公眾人物畢業(yè)演講第57期:肖恩庫姆斯霍華德大學(13)

It took me 26 years to get on this stage

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 你需要堅持

You know I'm just learning this like last week, so I'm not preaching to you

我上周才學到這一點 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 我知道我讓這所大學感到自豪

but also sometimes I know I did it

有時 我知道我做到了

but I made a decision to keep going, keep trying

我一直決定堅持嘗試 堅持前進

even if it meant sometimes that I would fail

哪怕有時我也會失敗

One of the biggest lessons I've learned in life

我在生活中學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 我當時有多害怕

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孩子 已經(jīng)八個半月

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

我一個人獨坐在臥室里

and asking myself the question that sometimes we all ask each other

問我自己一個你們有時也會問自己的問題

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