Whatever you end up doing in this life, make sure above all that it's interesting. Because most likely you're going to spend a third of the rest of your life working for a living. And if what you do bores you, that means you're going to spend a third of the rest of your life being bored.
speech graduation passion
Terry Teachout
Rollins College Hamilton Holt School Commencement 2011, 2011
The world is hungry for professionalism. If you're professional and they're not — if you show up on time every morning and get the job done and they show up two hours later spouting clever excuses — then nine times out of ten, you will win and they will lose.
speech graduation discipline
Terry Teachout
Rollins College Hamilton Holt School Commencement 2011, 2011
There's a lesson in this: never start out asking for someone you'd eventually settle for.
speech graduation ambition
Terry Teachout
Rollins College Hamilton Holt School Commencement 2011, 2011