公眾人物畢業(yè)演講第57期:肖恩庫姆斯霍華德大學(xué)(13)
如今 我花了26年才走到這一步
And I give all glory to God
這份榮耀屬于上帝
26, that's the same amount as marathon
26 和馬拉松一樣的數(shù)字
God works in mysterious ways, you see
上帝的設(shè)計(jì)很神秘 看到了嗎
You just gotta pay attention to signs out there
你需要關(guān)注上帝的啟示
Sometimes, you gotta be still
有時(shí) 你需要堅(jiān)持
You know I'm just learning this like last week, so I'm not preaching to you
我上周才學(xué)到這一點(diǎn) 我不想講什么大道理
I'm talking with you
只是和大家分享一下
I didn't take the conventional route back home
我并沒有采用傳統(tǒng)的道路回家
See, sometimes I know I made this University proud
有時(shí) 我知道我讓這所大學(xué)感到自豪
but also sometimes I know I did it
有時(shí) 我知道我做到了
but I made a decision to keep going, keep trying
我一直決定堅(jiān)持嘗試 堅(jiān)持前進(jìn)
even if it meant sometimes that I would fail
哪怕有時(shí)我也會失敗
One of the biggest lessons I've learned in life
我在生活中學(xué)到的最重要的一課就是
is that you cannot achieve success without failure
不經(jīng)歷失敗 是不可能獲得成功的
You cannot achieve success without failure
不經(jīng)歷失敗 是不可能獲得成功的
Some of my biggest successes
我最大的一些成功
comes from some of my biggest failures
都建立于我最大的一些失敗之上
In the early 90s
在九十年代初
when my friends were graduating from Howard
我的朋友們正從霍華德畢業(yè)
I got fired from their first job that I got for Andre Harrell
而我在第一份工作中 卻被安德烈·哈瑞爾炒了魷魚
I know a lot of you know this story
你們很多人應(yīng)該都知道這個(gè)故事
while some of you may not know how scared I was
但有些人可能體會不到 我當(dāng)時(shí)有多害怕
I was scared to death
我害怕得要死
I didn't have a degree
我沒有文憑
My girlfriend was 8.5 months pregnant with my first baby
我的女友懷了我的第一個(gè)孩子 已經(jīng)八個(gè)半月
I bought a brand-new house in Scarsdale that I could not afford
我在斯卡斯戴爾買了一棟住不起的新房子
So I found myself sitting alone in my bedroom
我一個(gè)人獨(dú)坐在臥室里
and asking myself the question that sometimes we all ask each other
問我自己一個(gè)你們有時(shí)也會問自己的問題
What are you going to do now?
下面該怎么辦
What are you going to do now?
下面該怎么辦
You should keep your mouth shut
你應(yīng)該閉上你的嘴
and just do what Andre told you to do
按照安德烈的吩咐去做
You're going to act like he was making the hit rank, isn't it?
你就會取得很大的成功
Now, look at you, what are you going to do now?
現(xiàn)在看看你 打算怎么辦
