙"洗發(fā)水瓶的瓶口該開(kāi)多大才最合適:是3/8英寸還是1/8英寸?為此我做了調(diào)查,還進(jìn)行了專(zhuān)題小組討論……可是晚上回到家,我就會(huì)疑惑:我堂堂一位哈佛商學(xué)院的畢業(yè)生,怎么在做這樣的事情?然而,后來(lái)我意識(shí)到:你接到的任何一項(xiàng)工作其實(shí)都是證明你自己的機(jī)會(huì)。
"不要追名逐利。如果你長(zhǎng)期與好事為鄰,那么好事自然會(huì)發(fā)生在你身上。"這句話是1981年我在貝恩顧問(wèn)管理公司工作時(shí),我的老板湯姆·蒂爾尼對(duì)我說(shuō)的。他現(xiàn)在是易趣的股東。這話說(shuō)得很對(duì)--通過(guò)贊譽(yù)他人,你也會(huì)取得成功。
最后一則忠告出現(xiàn)在1998年,當(dāng)時(shí)我在紐約盯著倒計(jì)時(shí)牌,等待易趣上市時(shí)刻的到來(lái)。我的丈夫是一個(gè)神經(jīng)外科醫(yī)生,當(dāng)我打電話到他的手術(shù)室,告訴他這個(gè)好消息時(shí),他卻答道:"這很不錯(cuò)。不過(guò),梅格,你要切記,它沒(méi)有腦外科手術(shù)那么要緊。"