My favorite animal is the turtle. The reason is that in order for the turtle to move, it has to stick its neck out. There are going to be times in your life when you're going to have to stick your neck out.
Ruth Westheimer
Trinity College Commencement, 2004, 2004
It really is better to fail than not to try, because if you never try, you'll never succeed, and as bad as failure feels, success feels so much better.
Ruth Westheimer
Trinity College Commencement, 2004, 2004
It's not a cause, that's an emergency. And when the disease gets out of control because most of the population lives on less than one dollar a day — that's not a cause, that's an emergency.
Bono
University of Pennsylvania Commencement 2004, 2004
When we experience our fear, when we say the words 'I am scared,' we have the choice, the ability to acknowledge that being scared is not who we are. It is not our identity.
Paul Michael Glaser
Stanford School of Medicine Commencement 2004, 2004
We live to commune. We live to create. Our enduring biological and spiritual drive is to create, to live in the act of becoming. It is not a choice. It is our experience of our existence.
Paul Michael Glaser
Stanford School of Medicine Commencement 2004, 2004
You've got to want to do whatever you want to do more than you want to be whatever you want to be. Want to write more than you want to be a writer. Want to heal more than you want to be a doctor.
Bradley Whitford
University of Wisconsin-Madison Commencement 2004, 2004
Action is the antidote to apathy and cynicism and despair. At the end of your days, you will be judged by your gallop, not by your stumble.
Bradley Whitford
University of Wisconsin-Madison Commencement 2004, 2004
Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love.
Bradley Whitford
University of Wisconsin-Madison Commencement 2004, 2004
Excellence is the antidote to racism, sexism and nepotism. The harder you work, the luckier you become. What is luck? Luck is when opportunity meets preparation.
Yvonne Thornton
Tuskegee University Commencement 2003, 2003
If you are educated, if you are a doctor with those stethoscopes hanging around your neck, people may not want to come to see you, but they will have to come to see you because you have a skill and knowledge.
Yvonne Thornton
Tuskegee University Commencement 2003, 2003
History tells us that modern science evolved from the visual arts. Observational science started with the visual arts. Galileo's first publication was not on a scientific matter. He wrote a monograph on perspective, on shadow and light.
Jean Andrews
University of Texas at Austin Commencement 2003, 2003
My life needed a challenge, so in 1973, at age 50, I determined to get a Ph.D. They don't call them doctors for nothing. Getting a Ph.D. is painful.
Jean Andrews
University of Texas at Austin Commencement 2003, 2003