毕业典礼大学演讲稿模板（20篇范文）

大学毕业典礼演讲稿 模板1

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尊敬的校长、亲爱的老师、可爱的同学们： 大家下午好!

我是日语62班的__，此时此刻我的心情万分激动!很荣幸可以站在这里代表我们外国语学院的180名毕业生发言。

首先，我谨代表外国语学院20__届全体毕业生向培育过我们的各位老师表达我们最衷心的感谢!感谢你们无私传授给我们知识，感谢你们谆谆教诲。也由衷地感谢母校，感谢您带给我们四年难忘的时光!

大学是梦想开始的地方，让我们学会脚踏实地的用努力拚搏实现自己的理想。曾经有过辗转于各教学楼教室上课的平凡与琐碎，也有过纵情高歌狂欢的淋漓尽致。我们还清楚的记得，李玲同学在我们刚刚进校的时候在图书馆报告厅里给我们作为新生代表发言。记得军训时在烈日炎炎下的坚持，记得在全校的运动会上竭尽全力地拿了冠军，记得在校园艺术节上取得的一等奖。我们也记得在篮球场上的亚军，我们更记得毕业晚会上同学们的精彩表现。不管怎样我们大家的齐心协力，铸就了咱们黄金一代。正如我们忘不了期末考试前的挑灯夜读，忘不了和周围的老师、同学们相处的每一个日子。岁月如梭，四年转瞬即逝，当时对于这个偌大校园充满着好奇，准备倾泻浑身的力量去了解、熟悉这个地方。当我们真正爱上这个地方的时候我们却要跟她说再见了。

明天，我们即将离开，让我们认真保存好每张合影，因为合影上的灿烂笑容已经定格在记忆中。

让我们用力拥抱睡了四年的兄弟姐妹们，拥抱每一个我们喜欢、我们欣赏或曾经帮助过我们的人，因为很多人，此生将很难再重逢! 让我们对曾经起过争执冲突的人说声"对不起"，不再追究谁对谁错，因为我们不想把友情的缺憾带入今后的生活。

让我们再对每位老师，对校内各岗位上的工作人员说声"谢谢"，因为他们的存在， 我们才可以舒心的学习和生活。

也让我们在送别的时候，别泪水涟涟，因为我们应更多的记住彼此灿烂的笑脸!

在这里，我们共同祝愿母校的明天更加美好，更加辉煌，我们也衷心祝愿每一位老师身体健康、工作顺利，祝愿学弟学妹们继续开创美好的未来!成为白金一代!钻石一代!

在即将踏上新的人生旅途的时候，我们所有人都将记住：诚、朴、勤、仁。在以后漫长的人生旅程中，找准自己的方向，做的自我!这样的人生也就完整了! 谢谢!!

大学毕业典礼演讲稿 模板2

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president powers, provost fenves, deans, members of the faculty, family and friends and mostimportantly, the class of 2024. congratulations on your achievement.

it"s been almost 37 years to the day that i graduated from ut.

i remember a lot of things about that day.

i remember i had throbbing headache from a party the night before. i remember i had aserious girlfriend, whom i later married-that"s important to remember by the way-and iremember that i was getting commissioned in the navy that day.

but of all the things i remember, i don"t have a clue who the commencement speaker wasthat evening and i certainly don"t remember anything they said.

so…acknowledging that fact-if i can"t make this commencement speech memorable-i will atleast try to make it short.

the university"s slogan is,

"what starts here changes the world."

i have to admit-i kinda like it.

"what starts here changes the world."

tonight there are almost 8,000 students graduating from ut.

that great paragon of analytical rigor, ask.com says that the average american will meet10,000 people in their life time.

that"s a lot of folks.

but, if every one of you changed the lives of just ten people-and each one of those folkschanged the lives of another ten people-just ten-then in five generations-125 years-the class of2024 will have changed the lives of 800 million people.

