1、施瓦辛格清华大学执着于你的梦想英语演讲稿演讲稿施瓦辛格清华大学执着于你的梦想英语演讲稿 Some of your families maybe dont believe in your dreams. But let me tell you something, myyoung friends. Keep your dreams. No matter what, keep your dreams. Dont give up on them,even when you are temporarily defeated or denied. Keep your dreams. Well, than
2、k you very much, President. First of all, I want to thank President Gu for having mehere, and I want to thank Mr. Qizhi for your kind introduction. Thank you very much. It is wonderful to be here at this university. What a special place. I just looked around a littlebit here, its a gorgeous, gorgeou
3、s place. I want to congratulate you for going to thismagnificent university here. Now, the last time I was here in China was five years ago, and then I was promoting mymovies. They had a movie festival here, the Arnold Schwarzenegger Movie Festival. I rememberthey showed all my movies for a weekwhic
4、h was a rarity, may I remind youand they alsoshowed the movies on television. But we also were here to promote Special Olympics, which isan organization that helps people with mental disabilities, so I was here for both reasons. But this time Im here as the governor of the great state of California.
5、 Im here representingthe people of California, and were here on a trade mission to see how we can do more businesswith China and to help each other, because both California is a very fast growing state, andChina is a very fast growing country, and there are a lot of things that we can do for oneanot
6、her. But I didnt want to miss the opportunity to come here today and to talk with the youngpeople; as a matter of fact, to the brightest young people of China. And this is why it is so greatto be here at the Tsinghua University, and Im honored that I was invited here. Now, I read a little bit about
7、the history of Tsinghua, and I learned that actually this schooloriginally prepared students to attend universities in America. Now, I also know that since theattack on our World Trade Centers it has become more and more difficult to go to theuniversities in America because you need to fill out all
8、kinds of paperwork now and you have toget visas, and its very complicated, and you have to wait a much longer period of time to goover there. But let me tell you, things are improving already. Ive heard that its easing up, therestrictions, and its easier to get a visa. My young Chinese friends, I wa
9、nt to tell you that incase no one from America has ever invited you, let me do this right now personally. I want towarmly invite all of you here to come to the United States, and especially to come to California,because thats the happening place. California is the best place. Please come and visit u
10、s, we will welcome you. I invite you all to come there and to travel, tomeet the American people, and to come there and study in our universities, and some dayhopefully you will come and do business over there, or maybe youll want to move over there.Whatever your goal is, youre always welcome. Ameri
11、ca, after all, lets not forget, is the land ofopportunity. And its not only the land of opportunity for Austrians like me, but for Chinesepeople as well. Remember that. I know that beginning with this century, China is also becoming a land of opportunity. Its afast growing place, and as the students
12、 of this great university and the citizens of a risingChina, I think that you have a great future also here in this country. And today I want to talk toyou a little bit about the dreams, about the dreams of your future, and dreams for this country.I want to talk to you a little bit about dreams, bec
13、ause it seems to me that Im somewhat of anexpert in dreams, because I had a lot of my dreams become a reality. So let me just briefly tellyou my story, and tell you a little bit about how I started with my career. I think that this storykind of relates a little bit also to you, and also to China. I
14、started way back as a weightlifter. I always liked the idea of lifting weights and being abodybuilder. From the first moment when I gripped a barbell and held it around the bar andlifted the steel up over my head, I felt this exhilaration, and I knew then that this issomething that Im going to do; t
15、hat I was in love with that, and this is going to be somethingthat Im going to do. Im going to pursue the sport of weightlifting and bodybuilding. Now, I remember the first real workout that I had. Eight miles away from my home village inAustria there was a gymnasium, and I rode to that gymnasium wi
16、th a bicycle. And there Itrained for half an hour, because they said that after half an hour you should stop becauseotherwise your body will get really sore. But after half an hour I looked at my body, and nothinghad happened. So I said, Id better work out for another half hour. So I lifted some mor
