奥斯卡影帝丹泽尔●华盛顿超震撼演讲：比失败更可怕的, 是没有梦想地活着（附视频&演讲稿）
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2015年5月9日，奥斯卡影帝丹泽尔·华盛顿在以黑人学生为主的迪拉德大学（Dillard University）毕业典礼上演讲时，现场鼓励毕业生说，今天是你们生命中的一个新的开始，可能对你们来说有点可怕，外面有一个全新的世界，而且意味深长。
你的生命只有一次，所以去做那些能让你为之感到热情的事。把握住机会，更加进深变得专业，不要担心会失败。 有一个老的智商9点测试，你需要用笔画出5（实际为4）条线来连接起这9个点，同时笔迹不能中断。唯一能办到方法是：画到正方形之外。 所以不要担心走到方框之外，不要害怕去想方框之外的事。
不要害怕遇到很大的失败，要怀抱更大的梦想。但是请记住：梦想如果没有目标，就只是梦想而已，最终会被失落感所熄灭。
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丹泽尔·华盛顿还在演讲中反复强调毕业生一定要有梦想，但也要有目标：生命目标，年度目标，月度目标，每日目标。我尝试每天都给自己定下目标，有时，就差没“诅咒”别人了。
目标简单，但是一定要有。还得明白，要实现这些目标，你必须要应用规律和坚持的原则。为了实现你的目标，必须要根据你所做过事情的规律，并且日复一日坚持下去，不要“三天打鱼，两天晒网”。
你每天都要为之努力工作和计划，每天你都会说：我们不是从计划走向失败，而是从失败走向计划。努力地工作，真实的努力工作，这正是成功人士们所做的。在这个短信或者是推文里，要告诉世界你已经成长了。要记住：只是因为你做的更多，并不意味着你完成的更多。
不要混乱迷惑，按着进程一步一步来。我妈妈告诉我“是啊，你可以一直跑，但却始终无法到达目的地。”所以要继续坚持，要有目标，要有进展。
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. Thank you, Joy and thank you to the choir the beautiful selection. Thank you, Bishop for your prayer, John, thank you.
And thank you for inviting me, President, hip-hop President. Can you spit? Can you spit? A little bit? A little bit? Nas or Jigga. No, no! We’re in Louisiana that’s right, what is it ‘Cash Money’, All Stars. Lil [Wayne] WEEZY, not lollipop though, not lollipop. Thank you for having me.
Uh…let me take this moment to first of all wholeheartedly, I guess I can do this without my glass maybe, let me take this moment wholeheartedly congratulate each and every one of you today – you graduated. You did it. You made it. Congratulations, you did it. You did it all by yourself, nobody helped you.
No…that’s not – that’s what you know, I thought when I was young I started to really make it as an actor. I came in, I talked to my mother , I said ‘Ma did you think that this was going to happen, I’m being so big and I’ll be able to take care of everybody and I can do this and I can do that’, and she said, ‘all right, stop it right there. Stop it right there. Stop it right there’.
Is that it you only knew, how many people they have been praying for you. How many prayer groups she put together, how many prayer [talks] she gave, how many times she splashed me with holy water to save my sorry behind.
She said, Oh, you did it all by yourself, I’ll tell you what you can do by yourself: Go outside and get a mop and bucket and wash them windows – you can do that by yourself, superstar.
So, I’m saying that to say ‘I want to congratulate all the parents and friends and family and aunties and uncles and grandmother and grandfathers, teachers and enemies, all the people that helped you to get where you are today, congratulations to you are.’
I’m going to tell about two to three stories. I’m going to keep it really short. I remember my graduation speaker, got up there and went on forever, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
So I’m going to keep it short.
Number one: Put God first. Put God first in everything you do. Everything that you think you see in me. Everything that I’ve accomplished, everything that you think I have – and I have a few things. Everything that I have is by the grace of God. Understand that. It’s a gift. Forty years ago, March 27th, 1975 – it was forty years ago just this past March, I was flunking out of college I had a 1.7 grade point average, I hope none of you can relate.
I had a 1.7 grade point average, I was sitting in my mother’s beauty shop. They still call the beauty shop now, what they call it? Yeah, and I was sitting in a beauty parlor. I was sitting in my mother’s beauty parlor.
And I’m looking in the mirror and I see behind me this woman under the dryer and every time she looked up – she every time I looked up she was looking at me. She was looking me in the eye, I don’t know who she was and I said you know, she said somebody give me a pen, give me a pencil I have a prophecy.
