NBC首席记者Tim Russert 在哈佛大学2005年毕业纪念日上的演讲
Steve Jobs'speech in Standford University in 2005
Steve Jobs' legendary speech at Stanford University in 2005乔布斯经典演说(斯坦福大学, 2005)Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Inc, delivered commencement address at Stanford University on June 12, 2005.Apple Inc co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs died on Wednesday at the age of 56一代苹果教主史蒂夫·乔布斯(Steve Jobs)悄然辞世,全世界都在悼念这位离经叛道的天才人物。
下面让我们回顾乔布斯在斯坦福大学2005年毕业典礼上的经典演讲,从中领会他对梦想、成功和人生的感悟:I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories. 我今天很荣幸能够参加你们的毕业典礼,斯坦福大学是世界顶级名校之一。
我大学没有毕业。
说实话,此刻也许是我生命中最贴近大学毕业的体验了。
今天我想向你们讲述我生活中的三个故事。
不是什么大不了的事情,只是三个故事而已。
The first story is about connecting the dots. 第一个故事是关于如何把生命中的点点滴滴串连起来。
乔布斯在斯坦福大学2005年6月毕业典礼上的演讲
乔布斯在斯坦福大学2005年6月毕业典礼上的演讲我17岁的时候曾经听过一句话:“把每一天当做你生命中的最后一天来对待,总有一天你会成功。
”这句话深深打动了我,从那之后的33年里,我每天早晨都会对着镜子问自己,如果这是我生命中的最后一天,我是否会做自己想做的事?尽管大多数时候的答案都是“不”,但我知道,我必须做出一些改变!每当我想做出重大决定的时候,我都会用自己将不久于人世这个信息来激励斗志。
因为当你面对死亡的时候,无论别人对你有多大的期望,你有多么傲人的成绩,又或是你出过多大的丑,都不重要。
那时,你真正需要考虑的是那些最重要的事。
清楚知道你剩下的日子,你就会明白应该大胆尝试,无论这条路有多难。
既然即将失去你最宝贵的生命,那为什么不趁机好好成全一下自己呢?大约一年前,我被诊断出癌症。
早上7点半,我做了一次检查,清楚地显示出胰腺上长了个肿瘤。
在那之前,我甚至不知道胰腺是什么东西。
医生告诉我这种癌症几乎无法治愈,而我应该只剩下3到6个月的生命。
他们建议我回家好好休息并安排好所有事,意思就是说我离死不远了。
我需要把自己在未来10年想和孩子们说的话,在这短短几个月里全说完。
也意味着我需要把家里的事情交代清楚,不会遗留下麻烦,同时,我也是时候和好友告别了。
傍晚时分,我接受了一次活组织切片检查。
他们从喉咙插入内窥镜,通过我的胃进入肠子里,然后在胰腺上扎了一针,取出一些肿瘤细胞。
我很冷静,但是当时陪着我的妻子告诉我说,当医生在显微镜下观察细胞时,他们兴奋地尖叫了起来。
因为我所患的是一种极罕见的能通过手术治愈的胰腺癌。
于是,我做了手术,现在康复了!这是我与死神离得最近的一次,也希望我这未来几十年里不要再有这样的事发生。
经过这次磨难,我可以更加肯定地告诉你们,死亡是一个很有用且很考验人的讯息:没人想死,即使有人认为死后可以上天堂。
但其实,死亡是每个人共同的终点。
这就是生命的规律。
死亡很可能是生命中最好的发明,它是生命的促变者,它送走老一代,给新一代开出道路。
SteveJobs斯坦福大学2005年毕业典礼上的演讲稿(中英版)
SteveJobs斯坦福大学2005年毕业典礼上的演讲稿(中英版)第一篇:Steve Jobs斯坦福大学2005年毕业典礼上的演讲稿(中英版)Steve Jobs斯坦福大学2005年毕业典礼上的演讲稿(中英版)每次听他的演讲都受益良多没有什么大道理,只有真正感化你的小故事,一直引导我走向我真确的人生。
演讲最打动我的并不是最后的“求知若饥,虚心若愚”,而是“你只有相信自己所做的是伟大的工作, 你才能怡然自得。
如果你现在还没有找到, 那么继续找、不要停下来,只要全心全意的去找, 在你找到的时候,你的心会告诉你的。
就像任何真诚的关系, 随着岁月的流逝只会越来越紧密。
所以继续找,直到你找到它,不要停下来!”This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world.I never graduated from college.Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation.Today I want to tell you three stories from my life.That's it.No big deal.Just three stories.The first story is about connecting the dots.I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit.So why did I drop out?It started before I was born.My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption.She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife.Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they reallywanted a girl.So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: “We have an unexpected baby boy;do you want him?” They said: “Of course.” My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school.She refused to sign the final adoption papers.She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.And 17 years later I did go to college.But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition.After six months, I couldn't see the value in it.I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life.So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK.It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made.The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.It wasn't all romantic.I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple.I loved it.And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.Let me give you one example:Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed.Because I had dropped out and didn't have to takethe normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this.I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great.It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life.But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me.And we designed it all into the Mac.It was the first computer with beautiful typography.If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts.And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them.If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do.Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college.But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward;you can only connect them looking backwards.So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.You have to trust in something —your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.My second story is about love and loss.I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life.Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20.We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30.And then I got fired.How can you getfired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well.But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out.When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him.So at 30 I was out.And very publicly out.What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.I really didn't know what to do for a few months.I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs downthese things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.You are already naked.There is no reason not to follow your heart.About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer.I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas.I didn't even know what a pancreas was.The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months.My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die.It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months.It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family.It means to say your goodbyes.I lived with that diagnosis all ter that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor.I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rareform of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery.I had the surgery and I'm fine now.This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades.Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:No one wants to die.Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there.And yet death is the destination we all share.No one has ever escaped it.And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life.It is Life's change agent.It clears out the old to make way for the new.Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away.Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.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.Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.They somehow already know what you truly want to become.Everything else is secondary.When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation.It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch.This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras.It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.Stewart and his team put out several issues of The WholeEarth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue.It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age.On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous.Beneath it were the words: “Stay Hungry.Stay Foolish.” It was their far ewell message as they signed off.Stay Hungry.Stay Foolish.And I have always wished that for myself.And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.Stay Hungry.Stay Foolish.Thank you all very much 史蒂夫乔布斯(Steve Jobs)在斯坦福大学2005年毕业典礼上的演讲我今天很荣幸能和你们一起参加毕业典礼,斯坦福大学是世界上最好的大学之一。
乔布斯2005年在斯坦福大学的演讲稿
Steve Jobs’ Outstanding Stanford Commencement Speech in 2005 I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. Truth be told, I never graduated from college. this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a c ollege graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That’s it. No big deal. Just three stories.The first story is about connecting the dots.I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: “We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?” They said: “Of course.” My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused tosign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents’ savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn’t see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn’t interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked far more interesting.It wasn’t all romantic. I didn’t have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends’ rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example: Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, everylabel on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn’t have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can’t capture, and I found it fascinating.None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots willsomehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.My second story is about love and loss.I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.I really didn’t know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down –that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley.But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple’s current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.I’m pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn’t been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find what you l ove. And that is as truefor your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking. Don’t settle.My third story is about death.When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror ev ery morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything —all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you havesomething to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn’t even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor’s code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you’d have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and thankfully I’m fine now.This was the closest I’ve been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.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. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960′s,before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and Polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: “Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.” It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.Thank you all very much.。