800 million people-think of it-over twice the population of the united states. go one moregeneration and you can change the entire population of the world-8 billion people.

if you think it"s hard to change the lives of ten people-change their lives forever-you"re wrong.

i saw it happen every day in iraq and afghanistan.

a young army officer makes a decision to go left instead of right down a road in baghdad andthe ten soldiers in his squad are saved from close-in ambush.

in kandahar province, afghanistan, a non-commissioned officer from the female engagementteam senses something isn"t right and directs the infantry platoon away from a 500 poundied, saving the lives of a dozen soldiers.

but, if you think about it, not only were these soldiers saved by the decisions of one person, buttheir children yet unborn-were also saved. and their children"s children-were saved.

generations were saved by one decision-by one person.

but changing the world can happen anywhere and anyone can do it.

so, what starts here can indeed change the world, but the question is…what will the world looklike after you change it?

well, i am confident that it will look much, much better, but if you will humor this old sailorfor just a moment, i have a few suggestions that may help you on your way to a better a world.

and while these lessons were learned during my time in the military, i can assure you that itmatters not whether you ever served a day in uniform.

it matters not your gender, your ethnic or religious background, your orientation, or yoursocial status.

our struggles in this world are similar and the lessons to overcome those struggles and tomove forward-changing ourselves and the world around us-will apply equally to all.

i have been a navy seal for 36 years. but it all began when i left ut for basic seal training incoronado, california.

basic seal training is si_ months of long torturous runs in the soft sand, midnight swims in thecold water off san diego, obstacles courses, unending calisthenics, days without sleep andalways being cold, wet and miserable.

it is si_ months of being constantly harassed by professionally trained warriors who seek tofind the weak of mind and body and eliminate them from ever becoming a navy seal.

but, the training also seeks to find those students who can lead in an environment ofconstant stress, chaos, failure and hardships.

to me basic seal training was a life time of challenges crammed into si_ months.

so, here are the ten lesson"s i learned from basic seal training that hopefully will be of value toyou as you move forward in life.

every morning in basic seal training, my instructors, who at the time were all vietnamveterans, would show up in my barracks room and the first thing they would inspect was yourbed.

if you did it right, the corners would be square, the covers pulled tight, the pillow centered justunder the headboard and the e_tra blanket folded neatly at the foot of the rack-rack-that"snavy talk for bed.

it was a simple task-mundane at best. but every morning we were required to make our bedto perfection. it seemed a little ridiculous at the time, particularly in light of the fact thatwere aspiring to be real warriors, tough battle hardened seals-but the wisdom of this simpleact has been proven to me many times over.

if you make your bed every morning you will have accomplished the first task of the day. itwill give you a small sense of pride and it will encourage you to do another task and anotherand another.

by the end of the day, that one task completed will have turned into many tasks completed.making your bed will also reinforce the fact that little things in life matter.

if you can"t do the little things right, you will never do the big things right.

and, if by chance you have a miserable day, you will come home to a bed that is made-thatyou made-and a made bed gives you encouragement that tomorrow will be better.

if you want to change the world, start off by making your bed.

during seal training the students are broken down into boat crews. each crew is sevenstudents-three on each side of a small rubber boat and one co_swain to help guide the dingy.

every day your boat crew forms up on the beach and is instructed to get through the surfzoneand paddle several miles down the coast.

in the winter, the surf off san diego can get to be 8 to 10 feet high and it is e_ceedinglydifficult to paddle through the plunging surf unless everyone digs in.

every paddle must be synchronized to the stroke count of the co_swain. everyone must e_ertequal effort or the boat will turn against the wave and be unceremoniously tossed back on thebeach.

for the boat to make it to its destination, everyone must paddle.

you can"t change the world alone-you will need some help- and to truly get from your startingpoint to your destination takes friends, colleagues, the good will of strangers and a strongco_swain to guide them.

if you want to change the world, find someone to help you paddle.

over a few weeks of difficult training my seal class which started with 150 men was down tojust 35. there were now si_ boat crews of seven men each.

i was in the boat with the tall guys, but the best boat crew we had was made up of the thelittle guys-the munchkin crew we called them-no one was over about 5-foot five.

the munchkin boat crew had one american indian, one african american, one polish american,one greek american, one italian american, and two tough kids from the mid-west.

they out paddled, out-ran, and out swam all the other boat crews.

the big men in the other boat crews would always make good natured fun of the tiny littleflippers the munchkins put on their tiny little feet prior to every swim.

but somehow these little guys, from every corner of the nation and the world, always had thelast laugh- swimming faster than everyone and reaching the shore long before the rest of us.

seal training was a great equalizer. nothing mattered but your will to succeed. not your color,not your ethnic background, not your education and not your social status.

