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Stop being this high school drop out
Stop quiting stop sleeping on the streets
Stop walking on the streets up and down...
And get your GED
Don't be afraid to take a test .
Stop being afraid to go to college
Because your parents didn't study
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I don't do well in math
You're right, you ve never studied
"i m not good in writing ..."
That's right, because you ve never written before
You can't get through a writing class,
and you've got tutor after tutor, resource after resource.
The problem is, you ain't never felt no pain before; you're soft!
It's a soft generation. You quit on everything!
You have to give it everything you got.
No more TV, no more partying, no more playing.
If you don't have a 4.0, what you need to be doing is studying.
You a sophomore; you like me; "I'm just a sophomore."
Or "I'm just a freshman," like, "I got time, you know,
to put it in another year." But you don't realize this--
that the opportunity that you need is in your sophomore year;
it's not in your senior year.
Listen to me-- you running out of time!
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The next time you give a low effort, right,
you give a 70% or a 50% or a 30%,
I want you to think about what you're thinking about
when your effort is low,
and you're probably thinking "I got to" versus "I get to."
Listen to me! If your effort is low,
you're probably not thinking about the opportunity;
you're probably thinking about the obligation.
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Because success is allergic to average!
Are you hearing what I'm telling you?
Success and average don't have nothing to do with each other,
so you can't say you wanna be successful;
you can't say there are certain dreams and goals,
and things you want to have, and things you want to be,
if you are still average!
You've got to get to the point where you get allergic to average;
you don't think average; you don't perform average.
Success and average have absolutely nothing to do together.
This is what I'm telling you.
Your teacher can't stand average!
Nobody really likes average.
And a problem with a lot of you
is you not allergic to average, alright?
You gotta do me a huge favor, man-- you lying to yourself.
On one point you said you wanna be great;
you wanna do great things;
you want to have greatness;
you want to be great!
Listen to me-- but on the other hand, for real!
For real, you comfortable with average!
You cannot be average any longer-- why?
Because average attracts average.
I am telling you to be great,
because when you are great, you attract great.
When you are average, you attract average.
So I need you to do me a favor-- I need you to get off average, right?
I need you to get off average!
You ain't got to rely on nobody to get off average but you.
I don't care what nobody else in your family is doing.
I don't care what your teacher is doing.
I don't care what's going on in your school,
what kind of school you have, what kind of job you have.
Just because the people are average around you
don't mean you gotta be average.
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You either here or you there.
There's no middle ground.
And so what I am telling you is that you can't count the cost.
When you want something bad, you can't count the cost,
because if you count the cost, and you see how much it cost,
you might quit; you might give up.
So you've got to go in knowing that I don't count the cost.
I do as many push-ups as it takes; as many sit-ups as it takes;
as many reps as it takes; I study as long as it takes.
I pay whatever the price is-- why?
Because if I start counting the cost,
I might quit; I might give up;
I might surrender.
Don't count the cost!
You don't count the cost on this one.
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You don't count the cost on this one.
You-- you just do what you've got to do on this one,
and then you look back when it's all over
and you see the reward.
You look back and you see the accomplish.
You don't count it.
You just look back and you see that you succeeded.
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Everybody got a dream. Everybody got a goal.
What's the gap?
If everybody got one,
if everybody wake up in the beginning of the year
saying this is their year,
then why is it some people year and not other people year?
You know why? I've said it before.
It don't got nothing to do with your dreams and goals.
Everybody got a dream. Everybody got a goal.
The question is, when you wake up in the morning,
what effort are you putting forth?
Everybody with a dream and a goal ain't giving 120.
And some people might be giving it on Monday,
but they ain't giving it on Tuesday.
And some people giving it a hundred and-- listen to me--
120, seven days a week, 365 days.
I want you to work on your mind.
For real, education is the most important thing in your life.
I didn't say degrees.
I'm not just talking about going to school and getting a degree.
I'm talking about getting knowledge.
Knowledge is power!
Information changes situation.
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