名人演讲:Keep Your Dreams 执着于你的梦想[阿诺德_施瓦辛格]
Keep Your Dreams 执着于你的梦想
—— 阿诺德_施瓦辛格
[00:06.68]Well, thank you very much,
[00:07.72]President.
[00:08.95]First of all,
[00:09.65]I want to thank President Gu
[00:10.57]for having me here,
[00:11.44]and I want to thank Mr. Qizhi
[00:12.92]for your kind introduction.
[00:15.06]Thank you very much.
[00:16.27]It is wonderful to be here
[00:17.61]at this university.
[00:19.04]What a special place.
[00:21.00]I just looked around a little bit here,
[00:22.78]it's a gorgeous, gorgeous place.
[00:24.83]I want to congratulate you
[00:25.96]for going to this magnificent university here.
[00:28.78]Now, the last time I was here
[00:30.07]in China was five years ago,
[00:33.65]and then I was promoting my movies.
[00:35.45]They had a movie festival here,
[00:38.38]the Arnold Schwarzenegger Movie Festival.
[00:40.52]I remember they showed all my movies
[00:42.20]for a week
[00:44.01]which was a rarity,
[00:44.86]may I remind you
[00:46.47]and they also showed the movies on television.
[00:49.61]But we also were here to promote Special Olympics,
[00:51.72]which is an organization
[00:52.83]that helps people with mental disabilities,
[00:55.75]so I was here for both reasons.
[00:57.46]But this time
[00:58.15]I'm here as the governor
[00:59.84]of the great state of California.
[01:01.60]I'm here representing the people of California,
[01:04.01]and we're here on a trade mission
[01:07.07]to see how we can do more business
[01:08.94]with China
[01:09.78]to help each other,
[01:10.79]because both
[01:11.93]California is a very fast growing state,
[01:14.35]and China is a very fast growing country,
[01:16.22]and there are a lot of things
[01:17.12]that we can do for one another.
[01:18.82]But I didn't want to miss the opportunity
[01:20.28]to come here today
[01:21.57]and to talk with the young people;
[01:23.03]as a matter of fact,
[01:24.06]to the brightest young people of China.
[01:26.56]And this is why it is so great to be here
[01:28.02]at the Tsinghua University,
[01:29.72]and I'm honored that I was invited here.
[01:32.02]Now, I read a little bit about
[01:33.86]the history of Tsinghua,
[01:35.50]and I learned that actually
[01:38.48]this school originally prepared students
[01:40.19]to attend universities in America.
[01:43.76]Now, I also know that since
[01:45.29]the attack on our World Trade Centers
[01:49.60]it has become more and more difficult
[01:51.00]to go to the universities
[01:52.58]in America because you need
[01:53.80]to fill out all kinds of paperwork now
[01:55.83]and you have to get visas,
[01:57.82]and it's very complicated,
[01:59.15]and you have to wait
[01:59.89]a much longer period of time
[02:01.00]to go over there.
[02:02.09]But let me tell you,
[02:03.10]things are improving already.
[02:04.64]I've heard that it's easing up the restrictions,
[02:06.80]and it's easier to get a visa.
[02:08.87]My young Chinese friends,
[02:10.24]I want to tell you that
[02:11.85]in case no one from America
[02:13.22]has ever invited you,
[02:14.34]let me do this right now personally.
[02:17.36]I want to warmly invite
[02:19.46]all of you here to come
[02:21.48]to the United States,
[02:22.43]and especially to come to California,
[02:24.06]because that's the happening place.
[02:26.32]California is the best place.
[02:33.13]Please come and visit us,
[02:34.84]we will welcome you.
[02:36.31]I invite you all to come there
[02:37.43]and to travel, to meet the American people,
[02:39.52]and to come there
[02:40.72]and study in our universities,
[02:43.54]and some day hopefully you will come
[02:45.45]and do business over there,
[02:47.46]or maybe you'll want to move over there.
[02:49.29]Whatever your goal is,
[02:50.27]you're always welcome.
[02:52.22]America, after all,
[02:53.12]let's not forget,
[02:54.21]is the land of opportunity.
[02:56.51]And it's not only the land of opportunity
[02:57.99]for Austrians like me,
[03:00.16]but for Chinese people as well.
