GOVERNOR SCHWARZENEGGER施瓦辛格清华大学演讲稿Word文档格式.docx

1、m here representing the people of California, and were here on a trade mission to see how we can do more business with China and to help each other, because both California is a very fast growing state, and China is a very fast growing country, and there are a lot of things that we can do for one an

2、other.But I didnt want to miss the opportunity to come here today and to talk with the young people; as a matter of fact, to the brightest young people of China. And this is why it is so great to be here at the Tsinghua University, and Im honored that I was invited here.Now, I read a little bit abou

3、t the history of Tsinghua, and I learned that actually this school originally prepared students to attend universities in America. Now, I also know that since the attack on our World Trade Centers it has become more and more difficult to go to the universities in America because you need to fill out

4、 all kinds of paperwork now and you have to get visas, and its very complicated, and you have to wait a much longer period of time to go over there. But let me tell you, things are improving already. Ive heard that its easing up, the restrictions, and its easier to get a visa. My young Chinese frien

5、ds, I want to tell you that in case no one from America has ever invited you, let me do this right now personally. I want to warmly 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 a

6、nd visit us, we will welcome you. I invite you all to come there and to travel, to meet the American people, and to come there and study in our universities, and some day hopefully you will come and do business over there, or maybe youll want to move over there. Whatever your goal is, youre always w

7、elcome. America, after all, lets not forget, is the land of opportunity. And its not only the land of opportunity for Austrians like me, but for Chinese people as well. Remember that.I know that beginning with this century, China is also becoming a land of opportunity. Its a fast growing place, and

8、as the students of this great university and the citizens of a rising China, I think that you have a great future also here in this country. And today I want to talk to you 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

9、 about dreams, because it seems to me that Im somewhat of an expert in dreams, because I had a lot of my dreams become a reality. So let me just briefly tell you my story, and tell you a little bit about how I started with my career. I think that this story kind of relates a little bit also to you,

10、and also to China.I started way back as a weightlifter. I always liked the idea of lifting weights and being a bodybuilder. From the first moment when I gripped a barbell and held it around the bar and lifted the steel up over my head, I felt this exhilaration, and I knew then that this is something

11、 that Im going to do; that I was in love with that, and this is going to be something that 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 in Austria there was a gymnasium, and I r

12、ode to that gymnasium with a bicycle. And there I trained for half an hour, because they said that after half an hour you should stop because otherwise your body will get really sore. But after half an hour I looked at my body, and nothing had happened. So I said, Id better work out for another half

13、 hour. So I lifted some more. My strength didnt improve, I didnt see the muscles pop out or anything like that, so I trained for another half an hour. And then after another half hour I trained another half hour, and all together I trained two and a half hours.Well, let me tell you something. After

14、two and a half hours - even though they told me that I shouldnt train that much or I would get really sore - I left the gymnasium, I rode my bicycle home. And after the first mile I got numb, and I couldnt feel anymore the handle of the bicycle, and I fell off the bike and I fell into the ditch on t

15、he side of the road. So I got up again and I tried it again. Another few yards, I fell off the bicycle again. And I tried it three, four more times, and I just couldnt ride my bicycle because my body was so numb and my legs felt like noodles.Well, let me tell you something. The next morning when I g

16、ot up, my body was so sore that I couldnt even lift my arms to comb my hair. I had to have my mother comb my hair, and you know 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 worko

17、ut I knew that they were growing and they were getting stronger.I think there is a real life lesson in that. After two or three years of discipline and determination 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 bod

18、y that much, and if I could change the strength of my body that much, then I could also change anything else. I could change my habits, I could change my intelligence, I could change my attitude, my mind, my future, my life. And this is exactly what I have done. I think that that lesson applies to p

19、eople, and it also applies to countries. You can 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 were always wondering, they said, What is he doing? When are you going to get a job, a real job? When are you

20、 going to make money? And all of those questions I got. And they said, I hope we didnt raise a bum, someone that doesnt make money and just wants to live in a gymnasium and think about their bodies. Well, I endured all of this negative thinking, and the more negative the thinking got, and the more n

21、egative the questions got, the stronger and the more positive I became, the stronger I became inside.So of course some of your families maybe think the same way, and this is why Im mentioning that. Some of your families maybe dont believe in your dreams. But let me tell you something, my young frien

22、ds. 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.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 seco

23、nd, and I was devastated. I was crushed. I felt like a loser, 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 I got my act together, I shifted gears, and I said, m going to learn from that lesson.

24、 Im going to stay here in America. Im not going to go back to Europe. Im going to stay in America and Im going to train with the American champions, Im going to train the American way. Im going to eat the American food, Im going to train with the American machines and the principles. And a year late

25、r, in America, I became the World Champion in Bodybuilding. So I think this is a very, very important lesson.And from then on, I continued. My career took off, and everything that I wanted to do I accomplished. First it was to become a champion in bodybuilding. Later on I became a movie star, to do

26、all the great movies, the Conan movies and the Terminator movies and all this. Then I 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 those dreams were bogus and they wer

27、e crazy, but I held onto my dreams.And people would always say, no matter what, even in bodybuilding they said I would never make it. And later on in the movies, in Hollywood they said I would not make it. They said, You will never make it. You have a German accent. No one in Hollywood has ever made

28、 it with a German accent. Yeah, maybe you can play some Nazi roles or something like that, but you cannot become a leading star with an accent. Plus your body, youre overdeveloped, you have all these muscles. They did Hercules movies 20 years ago, thats outdated. Now its Woody Allen. Woody Allen is

29、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 a movie 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 Hollywood. And let me tell you something, it continued on. Even when I ran for governor people said, Arnold, you will never make it. You will never become governor of Cali