Les Brown Motivation(You've Gotta BE HUNGRY!!)

When I was fifth grade,
I identified as mentally retarded.

put back from the fifth grade into the fourth grade
and stayed in that category until I got out of high school.

I don't have any college training.

But I met a high schedule teacher who one day changed my life

I was waiting on another student
and when he came in, he said to me.

"Young man. go to the board and write what I'm about to tell you"

And I said. "I can't do that. sir"

and he said "why not?"

I said. "I'm not one of your students"

He said. "it doesn't matter. Follow my directions now"

I said "I can't do that. sir"

and he said "why not?"

I said. "because I'm educable metally retarded" (*retarded: 지능발달이 늦은/ retard:  더디게 하다. 늦어지다)

and he came from behind his desk and he looked at me.

He said.
"Don't ever say that again.
someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality"

And as he talked, my heart began to beat fast. (beat: 뛰다.)

tears began to run from my eyes and I was in the back.
just listening to him.
because the speech he was giving, that speech was for me.

and he said
"Les Brown.
if you want to do anything worthwhile in life,
you've got to be hungry!"

I told him.
"Mister Washington.
I wanted to become a disk jockey."

and so I started working to develop myself

He said
"I want you to practice everyday being a disk jockey."

I said
"but I don't have any job now"

He said
"It doesn't matter."

He said that
it's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one
than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

and as I was working to develop myself.

I applied for a job as a disk jocky. WNB on Miami beach.
I went to a guy named Milton Butterball
I said.
"How (are) you doing. Mister Butterball?
I'd like to get a job as a disk jockey."

He looked at me.
he said.
"Do you have any broadcast background?"

I said. "No. sir. I don't"

He said
"Do you have any journalism background?"

I said. "No. sir. I don't"

He said "we don't have any jobs available"

I said "Yes. sir"

I went back to Mister Washing and I told him.

He said. "Don't take it personally"

He said.
"Most people are so negative,
they will have to say no seven times before they say yes"

He said.
"Go back again."

So, I went back again.

I said.
"How you doing, Mister Butterball?
My name is Les Brown."

He said.
"I know what  your name is. What do you want?"

I said
"I'd like to know whether or not
you have any jobs as a disk jockey, sir"

He said
"Didn't I just tell you yesterday. we didn't have any jobs?"

I said
"Yes. sir. but I did't know wheter or not
somebody got laid off or somebody was fired. sir"

He said.
"No one was laid off or fired, Now. Get on out of here."

I came back the next day like I was seeing him for the first time.

I said "Hello. Mister Butterball. How are you?"

He looked at me with rage. He said. "Go get me some coffee!" (rage: 분노, 격렬, 격분)

I said "Yes, Sir!"

And I went to get him some coffee.

After a while I would get their lunch and dinner
and I would go in the control rooms and I would take the disk jockeys there food
and I would not leave until they would ask me to leave.

One saturday afternoon while I was at the radio station,
a guy name Rock was drinking while he was on the air.

I was the only one there,
looking at him through the control room windows,
walking back and forth.
young, ready, and hungry.

pretty soon the phone rang, and it was the general manager.

And I answered the phone, I said "hello?"

He said "Les, this is Mister Kline"

I said "I know"

He said "Rock can't finish his program."

I said "I know"

He said, "would you call one of the other DJs in?"

I said "Yes, sir."

I hung the phone up. I said "Now he must be think I'm crazy"
(*hang up the phone : 전화를 끊다)

I called my momma and my girl friend Cassandra.

I said
"ya'll turn up the radio and come out on the front porch
(ya'll = you all/ porch: 현관)

I'm about to come on the air."

I waited for about 20 minutes, and I called him back.

I said " Mister Kline, I can't find nobody"

He said
"Young boy, do you know how to work the controls?"

I said "Yes, sir."

He said
"Go in there and don't say nothing here."

I said "Yes, sir."

I could't wait to get behind those controls.

I put on a old Steve Wonder record called Fingertips
(fingertip: 손가락 끝/ 골무)

I sat down behind that turntable

I said
"Look out! this is me. LB Tripple-P, Les Brown,
Your platter-playing popper.
(Platter: 대형접시/ 레코드음반/
popper: 권총/ 펑하고 소리를 내는 사람/ 으스대는 사람/ 잘난척 하는 사람)

There were none before me
and there will be none after me.
therefore that makes me the one and only.

Young and single and love to mingle,
(mingle: 어울리다. 섞이다)

certified, bona fide, indubitably qualified to brink you satisfaction
(보증되고, 진실되며, 만족시킬 확실한 자격이 있으며,)
(bona fide: 선의의, 진정, 성실한/
indubitably: 의심할 여지가 없이, 분명하게
brink: 위기/ 직전/ 벼랑)

a whole lot of action. Look out baby. I'm your love man."

I was hungry!

I was hungry!

You gotta be hungry!!

Begin to know that you have greatness within you,
and if just one of you here began to envision yourselves
as being blessed and highly favored to reach your goals,
(envision: 상상하다/ 마음에 그리다/ 계획하다)
(favor: 선호하다/ 찬성하다)

if just one of you captured the essence of what that means,
(capture: 잡다/ 포착하다)
(essence: 본질/ 핵심/ 정수)

that you have greatness in you and
a responsibility to manifest that greatness.
(manifest: 나타나다/ 분명하게 하다/ 명백한/ 분명한)

That you can make your parents proud,
you can make your school proud,
you can touch millions of people's lives.
and the world will never be the same again.
because you came this way.

and I was facing financial difficulties in my own life,
It was very difficult to pick myself up each day
believing that I can do it.
(pick up: 회복하다/ 들다/ 좋아지다)

There were times that I doubted myself.

I used to ask myself. "Can I do this?"

and something said within me,
"You're the one. Don't give up on your dream."

"By continuing to push forward,
By continuing to run toward my dream,
that one day I would have my own talk show."

From Liberty city in an abandoned building on a floor,
never knowing my mother or father.
Being here in with you today in this dome in Atlanta,
It's a long shot. (어림도 없습니다./ 승산이 없습니다.)

No college training,
labeled educable metally retarded,
but I kept running toward my dream.

Don't Stop!!
Don't Stop!!