The most sophisticated and intelligent people I know are the ones willing to challenge their thinking and admit there's more to learn.
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Brad Meltzer
University of Michigan Commencement 2024, 2024
Life will absolutely not be what you think it will be. It will be hard and wonderful and messy and rewarding, with more versions of you than you think possible.
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Brad Meltzer
University of Michigan Commencement 2024, 2024
The real questions are: Am I getting better as a person? And is what I'm doing bringing me and the ones around me happiness?
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John McEnroe
Stanford University Commencement, 2023
I learned not to be disillusioned by failure, not to be burdened by perfection, and not to be intimidated by greatness.
failure resilience perseverance
John McEnroe
Stanford University Commencement, 2023
Measure your success by how much you evolve, not necessarily how much you win.
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John McEnroe
Stanford University Commencement, 2023
If you want to cross the river of life, you're gonna get wet. And that's not a bug — that's a feature.
failure resilience growth
Mark Rober
MIT Commencement 2023, 2023
Embrace your inexperience and keep taking leaps forward.
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Mark Rober
MIT Commencement 2023, 2023
Learning how to fall teaches you how to land, and learning to land gives you the courage to jump higher.
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Michelle Yeoh
Harvard Law School Class Day 2023, 2023
My experience has been that my mistakes led to the best things in my life. And being embarrassed when you mess up, it's part of the human experience. Getting back up, dusting yourself off and seeing who still wants to hang out with you afterward and laugh about it, that's a gift.
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Taylor Swift
New York University Commencement 2022, 2022
Hard things will happen to us. We will recover. We will learn from it. We will grow more resilient because of it. And as long as we are fortunate enough to be breathing, we will breathe in, breathe through, breathe deep, breathe out.
speech graduation resilience
Taylor Swift
New York University Commencement 2022, 2022
My experience has been that my mistakes led to the best things in my life. And being embarrassed when you mess up is part of the human experience. Getting back up, dusting yourself off, and seeing who still wants to hang out with you afterward and laugh about it — that's a gift.
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Taylor Swift
New York University Commencement 2022, 2022
Losing things doesn't just mean losing. A lot of the time, when we lose things, we gain things too.
speech graduation resilience
Taylor Swift
New York University Commencement 2022, 2022