A university professor started off his class by picking out of his back pocket a 20-pound note. And in this lecture hall of about 200 people he asked, “How many of you would like this note?”
Naturally, all 200 hands went up. He said, “Interesting.” He then said, “Before i let you have it, let me ask you this question.” He took the note and folded it in half twice, and then he said, “How many of you want this note?” Still 200 hands went up. Now he said, “Let me try something else.” He took the note and he crumpled it.
And he said, “How many of you want this note now?” Still 200 hands went up. Finally he chucked the note on the floor. He screwed it with his shoe and crumpled it even more, picked it back up, now with dirt, and said, “How many of you want this note?”
A university professor started off his class by picking out of his back pocket a 20-pound note. And in this lecture hall of about 200 people he asked, “How many of you would like this note?”
Naturally, all 200 hands went up. He said, “Interesting.” He then said, “Before i let you have it, let me ask you this question.” He took the note and folded it in half twice, and then he said, “How many of you want this note?” Still 200 hands went up. Now he said, “Let me try something else.” He took the note and he crumpled he said, “How many of you want this note now?” Still 200 hands went up. Finally he chucked the note on the floor. He screwed it with his shoe and crumpled it even more, picked it back up, now with dirt, and said, “How many of you want this note?”
All 200 hands were still up. He said, “Today, you’ve leraned an important lesson. No matter how much i crumpled that note, how much i scrunched it up, how many times it was trodden on, you still wanted it, because it was still worth 20-pounds.”
All 200 hands were still up. He said, “Today, you’ve leraned an important lesson. No matter how much i crumpled that note, how much i scrunched it up, how many times it was trodden on, you still wanted it, because it was still worth 20-pounds.”
In the same way that that 20-pound note held its value,so do you.”
No matter how many times life will tread on you, life will crumple you, life will scrunch you, and life squeeze you, you will always keep your value, that spark within us all of bliss, knowledge, and eternity that exists, that spark will never be taken away.
Our value is not created by the price of our clothes or our bank balance or the job title that we have. See, we should be building life and not just building our CVs. The challenge we have is that we only talk about people’s failures when they succeed.
that’s why they become this taboo or we feel like their failures never happened. We need to share these stories earlier.
We need to bring out these stories and experiences on the journey so that people who are on the jouney can actually follow in those footsteps. And that’s why Steve Jobs said, “You can’t connect the dots moving forward. You only can when you’re looking backwards.”
That's one of the things about theater vs. film - with theater, actors have a little more control, and one of the disappointing things about films is that once you're done shooting, anything can happen, you know?
Animals on factory farms all face pain and fear, just like the animals we share our homes with, yet are repeatedly abused in shocking ways.
I love working with the same actors repeatedly. That happens a lot. It's kind of inevitable, especially if you work with the same writers and directors and you start to form a company of actors. You gravitate towards each other.I never lived in an abandoned railroad station.
I was opposed to doing TV for a long time because I thought the quality of writing wasn't very strong, as opposed to film, but there's been a shift in term of the quality of scripts. HBO has attracted a tremendous amount of great writing talent.
Game of Thrones' is an amazing show, and I have no problem speaking of the virtues of HBO.
Maybe everyone is a little too reassuring that things are going to be OK to college graduates. It gives them a false sort of security.
At the end of your feelings is nothing.
你的情緒並不重要，因為每個情緒起伏過後你仍可能一無所獲。
But at the end of every principle is a promise.
但是要堅持原則，因為每個原則都是一個自我承諾。
Behind your little might not be absolutely nothing at the end of your little feelings.
你的喜怒哀樂情緒的背後，小小情緒之後也可能並不是絕對滴一無是處，也許會帶來些什麼
But behind every priciple is a promise.
但是堅持堅持原則的背後才是一種自我承諾。
And some of you in your life, the reason why you not at your goal right now,
你們當中的一些人至今尚未成功
‘ cause you’re just all about your feelings.
是因為你們太過情緒化
All on your feelings, your don’t feel like waking – who does?
你被情緒所主導，如早上心情不好，不想起牀?誰又想呢?
Every day you say ‘no’ to your dreams,
每天你都對自己的夢想説“不“
You might be pushing your dreams back a whole six months, a whole year!