if you want to change the world, measure a person by the size of their heart, not the size oftheir flippers.

several times a week, the instructors would line up the class and do a uniform inspection. itwas e_ceptionally thorough.

your hat had to be perfectly starched, your uniform immaculately pressed and your belt buckleshiny and void of any smudges.

but it seemed that no matter how much effort you put into starching your hat, or pressingyour uniform or polishing your belt buckle-- it just wasn"t good enough.

the instructors would fine "something" wrong.

for failing the uniform inspection, the student had to run, fully clothed into the surfzone andthen, wet from head to toe, roll around on the beach until every part of your body was coveredwith sand.

the effect was known as a "sugar cookie." you stayed in that uniform the rest of the day-cold,wet and sandy.

there were many a student who just couldn"t accept the fact that all their effort was in vain.that no matter how hard they tried to get the uniform right-it was unappreciated.

those students didn"t make it through training.

those students didn"t understand the purpose of the drill. you were never going to succeed.you were never going to have a perfect uniform.

sometimes no matter how well you prepare or how well you perform you still end up as asugar cookie.

it"s just the way life is sometimes.

if you want to change the world get over being a sugar cookie and keep moving forward.

every day during training you were challenged with multiple physical events-long runs, longswims, obstacle courses, hours of calisthenics-something designed to test your mettle.

every event had standards-times you had to meet. if you failed to meet those standards yourname was posted on a list and at the end of the day those on the list were invited to-a "circus."

a circus was two hours of additional calisthenics-designed to wear you down, to break yourspirit, to force you to quit.

no one wanted a circus.

a circus meant that for that day you didn"t measure up. a circus meant more fatigue-andmore fatigue meant that the following day would be more difficult-and more circuses werelikely.

but at some time during seal training, everyone-everyone-made the circus list.

but an interesting thing happened to those who were constantly on the list. overtime thosestudents--who did two hours of e_tra calisthenics-got stronger and stronger.

the pain of the circuses built inner strength-built physical resiliency.

life is filled with circuses.

you will fail. you will likely fail often. it will be painful. it will be discouraging. at times it willtest you to your very core.

but if you want to change the world, don"t be afraid of the circuses.

at least twice a week, the trainees were required to run the obstacle course. the obstaclecourse contained 25 obstacles including a 10-foot high wall, a 30-foot cargo net, and a barbedwire crawl to name a few.

but the most challenging obstacle was the slide for life. it had a three level 30 foot tower atone end and a one level tower at the other. in between was a 200-foot long rope.

you had to climb the three tiered tower and once at the top, you grabbed the rope, swungunderneath the rope and pulled yourself hand over hand until you got to the other end.

the record for the obstacle course had stood for years when my class began training in 1977.

the record seemed unbeatable, until one day, a student decided to go down the slide for life-head first.

instead of swinging his body underneath the rope and inching his way down, he bravelymounted the top of the rope and thrust himself forward.

it was a dangerous move-seemingly foolish, and fraught with risk. failure could mean injuryand being dropped from the training.

without hesitation-the student slid down the rope-perilously fast, instead of several minutes,it only took him half that time and by the end of the course he had broken the record.

if you want to change the world sometimes you have to slide down the obstacle head first.

during the land warfare phase of training, the students are flown out to san clemente islandwhich lies off the coast of san diego.

the waters off san clemente are a breeding ground for the great white sharks. to pass sealtraining there are a series of long swims that must be completed. one-is the night swim.

before the swim the instructors joyfully brief the trainees on all the species of sharks thatinhabit the waters off san clemente.

they assure you, however, that no student has ever been eaten by a shark-at least notrecently.

but, you are also taught that if a shark begins to circle your position-stand your ground. donot swim away. do not act afraid.

and if the shark, hungry for a midnight snack, darts towards you-then summons up all yourstrength and punch him in the snout and he will turn and swim away.

there are a lot of sharks in the world. if you hope to complete the swim you will have to dealwith them.

so, if you want to change the world, don"t back down from the sharks.

as navy seals one of our jobs is to conduct underwater attacks against enemy shipping. wepracticed this technique e_tensively during basic training.

the ship attack mission is where a pair of seal divers is dropped off outside an enemy harborand then swims well over two miles-underwater-using nothing but a depth gauge and acompass to get to their target.

