Every step is a first step. Every brushstroke is a test. Every scene is a lesson. Every shot is a school. So let the learning continue.
speech graduation growth
Martin Scorsese
NYU Tisch School of the Arts Commencement 2014, 2014
The only way you'll reach any height in life and in love is by taking the chance that you might fall. You have to give your all.
speech graduation courage
John Legend
University of Pennsylvania Commencement 2014, 2014
You can be as insecure as you want in your life, but just promise me you'll leave that insecurity out of your work. Just know, you're good enough.
speech graduation courage
Jennifer Lee
University of New Hampshire Commencement 2014, 2014
When you get a regular job, you start acting like regular people. And if you graduate from Emerson, you are not a regular person.
speech graduation authenticity
Jay Leno
Emerson College Commencement 2014, 2014
If what you want is different than what you have, then you need to change what you are doing.
speech graduation courage
Alex Smith
University of Utah Commencement 2014, 2014
If you want to change the world, you must be your very best in the darkest moment.
speech graduation courage
Admiral William H. McRaven
University of Texas at Austin Commencement 2014, 2014
When you try hard at everything you do, even if it feels utterly foolish to do so, you're opening up future doors and possibilities that you might not be seeing in the moment.
speech graduation perseverance
Ed Helms
Cornell University Commencement 2014, 2014
When you achieve your dreams, it's not so much what you get — it's who you become.
speech graduation growth
Diana Nyad
Middlebury College Commencement 2014, 2014
I couldn't have done it a fingernail faster. I didn't leave a fingernail in that pool.
speech graduation discipline
Diana Nyad
Middlebury College Commencement 2014, 2014
What is it you're doing with this one wild and precious life of yours?
speech graduation mortality
Diana Nyad
Middlebury College Commencement 2014, 2014
If you're the kind of person who finds the most interesting thing in the world to you is something you don't know, you're probably in the right place.
speech graduation curiosity
David Carr
UC Berkeley School of Journalism Commencement 2014, 2014
If you're the kind of person who is scared and courageous at the same time, you might end up doing big things.
speech graduation courage
David Carr
UC Berkeley School of Journalism Commencement 2014, 2014