It is much easier to describe the structural challenges we face than to describe the human response to those challenges that will change history.
speech graduation resilience
Fareed Zakaria
Bates College Commencement 2009, 2009
The best way to deal with most difficulties and challenges is to see them as opportunities to help us grow—lessons that are presented to us to help us go further than we have gone before.
speech graduation resilience
John Mackey
Bentley College Commencement 2008, 2008
A Conscious Business has a deeper purpose beyond only making profits. Just like individual people, by following their hearts, can discover their own sense of deeper purpose, so can the business enterprise.
speech graduation purpose
John Mackey
Bentley College Commencement 2008, 2008
Who am I, really? All of us have easy public answers to the identity question. But we also know, deep inside, that these are just the superficial, transitory expressions of who we are.
speech graduation self discovery
Clayborne Carson
Niagara University Commencement 2008, 2008
Your passion must come from the things that fill you from the inside.
speech graduation passion
Randy Pausch
Carnegie Mellon University Commencement 2008, 2008
Time is not money. Time is time. When your time is over, you will be remembered for what you did, not for what you never got around to doing.
speech graduation purpose
Billy Collins
Colorado College Commencement 2008, 2008
If we stop remembering, we stop being.
speech graduation legacy
Alice Greenwald
Sarah Lawrence College Commencement 2007, 2007
The barrier to change is not too little caring. It is too much complexity.
speech graduation empathy
Bill Gates
Harvard University Commencement 2007, 2007
Art is an irreplaceable way of understanding and expressing the world, equal to but distinct from scientific and conceptual methods.
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Dana Gioia
Stanford University Commencement 2007, 2007
The real purpose of arts education is to create complete human beings capable of leading successful and productive lives in a free society.
speech graduation arts
Dana Gioia
Stanford 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.
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Larry Bock
UC Berkeley College of Chemistry Commencement 2007, 2007
The thing you fear most in this life is the thing you will become when you grow old.
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Paul Hamer
Park Tudor School Commencement 2007, 2007