今天是中国各地很多学校的开学第一天。
在以往，很多名人会在学生毕业的时候致辞，激励即将离开学校并踏入社会的毕业生们，让人印象深刻。不过，这些话语放在开学第一天，似乎更能激发同学们在未来的学习生涯里更进一步，更上层楼。
史蒂芬·斯彼尔伯克（Steven Spielberg）
My job is to create a world that lasts two hours. Yours is to create a world that lasts forever.
我做的事是创造一个能存在两个小时的世界，你们的工作是创建一个永恒的世界。
---Steven Spielberg at Harvard University
丹泽尔·华盛顿（Denzel Washington）
Don't be afraid to dream big, but remember dreams without goals are just dreams and they ultimately fuel disappointment. So have dreams but have goals. To achieve these goals, you must apply discipline and consistency everyday. You have to work at it…I try to give myself a goal every day, sometimes it's just not to curse somebody out.
不要害怕大，要记住没有目标的梦想只是梦想，最后只能获得失望。不仅要有梦想，还要有目标。必须要有纪律性，每天持之以恒，才能实现目标。你要为之付出努力……我每天都给自己一个目标，有时这不只是抱怨什么人。
---Denzel Washington at Dillard University
马修·麦克康纳利（Matthew McConaughey）
Let's admit it, we all got two wolves in us, a good one and a bad one, you know what I’m talking about—and they BOTH wanna eat…We just gotta feed that good wolf a little more than the other one.
要承认的是，我们内心有两匹狼，一匹善的，一匹恶的，你知道我在说什么……我们在对那匹善的抚育多过对那匹恶的。
---Matthew McConaughey at University of Houston
蒂姆·库克（Tim Cook）, 苹果公司CEO
The sidelines are not where you want to live your life. The world needs you in the arena. There are problems that need to be solved. Injustices that need to be ended. People that are still being persecuted, diseases still in need of cure. No matter what you do next, the world needs your energy. Your passion. Your impatience with progress. Don’t shrink from risk. And tune out those critics and cynics. History rarely yields to one person, but think, and never forget, what happens when it does. That can be you. That should be you. That must be you.
球场边缘并不是你们的生活重心。世界需要你们在球场中心。现在有很多问题等待你来来解决。公平需要你们来伸张；还有人得到不公平的审判，仍然有疾病没有得到攻克。无论你们未来做什么，世界需要你们注入能量。你们激情、以及你们对进步的渴望。不要因为有风险而退缩，不要再乎那些批评之声和愤世嫉俗之言。历史不会向个人屈服，但是要思考，不要忘记历史屈服于个人时会有什么样的情况。你可能就是这样的人。你也应该是这样的人。你也必须是这样的人。
---Tim Cook at George Washington University
斯派克·李（Spike Lee）
No matter how one might wish it be otherwise, we are not making America great again by going back to Eisenhower, Jim Crow, firehouses, German shepherds, and Leave It To Beaver. Not happening. Now’s the time to seize the day, take advantage of this unique moment in history, and build bridges amongst us. Talking about gender, race, religion and nations, not walls. Let us build bridges of love, versus walls of hate.
一个人无论会变得怎样，都不会因为回到爱森豪威尔、吉姆克劳、德国警犬以及《天才小麻烦》电影的时代而让美国变得再次伟大。这不会发生了。我们要抓住每一天的时间，利用历史上独一无二的时刻，在我们每个人之间搭起沟通的桥梁。我们要讨论性别、种族、宗教和国家，而不是建造墙。我们要建造家爱的桥梁，而不是仇恨的墙。
---Spike Lee at John Hopkins University
梅里·斯特里普（Meryl Streep）
You know, you don't have to be famous, you just have to make your mother and father proud of you. And you already have.
大家知道，我们不必成为名人，只是需要让父母以我们为骄傲，就行了。你们已经做到了。
---Meryl Streep at Barnard College
朱迪·福斯特（Jodie Foster）
There is nothing more beautiful than finding your course as you believe you bob aimlessly in the current. And wouldn't you know that your path was there all along, waiting for you to knock, waiting for you to become. This path does not belong to your parents, your teachers, your leaders, or your lovers. Your path is your character defining itself more and more every day.
最美的事莫过于发现你的人生之路，尤如你认为你在漂流里漫无目的地流动。你不会不知道你前方的路已然在那儿，等待你前往，等待你去成就。这条路不属于你的父母、你的领导，你的爱人。你的人生路由你的性格决定，一天一天累积而成。
---Jodie Foster at University of Pennsylvania
J.K. 罗琳（J.K. Rowling）
We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.
我们不需要魔法来改变这个世界，我们内心已经拥有了这样的力量：我们有力量来想像变得更好。
---J.K. Rowling at Harvard University
米歇尔·奥巴马（Michelle Obama）
You all have opportunities and skills and education that so many folks who came before you never could have dreamed of. So just imagine the kind of impact that you're going to make. Imagine how you can inspire those around you to reach higher and complete their own education.
你们现在拥有的机遇和能力以及受到的教育是你们前人想都没有想到过的。那么，想像一下你们将会造成的影响。设想一下你能如何激发你周围人的接受并完成更好的教育。
---Michelle Obama at Dillard University
史蒂芬·乔布斯（Steve Jobs）
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life... Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
你的生命是有限的， 那么你就不要将自己的生命在别人的生活里……求知若饥，虚心若愚。
---Steve Jobs at Stanford University
艾伦·德詹尼丝（Ellen DeGeneres）
Follow your passion, stay true to yourself, never follow someone else's path. Unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path, then by all means you should follow that… Be true to yourself and everything will be fine.
跟随真情、坚持真我，不循规蹈矩。若非在森林里迷失了方向，走不到出路，你绝不能如此……回归真我，万事皆可。
---Ellen DeGeneres at Tulane University
奥普拉（Oprah Winfrey）
Every stumble is not a fall, and every fall does not mean failure. Being human means you will make mistakes. And you will make mistakes, because failure is God's way of moving you in another direction.
每一次的蹒跚而行不一定都会跌倒；每一次的跌倒都不意味着失败。犯错，只是因为失败是上帝在让你换一个方向。
-- Oprah Winfrey at Johnson C. Smith University
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