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Do you agree or disagree with the followingstatement? “Patience is usually
not a good strategy,so we (people) should take action now rather thanlater”. Use
reasons and specific examples to supportyour answer.
范文:
Patience is either a good strategy of waiting and hoping, or a bad one of
losing time andopportunities. Under different circumstances, more often than not
we should wait and hope inorder to achieve, but sometimes it is better for us to
act immediately before "golden"opportunities are lost forever. At best, patience
is wisdom; and at worst, it is laziness in theabscence of courage.
Being a great capacity associated with wisdom, patience usually a good
strategy. Since mostgreat achievements require time, patience may be regarded as
a form of wisdom which isessential to successfully managing many things, big and
small. Generally speaking, that wisdomis summed up in two words: wait and hope.
Like farmers, for instance, we need to learn that wecannot sow and reap the same
day, and that we should keep things going with hope,particularly when the going
is hard and slow. Also in social life, without patience we at heartcannot work
together efficiently with other people and society cannot function at all in
civilorder. To paraphrase the wisdom of an old Chinese saying : "lack of
patience in small matterscan create havoc in great ones".
Nevertheless, patience has its limits; being taken too far, it goes beyond
laziness to becomecowardice. Hence, it is not always realistic to believe that
all good things in the world come tous just because we wait long enough,
refusing to know what on earth we are hoping for.Indeed, patience must be
founded on realistic hope and it is not a virtue, provided that it isnot out of
necessity. That is to say, patience may become a bad strategy if it is
passive,which means not taking right action in the right place at the right
moment. Ironically, patienceought to be understood as the quality of being
active, or a form of action, which demandscourage and force so that time is not
hopelessly lost. Far from being lazy and cowardly, weshould not hesitate
imprudently and wait passively but should rather take quick action in theright
direction now rather than later, considering that "time and tide" shall wait for
no lazypeople.
Accordingly, the wise policy is to seek patience and action in equal
amounts. Patience alonewithout wisdom does not lead to great achievements,
whereas hasty actions are seldom wiseand often doomed. We may believe that
laziness along with cowardice is a bad strategy, andwe should also know that the
wisdom of patience is doing something else in the meantime andnot waiting
foolishly like cowards.
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发表于 2016-7-10 15:24:23