And the only way to do great work……is to love what you do.
爱你所做的事，才能成就不凡
If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking.
如果你还没找到，继续找
And don’t settle:
不要停下
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
要有勇气顺从自己的心和直觉
They somehow already know,
从某种程度来说
What you truly want to become.
你的内心早就知道你未来的梦想
You’re going to have some ups and you’re going to have some downs.
人生的道路是高低起伏的
Most people give up on themselves easily.
大多数人会轻易选择放弃
You know the human spirit is powerful?
但你知道人的意志有多强大吗?
There is nothing as powerful. It’s hard to kill the human spirit!
没有任何东西像意志一样强大。人的意志是难以扼杀的
Anybody can feel good, when they have their health, their bills are paid, they have happy relationships.
任何人在个人健康，账务状况和感情生活均良好的环境中，都能感到幸福
Anybody can be positive then,
此时任何人都能积极向上
Anybody can have a large vision then,
任何人都能有更伟大的理想
Anybody can have faith under those kinds of circumstances.
任何人都能有信念
When all else is lost, the future still remains.
就是失去了一切别的，也还有未来。
The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
对明天做最好的准备就是今天做到最好!
The reason why a great man is great is that he resolves to be a great man.
伟人之所以伟大，是因为他立志要成为伟大的人。
Suffering is the most powerful teacher of life.
苦难是人生最伟大的老师。
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
世界上对勇气的最大考验是忍受失败而不丧失信心。
There's only one corner of the universe you can be sure of improving, and that's your own self.
这个宇宙中只有一个角落你肯定可以改进，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;尽管做你自己热爱的事情并且相信它，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.
只要一个人还有追求，他就没有老。直到后悔取代了梦想，一个人才算老。
Live a noble and honest life. Reviving past times in your old age will help you to enjoy your life again.
过一种高尚而诚实的生活。当你年老时回想起过去，你就能再一次享受人生。
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.
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 there.An 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.
If there is anything in Life that you don’t currently have right now is because of who you are and how you think.
What I need you to do is,I need you to find the reason to keep going.
And if you could find the reason to keep going,I know you strong enough to do it because you are human.
And every human has what it takesto get past whatever they are going through,if they decide to…
Push through it.Push through it.Tragedy and trials come to everybody.Only the strong survive.
Listen to me very closely.You’re running from obstacles,
when in fact it’s the obstacles,that’s gonna take you to the next level.
Like you’re running from pain!You’re running from challenges!You telling me how difficult your Life is.Do you understand it is the difficultythat’s gonna prepare you and take you to that next level?
To grow the individual will to become something,you must get comfortable with fear and failure.They must be your best friends.They are the only ones that moves that needle of Life.
And the difference between a champion and someone who is forgotten.Is that a champion shows up.That’s the only thing, everyday shows up.
Gives himself a chance to make a difference.Because success doesn’t know these things about cold or early or tired.It just knows if you showed up or not.
For some of you when you do what you do,you act as if you have another opportunity.Every opportunity is the last opportunity!You can’t just say you want it.You can’t watch the video and say…“I want this as bad as I want to breathe.”
You can’t connect the dots looking forward,
你无法知道你人生的点如何在未来联成线，
You can only connect them looking backwards.
你只能在回顾过去时才能看到那些线条
So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.
所以你一定要相信，现在的点，会在未来联成线
You have to trust in something.
你必须有信念
Your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.
不管那是你的勇气，命运，人生，还是因缘
Because believing that the dots will connect down the road.
因为相信生活中的点滴会在人生的旅途中串联起来
will give you the confidence to follow your heart,
才能有信念忠于自我
even when it leads you off the well-worn path.
即使你的选择和别人不一样
And that will make all the difference.
却会让你与众不同
Your time is limited.
你的时间很有限
So don’t waste living someone else life.
所在不要将它浪费在重复其他人的生活中
Don’t be trapped by dogma:
别受规条约束
Which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.
别活在其他人对你的期待中
Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.
不要让他人喧华纷扰的见解淹没了你内心的声音
You’ve got to find what your love.
你必须找到你热爱的事物
And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers.
这包括你的事业和你的伴侣
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life.
你的工作将占据你生命中相当大的一部分
And the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.
唯一你能发自内心获得满足的方法，就是相信你做的工作是对的。
Life is unfair.
Success is not measured on the days when the sun shines. Success is measured on the dark, stormy, cloudy days.
If you can't absorb failure, you're never gonna meet success.The thing about life is it's not always easy, and you can't always win. Some point of your life, it hits you. It hits you really really hard.
The person you love doesn't love you back, you get fired, you lose a family member. At some point of your life, you're gonna hit rock bottom.
You're paralyzed, you're like, "Why?" And that why can really really destroy you. Once you start asking yourself, "Why me? Why not the others, why me?
I'm actually a good person, I never did something significantly bad, why the hell did it hit me?" Because that's life.
Life is unfair. Success is not measured on the days when the sun shines. Success is measured on the dark, stormy, cloudy days. And if you can't absorb failure, you're never gonna meet success.
It’s cute to say it but when it’s ShowTime,when the sun comes up,you got all the books,you got all the tapes,you got all the access,now it’s time to hunt!
If it was easy everybody would do it,but if Life got you down, I need you to get up.And prove them wrong.
It’s gonna rain sometimes,I will.
You’re gonna feel discouraged sometimes.I will.
No matter what the obstacles.I will.I will.I WILL.
A true hunter’s goal is not the prize.A true hunter’s goal is to hunt.That’s what they live for.They live to hunt.
It’s the whole process.
~The journey to your dreams always starts from within~
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.
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?”
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.”
your life is your life
don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.
be on the watch.
there are ways out.
there is light somewhere.
it may not be much light but
it beats the darkness.
be on the watch.
the gods will offer you chances.
know them.
take them.
you can’t beat death but
you can beat death in life, sometimes.
and the more often you learn to do it,
the more light there will be.
your life is your life.
know it while you have it.
you are marvelous
the gods wait to delight
in you.
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 Elf......one 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?
Life is a miracle. You don’t have to be stuck in a situation that you are in. If there is something in your life that is holding you back, you have to identify what that is, because, I promise you, there is a way to break pasted.I want you to identify that voice inside of yourself and begin to trust it. And ask yourself what is it that has been in my way and how do I unblock that? Dig deep inside.Life does not wait for anyone, and your life isn’t later. Your life is right now.
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.
The real challenge of growth, mentally, emotionally and spiritually,
成长路上真正的挑战，不管是心理上，情感上还是精神上
comes when you get knocked down.
是当你被击倒的时候
It takes courage to act.
起身而行是需要勇气的
Part of being hungry when you have been defeated.
被击倒仍是谦虚
It takes courage……to start over again.
放下重新开始也是需要勇气的
Fear kills dreams.
恐惧，扼杀梦想
Fear kills hope.
恐惧，扼杀希望
Fear put people in the hospital.
恐惧，使人一蹶不振
Fear can age you.
恐惧使你衰老
Can hold you back from doing something that you know within yourself that you are capable of doing, but it will paralyze you.
会阻止你去做一些力所能及的事，但恐惧也会使你麻木不仁。
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.