We are too experienced and too well educated to lead our lives as puppets. We cannot afford to listen silently then nod our heads and move on.
speech graduation courage
Anita L. DeFrantz
Connecticut College Commencement 2004, 2004
Love what you do. Get good at it. Competence is a rare commodity in this day and age. And let the chips fall where they may.
speech graduation passion
Jon Stewart
College of William & Mary Commencement 2004, 2004
The best commencement speech I can give you is: We broke it. But here's the good news — you fix it, and it's going to be a heck of a lot of fun.
speech graduation responsibility
Jon Stewart
College of William & Mary Commencement 2004, 2004
We need our fear in order to find our love. They go together. Yin and Yang.
speech graduation love
Paul Michael Glaser
Stanford University School of Medicine Commencement 2004, 2004
It's not deadly to ask stupid questions. What's deadly is to not ask the right question at the right time.
speech graduation curiosity
Elias A. Zerhouni
MIT Commencement 2004, 2004
You cannot put a full life in a small dream box. What you need is to have a dream box that is as full as the potential you have today.
speech graduation ambition
Elias A. Zerhouni
MIT Commencement 2004, 2004
Pick a company or organization that is dedicated to helping humanity. Then your life will be dedicated to a worthy cause.
speech graduation purpose
Earl Bakken
University of Hawaii Commencement 2004, 2004
The future is not fixed, it's fluid. You can build your own building, or hut or condo, whatever.
speech graduation purpose
Bono
University of Pennsylvania Commencement 2004, 2004
We need our fear in order to find our love. They go together.
speech graduation courage
Paul Michael Glaser
Stanford School of Medicine Commencement 2004, 2004
Learn to love the process of revision — in your writing and in your life. Don't be afraid of the editing.
speech graduation growth
Wally Lamb
Connecticut College Commencement 2003, 2003
When you teach, you learn that you are the other. That the distance between us is not as great as we fear.
speech graduation empathy
Wally Lamb
Connecticut College Commencement 2003, 2003
Never give up, never, never give up! Because the only person that can stop you is — YOU!
speech graduation perseverance
Yvonne Thornton
Tuskegee University Commencement 2003, 2003