[03:02.02]Remember that.
[03:03.59]I know that beginning with this century,
[03:10.06]China is also becoming a land of opportunity.
[03:13.20]It's a fast growing place,
[03:14.85]and as the students of this great university
[03:16.64]and the citizens of a rising China,
[03:19.75]I think that you have a great future
[03:21.67]also here in this country.
[03:23.90]And today I want to talk to you
[03:26.22]a little bit about the dreams,
[03:28.18]about the dreams of your future,
[03:29.68]and dreams for this country.
[03:31.30]I want to talk to you a little bit
[03:33.51]about dreams,
[03:34.24]because it seems to me
[03:35.16]that I'm somewhat of an expert in dreams,
[03:36.76]because I had a lot of my dreams
[03:39.00]become a reality.
[03:40.90]So let me just briefly tell you my story,
[03:43.50]and tell you a little bit about
[03:45.41]how I started with my career.
[03:49.50]I think that this story kind of relates
[03:52.08]a little bit also to you,
[03:53.30]and also to China.
[03:55.66]I started way back as a weightlifter.
[04:00.09]I always liked the idea of lifting weights
[04:02.53]and being a bodybuilder.
[04:04.39]From the first moment
[04:05.21]when I gripped a barbell
[04:08.54]and held it around the bar
[04:09.81]and lifted the steel above my head,
[04:12.92]I felt this exhilaration,
[04:16.05]and I knew then that this is something
[04:18.07]that I'm going to do;
[04:19.57]that I was in love with that,
[04:20.65]and this is going to be something
[04:22.01]that I'm going to do.
[04:23.38]I'm going to pursue the sport of weightlifting
[04:26.16]and bodybuilding.
[04:27.70]Now, I remember the first real workout
[04:30.64]that I had. It was eight miles away
[04:34.18]from my home village in Austria
[04:36.21]there was a gymnasium,
[04:38.07]and I rode to that gymnasium
[04:39.37]with a bicycle.
[04:41.17]And there I trained for half an hour,
[04:42.86]because they said that after half an hour
[04:45.65]you should stop
[04:46.47]because otherwise your body will get really sore.
[04:49.80]But after half an hour
[04:51.12]I looked at my body,
[04:53.01]and nothing had happened.
[04:55.49]So I said,
[04:55.91]I'd better work out for another half hour.
[04:58.37]So I lifted some more.
[04:59.80]My strength didn't improve,
[05:01.09]I didn't see the muscles pop out
[05:02.91]or anything like that,
[05:04.22]so I trained for another half an hour.
[05:06.77]And then after another half hour
[05:09.37]I trained another half hour,
[05:10.36]and all together I trained two
[05:12.18]and a half hours.
[05:13.86]Well, let me tell you something.
[05:14.81]After two and a half hours
[05:16.41]I left the gymnasium,
[05:17.67]even though they told me
[05:18.70]that I shouldn't train that much
[05:19.96]or I would getreally sore
[05:21.67]I rode my bicycle home.
[05:22.99]And after the first mile I got numb,
[05:26.37]and I couldn't feel anymore
[05:27.50]the handle of the bicycle,
[05:29.20]and I fell off the bike
[05:30.57]and I fell into the ditch
[05:31.84]on the side of the road.
[05:33.88]So I got up again
[05:34.77]and I tried it again.
[05:35.70]Another few yards,
[05:37.16]I fell off the bicycle again.
[05:39.23]And I tried it three,
[05:40.16]four more times,
[05:41.05]and I just couldn't ride my bicycle
[05:42.70]because my body was so numb
[05:44.25]and my legs felt like noodles.
[05:47.01]Well, let me tell you something.
[05:48.25]The next morning when I got up,
[05:50.41]my body was so sore
[05:51.77]that I couldn't even lift my arms
[05:53.37]to comb my hair.
[05:54.86]I had to have my mother comb my hair,
[05:57.02]and you know how embarrassing that is.
[05:59.71]But you know something?
[06:00.54]I learned a very important lesson,
[06:02.24]that pain means progress.
[06:05.86]Pain is progress.
[06:07.91]Each time my muscles were sore
[06:09.44]from a workout I knew
[06:10.56]that they were growing
[06:11.97]and they were getting stronger.
