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Denzel Washington's Life Changing Speech On Failure and Success
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1/17/2024
Denzel Washington's Motivational And Inspiring Commencement Speech At The University of Pennsylvania. Denzel shares his stories of failure, and how success is always just one failure away.
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You will fail at some point in your life except it you will lose you will embarrass yourself
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You will suck at something. There's no doubt about it. I was a 1.8 GPA
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One semester and the university very politely suggested that it might be better to take some time off. I
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Was 20 years old. I was at my lowest point, but here's the thing I
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didn't quit I
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Didn't fall back
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But I continued to fail and fail and fail but it didn't matter because you know, what there's an old saying
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You hang around the barbershop long enough sooner or later. You're gonna get a haircut
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So you will catch a break and I did catch a break
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Last year
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I did a play called fences on Broadway
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It was at the same theater that I failed that first audition 30 years prior
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Thomas Edison conducted 1,000 failed experiments. Did you know that? How do you know?
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Because the 1,000 and first was the light bulb
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Sometimes it's the best way to figure out where you're going never be discouraged
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Never hold back
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Give everything you got
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And when you fall throughout life
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Remember this
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All four
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