The way we spend our days is the way we spend our lives.
speech graduation discipline
Ari Weinzweig
University of Michigan Commencement 2015, 2015
The task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.
speech graduation creativity
John Seely Brown
Arizona State University Commencement 2015, 2015
The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it.
speech graduation technology
John Seely Brown
Arizona State University Commencement 2015, 2015
All happy companies are different because they're doing something very unique. All unhappy companies are alike because they failed to escape the essential sameness that is competition.
speech graduation entrepreneurship
Peter Thiel
Stanford University CS Lecture 2015, 2015
Don't always go through the tiny little door that everyone's trying to rush through. Maybe go around the corner and go through the vast gate that no one's taking.
speech graduation independence
Peter Thiel
Stanford University CS Lecture 2015, 2015
Achievement is wonderful when you know why you're doing it, and when you don't know, it can be a terrible trap.
speech graduation purpose
Natalie Portman
Harvard Senior Class Day 2015, 2015
Joy is not a choice, not a response to some result, it is a constant. Joy is the feeling we have from doing what we are fashioned to do, no matter the outcome.
speech graduation passion
Matthew McConaughey
University of Houston Commencement 2015, 2015
The first step that leads to our identity in life is usually not 'I know who I am.' It's 'I know who I am not.' Process of elimination.
speech graduation self discovery
Matthew McConaughey
University of Houston Commencement 2015, 2015
We are linked, we are not ranked. We are linked with each other, we are linked with nature. And the paradigm becomes a circle, not a pyramid.
speech graduation justice
Gloria Steinem
Bennington College Commencement 2015, 2015
It's time to say goodbye to the person we've become, we've worked so hard to perfect, and to make some decisions about who we're going to be.
speech graduation self discovery
Stephen Colbert
Wake Forest University Commencement 2015, 2015
If I had known my own limitations, I never would have taken the risk. And the risk led to one of my greatest personal and professional achievements.
speech graduation courage
Natalie Portman
Harvard University Commencement 2015, 2015
Your fulfillment in life will not come from how well you explore your freedom and keep your options open. Your fulfillment in life will come by how well you end your freedom. Your primary mission in life is to be really good at making commitments.
speech graduation purpose
David Brooks
Dartmouth College Commencement 2015, 2015