英语演讲稿(珍惜现在把握未来)

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Cherishing What You Have Now, and Striving for the Future 珍惜现在，把握未来——英国前首相托尼·布莱尔

Each new generation finds the world they enter.But they fasion the world they leave.So: what do you inherit and what do you pa on? The history of humankind is marked by great events but written by great people.People like you.Given Yale’s record of achievement, perhaps by you.So to you as individuals, what wisdom, if any, have I learnt? First, in fact, keep learning.Always to be alive to the poibilities of the next experience, of thinking, doing and being.When Buddha was asked, near the end of his life, to describe his secret, he answered bluntly: “I’m awake”.So be awake.Understand conventional wisdom, but be prepared to change it.Feel as well as analyze; use you instinct alongside your reason.Calculate too much and you will miscalculate.Be prepared to fail as well as to succeed, realist it is failure not succe that defines character.I spent years trying to be a politician failing at every attempt and nearly gave up.I know you’re thinking: I should have.Sir Paul McCartney reminded me that the first record company the Beatles approached rejected them as a band no-one would want to listen to.Be good to people on your way up because you never know if you will meet them again on your way down.每一代寻找他们要进入的世界，然后又离开他们塑造的世界。因此：你们继承什么，又将传递什么？

人类历史以大事件为标志，而大事件由伟人来谱写。由你们这样的人来谱写。鉴于耶鲁历来人才辈出，人类历史可能就是由你们来书写。因此，从作为个体的你们，如果我学到了新的东西，那么这些新东西又是什么呢？事实上，首先我学会了学无止境。时刻积极投入到可能出现的新经历、思考、行动和成长中。

当佛祖生命快要终结时，有人问他成为圣人的秘诀，他坦诚相告：“常令省察，不令有失。”

所以要保持清醒。了解传统的智慧，但也要做好准备改变它。

既要会分析又要会感知。直觉与理性并存。过于斤斤计较只会打错算盘。既要做好准备迎接成功也要做好准备迎接失败。要知道，是失败不是成功塑造人的性格。

多年来我尝试成为一个政治家，却总是失败，几近放弃。我知道你们怎么想的：我本来就应该放弃。保罗·麦卡特尼让我想起，披头士联系的第一家唱片公司以他们的音乐没有人听为由将他们拒之门外。

当你青云直上时，要友善待人，因为你不知道在你走下坡路时会不会遇见他们。