乔布斯2005年在斯坦福大学地演讲稿子(中英文).docx
史蒂夫乔布斯2005 年 6 月在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs saysThis is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of AppleComputer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finestuniversities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is theclosest I've ever gotten to a college graduation.Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.你必须要找到你所爱的东西很荣幸和大家一道参加这所世界上最好的一座大学的毕业典礼。
我大学没毕业,说实话,这是我第一次离大学毕业典礼这么近。
今天我想给大家讲三个我自己的故事,不讲别的,也不讲大道理,就讲三The first story is about connecting the dots.I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why didI drop out?第一个故事讲的是点与点之间的关系。
乔布斯斯坦福大学毕业演讲中英文对照版
乔布斯2005年斯坦福大学毕业演讲乔布斯2005年斯坦福大学毕业演讲中英文完整版'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs saysThis is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.你必须要找到你所爱的东西很荣幸和大家一道参加这所世界上最好的一座大学的毕业典礼。
我大学没毕业,说实话,这是我第一次离大学毕业典礼这么近。
今天我想给大家讲三个我自己的故事,不讲别的,也不讲大道理,就讲三个故事。
The first story is about connecting the dots.I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?第一个故事讲的是点与点之间的关系。
Steve-Jobs对2005年斯坦福大学毕业生演讲英文版讲解
Steve Jobs对2005年斯坦福大学毕业生演讲英文版1、有关创造力"Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while."“创造力就是找到事物之间的联系。
当你询问有创意的人他们是如何做事时,他们觉得有点内疚,因为他们并没有真的这么做,他们只是看到了其中一些关系。
这种感觉在他们过后看来会很明显。
”2、有关死亡"Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart."“记住,每个人终将会死去,这是我认为能够避免个人患得患失的最好方式,你已经赤裸裸地面对死亡,那就没有什么理由不去追随自己的心。
”3、关于卓越"Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected."“要做一个质量标杆,有些人还不习惯面对一个卓越的环境。
”4、关于未来"You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something –your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."“你无法在展望未来时串联点滴,你只能在回顾过去时将其升华。
史蒂夫.乔布斯05年在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲稿
史蒂夫.乔布斯05年在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲稿篇一:史蒂夫·乔布斯2005年斯坦福大学演讲稿(法文)译BonjourCeci est un texte préparé pour la remise des dipl?mes de Stanford par Steve Jobs,CEO d’Apple et de Pixar Animation Studios,le 12 Juin traduction est à porter au crédit de Simon,qui a fait un travail remarquable et que nous remercions chaleureusement.Je suis honoré d’être parmi vous aujourd’hui à votre cérémonie de remise dedipl?me d’une des meilleures universités dans le monde.Je n’ai jamais obtenu de dipl?me universitaire.à vrai dire,je n'ai jamais été aussi proche de la remise d’un tel dipl?me.Aujourd’hui,je veux vous raconter trois histoires de ma vie.C’est tout.Pas grand chose.Juste trois histoires.La première his toire parle de relier les points.J’ai abandonné l’université de Reed (Université d’arts libéraux américaine située à Portland,Ndlt)après les six premiers mois,mais j’y suis restéme auditeur libre pendant 18 autres mois avant d’arrêter totalement.Alors pou rquoi avoir laissé tomber ?Tout mencé avant ma naissance.Ma mère biologique était une jeune étudiante célibataire dipl?mée d’université.Elle souhaitaittrès fort que je puisse être adopté par des dipl?més d’université,et tout fut mis en place pour que je sois adopté par un avocat et sa femme.Sauf que lorsque je fis mon apparition,ils ont décidé,à la dernière minute,vouloir une fille.Puis mes parents,qui étaient sur une liste d’attente,ont re?u un coup de téléphone au milieu de la nuit leur demandant :?Nous avons un petit gar?on inattendu ;Le voulez-vous ??.Ils ont dit ?Bien s?r ?.Ma mère biologique découvrit plus tard que ma mère n’avait jamais eu de dipl?me universitaire et que mon père n’avait jamais terminé ses études secondaires.Elle a refusé de signer les papiers d’adoption définitifs.Elle ne céda que quelques mois plus tard,lorsque mes parents promirent qu’un jour,j’irai à l’université.Et 17 ans plus tard,je suis allé à l’université.Mais j’avais na?vement choisi une université qui était presque aussi chère que Stanford (Prestigieuse université américaine de la Silicon Valley ou ce discours est prononcé,Ndlt),et toutes les modestes économies de mes parents ont été dépensées pour mes fraisuniversitaires.Après six mois,je n’en voyais pas les bienfaits.Je n’avais aucune idée de ce que je voulais faire de ma vie,et aucune idée ment l’université allait m’aider à trouver.Et là,je dépensais tout l’argent que mes parents avaient économisé durant leur vie entière.J’ai donc décidé de laisser tomber et cru。
乔布斯斯坦福大学毕业典礼演讲稿【中英】
乔布斯2005年斯坦福演讲:活出你自己2005年6月12日,在美国斯坦福大学毕业典礼上,苹果公司CEO史蒂夫•乔布斯(Steve Jobs)发表了精彩演讲。
已被确诊身患癌症的乔布斯对在场学子讲述了自己经历的三个故事,与学子们分享自己的创业心得,并以此激励年轻一代勇敢、积极、快乐地面对人生。
这三次体验不仅在斯坦福大学的毕业生、也在硅谷乃至其他地方的技术同行中引起了巨大反响。
尤其The Whole Earth Catalog提到的话,作为杂志,这是一种精神,一种气质。
乔布斯对操场上挤的满满的毕业生、校友和家长们说:“你的时间有限,所以最好别把它浪费在模仿别人这种事上。
” --同样地,如果还在学校的话,似乎不应该去模仿退学的牛人们。
乔布斯朴实而真诚的演讲不但赢得了全场数次热烈鼓掌和尖叫,也成为近年美国毕业典礼演讲中最具影响力的一篇。
时至今日,这一演讲仍然对广大学子和创业者产生着深远影响。
以下为乔布斯在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲全文:史蒂夫·乔布斯(Steve Jobs)在斯坦福大学2005年毕业典礼上的演讲稿[中英对照] 2011-10-06 21:04:19You've got to find what you love,' Jobs saysJobs说,你必须要找到你所爱的东西。
This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.这是苹果公司和Pixar动画工作室的CEO Steve Jobs于2005年6月12号在斯坦福大学的毕业典礼上面的演讲稿。
Thank you.I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.我今天很荣幸能和你们一起参加毕业典礼,斯坦福大学是世界上最好的大学之一。
(整理)中英文对照近年美国大学毕业典礼中最具影响力的一篇演讲——乔布斯2005年斯坦福大学演讲.
