公众人物毕业演讲第57期:肖恩库姆斯霍华德大学(13)
如今 我花了26年才走到这一步
And I give all glory to God
这份荣耀属于上帝
26, that's the same amount as marathon
26 和马拉松一样的数字
God works in mysterious ways, you see
上帝的设计很神秘 看到了吗
You just gotta pay attention to signs out there
你需要关注上帝的启示
Sometimes, you gotta be still
有时 你需要坚持
You know I'm just learning this like last week, so I'm not preaching to you
我上周才学到这一点 我不想讲什么大道理
I'm talking with you
只是和大家分享一下
I didn't take the conventional route back home
我并没有采用传统的道路回家
See, sometimes I know I made this University proud
有时 我知道我让这所大学感到自豪
but also sometimes I know I did it
有时 我知道我做到了
but I made a decision to keep going, keep trying
我一直决定坚持尝试 坚持前进
even if it meant sometimes that I would fail
哪怕有时我也会失败
One of the biggest lessons I've learned in life
我在生活中学到的最重要的一课就是
is that you cannot achieve success without failure
不经历失败 是不可能获得成功的
You cannot achieve success without failure
不经历失败 是不可能获得成功的
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败之上
In the early 90s
在九十年代初
when my friends were graduating from Howard
我的朋友们正从霍华德毕业
I got fired from their first job that I got for Andre Harrell
而我在第一份工作中 却被安德烈·哈瑞尔炒了鱿鱼
I know a lot of you know this story
你们很多人应该都知道这个故事
while some of you may not know how scared I was
但有些人可能体会不到 我当时有多害怕
I was scared to death
我害怕得要死
I didn't have a degree
我没有文凭
My girlfriend was 8.5 months pregnant with my first baby
我的女友怀了我的第一个孩子 已经八个半月
I bought a brand-new house in Scarsdale that I could not afford
我在斯卡斯戴尔买了一栋住不起的新房子
So I found myself sitting alone in my bedroom
我一个人独坐在卧室里
and asking myself the question that sometimes we all ask each other
问我自己一个你们有时也会问自己的问题
What are you going to do now?
下面该怎么办
What are you going to do now?
下面该怎么办
You should keep your mouth shut
你应该闭上你的嘴
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?
你就会取得很大的成功
Now, look at you, what are you going to do now?
现在看看你 打算怎么办
