If you err, may it be for too much audacity, and not too little. For you really are enough.
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Sue Monk Kidd
Scripps College Commencement, 2010, 2010
Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That's where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.
speech graduation courage
Sarah Heidt
Kenyon College Baccalaureate, 2010, 2010
Don't let yourself get comfortable. Avoid the comfort zone. Being uncomfortable will motivate you and cause you to grow faster.
speech graduation courage
Roger Goodell
UMass Lowell Commencement, 2010, 2010
If you have 50 years left, or 50 days left, or even 50 minutes left, it's never too late to become what you might have been.
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John Jacob Scherer
Roanoke College Commencement 2010, 2010
Listen to that inner voice. It's always a good move to listen to that inner voice... if it doesn't lead to a crime.
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Lisa Kudrow
Vassar College Commencement 2010, 2010
Creativity is a consequence of action, not its motivation. Do what needs to be done and then ask whether it was possible.
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Wade Davis
Colorado College Commencement 2010, 2010
Everyone is born an original, but sadly, most die copies.
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Cory Booker
Pitzer College Commencement 2010, 2010
For the most important decisions in your life, trust your intuition, and then work with everything you have, to prove it right.
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Tim Cook
Auburn University Commencement 2010, 2010
Without the possibility of failure, there is no possibility of success.
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Tim Cook
Auburn University Commencement 2010, 2010
Do something you're not ready to do. In pushing through that discomfort you'll learn a lot more about yourself. You'll learn to do something you didn't think you could do, or you'll learn where your limits are. Either is valuable.
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Marissa Mayer
Illinois Institute of Technology Commencement 2009, 2009
Great necessities call out great virtues. We live in a time of great necessities — a time when we cannot avoid the burdens of global leadership.
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Robert M. Gates
University of Georgia Commencement 2009, 2009
It is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition.
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Larry Page
University of Michigan Commencement 2009, 2009