If you look at the science about what is happening on earth and aren't pessimistic, you don't understand data. But if you meet the people who are working to restore this earth and you aren't optimistic, you haven't got a pulse.
speech graduation resilience
Paul Hawken
University of Portland Commencement 2009, 2009
A new vision of the American dream that says achieving balance in your life is more important than the balance in your checking account.
speech graduation balance
Chris Gardner
UC Berkeley Commencement 2009, 2009
We push ourselves through the week to get to the weekend. We have become 2/7ths people, only really living 2 days out of the 7 in a week. Things can be different. We can become 7/7ths people. And thereby become whole.
speech graduation balance
Jonathan Youshaei
Deerfield High School Commencement 2009, 2009
You don't need so much stuff to fill your life when you have people in it.
speech graduation relationships
Barbara Kingsolver
Duke University Commencement 2008, 2008
Find ways to make work seem like play, or perhaps make play into something that you get paid to do.
speech graduation passion
Clayborne Carson
Niagara University Commencement 2008, 2008
A rich life is a balanced life. Don't focus too early on your career. Deviate a bit. Embrace change.
speech graduation balance
Larry Lucchino
Boston University Commencement 2008, 2008
There is one place you should not fail. That's with your family and your children.
speech graduation relationships
John Doerr
Rice University Commencement 2007, 2007
Most people are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be. Delaying happiness along with gratification is quite another thing, because each milestone along your path ought to have its own form of happiness.
speech graduation gratitude
Larry Bock
UC Berkeley College of Chemistry Commencement 2007, 2007
Between chutzpah and humility lies success. The biggest killer of a good mind is to stick it in a fat head.
speech graduation humility
Larry Bock
UC Berkeley College of Chemistry Commencement 2007, 2007
Make choices that will make you happy for a long time, rather than just focusing on the next two seconds.
speech graduation wisdom
Ray Sidney
Edwin O. Smith High School Commencement 2007, 2007
With hard work you can achieve great goals, but also know that there's more to life than just your career. If all you ever do is work, you will regret it.
speech graduation balance
Ray Sidney
Edwin O. Smith High School Commencement 2007, 2007
Ease up on yourselves. Have some compassion for yourself as well as for others. There's no such thing as perfection, and life is not a race.
speech graduation empathy
Doug Marlette
Durham Academy Commencement 2005, 2005