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Jimmy Stewart,as Elwood P.Dowd in the movie Harvey got it exactly right. (Now, forgive me, I don't believe in jimmy Stenart's story very well, but...)"Years ago my mother used to say to me, 'In this world, Elwwod, you must be...she always used to call me Elwood...in this world, Elwwod, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant.'"Well, for years I was smart,...I recommend pleasant. You may quote me on that.
電影《哈維》中，吉米·斯圖爾特扮演的角色埃爾伍德P.多德，就完全理解這一點。（請原諒，我并不是很相信吉米·斯圖爾特的故事。但是……）他說：“多年前，母親曾經(jīng)對我說，‘埃爾伍德...她總是叫我埃爾伍德...活在這個世界上，你要么做一個聰明人，要么做一個好人。’”我做聰明人， 已經(jīng)做了好多年了……但是，我推薦你們做好人。你們可以引用我這句話。
My third piece of advice is as follows: As you begin this new stage of your lives, follow your passion. If you don't have a passion, don't be satisfied until you find one. Life is too short to go through it without caring deeply about something. When I was in your age, I was incredibly single-minded in my goal to be a physicist. After college, I spent eight years as a graduate student and postdoc at Barkeley, and then nine years at Bell Labs. During that time, my centural focus and professional joy was physics.
我的第三個忠告是，當你開始生活的新階段時，請追隨你的愛好。如果你沒有愛好，就去找，找不到絕不罷休。生命太短暫，所以不能空手走過，你必須對某樣東西傾注你的深情。我在你們這個年齡，是超級的一根筋，我的目標就是非成為物理學家不可。本科畢業(yè)后，我在加州大學伯克利分校又待了8年，讀完了研究 生，做完了博士后，然后去貝爾實驗室待了9年。在這些年中，我關(guān)注的中心和職業(yè)上的全部樂趣，都來自物理學。
Here is my final piece of advice. Pursuing a personal passion is important, but it should not be your only goal. When you are old and gray, and look back on your life, you will want to be proud of what you have done. The source of that pride won’t be the things you have acquired or the recognition you have received. It will be the lives you have touched and the difference you have made.
我還有最后一個忠告，興趣愛好固然重要，但是不應(yīng)是你的唯一目標。當你白發(fā)蒼蒼、垂垂老矣、回首人生時，你需要為自己做過的事感到自豪。你所獲得的物質(zhì)財富和得到的榮譽都不是自豪的源泉。只有那些受你影響、被你改變過的人和事，才會讓你感到自豪。
