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Stop being this high school drop out

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Stop quiting stop sleeping on the streets

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Stop walking on the streets up and down...

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And get your GED

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Don't be afraid to take a test .

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Stop being afraid to go to college

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Because your parents didn't study

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I don't do well in math

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You're right, you ve never studied

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"i m not good in writing ..."

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That's right, because you ve never written before

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You can't get
through a writing class,

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and you've got tutor after tutor,
resource after resource.

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The problem is, you ain't never
felt no pain before; you're soft!

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It's a soft generation.
You quit on everything!

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You have to give it
everything you got.

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No more TV, no more partying,
no more playing.

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If you don't have a 4.0,
what you need to be doing is studying.

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You a sophomore; you like me;
"I'm just a sophomore."

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Or "I'm just a freshman,"
like, "I got time, you know,

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to put it in another year."
But you don't realize this--

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that the opportunity that you need
is in your sophomore year;

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it's not in your
senior year.

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Listen to me--
you running out of time!

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The next time you give
a low effort, right,

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you give a 70%
or a 50% or a 30%,

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I want you to think about
what you're thinking about

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when your effort
is low,

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and you're probably thinking
"I got to" versus "I get to."

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Listen to me!
If your effort is low,

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you're probably not thinking
about the opportunity;

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you're probably thinking
about the obligation.

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♪

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Because success
is allergic to average!

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Are you hearing
what I'm telling you?

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Success and average don't have
nothing to do with each other,

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so you can't say
you wanna be successful;

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you can't say
there are certain dreams and goals,

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and things you want to have,
and things you want to be,

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if you are still average!

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You've got to get to the point
where you get allergic to average;

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you don't think average;
you don't perform average.

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Success and average have absolutely
nothing to do together.

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This is what
I'm telling you.

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Your teacher
can't stand average!

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Nobody really
likes average.

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And a problem
with a lot of you

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is you not allergic
to average, alright?

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You gotta do me a huge favor, man--
you lying to yourself.

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On one point you said
you wanna be great;

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you wanna
do great things;

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you want to
have greatness;

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you want to
be great!

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Listen to me--
but on the other hand, for real!

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For real, you comfortable
with average!

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You cannot be average any longer--
why?

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Because average
attracts average.

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I am telling you
to be great,

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because when you are great,
you attract great.

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When you are average,
you attract average.

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So I need you to do me a favor--
I need you to get off average, right?

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I need you to get off average!

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You ain't got to rely on nobody
to get off average but you.

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I don't care what nobody else
in your family is doing.

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I don't care what
your teacher is doing.

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I don't care what's going on
in your school,

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what kind of school you have,
what kind of job you have.

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Just because the people
are average around you

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don't mean
you gotta be average.

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♪

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You either here
or you there.

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There's no middle ground.

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And so what I am telling you is
that you can't count the cost.

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When you want something bad,
you can't count the cost,

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because if you count the cost,
and you see how much it cost,

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you might quit;
you might give up.

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So you've got to go in knowing that
I don't count the cost.

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I do as many push-ups as it takes;
as many sit-ups as it takes;

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as many reps as it takes;
I study as long as it takes.

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I pay whatever the price is--
why?

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Because if I start
counting the cost,

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I might quit;
I might give up;

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I might surrender.

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Don't count the cost!

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You don't count the cost
on this one.

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You don't count the cost
on this one.

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You don't count the cost
on this one.

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You-- you just do what you've got to do
on this one,

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and then you look back
when it's all over

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and you see the reward.

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You look back
and you see the accomplish.

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You don't count it.

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You just look back
and you see that you succeeded.

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♪

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Everybody got a dream.
Everybody got a goal.

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What's the gap?

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If everybody got one,

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if everybody wake up
in the beginning of the year

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saying this is
their year,

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then why is it some people year
and not other people year?

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You know why?
I've said it before.

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It don't got nothing to do with
your dreams and goals.

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Everybody got a dream.
Everybody got a goal.

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The question is, when you
wake up in the morning,

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what effort are you
putting forth?

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Everybody with a dream and a goal
ain't giving 120.

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And some people might be
giving it on Monday,

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but they ain't giving it
on Tuesday.

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And some people giving it
a hundred and-- listen to me--

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120, seven days a week,
365 days.

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I want you to work on
your mind.

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For real, education is the most
important thing in your life.

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I didn't say degrees.

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I'm not just talking about going
to school and getting a degree.

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I'm talking about
getting knowledge.

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Knowledge is power!

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Information changes situation.

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