你可能會把目標延後整整六個月，甚至一年
That one single day, that one day you didn’t get up could have pushed your stuff back, I don’t know how long.
也許你沒有起身鞭策自己的那一瞬，天知道你就後退了多少
姓名：與李白同姓，單字響，諧音理想，又有魏縣是“梨鄉”之意。
性別：跟爸爸一樣。
年齡：度過了十個“六一”兒童節。
文化：今年下半年要升入五年級。
模樣：不算太濃的眉毛下長着一雙圓圓的眼睛，高高的鼻樑，美中不足的是，又白又圓的臉上爬着一行美麗的小雀斑。媽媽説：每個特殊的孩子出生時，上帝都要給他留下特殊的標記，我臉上的的雀斑就是上帝賜給我的特殊標記。所以，我不但不煩惱，還為這美麗的小雀斑而高興呢!
優點：活潑開朗，有點兒小聰明，喜歡回答難題，也愛畫畫，每次期末考試，都能拿到一到兩張獎狀。除此之外，我還喜歡滑冰並且能滑出花樣來。
缺點：上課不專心，好吃貪玩，做事毛手毛腳。這次期末考試，數學得了92分，很不理想。
最得意的事：暑假我參加了《邯鄲晚報》小記者培訓班，成為了一名光榮的小記者。
the only way to get to that even better, is to get back up and work. To get back up and put yourself out there again.
And arise from that again, stronger, better, smarter, ready to grasp that new opportunity.
You gotta believe the tables in your life will turn. That pain will become power, that weakness will become strength, and that confusion will become peace.
Better things are coming for your life.
Everyday is a new beginning. It's time for you to start treating it that way.
Sometimes it takes things falling apart, for better things to fall into place.
Sometimes it takes the most uncomfortable path, to lead your life to the most beautiful place.
There's gonna be bad days, there's gonna be dark days, but you've gotta embrace it.
Because that pain is what makes you stronger. Failure is what makes you stronger.
You have to accept those down times, because once you realize those down times, are just as much part of life as anything else, you're able to strive again.
You'll never see the purpose of the storm, until you see the growth it produced.
You'll never understand why you went through what you went through, until you see the strength, the power, the resilience that it built inside of you.
Ask yourself why.
I waited a long time out in the world before I gave myself permission to fail. Please don't even bother asking. Don't bother telling the world you are ready. Show it. Do it.
I hate that word — 'lucky.' It cheapens a lot of hard work
I spend my nights just sitting and reading a book and drinking my tea and walking my dog. That's about as exciting as my life gets.
[on his dwarfism] When I was younger, definitely, I let it get to me. As an adolescent, I was bitter and angry and I definitely put up these walls. But the older you get, you realize you just have to have a sense of humour. You just know that it's not your problem. It's theirs.
Any swagger is just defense. When youre reminded so much of who you are by people - not a fame thing, but with my size, constantly, growing up - you just either curl up in a corner in the dark or you wear it proudly, like armor or something. You can turn it on its head and use it yourself before anybody else gets a chance.
You can say no. You can not be the object of ridicule.
President Gutmann; Provost Price; Board Chair Cohen; fellow honorees; and today’s graduates:
I’m honored and grateful for the invitation today.
It’s always great to be on the Penn campus. I’ve been to a lot of basketball games at the Palestra because my son played on the team. Coach didn’t give him enough playing time, but we’ll talk about that later. No, I’m very pleased with the progress Coach Allen has made and I wish them success in the future.
I’d always get a warm welcome here—except on the few occasions when I’d wear my Yankees cap.
It’s like taking your life in your hands. People would say: “We love you Denzel. But you walking around with that hat on…we don’t care who you are.”
So you’ll be happy to see that I’m not wearing my Yankees cap today.
But I am wearing my Yankees socks, my Yankees t-shirt, and my Yankees underwear.
Still, I’ll be honest with you: I’m a little nervous. Speaking at a graduation of this magnitude is a little overwhelming.
This is out of my comfort zone.