(中英文对照)乔布斯2005年斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲稿——近年美国毕业典礼演讲中最具影响力的一篇2005年6月12日,在美国斯坦福大学毕业典礼上,苹果公司CEO乔布斯发表了精彩演讲。
已被确诊身患癌症的乔布斯对在场学子讲述了自己经历的三个故事,与学子们分享自己的创业心得,并以此激励年轻一代勇敢、积极、快乐地面对人生。
乔布斯朴实而真诚的演讲不但赢得了全场数次热烈鼓掌和尖叫,也成为近年美国毕业典礼演讲中最具影响力的一篇。
时至今日,这一演讲仍然对广大学子和创业者产生着深远影响:This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.这是苹果公司和Pixar动画工作室的CEO Steve Jobs于2005年6月12号在斯坦福大学的毕业典礼上面的演讲稿:一、关于信仰:坚信“你要坚信,你现在所经历的,将在你未来的生命中串联起来。
正是这种信仰让我没有失去希望,它使我的人生与众不同”I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from oneof the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college.Truth be told, I never graduated from college. This is the closest I'veever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you threestories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.斯坦福是世界上最好的大学之一,今天能参加各位的毕业典礼,我备感荣幸。
史蒂夫·乔布斯在2005年斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲
史蒂夫·乔布斯在2005年斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲2006-06-14 23:17【大中小】【打印】【我要纠错】【加入收藏】Steve Jobs: Commencement Address at Stanford University"Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish."求知若饥,虚心若愚2 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA史蒂夫·乔布斯(Steve Paul Jobs)苹果电脑公司和皮克斯动画公司(Pixar)首席执行官。
以下是Steve Jobs在2005年6月12日斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲。
Thank you.I'm honored to be with you today for your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. Truth be told, I never graduated from college, and this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today, I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.The first story is about connecting the dots. I dropped out of Reed College after the first six months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife —— except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl.So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking, "We've got an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said, "Of course." My biological mother found out later that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would go to college. This was the start in my life.And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life.So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out okay. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked far more interesting.It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms. I returned coke bottles for the five cent deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the seven miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this.I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the "Mac" would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on that calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards 10 years later.Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something —— your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever —— because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well-worn path, and that will make all the difference.My second story is about love and loss.I was lucky —— I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz1 and I started Apple in my parents' garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Applehad grown from just the two of us in a garage into a two billion dollar company with over 4000 employees. We'd just released our finest creation —— the Macintosh —— a year earlier, and I had just turned 30.And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. And so at 30, I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down —— that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me: I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the world's first computer-animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, and I