[06:13.90]I think there is a real life lesson in that.
[06:16.96]After two or three years of discipline
[06:18.88]and determination and working out hard,
[06:21.66]I actually changed my body,
[06:24.01]and I changed my strength.
[06:26.16]And that told me something;
[06:27.59]that if I could change my body that much,
[06:29.45]and if I could change the strength
[06:31.10]of my body that much,
[06:32.69]then I could also change anything else.
[06:34.76]I could change my habits,
[06:36.78]I could change my intelligence,
[06:38.54]I could change my attitude,
[06:40.12]my mind, my future, mylife.
[06:42.94]And this is exactly what I have done.
[06:44.85]I think that that lesson applies to people,
[06:47.26]and it also applies to countries.
[06:49.29]You can change;
[06:50.42]China can change;
[06:52.61]everyone in the world can change.
[06:55.32]My parents, of course,
[06:56.50]I have to tell you,
[06:57.39]didn't understand my dreams at all.
[07:00.08]They were always wondering.
[07:01.09]They said, "What is he doing?
[07:02.02]When are you going to get a job,
[07:03.07]a real job?
[07:03.77]When are you going to make money?
[07:04.93]And all of those questions I got.
[07:06.50]And they said,
[07:07.22]I hope we didn't raise a bum,
[07:08.70]someone that doesn't make money
[07:10.00]and just wants to live in a gymnasium
[07:11.96]and think about their bodies.
[07:13.94]Well, I endured all of this negative thinking,
[07:16.21]and the more negative the thinking got,
[07:18.76]and the more negative the questions got,
[07:20.36]the stronger
[07:21.31]and the more positive I became,
[07:23.18]the stronger I became inside.
[07:24.73]So of course some of your families
[07:27.03]maybe think the same way,
[07:28.26]and this is why I'm mentioning that.
[07:30.13]Some of your families
[07:31.03]maybe don't believe in your dreams.
[07:32.77]But let me tell you something,
[07:34.00]my young friends.
[07:35.06]Keep your dreams.
[07:36.34]No matter what,
[07:36.99]keep your dreams.
[07:38.86]Don't give up on them,
[07:40.08]even when you are temporarily
[07:41.90]defeated or denied.
[07:44.07]Keep your dreams.
[07:45.79]I remember the first time
[07:46.82]I went to the United States
[07:47.95]and I was competing
[07:49.31]in a competition.
[07:50.77]It was the World Championship in Bodybuilding.
[07:53.40]I lost. I came in second,
[07:55.25]and I was devastated.
[07:56.48]I was crushed. I felt like a loser,
[07:58.64]a major loser,
[08:00.07]let me tell you.
[08:01.11]I CRIed,
[08:01.70]as a matter of fact,
[08:02.43]because I felt like
[08:03.65]I disappointed my friends
[08:04.94]and I disappointed myself.
[08:06.82]But the next day I got my act together,
[08:09.56]I shifted gears, and I said,
[08:11.32]I'm going to learn from that lesson.
[08:13.65]I'm going to stay here in America.
[08:16.39]I'm not going to go back to Europe.
[08:17.93]I'm going to stay in America
[08:19.08]and I'm going to train
[08:20.18]with the American champions,
[08:21.11]I'm going to train the American way.
[08:22.54]I'm going to eat the American food,
[08:23.76]I'm going to train
[08:24.91]with the American machines
[08:25.69]and the principles.
[08:26.87]And a year later, in America,
[08:28.49]I became the World Champion in Bodybuilding.
[08:31.86]So I think this is a very,
[08:32.78]very important lesson.
[08:33.92]And from then on, I continued.
[08:35.98]My career took off, and everything
[08:38.04]that I wanted to do I accomplished.
[08:39.65]First it was to become a champion
[08:41.38]in bodybuilding.
[08:42.27]Later on I became a movie star,
[08:44.24]to do all the great movies,
[08:45.86]the Conan movies and the Terminator movies
[08:47.62]and all this.
[08:48.49]Then I became the governor
[08:49.61]of the great state of California,
[08:51.27]of the sixth largest economy in the world.
