Insist that we support science and the arts, especially the arts. They have nothing to do with the actual defense of our country — they just make our country worth defending.
speech graduation arts
Ken Burns
Georgetown University Commencement 2006, 2006
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
passion career perseverance
Steve Jobs
Stanford University Commencement, 2005
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
authenticity independence courage
Steve Jobs
Stanford University Commencement, 2005
Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive.
speech graduation spirituality
David Foster Wallace
Kenyon College Commencement 2005, 2005
The story of your lives will be the story of your struggle to be true to the ideas you believe in.
speech graduation purpose
Kofi Annan
Penn State Commencement 2005, 2005
To make a difference in this world, you must be involved. By serving a higher calling here or abroad, you'll make your lives richer and build a more hopeful future for our world.
speech graduation purpose
George W. Bush
Calvin College Commencement 2005, 2005
Process without purpose is pretty much the definition of bureaucracy. Never let the how get in the way of the what.
speech graduation leadership
David L. Calhoun
Virginia Tech Commencement 2005, 2005
The world needs a leading nation, or group of nations, that can reassure, inspire hope, and offer fresh perspectives and new directions.
speech graduation leadership
Njabulo S. Ndebele
Wesleyan University 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 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.
speech graduation creativity
Paul Michael Glaser
Stanford School of Medicine Commencement 2004, 2004