March 27th, 1975, she said boy you are going to travel the world and speak to millions of people. Now mind you I flunked out of college I’m thinking about joining the army I didn’t know what I was going to go and she is telling me I’m going to travel the world and speak to millions of people.
Well I have, traveled the world. And I have spoke to millions of people, but that’s not the most important thing, success that I had the most important thing is that what she taught me, what she told me that day has stayed with me since.
I’ve been protected, I’ve been directed, I’ve been corrected, I’ve kept god in my life and it’s kept me humble, I didn’t always stick with him but he always stuck with me.
So stick with him, in everything you do, if you think you want to do, what you think I’ve done, then do what I’ve done. And stick with god.
Number two: fail big, that’s right. Fail big, today is the begining of the rest of your life and you can be just – be very frightening. And it’s a new world out there, it’s a mean world out there. You only live once, so do what you feel passionate about, passionate about. Take chances professionally, don’t be afraid to fail, there is an old IQ test [that] was nine dots and you had to draw five lines with the pencil within the nine dots without lifting the pencil.
The only way to do it was to go outside the box. So don’t be afraid to go outside the box. Don’t be afraid to think outside the box. Don’t be afraid to fail big, to dream big, but remember, dreams without goals, are just dreams. And they ultimately fuel disappointment.
So have dreams, but have goals, life goals, yearly goals, monthly goals, daily goals. I try to give myself a goal every day, sometimes just to not curse somebody out. Simple goals but have goals and understand that to achieve these goals you must apply discipline and consistency, in order to achieve your goals you must apply discipline which you’ve already done, and consistency every day not just one Tuesday and just a two days, you have to work at it.
Every day you have to plan, every day you heard the saying, we don’t plan to fail, we fail to plan – hard work works, working really hard is what successful people do. And in this text tweet, twerk world that you’ve grown up in remember just because you’re doing a lot more doesn’t mean you’re getting a lot more done.
Remember that — just because you’re doing a lot more, doesn’t mean you’re getting a lot more done, don’t confuse movement with progress, my mother told me she said ‘yeah, because you can run and play all the time and never get anywhere.’ So continue to strive, continue to have goals, continue to progress.
Number three: you’ll never see a U-Haul behind a hearse: I’ll say it again, you’ll never see a U-Haul behind a hearse. I don’t care how much money you make, you can’t take it with you. The Egyptians tried it, they got robbed. That’s all they got. You can’t take it with you, with you, and is that how much you have – it’s what you do, with what you have, we all have different talents, some of you’ll be doctors, some lawyers, some scientists, some educator, some nurses, some teachers.
Yeah, okay. Some preachers, the most selfish thing you can do in this world is help someone else why is this selfish, because the gratification, goodness that comes to you, the good feeling, the good feeling that I get from helping others, nothing’s better than that. Well one of two things but, nothing’s better than that, not – not jewelry, not big house I have not big cars, but is the joy that’s where the joy is and helping others that’s where the success is in helping others.
Finally, I pray that you put your slippers way under the bed tonight, so that when you wake up in the morning you have to get on your knees to reach them. [Applause] And while you’re down there, say thank you for grace, thank you for mercy, thank you for understanding, thank you for wisdom, thank you for parents, thank you for love, thank you for kindness, thank you for humility, thank you for peace, thank you for prosperity. Say thank you in advance for what’s already yours.
So that’s how I live my life, that’s why – [where I am today]. Say thank you in advance for what is already yours.
True desire in the heart for anything good is God’s proof to you sent beforehand to indicate that it’s yours already.
I’ll say it again.
True desire in the heart, that itch that you have whatever it is you want to do, that thing that you want to do to help others and to grow and to make money that desire that itch, that’s God’s proof to you, sent beforehand, already to indicate that it’s yours.
And anything you want good you can have, so claim it, work hard to get it. When you get it, reach back, pull someone else up, each one teach one.
Don’t just aspire to make a living. Aspire to make a difference. Thank you.
丹泽尔·华盛顿（Denzel Washington），1954年出生于纽约州，曾获得两次金球奖和两次奥斯卡，2016年他所指导并主演的电影《藩篱》，获得了第89届奥斯卡最佳影片的提名，他也被媒体誉为“好莱坞最具影响力与尊敬的演员及导演”。丹泽尔的父亲是一位牧师，他本人也是一位献身的基督徒，在很多公开场合的采访称自己是“神的仆人”。今天这个短片来自他在迪拉德大学的演讲，丹泽尔告诉毕业生们：要把上帝放在首位，他的一切成就都是因着上帝的恩典！
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