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优秀是一种习惯 荷叶/译 我们的性格基本上是由习惯形成的。有则格言说得好，播下一种思想，收获一种行动；播下一种行动，收获一种习惯；播下一种习惯，收获一种性格；播下一种性格，收获一种命运。 习惯在我们生命中起着重要作用。因为它在不知不觉中已形成一种一贯的模式，日复一日，持之以恒，展示着我们的性格，造就了我们的成败。 正如伟大教育家曼恩曾经说过的“习惯如线缆，每天编织进一根，很快就会牢不可破。”我个人不同意后半句。我懂得习惯可以形成，也可以打破。但我也知道，这不是一蹴而就的。这需要一个过程和一个坚定的承诺。 当亲眼看到人们最初登上月球并顺利返回时，那些目睹阿波罗11号登月的人都深感震惊。但要想登月，宇航员必须要冲破地球的巨大引力。飞船升空那几分钟航行几英里所消耗的能量，超过了随后几天航行数十万英里的总量。 多数人意识不到，也不愿承认，习惯有极大的引力。要打破那些根深蒂固违反人类有效原则的习惯倾向，比如拖拖拉拉，毫无耐心，吹毛求疵，自私自利，需要的不仅仅是一点意志力和生活中的一些细微调整。“升空”需要巨大的努力，但一旦冲破引力，就会进入自由的新境界。 和许多自然力量一样，引力既能助人也能阻碍人的发展。我们现在的习惯这种引力可能会阻止我们朝自己想去的方向发展。但同样是引力把整个世界联系在一起，让行星在各自的轨道上运行，使整个宇宙井然有序。习惯这股引力强大无比，如果运用得法，可以产生必要的凝聚力和秩序，使我们的生活富有成效。 附：原文 Excellence is a Habit Our character, basically, is a composite of our habits. "Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny," the maxim goes. Habits are powerful factors in our lives. Because they are consistent,often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character and produce our effectiveness or in effectiveness. As Horace Mann, the great educator, once said, "Habits are like acable. We weave a strand of it every day and soon it cannot be broken." Ipersonally do not agree with the last part of his expression. I know habits can be learned and unlearned. But is also know it isn't a quick fix. It involves a process and a tremendous commitment. Those of us who watched the lunar voyage of Apollo 11 were transfixed as we saw the first men walk on the moon and return to earth. But to get there, those astronauts literally had to break out of the tremendous gravity pull of theearth. More energy was spent in the first few minutes of lift-off, in the firstfew miles of travel, than was used over the next several days to travel half a million miles. Habits, too, have tremendous gravity pull - more than most people realize or would admit. Breaking deeply imbedded habitual tendencies such as procrastination, impatience,criticalness, or selfishness that violate basic principles of human effectiveness involves more than a little will power and a few minor changes in our lives. "Lift off" takes a tremendous effort, but once we break out of the gravity pull, our freedom takes on a whole new dimension. Like any natural force, gravity pull can work with us or against us. The gravity pull of some of our habits may currently be keeping us from going where we want to go. But it is also gravity pull that keeps our world together, that keeps the planets in their orbits and our universe in order. It is a powerful force, and if we use it effectively, we can use the gravity pull of habit to create the cohesiveness and order necessary to establish effectiveness in our lives. | 
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