I remember that the feeling inside of me, and a need to change my life, and that voice at the back of my head - it took on the specific question, and the question was “What if ...?”You know that voice in the back of your head and said “what if……”? “What if I tried that much harder?” “What if I pushed one more time?” “What if ...?” It’s the part of you that dreams.A disempowered conversation will do a couple of things that will look for blame, and it’s concerned with the past. It’ll go, “What happened before? Why didn’t it work out?” It will count what is not empowered conversation is unconcerned with blame. It simply says, “what’s next?” and it steps forward with a willingness to be responsible for what happens next. That is the difference between empowered and disempowered conversation. And I stood at that doorway and I knew nothing in my history took away from the fact that I still had a choice.
Animals on factory farms all face pain and fear, just like the animals we share our homes with, yet are repeatedly abused in shocking ways.
I love working with the same actors repeatedly. That happens a lot. It's kind of inevitable, especially if you work with the same writers and directors and you start to form a company of actors. You gravitate towards each other.I never lived in an abandoned railroad station.
I was opposed to doing TV for a long time because I thought the quality of writing wasn't very strong, as opposed to film, but there's been a shift in term of the quality of scripts. HBO has attracted a tremendous amount of great writing talent.
Game of Thrones' is an amazing show, and I have no problem speaking of the virtues of HBO.
Maybe everyone is a little too reassuring that things are going to be OK to college graduates. It gives them a false sort of security.
I think a lot of great male comic actors are introspective, quiet personalities, which I really admire. But they are really able to turn it up when the camera's on.
I like playing the guy on the sidelines. They have more fun.
My family had a habit of collecting creatures that didn't always want to be pets. The first animal I can remember was a Lab named Zoe.
Call me more time!
I don't socialize. I'm kind of a hermit. The life of an actor can be very lonely.
I feel really lucky, although I hate that word - 'lucky'.
I think if actors are successful at one thing, they paint themselves into a corner sometimes, and what's the fun in that?
I do not fault anyone else who makes choices to play characters that they wished they hadn't... Because at the end of the day, none of us are happy with our jobs all the time.
That's one of the things about theater vs. film - with theater, actors have a little more control, and one of the disappointing things about films is that once you're done shooting, anything can happen, you know?
Ever tried, Ever failed.
屢戰屢敗。
No matter, try again, fail again, fail better.
屢敗屢戰。縱然失敗，更加出彩。
I had so many dream, of where I wanted to go, who I wanted to be and what I wanted to do.
我有太多夢想，想遊歷何方，想成為何人，想做什麼。
You have your own story to tell.
你有自己的故事要講述。
Feeder companies, I wanted to start with classmates.
我想與同學合開的劇團。
Movies I wanted to be in, directors I wanted to work with, stories I needed to tell.
想參演的電影，想合作的導演，想表達的故事。
I packed the life that I knew, with socks and toothbrush into my backpack.
我把過去熟悉的生活與襪子牙刷一起，打包進了我的行囊。
And I slept on couch, after couch, after couch, after couch, at friend's apartment in New York.
在紐約，我睡了一張沙發又一張沙發，或者住在朋友的公寓裏。
Until I wore out the rent paying roommates' welcome.
直到我透支了那些需要付房租的室友的好意。
I didn't want a day job. I was an actor. I was a writer. I had to get a day job.
我不想做全職工作。我是一名演員，我是一個作家。但我不得找一份全職工作。
I dusted pianos at a piano store on Whitelow Street for five months.
我在惠特沃街的一家鋼琴店給鋼琴撣了五個月的灰。
I worked on the property of a shakespearean scholar for a year, plane weeds and removing bee's nests.
我在一名莎士比亞學者家裏工作了一年，給他除草、除蜂窩。
I went on unemployment once, but for not for long, I coudn't handle the guilt.
也曾嘗試過不工作，但持續不了多久，內心愧疚讓我重拾工作。
Eventually I was able to pay rent for a spot on the floor of an apartment on the lower east side.
終於，我能夠支付在下東區的一個公寓底層的租金。
But my roommate had to break down and disappeared.
我的室友精神崩潰，消失了。
I helped hanging paintings at galleries, paintings that inspire inspire you to think I could do that.
我曾在畫廊幫忙掛畫，那些激勵你想"我也能成事"的那種畫。
And then finally, after two years job and couch surfing, I got a job. In application process.