retuned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometime life —— Sometimes life going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love.And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking —— and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And like any greatrelationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking —— don't settle.My third story is about death.When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I've looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything —— all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure —— these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for "prepare to die." It means to try and tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and, thankfully, I'm fine now.This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope it's the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept: No one wants to die.Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It's Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it's quite true.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. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the "bibles" of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 60s, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and Polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along. It was idealistic, overflowing with neat tools and great notions.Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I've always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.Thank you all very much.谢谢大家。
乔布斯2005年斯坦福大学毕业典礼演讲稿 doc
乔布斯2005年斯坦福大学毕业典礼演讲稿 doc 尊敬的毕业生们:很荣幸今天能在斯坦福大学演讲。
我从未上过大学,这也是我第一次在大学毕业典礼上演讲,所以请谅解我有些紧张。
今天我想与大家分享三个关于自己人生的故事,希望能为毕业生们的未来之路提供一些帮助和启示。
第一个故事是关于连接点的。
在我13岁时,我读了一本杂志,上面介绍了关于电话系统的一个小文章。
那时候,它引起了我浓厚的兴趣。
文章中说,美国城市之间的电话线路长度有限,电话系统的需求已经超过了网络的容量,于是研究人员就开始着手研究如何将一个电话线路连接到另一个电话线路。
他们通过使用一个设备,可以将一个电子信号转化为无线电波,然后通过卫星发送到另一个设备,转化为电子信号再次传输到目标电话线路。
这个设备被称为“调制解调器”,它是一个连接点,将两种类型的网络连接起来。
当我读到这个故事是,我意识到,如果将计算机与电话网连接起来,那么将会发生什么样的事情。
因为那时大多数计算机是独立的,无法与其他计算机交流。
我开始尝试将计算机与电话线连接;这是非常困难的,因为当时两者之间的距离和技术都极为不同。
但是慢慢地,我和一些朋友成功了。
这对我来说真的是一场启示。
这表明,在生活中,有时候需要找到连接两个不同领域之间的连接点,而这些连接点常常会成为我们成功的关键。
第二个故事是关于爱情和灵魂之间的关系。
我年轻的时候,我非常喜欢一本书,叫做《自由与流放》,它讲述了一段爱情故事。
在我25岁的时候,我刚刚创立了苹果公司,生活非常忙碌。
一天晚上,我在晚餐会上认识了一位女士。
她穿着一件漂亮的单色毛衣,发间夹着铅笔,是我一生中见过的最好看的女人之一。
我爱上了她,和她到处旅游,有了一段美好的时光。
但是,当苹果公司面临困境时,我放弃了她,更专注于自己的工作。
最终,苹果公司破产了,我离开了公司。
我没有什么可以自傲的东西,就算我拥有了价值连城的事物,每天晚上躺在床上都会感到很空虚。
我意识到,当时我犯了一个错误。
乔布斯2005年斯坦福大学毕业典礼演讲
乔布斯在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲[ 2011-08-25 10:11 ]这是苹果公司和Pixar动画工作室的CEO Steve Jobs于2005年6月12号在斯坦福大学的毕业典礼上面的演讲稿。
苹果CEO史蒂夫·乔布斯宣布辞职(辞职信中英文对照)Get Flash PlayerThank you. I'm honored to be with you today for your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. Truth be told, I never graduated from college and this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation.谢谢大家。
很荣幸能和你们,来自世界最好大学之一的毕业生们,一块儿参加毕业典礼。
老实说,我大学没有毕业,今天恐怕是我一生中离大学毕业最近的一次了。
Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.今天我想告诉大家来自我生活的三个故事。
没什么大不了的,只是三个故事而已。
The first story is about connecting the dots.第一个故事,如何串连生命中的点滴。
I dropped out of Reed College after the first six months but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out? It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife, except that when I popped out, they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking, "We've got an unexpected baby boy. Do you want him?" They said, "Of course." My biological mother found out later that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. Sherefused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would go to college.我在里得大学读了六个月就退学了,但是在18个月之后--我真正退学之前,我还常去学校。
2005年乔布斯在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲
Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.