[08:54.12]All of this happened because of my dreams,
[08:57.29]even though other people told me
[08:59.72]that those dreams were bogus
[09:01.55]and they werecrazy,
[09:02.86]but I held onto my dreams.
[09:05.47]And people would always say,
[09:06.41]no matter what,
[09:07.12]even in bodybuilding
[09:08.15]they said I would never make it.
[09:09.28]And later on in the movies,
[09:10.45]in Hollywood they said
[09:11.54]I would not make it.
[09:12.97]They said,
[09:13.72]You will never make it.
[09:14.23]You have a German accent.
[09:15.65]No one in Hollywood
[09:16.33]has ever made it with a German accent.
[09:18.34]Yeah, maybe you can play
[09:19.21]some Nazi roles or something like that,
[09:20.75]but you cannot become a leading star
[09:22.75]with an accent.
[09:24.67]Plus your body, you're overdeveloped,
[09:25.99]you have all these muscles.
[09:27.43]They did Hercules movies 20 years ago;
[09:29.36]that's outdated. Now it's Woody Allen.
[09:32.35]Woody Allen is in, his body is in.
[09:33.41]And those were the messages.
[09:36.11]And Al Pacino,
[09:37.70]the skinny guy, he is in.
[09:39.38]But not your body, it's too big.
[09:40.93]And your name, Schwarzenegger,
[09:43.86]it will never fit on a movie poster.
[09:45.35]Forget it. Forget it.
[09:47.00]You will never make it.
[09:47.73]Go back to bodybuilding.
[09:48.87]Well , the rest is his story.
[09:50.38]After Terminator 3,
[09:52.27]I became the highest paid movie star
[09:54.17]in Hollywood.
[09:56.07]And let me tell you something,
[09:56.94]it continued on.
[09:57.81]Even when I ran for governor people said,
[09:59.58]Arnold, you will never make it.
[10:01.45]You will never become governor of California.
[10:03.08]What do you know about government?
[10:04.89]Well, the fact is,
[10:05.90]I knew exactly as much
[10:06.97]about government
[10:07.53]as the rest of the people knew in California,
[10:09.40]which is that government is out of touch,
[10:11.17]and it's out of sync
[10:12.51]with the people,
[10:13.13]and it needed a shakeup.
[10:15.01]So I didn't listen to all those people
[10:17.28]that said I would never make it.
[10:18.93]I continued campaigning,
[10:20.33]I listened to my dreams,
[10:22.11]and the rest also is history.
[10:24.05]I became governor.
[10:25.17]So always it just carried me on,
[10:27.46]those dreams.
[10:28.59]So bodybuilding gave me the confidence,
[10:30.38]movies gave me the money,
[10:32.40]and pubic service and being a governor
[10:34.91]gave me a purpose larger than myself.
[10:38.14]And that is the brief story
[10:39.96]of my dreams and a brief story
[10:41.55]of my early life,
[10:43.66]and how my dreams made me successful.
[10:46.12]A person, of course,
[10:47.09]should not be stingy with their dreams.
[10:49.79]So I, of course,
[10:50.61]don't just think and dream about myself,
[10:53.01]but I also have dreams for you,
[10:55.78]and dreams for China.
[10:57.48]So let me just talk a little bit about that.
[10:59.62]China's economy has become an engine
[11:02.95]of human progress,
[11:04.41]lifting millions of people out of poverty.
[11:06.59]This is a moral and economic good
[11:09.42]for China and for the rest of the world.
[11:12.84]I often read that China's economy
[11:14.79]is likely to become the largest
[11:16.62]in the world over the next 50 years,
[11:18.36]and I think this is terrific.
[11:19.87]This does not mean, of course,
[11:21.07]that America will get poorer;
[11:22.50]it just means that China will get richer,
[11:24.34]and the United States will benefit
[11:26.39]from China's progress as much as the U.S.
[11:28.66]benefited from the rise
[11:30.60]of Western Europe after World War II.
[11:33.73]Some in my country fear
[11:34.91]that China's research and development
[11:37.36]will overtake America's,
[11:39.91]but I believe that America
[11:41.34]and the world will benefit from China's scientific
[11:45.27]and technological advances.
[11:47.29]I think we will benefit from that.
