名人演講:Keep Your Dreams 執(zhí)著于你的夢(mèng)想[阿諾德_施瓦辛格]

Keep Your Dreams 執(zhí)著于你的夢(mèng)想

—— 阿諾德_施瓦辛格

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[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.