during the entire swim, even well below the surface there is some light that comes through. itis comforting to know that there is open water above you.

but as you approach the ship, which is tied to a pier, the light begins to fade. the steelstructure of the ship blocks the moonlight-it blocks the surrounding street lamps-it blocks allambient light.

to be successful in your mission, you have to swim under the ship and find the keel-thecenterline and the deepest part of the ship.

this is your objective. but the keel is also the darkest part of the ship-where you cannot seeyour hand in front of your face, where the noise from the ship"s machinery is deafening andwhere it is easy to get disoriented and fail.

every seal knows that under the keel, at the darkest moment of the mission-is the time whenyou must be calm, composed-when all your tactical skills, your physical power and all yourinner strength must be brought to bear.

if you want to change the world, you must be your very best in the darkest moment.

the ninth week of training is referred to as "hell week." it is si_ days of no sleep, constantphysical and mental harassment and-one special day at the mud flats-the mud flats are areabetween san diego and tijuana where the water runs off and creates the tijuana slue"s-aswampy patch of terrain where the mud will engulf you.

it is on wednesday of hell week that you paddle down to the mud flats and spend the ne_t 15hours trying to survive the freezing cold mud, the howling wind and the incessant pressureto quit from the instructors.

as the sun began to set that wednesday evening, my training class, having committed some"egregious infraction of the rules" was ordered into the mud.

the mud consumed each man till there was nothing visible but our heads. the instructors toldus we could leave the mud if only five men would quit-just five men and we could get out of theoppressive cold.

looking around the mud flat it was apparent that some students were about to give up. it wasstill over eight hours till the sun came up-eight more hours of bone chilling cold.

the chattering teeth and shivering moans of the trainees were so loud it was hard to hearanything and then, one voice began to echo through the night-one voice raised in song.

the song was terribly out of tune, but sung with great enthusiasm.

one voice became two and two became three and before long everyone in the class was singing.

we knew that if one man could rise above the misery then others could as well.

the instructors threatened us with more time in the mud if we kept up the singing-but thesinging persisted.

and somehow-the mud seemed a little warmer, the wind a little tamer and the dawn not so faraway.

if i have learned anything in my time traveling the world, it is the power of hope. the power ofone person-washington, lincoln, king, mandela and even a young girl from pakistan-malala-oneperson can change the world by giving people hope.

so, if you want to change the world, start singing when you"re up to your neck in mud.

finally, in seal training there is a bell. a brass bell that hangs in the center of the compoundfor all the students to see.

all you have to do to quit-is ring the bell. ring the bell and you no longer have to wake up at 5o"clock. ring the bell and you no longer have to do the freezing cold swims.

ring the bell and you no longer have to do the runs, the obstacle course, the pt-and you nolonger have to endure the hardships of training.

just ring the bell.

if you want to change the world don"t ever, ever ring the bell.

to the graduating class of 2024, you are moments away from graduating. moments away frombeginning your journey through life. moments away starting to change the world-for the better.

it will not be easy.

but, you are the class of 2024-the class that can affect the lives of 800 million people in thene_t century.

start each day with a task completed.

find someone to help you through life.

respect everyone.

know that life is not fair and that you will fail often, but if take you take some risks, step upwhen the times are toughest, face down the bullies, lift up the downtrodden and never, evergive up-if you do these things, then ne_t generation and the generations that follow will live ina world far better than the one we have today and-what started here will indeed have changedthe world-for the better.

thank you very much. hook "em horns.

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老师们，同学们：

早上好!

丹桂飘香的时节，我又走进了美丽的育华园。非常激动今天能够与大家分享我的育华故事，育华是承载了我初中高中六年时光的地方。虽然离开育华已经四年了，明天我就要前往英国，继续硕士研究生阶段的学业。我仍然时常想起我在育华的点点滴滴，对我来说，这是一段非常美好的回忆，也是我不断成长的动力。

同学们，这两周你们可能格外紧张和兴奋。你可能刚刚步入初中，亦或刚刚开始高中生活，可能你已经在为中考、高考奋力拼搏了，那么你已经为自己的新学期新学年设定了目标，做好了最重要的准备。

