新职业英语职场素质英语Unit4.ppt

If?I?Rest,?I?Rust The?significant?inscription?found?on?an?old?key---“If I rest, I rust”---would?be?an?excellent?motto?for?those?who?are?afflicted?with the?slightest?bit?of?idleness.?Even?the?most?industrious?person might?adopt?it?with?advantage?to?serve?as?a?reminder?that,?if one?allows?his?faculties?to?rest,?like?the?iron?in?the?unused?key, they?will?soon?show?signs?of?rust?and,?ultimately,?cannot?do?the work?required?of?them. Those?who?would?attain?the?heights?reached?and?kept?by?great men?must?keep?their?faculties?polished?by?constant?use,?so?that?they may unlock the doors of knowledge,?the?gate?that?guard?the?entrances?to?the?professions, to science, art, literature, agriculture, every?department?of?human?endeavor. Supplementary Return Industry?keeps?bright?the?key?that?opens?the?treasure?of?achievement. If Hugh?Miller,?after?toiling?all day?in?a?quarry,?had?devoted?his?evenings? to?rest?and?recreation,?he?would never?have?become?a famous?geologist.? The?celebrated?mathematician,?Edmund?Stone,?would?never?have? published?a mathematical?dictionary,?never?have?found?the?key?to?science? of?mathematics,?if?he?had?given his spare?moments?to?idleness. Had?the little?Scotch?lad,?Ferguson,?allowed?the busy?brain?to?go?to sleep?while?he? tended?sheep?on?the?hillside?instead?of?calculating?the?position?of?the? stars?by?a string?of?beads,?he?would?never?have?become?a?famous? astronomer. Labor?vanquishes?all---not?inconstant,?spasmodic,?or? ill-directed?labor;?but?faithful,?unremitting, daily?effort?toward?a? well-directed?purpose.?Just?as?truly?as?eternal?vigilance?is?the?price?of? liberty,?so is?eternal?industry?the?price?of?noble?and?enduring?success. Supplementary Return Spare No Efforts in Doing Things Concentration?and perseverance built the great pyramids on Egypt’s plains. The master of a single trade can support a family. The master of seven trades cannot support himself. Now I know that in order to grow and?flourish?I must spare no effor