Intuition is critical in virtually everything you do, but without relentless preparation and execution, it is meaningless.
speech graduation discipline
Tim Cook
Auburn University Commencement 2010, 2010
Trust your intuition and then work with everything you have to prove it right.
speech graduation passion
Tim Cook
Auburn University Commencement 2010, 2010
Let your joy be in your journey — not in some distant goal.
speech graduation purpose
Tim Cook
Auburn University Commencement 2010, 2010
A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste.
speech graduation education
Sandra Soto
University of Arizona Commencement 2010, 2010
Education has a public value. Your education will not only bring you a bigger paycheck. It will enable you to be a better fellow citizen, more productive, better able to participate in solving the challenges I and my peers have not been able to conquer.
speech graduation education
Sandra Soto
University of Arizona Commencement 2010, 2010
Our education is under attack — what do we do? Fight back.
speech graduation education
Sandra Soto
University of Arizona Commencement 2010, 2010
In dreams begin responsibility.
speech graduation ambition
Michael Oren
Brandeis University Commencement 2010, 2010
Dreaming during turbulent times indeed takes courage, but an even greater valor is required once those dreams are fulfilled.
speech graduation courage
Michael Oren
Brandeis University Commencement 2010, 2010
Do not let any obstacles — personal, political, or economic — impede you. And once you've fulfilled your dreams, know that that is when you're liable to confront the greatest challenges. But so, too, may you derive the privilege of service.
speech graduation perseverance
Michael Oren
Brandeis University Commencement 2010, 2010
We should define the world by its opportunities rather than by its dangers.
speech graduation wisdom
Jeffrey Sachs
Connecticut College Commencement 2010, 2010
Our problems are manmade — therefore, they can be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
speech graduation resilience
Jeffrey Sachs
Connecticut College Commencement 2010, 2010
Life is harsh and sometimes even ruthless. Only the tough survive. That is one strand of thinking. The other says: humankind is a species of designers, problem solvers, and seekers. We don't have to accept our follies and our missteps.
speech graduation wisdom
Jeffrey Sachs
Connecticut College Commencement 2010, 2010