我们都是幸运的，因为育华为我们在实现梦想的道路上构建了非常好的平台。育华有经验丰富，热情负责的老师来帮助大家解决学习生活上的烦恼;有优良的硬件保障大家的教学质量;有遍布世界的友好学校让大家走出国门扩展视野;有像国际文化节这样的校园活动让大家发挥自己的才能。这些无数同龄人都梦寐以求的资源就在我们身边，我们所要做的，就是尽情地通过这些资源，让自己更快更好的成长。

可能很多高中的同学们已经开始憧憬大学的生活了，作为一名大学毕业生，我想告诉大家，大学的生活的确很美好，你可以在图书馆博览群书，你可以在球场上尽情的挥洒汗水，你会参加多种多样的社团活动，你将认识几个一辈子的`朋友，谈一场刻骨铭心的恋爱。然而如果没有中学时的勤奋努力，这一切都将只是泡影。其实，无论你现在憧憬的是什么，无论你的梦想是什么，都需要中学时所积累到的能力和知识去实现。你想要周游世界，那你就需要认真的听好每一节英语课，抓住每一个和外教交流的机会;你想要当工程师，医生，银行家，为社会创造价值，那你需要掌握现学的数理化知识为未来打好基础;又或者你想当一名成功的商人，领袖，社会工作者，何不加入学生会，志愿者的队伍来锻炼你的交际，组织能力。

实现梦想不是一蹴而就，而是一个一步步积累的过程，在新的学期里，大家不妨把自己心底的梦想简化成一个个更容易实现的小目标，这些目标可以是一些看似微不足道的小事，比如：认真的听好接下来的课，按时的完成每天的作业，理解还没有弄懂的题，记好今天学到的公式等等。成功的方式有很多种，但是成功的人都有相同的品质：专注，认真，努力。只要大家专注，认真，努力地去实现这些小的目标，不用多久大家就会惊讶于自己取得的进步。

中学决不仅仅是我们人生中的一个学习阶段，中学应该是我们锻炼自己，展示自己的舞台，是我们梦开始的地方。今年，育华迎来了二十岁的生日，大家想象过自己二十年之后的样子吗?你一定在憧憬二十年后的自己是快乐的、充实的，那么就从此刻开始努力吧!二十年，期待再见!

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斯坦福大学毕业典礼演讲稿

今天，我很荣幸和大家在一起，参加这个世界上最好的大学之一的毕业典礼。我从没有大学毕业。说实话，这是迄今为止我最接近大学毕业的一天。

我在斯坦福大学读了六个月之后就退学了，但是又在校园里旁听了十八个月左右，然后才真正离开。我为什么要退学呢?

这要从我出生前讲起，我的生母是一个未婚怀孕的年轻大学生，她决定把肚子里的我送给别人抚养。她强烈希望收养我的家庭具有大学学历，所以在我还没出生的时候，一切都已经安排好了，一个律师和他的妻子收养我。但是意想不到的是，在我来到人世的那一刻，他们突然反悔了，决定只收养女孩。因此，在收养名单上排在后面的我的养父母，半夜接到电话：'我们有一个不在计划之中的男孩，你们想要他吗?'他们回答：'当然。'我的生母后来发现，我的养母没有大学毕业，我的养父没有高中毕业。她拒绝签署最终的收养协议。几个月后，我的养父母承诺送我上大学，她才同意签署协议。

十七年后，我真的上大学了。但是，我很幼稚地选择了一所几乎与斯坦福大学一样贵的学校。我的养父母都是蓝领阶层，他们的所有积蓄都用来付我的学费。读了六个月以后，我看不到这样做的价值。我不知道自己的人生应该干什么，也不知道大学如何帮我找到答案。而且，如果我在大学里待下去，就会花光我的父母整整一生的积蓄。所以，我就决定退学了，相信这样行得通。那个时候，我确实担心害怕，但是回过头来看，那是我的最佳决策之一。一旦我退学了，就能不上那些我毫无兴趣的必修课，可以开始旁听那些我有兴趣的.课了。

这件事也有艰苦的一面。我没有宿舍了，就睡在朋友家的地板上。退回可乐瓶可以拿到5美分，我把它们积累起来换东西吃。每个星期天晚上，我步行7英里穿过城市，到教会吃一顿免费的丰盛晚餐。但是，我还是心甘情愿。跟着自己的好奇心和直觉走，我误打误撞遇到的许多东西，日后都被证明是无价之宝。我给你们举一个例子。

