more haste , less speed(yù sù bù dá)

more haste , less speed

The Chinese idiom, Pinyin is y ù s ù B ù D á, which means that if you want to be quick, you can't achieve your goal. From the Analects of Confucius · Zilu.

Idiom explanation

Want: want. If you want to be quick, you can't achieve your goal.

The origin of Idioms

Confucius' Analects of Confucius Zi Lu in pre Qin Dynasty: "no desire for speed, no small profit. If you want to be quick, you can't achieve it. If you see small profits, you can't achieve great things. "

Idiom usage

It's a continuous verb, a predicate, an attribute and a neutral word.

Analysis of Idioms

If you want to be quick, you can't reach it

Idiom story

Story 1: Once upon a time, there was a very poor man who saved a snake's life. In order to repay him for saving his life, the snake asked the man to make a request and satisfy his wish. At the beginning, the man only asked for simple food and clothing, and the snake satisfied his wishes. Later, greed began to grow, and he asked to be an official, and the snake satisfied him. Until he became the prime minister, he was not satisfied, and he asked to be an emperor. At this time, the snake finally understood that people's greed is endless, so it swallowed the man in one bite. "The rope is broken from the thin, and the evil comes from greed." People should know how to choose, how to give up, and how to limit. A hundred years of life, how can everything go smoothly. Everyone's environment is different, opportunities are different, the harvest is also different, contented, to laugh at the gains and losses, to calm and objective treatment of reality, correct understanding of themselves, look at themselves, to find the best degree of their life, career, otherwise, not realistic, blindly immersed in the vortex of desire, it will drown themselves Story 2: there is a child who likes to study biology very much and wants to know how pupae break cocoons and become butterflies. Once, he saw a pupa in the grass, so he took it home and observed it day by day. A few days later, a crack appeared in the pupa, and the butterfly inside began to struggle, trying to break the pupa shell and fly out. The hard process lasted for hours, and the butterfly struggled in the pupa. The child can't bear to look at it and wants to help it, so he picks up the scissors to cut the pupa open, and the butterfly breaks out of the pupa. But he did not expect that after the butterfly broke away from the pupa, because the wings were not strong enough, it could not fly at all, and soon died in pain. The process of breaking cocoon into butterfly is very painful and hard, but only through this experience can we get the future dancing. On the contrary, the help of external forces makes love become harm, which goes against the natural process, and finally makes butterfly die tragically. It is of far-reaching significance to enlarge this tiny phenomenon in nature to life. haste leads to failure. People and things should be far sighted, pay attention to the accumulation of knowledge, accumulate, naturally, to achieve their goals. Many businesses must have a process of painful struggle and struggle, which is also a process of training you to be strong, making you grow up and powerful. Most people know this truth, but it is always contrary to it. Many celebrities in history only understand the true meaning of success after making such mistakes. Zhu Xi of the Song Dynasty was a brilliant man. He began to study Zen at the age of fifteen or sixteen. However, when he was middle-aged, he realized that quick success was not a good way to create. After a lot of hard work, he was successful. He made a wonderful interpretation of "if you want to be quick, you can't reach it" with 16 words: "it's better to be detailed than to be slight, it's better to be near than far, it's better to be down than high, it's better to be clumsy than skillful.

Chinese PinYin : yù sù bù dá