[11:48.88]If China makes advances
[11:50.14]in stem cell research,
[11:53.31]the rest of the world will benefit from that.
[11:56.39]If China discovers an energy breakthrough,
[11:58.77]this is good for the rest of the world,
[12:01.51]such as the benefit of a free market.
[12:04.37]Some fear that China
[12:05.18]will buy up American companies,
[12:06.70]but that fear also existed
[12:08.46]in the 80s,
[12:09.58]when America feared that Japan
[12:11.36]was going to buy up American companies.
[12:13.72]So what?
[12:14.65]It was just good,
[12:15.66]and to the benefit of America.
[12:16.91]We should welcome China's investment
[12:19.09]in American companies,
[12:20.30]just as we welcome the billions
[12:22.04]of dollars that China
[12:23.44]has invested in U.S. treasury bonds.
[12:26.49]This shows that China
[12:27.55]has faith in America,
[12:28.81]and American investment in China shows
[12:31.19]that we have faith in you.
[12:33.88]So I believe that China
[12:35.01]and U.S. economic relations
[12:36.88]will become even closer in the years ahead.
[12:40.63]Certainly I realize that
[12:41.70]we do not agree on everything,
[12:44.21]but who does?
[12:45.45]Certainly I realize that China
[12:46.51]has major hurdles to overcome,
[12:48.75]but it is not for me to say how
[12:51.61]China should overcome those hurdles
[12:53.54]and achieve its dreams.
[12:55.84]But I can tell you, however,
[12:58.08]what has given America such energy
[13:00.46]and strength over the last 200 years,
[13:02.42]and perhaps there are some insights
[13:03.72]in this for China.
[13:05.48]America is a nation that believes
[13:07.04]in the power of the individual,
[13:09.54]and what the individual can accomplish,
[13:11.72]no matter the color,
[13:12.59]no matter the religion,
[13:14.02]no matter the ethnic background
[13:15.36]of the individual.
[13:16.87]Recently, as you probably maybe
[13:19.42]have read, Rosa Parks,
[13:21.84]a former seamstress married
[13:24.02]to a barber, married to a hairdresser,
[13:25.64]died, and she lay in honor in the Rotunda of the U.S.
[13:29.56]Capital in Washington.
[13:31.55]People from around America
[13:33.12]came to say farewell to her
[13:34.94]and to thank her for changing our history
[13:37.61]and for changing our society.
[13:40.54]Now, what did this 92 year-old black woman
[13:43.46]do that deserved such great honor?
[13:46.14]What did she do?
[13:47.03]Well, in 1955, the days of racial segregation,
[13:50.88]she had refused to give up her seat
[13:53.74]on the bus to a white man.
[13:55.88]She had refused. Her simple refusal
[13:58.30]to move to the back of the bus
[14:00.17]put into motion events
[14:01.99]that led to my country's great
[14:04.17]civil rights movement.
[14:06.25]The small protest of a woman
[14:08.16]that maybe weighed less than 100 pounds.
[14:11.03]brought down a racist system.
[14:13.70]As you can see, the individual can make a difference.
[14:18.49]Let me tell you about another individual,
[14:20.25]Ken Behring, a millionaire California businessman
[14:23.30]who found his passion in giving wheelchairs
[14:25.85]to poor and physically disabled people
[14:30.83]all around the globe,
[14:32.01]including China.
[14:33.38]He says that he has met people
[14:34.87]who have spent years in rooms
[14:36.68]with no window,
[14:37.86]just lying there and staring up
[14:39.35]at the ceiling,
[14:40.85]never seeing the outside world
[14:42.03]unless someone was willing
[14:43.29]to pick up that person
[14:44.60]and take them outside
[14:45.72]to show them the world.
[14:47.77]He says that it's no wonder
[14:48.70]so many of those physically
[14:49.88]disabled people dream
[14:51.08]about being a bird.
[14:53.13]Mr. Behring says that most of us think
[14:55.39]that a wheelchair would be a confinement,
[14:58.19]but to millions of people it is not a confinement,
[15:01.61]it is freedom, freedom
[15:03.29]to move and to go to school,
[15:05.03]freedom to vote, freedom
[15:06.52]to get a job,
[15:07.60]and freedom for hope
[15:08.92]for the future.