17、e. Mystrength didnt improve, I didnt see the muscles pop out or anything like that, so I trained foranother half an hour. And then after another half hour I trained another half hour, and alltogether I trained two and a half hours. Well, let me tell you something. After two and a half hourseven thou
18、gh they told me that Ishouldnt train that much or I would get really soreI left the gymnasium, I rode my bicyclehome. And after the first mile I got numb, and I couldnt feel anymore the handle of thebicycle, and I fell off the bike and I fell into the ditch on the side of the road. So I got up again
19、and I tried it again. Another few yards, I fell off the bicycle again. And I tried it three, fourmore times, and I just couldnt ride my bicycle because my body was so numb and my legs feltlike noodles. Well, let me tell you something. The next morning when I got up, my body was so sore that Icouldnt
20、 even lift my arms to comb my hair. I had to have my mother comb my hair, and youknow how embarrassing that is. But you know something? I learned a very important lesson,that pain means progress. Pain is progress. Each time my muscles were sore from a workout Iknew that they were growing and they we
21、re getting stronger. I think there is a real life lesson in that. After two or three years of discipline anddetermination and working out hard, I actually changed my body, and I changed my strength.And that told me something; that if I could change my body that much, and if I could changethe strengt
22、h of my body that much, then I could also change anything else. I could change myhabits, I could change my intelligence, I could change my attitude, my mind, my future, mylife. And this is exactly what I have done. I think that that lesson applies to people, and it alsoapplies to countries. You can
23、change, China can change, everyone in the world can change. My parents, of course, I have to tell you, didnt understand my dreams at all. They werealways wondering, they said, What is he doing? When are you going to get a job, a real job?When are you going to make money? And all of those questions I
24、 got. And they said, I hopewe didnt raise a bum, someone that doesnt make money and just wants to live in agymnasium and think about their bodies. Well, I endured all of this negative thinking, and themore negative the thinking got, and the more negative the questions got, the stronger andthe more p
25、ositive I became, the stronger I became inside. So of course some of your families maybe think the same way, and this is why Im mentioningthat. Some of your families maybe dont believe in your dreams. But let me tell you something,my young friends. Keep your dreams. No matter what, keep your dreams.
26、 Dont give up onthem, even when you are temporarily defeated or denied. Keep your dreams. I remember the first time I went to the United States and I was competing in a competition,the World Championships in Bodybuilding. I lost. I came in second, and I was devastated. Iwas crushed. I felt like a lo
27、ser, a major loser, let me tell you. I cried, as a matter of fact,because I felt like I disappointed my friends and I disappointed myself. But the next day Igot my act together, I shifted gears, and I said, Im going to learn from that lesson. Im goingto stay here in America. Im not going to go back
28、to Europe. Im going to stay in America andIm going to train with the American champions, Im going to train the American way. Imgoing to eat the American food, Im going to train with the American machines and theprinciples. And a year later, in America, I became the World Champion in Bodybuilding. So
29、 Ithink this is a very, very important lesson. And from then on, I continued. My career took off, and everything that I wanted to do Iaccomplished. First it was to become a champion in bodybuilding. Later on I became a moviestar, to do all the great movies, the Conan movies and the Terminator movies
30、 and all this. ThenI became the governor of the great state of California, of the sixth largest economy in the world.All of this happened because of my dreams, even though other people told me that thosedreams were bogus and they were crazy, but I held onto my dreams. And people would always say, no
31、 matter what, even in bodybuilding they said I would nevermake it. And later on in the movies, in Hollywood they said I would not make it. They said, Youwill never make it. You have a German accent. No one in Hollywood has ever made it with aGerman accent. Yeah, maybe you can play some Nazi roles or
32、 something like that, but youcannot become a leading star with an accent. Plus your body, youre overdeveloped, you have allthese muscles. They did Hercules movies 20 years ago, thats outdated. Now its Woody Allen.Woody Allen is in, his body is in. And those were the messages. And Al Pacino, the skinny guy,he is in. But not your body, its too big. And your name, Schwarzenegger, it will never fit on amovie poster. Forget it. Forget it, you will never make it. Go back to bodybuilding. Well, the rest is history. After Terminator 3, I became the highest paid movie star in