後來終於，經歷兩年換工作和換沙發，我找到了一個工作，處理應用程序
As a data enterer at a place called professional examination services.
作為一個數據輸入員，在一個稱為專業考試服務的地方。
And I stayed for six years, six years.
我在那裏幹了六年。六年!
From the age of 23 to 29, well they loved me there, I was funny. I smoked in the loading docks with the guys from the mailroom, and we shared how hungover we all were.
從23歲直到29歲，他們很喜歡我，我很搞笑。在裝卸區，我和收發室的同事抽煙，分享我們都曾如何宿醉的經歷。
I Called in sick almost every Friday because I was that late the night before, I hated that job and I clung to that job. Because of that job I could afford my own place.
我幾乎每個星期五都打電話請病假，因為前一天晚上混到很晚，我討厭那份工作，但又不得不做，它讓我得以支付房租。
My dream of running a theater company with my friend and fellow, Bennington Graduate Ian Bell had died.
我和我的朋友，一起從本寧頓畢業的同學，伊恩貝爾一同運營一家劇團的夢想破滅了。
I had only the one window.
我只有一個窗户。
I myself could not look out the window. It was it was quite high. No acting ager.
我自己看不到窗外。它挺高的。我也沒有經紀人。
When I was 29, I told myself the next acting job I get. No matter what it pays, I will from now on for better or worse, be a working actor.
當我29歲時我告訴自己，無論下份工作薪水如何，我將從現在起，做一個職業演員
But something good happened, I got a low-paying theater job in a play called imperfect love, which led to a film called 13 moons with the same writer, which led to other roles which led to other roles, and I've worked as an actor ever since.
但是好事發生了，我在一個叫《不完美的愛》的句中得到了一個微不足道的小角色，這讓我獲得了同一個編劇所編電影《13個月亮》的演出機會，因此也獲得了一個又一個的角色，從此展開演員生涯。
I didn't know that would happen.
但當時我不知道會發生什麼。
At 29 walking away from Data processing, I was terrified.
29歲，離開了數據處理，我很害怕。
Ten years in a place without heat, six years of a job I felt stuck in, maybe I was afraid of change. Are you?
十年住在一個沒有暖氣的地方，六年被困在一個工作裏，或許我恐懼改變。你呢?
But this made me very hungry, literally.
但這讓我吃不飽，真的吃不飽。
I couldn't be lazy.
我不能偷懶。
I couldn't be.
我不能。
And so at 29 in a very long last, I was in the company of the actors, writers and directors, I'd shought out that first year, that first day after school.
所以29歲時，很長一段時間，在演員、編劇和導演的陪伴下,我開始了第一年的生活，畢業後第一天真正的人生。
I was. I am by their sides. Raise the rest of your life to meet you.
我曾經，我現在依舊在他們身旁。押上你的餘生，去尋找真正的自己。
Don't search for defining moments because they will never come.
不要去尋找決定性時刻，因為它們永遠不會到來。
The moment that define you have already happened, and they will already happen again.
決定你的時刻已經發生，也會再次發生。
And it passes so quickly, so please bring each other along with you.
稍縱即逝。所以請與友同行。
You just get a bit derailed.
你只是有點迷失。
But soon something starts to happen. Trust me. A rhythm sets in.
但很快就會出現契機。相信我，你會找到軌道。
Just try not to wait until like me, you're 29 before you find it.
不要像我一樣，等到29歲找到它。
And if you are, that's fine too, Some of us never find it.
如果你真等到那時候，也行，有些人一輩子都沒有找到它。
But you will, I promise you, you are already here.
但你會找到的，我保證。你已經在這裏了。
You'll find your rhythm, or continue the one you have already found.
你會找到你的軌道，或者在你已經找到的道路上繼續前進。
Don't wait until they tell you you are ready. Get in there，sing.
不要等到他們告訴你，你準備好了。自己上場，歌唱。
The world might say you are not allowed to yet.
世界可能會告訴你你不行。
I waited a long time out the world before I gave myself permission to fail.
在認輸之前，我等了這個世界很久。
Please don't even bother asking.
懇請各位，甚至不用特地去問。
Don't bother telling the world you are ready. Show it. Do it.