[15:10.35]He has given freedom
[15:11.22]and wheelchairs to 400,000 people
[15:14.02]around the world.
[15:15.20]The individual can make a difference.
[15:19.00]My mother-in-law,
[15:20.31]Eunice Kennedy Shriver
[15:21.80]I always like to mention her,
[15:23.48]because it gets me
[15:24.88]on the good side of her
[15:25.59]she, for instance,
[15:27.83]started an organization called Special Olympics.
[15:31.13]She started Special Olympics
[15:32.69]which is for people with mental disabilities.
[15:34.99]And of course when she started that organization
[15:37.79]she was told by the experts,
[15:39.92]Don't do it.
[15:41.16]You cannot take people
[15:42.66]with mental disabilities
[15:43.90]out of mental institutions
[15:46.08]and have them participate in sports events.
[15:48.27]They will drown in the swimming pools.
[15:50.08]They will kill each other out there,
[15:52.21]they willhurt each other.
[15:53.03]Don't do it.
[15:54.21]But Eunice Kennedy Shriver
[15:55.47]had a dream and a passion,
[15:58.15]and today millions of people
[15:59.53]compete in Special Olympics
[16:01.15]around the world,
[16:02.29]including right here in China.
[16:04.22]This is why I was here five years ago.
[16:06.58]Five years ago you had 50,000 participants
[16:09.64]in the Special Olympics.
[16:11.21]Today, five years later,
[16:13.03]you have 500,000 participants in Special Olympics.
[16:16.46]500,000 people are getting a chance
[16:19.46]to participate in sports programs,
[16:21.39]getting a chance to have health care,
[16:23.13]have a chance to be treated equally,
[16:24.56]with respect and with tolerance.
[16:27.25]So Eunice Kennedy Shriver exemplifies
[16:29.75]that the individual can make a difference.
[16:33.05]And I think what I'm trying to say
[16:34.43]to you is that each
[16:35.49]and every one of you can make a difference.
[16:38.48]So as you study
[16:39.47]and as you become smarter,
[16:40.72]and as you become richer,
[16:42.23]think about these millions
[16:45.21]of people that need your help.
[16:47.27]Now, you maybe ask yourself the question,
[16:49.07]what can I do?
[16:50.88]Well, let me tell you.
[16:52.37]Even though you maybe
[16:54.30]have no money or nothing,
[16:55.99]you can go out
[16:57.48]and help a child that has not yet learned
[16:59.24]yet how to read.
[16:59.74]You maybe can go out
[17:01.06]and help a person that is physically handicapped,
[17:03.32]to lift them up
[17:04.06]and to take them outside
[17:05.26]so they can see the world.
[17:06.63]There are so many different things
[17:08.44]that you can do.
[17:09.49]You maybe can take a person
[17:10.68]that is mentally disabled,
[17:12.23]to take them to a soccer game.
[17:13.99]There are all kinds of things
[17:15.42]that the individual
[17:16.17]can do to reach out and to help.
[17:17.53]Imagine what could be accomplished
[17:20.02]if the dreams of China's
[17:21.89]1.3 billion individuals could be unleashed.
[17:25.45]Imagine what could happen.
[17:27.01]Each of you here has the power
[17:28.94]of the individual within you,
[17:30.93]you have the power of your dreams
[17:33.29]within you,
[17:34.28]and these are tremendous powers.
[17:35.72]You're young,
[17:36.65]you're educated,
[17:37.58]and you are the very best
[17:39.26]China has to offer.
[17:41.19]My young Chinese friends,
[17:43.06]I believe in your dreams.
[17:44.86]I believe that you can achieve them,
[17:46.85]and I believe you can make a difference,
[17:49.34]a big difference.
[17:50.40]All you have to do is just
[17:51.96]make the commitment.
[17:53.01]All you have to do is create the action
[17:54.63]and commit, and say,
[17:56.01]Let's do it.
[17:57.20]Go out and do it.
[17:58.50]I'm asking you.
[17:59.75]Do it for yourself,
[18:00.80]do it for China,
[18:02.69]and do it for the good of the world.
[18:05.74]Thank you very much for listening.
[18:07.10]Thank you.