那时，斯坦福大学开设可能是全国最好的书法课。校园里的每一张海报、每个抽屉上的每张标签，都是优美的手写体。因为退学后不用上那些常规课程，我决定去上书法课，学习如何写出优美的字。在那里，我学到了衬线字体和无衬线字体，学到了改变不同字母组合之间的间距，学到了版面设计如何才能优美。它是那样的美、富有历史感、艺术的精妙，科学不能捕捉到这些，我发现它太迷人了。

这些东西，没有一件看上去对我的人生有实际的价值。但是十年后，当我们设计第一台macintosh电脑的时候，它们都帮到我了。我们把它们都设计进了产品。那是第一台有着优美操作界面的电脑。如果我不曾在大学里旁听那门课，mac电脑就不会有多种字形，或者按比例间隔的字体。因为后来windows操作系统抄袭了mac，那么很可能所有个人电脑都没有它们。如果我没有退学，我就不会旁听书法课，那么个人电脑可能就不会有它们现在的那样漂亮的界面了。当然，我还在大学里展望人生的时候，不可能把这些点都联系起来。但是十年后回头看，它们之间的联系真的是非常非常清楚。

再说一遍，你展望人生的时候，不可能把这些点连起来;只有当你回顾人生的时候，才能发现它们之间的联系。所以你必须有信心，相信这些点总会以某种方式，对你的未来产生影响。你必须相信一些事情----你的勇气、命运、人生、缘分等等。这样做从未令我失望，反而决定了我人生中所有与众不同之处。

斯坦福大学毕业典礼演讲稿

毕业生，祝贺你们!能站在这里，梅琳达和我都很兴奋。每一个收到邀请，能够在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上讲话的人都会又紧张又兴奋——但我们尤其高兴。

长久以来，斯坦福都是最受微软和我们的基金会青睐的大学之一，而现在它正迅速得到我们家族的喜爱。我们的原则是让最聪明、最有创造力的人来解决最重要的问题。事实证明，有相当一部分这样的人都出自斯坦福。

现在，有30多个我们基金会投资的研究项目都在斯坦福开展。当我们想更好地了解免疫系统从而帮助治愈绝症时，我们与斯坦福开展了合作;当我们想了解美国高等教育状况的变化以便使更多来自低收入家庭的学生读得起大学时，我们又一次与斯坦福展开了合作。

这里天才汇聚，思想灵活——人们对变化持开放态度，对新鲜事物充满了渴望。人们在这里可以饶有兴味地一窥未来。

斯坦福大学毕业典礼演讲稿

在这所斯坦福的校园里发生着许多非凡的事情。但如果非要梅琳达和我用一个词来说明我们对这里的热爱，那么这个词是"乐观"。在这里有一种极富感染力的氛围，即创新几乎可以解决一切问题。

正是在这种信念的激励下，我于1975年离开了这所位于波士顿郊区的学校，并从此一去不回头。我相信，计算机和软件的魔力能够使世界上所有的人都变得更强大，并使世界变得越来越美好。

自那时起已经过了将近40年，而梅琳达和我也已经结婚20年。如今我们比以往更加乐观。但在我们共同的旅程中，乐观精神是逐渐延续的。今天，我们希望将自己学到的传授给你们——并且告诉你们，我们大家的乐观精神将会如何为更多人做更多事。

在保罗·艾伦和我初创微软时，我们想让人们获得计算机和软件的力量——这是我们使用的一种比喻性说法。在这个领域中的一本开创性书籍的封面上有一只举起的拳头，书名叫做《计算机的解放》。在那时，只有大公司才能买得起计算机。我们想使普通人也也能买得起——并且使电脑操作普遍化。

到20世纪90年代，我们见证了个人计算机使人们获得的深远力量。但这种成功又带来了新的困境：如果富人家的孩子拥有了计算机，而穷人家的孩子无法拥有，那么技术反而会使不公平的状况加剧。这种状况违背了我们的核心信念——技术应当使所有人受益。因此我们致力于缩小这种"数字鸿沟"。我将它作为微软发展的重中之重，梅琳达和我将它作为基金会早期发展的重点——向公共图书馆捐献个人电脑并保证所有人都能使用。

