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We are too experienced and too well educated to lead our lives as puppets. We cannot afford to listen silently then nod our heads and move on.
speech graduation courage

Anita L. DeFrantz

Connecticut College Commencement 2004, 2004

Love what you do. Get good at it. Competence is a rare commodity in this day and age. And let the chips fall where they may.
speech graduation passion

Jon Stewart

College of William & Mary Commencement 2004, 2004

The best commencement speech I can give you is: We broke it. But here's the good news — you fix it, and it's going to be a heck of a lot of fun.
speech graduation responsibility

Jon Stewart

College of William & Mary Commencement 2004, 2004

We need our fear in order to find our love. They go together. Yin and Yang.
speech graduation love

Paul Michael Glaser

Stanford University School of Medicine Commencement 2004, 2004

It's not deadly to ask stupid questions. What's deadly is to not ask the right question at the right time.
speech graduation curiosity

Elias A. Zerhouni

MIT Commencement 2004, 2004

You cannot put a full life in a small dream box. What you need is to have a dream box that is as full as the potential you have today.
speech graduation ambition

Elias A. Zerhouni

MIT Commencement 2004, 2004

Pick a company or organization that is dedicated to helping humanity. Then your life will be dedicated to a worthy cause.
speech graduation purpose

Earl Bakken

University of Hawaii Commencement 2004, 2004

The future is not fixed, it's fluid. You can build your own building, or hut or condo, whatever.
speech graduation purpose

Bono

University of Pennsylvania Commencement 2004, 2004

We need our fear in order to find our love. They go together.
speech graduation courage

Paul Michael Glaser

Stanford School of Medicine Commencement 2004, 2004

Learn to love the process of revision — in your writing and in your life. Don't be afraid of the editing.
speech graduation growth

Wally Lamb

Connecticut College Commencement 2003, 2003

When you teach, you learn that you are the other. That the distance between us is not as great as we fear.
speech graduation empathy

Wally Lamb

Connecticut College Commencement 2003, 2003

Never give up, never, never give up! Because the only person that can stop you is — YOU!
speech graduation perseverance

Yvonne Thornton

Tuskegee University Commencement 2003, 2003