不用特地告訴世界你準備好了。展現自己，證明自己!
What it Beckett say?
貝克特説了什麼?
Ever tried, ever failed.
屢戰屢敗。
No matter try again.
屢敗屢戰。
Fail again, fail better.
縱然失敗，更加出彩。
We burn very brightly. Please don't ever stop .
我們燃燒得如此耀眼，請不要停止。
The World is yours.
世界是你的。
Treat everyone Kindly and light up the night.
善待每個人，然後照亮夜晚。
Maybe I was afraid of change, are you?
也許我是害怕改變，你呢?
When all else is lost, the future still remains.
就是失去了一切別的，也還有未來。
The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
對明天做最好的準備就是今天做到最好!
The reason why a great man is great is that he resolves to be a great man.
偉人之所以偉大，是因為他立志要成為偉大的人。
Suffering is the most powerful teacher of life.
苦難是人生最偉大的老師。
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
世界上對勇氣的最大考驗是忍受失敗而不喪失信心。
There's only one corner of the universe you can be sure of improving, and that's your own self.
這個宇宙中只有一個角落你肯定可以改進，那就是你自己。Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.
如果你想要成功，不要去追求成功;儘管做你自己熱愛的事情並且相信它，成功自然到。
A man is not old as long as he is seeking something. A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
只要一個人還有追求，他就沒有老。直到後悔取代了夢想，一個人才算老。
Live a noble and honest life. Reviving past times in your old age will help you to enjoy your life again.
過一種高尚而誠實的生活。當你年老時回想起過去，你就能再一次享受人生。
Any swagger is just defense. When youre reminded so much of who you are by people - not a fame thing, but with my size, constantly, growing up - you just either curl up in a corner in the dark or you wear it proudly, like armor or something. You can turn it on its head and use it yourself before anybody else gets a chance.
You can say no. You can not be the object of ridicule.
Saying I was lucky negates the hard work I put in and spits on that guy who’s freezing his ass off back in Brooklyn.
I love animals. All animals. I wouldn't hurt a cat or a dog — or a chicken, or a cow. And I wouldn't ask someone else to hurt them for me. That's why I'm a vegetarian.
I was fortunate enough to have an upbringing that made me more accepting of who I am.
George Martin is an incredible writer.
I dress and eat like a fifth-grader, basically. I like sandwiches and cereal and hooded sweatshirts.
大家好，我是七年級(7)班的一員，我的名字叫。我在七年級(7)班擔任宣傳委員。我的愛好十分廣泛，有：看書、溜冰、游泳，畫一些喜歡動畫片男女主角，我活潑、開朗，但也不乏有些粗心。我喜歡看一些課外書特別是我認為好看的。;在班中，雖然我擔任宣傳委員，但還是會幫助有困難的同學，相信如果大家認識我一定會被我的幽默細胞感染的。
我生活在七年級(7)班這個大家庭中。我也為這個大家庭出力。我在班級裏是體育委員。我是一個合羣的人，無論是男生還是女生我都有朋友。我的興趣愛好不算多，籃球是我的最愛。我175CM的個子，打的位置是中鋒。有空閒的時候，帶上籃球，找個場地自己練習。我就是這樣一個人，長得很高，但又很合羣。我的名字叫，個子並不高，而且也很瘦，還戴着一副眼鏡，好像是一位博士生。我最喜歡的運動是打籃球。在六年級暑假時，我天天與小夥伴們去打籃球。一次，我和小夥伴們打了很久，忘了時間，直到爸爸媽媽來找我，我才驚醒。
我比較誠實，因此，爸爸媽媽都很相信我，自默都不用爸爸媽媽看好，回家作業也不用爸爸媽媽催促，他們常誇我是個乖孩子。這就是喜歡運動，誠實的我。我是一個七年級七班的學生，我不算優秀，不算尖子，但我堅強，我勇敢，我渴望創造，渴望未來。我是一名班幹部，我會用我的職責去維護班級。我愛運動。每天的古箏練習，我都能認真對待。畫畫、舞蹈是我的強項。上面就是我的個人自我介紹。這就是我，一個平凡的女孩，請所有人能記住我——。
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