在我1997年第一次造访非洲时，"数字鸿沟"是我关注的一个重点问题。我是因公务去的那里，因此大部分时间我都在约翰内斯堡的市中心开会。期间，我居住在南非最富的一户人家里。那时距纳尔逊·曼德拉被选举为南非总统从而标志着种族隔离的结束仅仅过去了三年时间。当我坐下来，与那户人家的主人们一起用餐时，他们就摇铃，将管家唤过来为他们服务。用餐结束后，男女宾客会分开，男士们聚在一起抽雪茄。那时我想，"还好我读过简·奥斯汀的书，否则根本弄不明白这是怎么回事"。

第二天我去了索维托，这是一个位于约翰内斯堡西南方向的贫穷小镇，这里曾经是一个反种族隔离运动的中心。

从市区到这个小镇只有很短一段距离，但进入小镇的那一刻我非常震惊，一切都是那么不和谐。我进入了一个与我的国家截然不同的世界。

索维托之行早早地就为我上了一课，让我明白了自己有多么天真。

微软向那里的一个社区中心捐赠了计算机和软件——这些事是我们在美国就曾做过的。但我很快明白过来，这里并不是美国。

我曾阅读过有关贫困的数据，但我从未真正见过贫穷。那里的人们住在皱巴巴的铁皮棚子里，里面不通电、不通水，也没有厕所。大多数人都不穿鞋，赤着脚走在街上——只不过那里也没有街——只有在泥土上轧出的一条条车辙。

社区中心没有接入稳定的电源，因此人们装配了一条长达200英尺的延长电缆，从外面的一个柴油发动机接入到社区中心。看着这堆装备，我知道，现场的记者们和我一离开，发电机就会被挪走，去解决其他更紧迫的问题，社区中心的使用者们也会回去，继续为生活的挑战而忧心忡忡，因为个人计算机并不能为他们解决这些挑战。

当我对媒体发表已经准备好的评论时，我说："我们在索维托所做的是一个里程碑。以后我们就会知道，先进技术是否会将发展中国家抛在后面。我们所做的将会缩小发达国家与发展中国家的差距"。

读出这些句子时，我明白它们都是些不相干的话。我没有说出的是："顺便提一下，我们并没有关注这样一个事实——这片大陆上每年有50万人死于疟疾。但是我们非常确定，将会为你们带去计算机"。

去索维托之前，我以为自己理解这世上的问题，但我却对那些最重要的问题视而不见。我所见到的让我大为吃惊，因此我必须问自己，"我还相信创新能够解决这世界上最棘手的那些问题吗"?

我对自己承诺，在返回非洲之前，我要找到更多导致人们贫穷的原因。

多年以来，梅琳达和我的确越来越多地了解了贫穷的人们最迫切的需求。后来有一次去南非时，我探访了一家治疗耐多药肺结核(mdr-tb)的医院，这种病的治愈率不足50%。

我记得那家医院，那里充斥着绝望。那里有着巨大而开阔的病房，许多病人穿着睡衣，戴着口罩，脚步沉重地走来走去。

医院里有一层是儿童病区，其中有一些仍在襁褓中的婴儿。这里有一个小小的学校，身体状况足够好的孩子可以在这里学习，但是许多孩子的病情都不见好转，院方似乎也不知道是否值得开着学校。

我与这里一位30出头的女病人聊了聊。在一家肺结核医院工作的时候，她开始咳嗽。然后她去看了医生，医生告诉她，她感染了抗药性肺结核。后来，她又被诊断出患有艾滋病。她的生命没有多少时间了，但还是有许多mdr患者等着在她腾出床位之后占据她的床。

那是一个地狱，那里的人们都在死亡名单上等候着。

但是面对地狱，我的乐观精神并没有减退，反而使我变得更加乐观。我上了车，对与我们共事的医生说："是的，我知道mdr-tb很难治愈。但我们应该能为这些人做一些事"。我们在今年进入了一项新的肺结核药物疗法的第三阶段。根据参与疗法的病人的反馈，以前18个月的治疗费用为__美元，治愈率只有50%，而如今六个月的治疗费用在100美元以下，治愈率能达到80%到90%。失败率能降到百分之一就更好了。

人们经常会把乐观当作虚假的希望加以摒弃，但同样存在着虚假的绝望。

正是这种态度宣称，我们无法打败贫穷和疾病。

但我们一定可以。

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尊敬的各位领导、老师、亲爱的同学们:

大家好!