史蒂夫乔布斯05年在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲稿
“我今天很荣幸能和你们一起参加毕业典礼,斯坦福大学是世界上最好的大学之一。
我从来没有从大学中毕业。
说实话,今天也许是在我的生命中离大学毕业最近的一天了。
今天我想向你们讲述我生活中的三个故事。
不是什么大不了的事情,只是三个故事而已。
第一个故事是关于如何把生命中的点点滴滴串连起来。
17年之后,我真上了大学。
但因为年幼无知,我选择了一所和斯坦福一样昂贵的大学,(笑声)我的父母都是工人阶级,他们倾其所有资助我的学业。
在6个月之后,我发现自己完全不知道这样念下去究竟有什么用。
当时,我的人生漫无目标,也不知道大学对我能起到什么帮助,为了念书,还花光了父母毕生的积蓄,所以我决定退学。
我相信车到山前必有路。
当时作这个决定的时候非常害怕,但现在回头去看,这是我这一生所作出的最正确的决定之一。
(笑声)从我退学那一刻起,我就再也不用去上那些我毫无兴趣的必修课了,我开始旁听那些看来比较有意思的科目。
这件事情做起来一点都不浪漫。
因为没有自己的宿舍,我只能睡在朋友房间的地板上;可乐瓶的押金是5分钱,我把瓶子还回去好用押金买吃的;在每个周日的晚上,我都会步行7英里穿越市区,到harekrishna教堂吃一顿大餐,我喜欢那儿的食物。
我跟随好奇心和直觉所做的事情,事后证明大多数都是极其珍贵的经验。
当时,我压根儿没想到这些知识会在我的生命中有什么实际运用价值;但是XX年之后,当我们的设计第一款macintosh电脑的候,这些东西全派上了用场。
我把它们全部设计进了mac,这是第一台可以排出好看版式的电脑。
如果当时我大学里没有旁听这门课程的'话,mac就不会提供各种字体和等间距字体。
自从视窗系统抄袭了mac以后,(鼓掌大笑)所有的个人电脑都有了这些东西。
如果我没有退学,我就不会去书法班旁听,而今天的个人电脑大概也就不会有出色的版式功能。
当然我在念大学的那会儿,不可能有先见之明,把那些生命中的点点滴滴都串起来;但XX年之后再回头看,生命的轨迹变得非常清楚。
斯皮尔伯格在哈佛毕业典礼演讲稿(中英文对照)
斯皮尔伯格在哈佛毕业典礼演讲稿(中英文对照)
Thank you, thank you, President Faust, and Paul Choi, thank you so much.
非常感谢Faust校长、Paul Choi校长 谢谢你们。
It's an honor and a thrill to address this group of distinguished alumni and supportive friends and kvelling parents. We've all gathered to share in the joy of this day, so please join me in congratulating Harvard's Class of XX.
你接下来要做的事情,在我们这行叫做“定义角色的时刻”。这些是你非常熟悉的场景,例如在最近的一部《星球大战:原力觉醒》里女主角Rey发现自己拥有原力的一刻。或者在《夺宝奇兵》里印第安纳琼斯选择战胜恐惧跳过蛇堆,继续任务的时候。
乔布斯2005年斯坦福大学毕业典礼演讲稿
乔布斯2005年斯坦福大学毕业典礼演讲稿You've got to find what you love,' Jobs saysJobs说,你必须要找到你所爱的东西。
这是苹果公司和Pixar动画工作室的CEO Steve Jobs于2005年6月12号在斯坦福大学的毕业典礼上面的演讲稿。
我今天很荣幸能和你们一起参加毕业典礼,斯坦福大学是世界上最好的大学之一。
我从来没有从大学中毕业。
说实话,今天也许是在我的生命中离大学毕业最近的一天了。
今天我想向你们讲述我生活中的三个故事。
不是什么大不了的事情,只是三个故事而已。
第一个故事是关于如何把生命中的点点滴滴串连起来。
我在Reed大学读了六个月之后就退学了,但是在十八个月以后——我真正的作出退学决定之前,我还经常去学校。
我为什么要退学呢?故事从我出生的时候讲起。
我的亲生母亲是一个年轻的,没有结婚的大学毕业生。
她决定让别人收养我, 她十分想让我被大学毕业生收养。
所以在我出生的时候,她已经做好了一切的准备工作,能使得我被一个律师和他的妻子所收养。
但是她没有料到,当我出生之后,律师夫妇突然决定他们想要一个女孩。
所以我的生养父母(他们还在我亲生父母的观察名单上)突然在半夜接到了一个电话:“我们现在这儿有一个不小心生出来的男婴,你们想要他吗?”他们回答道:“当然!”但是我亲生母亲随后发现,我的养母从来没有上过大学,我的父亲甚至从没有读过高中。
她拒绝签这个收养合同。
只是在几个月以后,我的父母答应她一定要让我上大学,那个时候她才同意。
在十七岁那年,我真的上了大学。
但是我很愚蠢的选择了一个几乎和你们斯坦福大学一样贵的学校, 我父母还处于蓝领阶层,他们几乎把所有积蓄都花在了我的学费上面。
在六个月后, 我已经看不到其中的价值所在。
我不知道我想要在生命中做什么,我也不知道大学能帮助我找到怎样的答案。
但是在这里,我几乎花光了我父母这一辈子的所有积蓄。
所以我决定要退学,我觉得这是个正确的决定。
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Dominique Nong (left), class marshal, and Caleb Franklin, first marshal, join in the applause for Class Day speaker Tim Russert (center). (Staff photo Kris Snibbe/Harvard News Office)June 09, 2005Russert urges graduates to lead, help others'Meet the Press' moderator is Class Day speakerBy Alvin PowellHarvard News OfficeSaying that each generation has a chance to be "the greatest generation," NBC News Washington bureau chief and "Meet the Press" moderator Tim Russert urged members of Harvard's Class of 2005 Wednesday (June 8) to seize their opportunity to make the world a better place.Russert, this year's Class Day speaker, delivered a 15-minute talk that interwove amusing stories drawn from his years as one of the nation's top TV journalists with a more serious message about the need for talented people at government's highest levels and for everyone to help others."No exercise is better for the human heart than reaching down to help another human being," Russert said. "It is now your turn. Y our contributions can be enormous."Russert was just one of several speakers during the two-hour long Class Day ceremony, traditionally held on the day before Commencement. Class Day honors Harvard College's senior class' achievements in a more relaxed, less formal manner than is possible during Commencement's more scripted exercises.Russert and Franklin enjoy a joke at the journalist's expense. (Staff photo Jon Chase/Harvard News Office)Harvard College Dean Benedict H. Gross took the opportunity to offer the College's graduating seniors congratulations and good luck and praised the students' parents, saying they've waited a long time for Commencement Day's ceremonies.Several speakers, including Russert, mentioned the difficult start for the Class of 2005, which was just beginning its college career when the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, occurred.Caleb Franklin, the class' first marshal, opened the event by describing Class Day as a "celebration of the spirit of our class." He went on to describe that spirit as one that has had to overcome challenge after challenge, from the 9/11 attacks to studying while the University was dealing with charges of grade inflation."Rely on the strength of self you found here," Franklin said. "Thanks to Harvard, we're equipped with the tools to overcome anything."In addition to the guest speaker, Class Day features four speeches by graduating seniors: two typically humorous Ivy Orations and two more serious Harvard Orations.Susan McGregor's Harvard Oration, "Reshaping the Rock," reflected on her Harvard admissions essay and the lessons she learned from the sport of rock climbing, particularly how to be flexible in meeting challenges. After four years at Harvard, she said that, instead of accommodating the world, she now thinks graduating seniors should work to change it."Every action we take will leave its trace," McGregor said. "What you choose to do each day with your time, your money, your inspiration will frame the contours of the world we leave behind. ... Finally it is our turn to take on the rock."Ames Award winner Susan Mathai (right) approaches the stage to receive her award. (Staff photo Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard News Office)The Ivy Orations presented an irreverent look back at the past four years at Harvard and the struggles of graduating seniors to take care of themselves for the first time, to socialize, to find love ... and to remember the names of those they found love with.Two graduating seniors, Susan Mathai and David Jenkins, were presented with the Ames A wards, annually given to those whose college careers demonstrate a commitment to service.Russert joins a long list of prominent media figures, entertainers, and leaders who have addressed Harvard's graduating seniors on Class Day, including former Massachusetts Gov. William Weld, comedian Conan O'Brien, and rock star Bono.Russert, who joined NBC News in 1984, serves as managing editor of "Meet the Press," as a political analyst for "NBC Nightly News" and the "Today" program, as anchor of "The Tim Russert Show," a weekly interview show on CNBC, and as senior vice president of NBC News.The recipient of numerous accolades, Russert was called "America's best interviewer" in 2004 by Reader's Digest and the most influential journalist in Washington, D.C., in 2001 by Washingtonian Magazine. He graduated from John Carroll University and the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law.In his speech, Russert reflected on his own upbringing and on how his father, who never graduated high school and who worked two full-time jobs for 30 years, provided an inspiration through "the quiet eloquence of his hard work."Russert ruefully cited a recent poll that said more Americans know who the Three Stooges are than can name the three branches of government, and a "Tonight Show" anecdote that illustrated how little average Americans know about the U.S. Constitution."We need America's best minds in the arena," Russert said. "Y ou have been blessed with an extraordinary opportunity, and indeed, from those to whom much is given, much is expected."。