作为毕业生的代表，今天在这庄严的毕业典礼上，代表全体毕业生在此发言，我深感荣幸。首先，我代表全体同学向学院的各位老师说声：您们辛苦了!

几年的大学时光如白驹过隙，转瞬即逝。弹指一挥间，我们已从渴求知识的新生，成长为略有所成的毕业生。相信大学生活里的酸、甜、苦、辣，给每个人留下了弥足珍贵的回忆;相信大学几年的学习会成为每个人未来发展的不竭动力。

经历了大学几年的紧张和忙碌，我此刻的心情应当和在座的各位同学一样，纵然喜悦，也掩不住回忆与留恋。面对母校，即将毕业的我们感慨万千。正是由于您的培养，使我们在发展方向上拥有充分的个性空间;正是由于您的关怀，使我们可以自信地面队任何艰难困苦;正是由于您的"呵护，才使得我们顺利完成学业，获得继续深造与建功立业的机会;正是你的宽容，使我们可以犯错，可以按自己的方式，按自己的理想爱好学会生活。

几年的课堂，老师们或滔滔不绝，或循循善诱，或旁征博引的风格，为我们展现了知识的无限魅力。如果黑板就是浩淼的大海，那么，老师便是海上的水手。铃声响起那刻，你用教职工鞭作浆，划动那船只般泊在港口的课本 。课桌上，那难题堆放，犹如暗礁一样布列，你手势生动如一只飞翔的鸟，在讲台上挥一条优美弧线——船只穿过……天空飘不来一片云，犹如你亮堂堂的心，一派高远。 也许还有一些遗憾吧，那么多精彩的讲座，我们已经来不及聆听;那么多精彩的活动，我们已经来不及参与。也许还有一些愧疚吧，面对慈父严母般的老师，我们总能杜撰出各种逃课的理由。面对认真批改作业的各科老师，我们很多时候都只能拿出一个版本。

这几年的大学生活里，我们收获了太多，也错过了太多，而时间从未像现在这样吝啬，连一分一秒也不愿多留给我们。我们总以为自己已经长大，总以为自己可以毫不在乎，但当离别就这样不依不饶地到来的时候，才发现自己与这个集体已经血脉相连，荣辱与共了。

最近，我常常考虑一个问题:假如我可以再度过一次大学生活，又会选择怎样的生活方式?会努力地追求些什么?放弃些什么?有些问题真的会有和当时不一样的答案。 总有太多发自肺腑的感谢，怕来不及说出口：

亲爱的母校，是您包容了我们的懵懂无知，是您孕育了我们的睿智果断，是您给了我们展示自我的舞台。学校的学习风气、学习理念将使我们终生受益。我们不仅学到了知识，而且学会了怎样做人，做一个勤奋、诚实的人，这是学院给我们最大的财富。

亲爱的老师，是您的辛劳付出，是您的无私奉献换来了我们的收获与成长;您知识渊博，并毫无保留地传授给我们;您体贴入微，使我们的生活充满了家的温暖;您独特的人格魅力更是令我们折服;您的磨练与指导，在我们成长的道路上留下深深的印迹。衷心地感谢您!

亲爱的父母，一路上风雨兼程，你们撑起一片灿烂无比的晴空，用细致无私的爱，给了我们温暖的港湾和不断前行的力量，却从不索求，让我们把诚挚的谢意献给你们，用一生去回报你们无尽的恩情。

现在，我们即将离开，让我们认真保存好每张合影，因为合影上的灿烂笑容已经定格在记忆中;让我们用力拥抱每一个我们喜欢、我们欣赏或曾经帮助过我们的人，因为很多人，此生将很难再重逢;让我们对曾经起过争执冲突的人说声"对不起"，不再追究谁对谁错，因为我们不想把友情的缺憾带入今后的生活;让我们再对每位老师，对校内各岗位上的工作人员说声"谢谢"，因为他们的存在， 我们才可以舒心的学习和生活;也让我们在送别的时候，别泪水涟涟，因为我们应更多的记住彼此灿烂的笑脸!

在这里，我们共同祝愿母校的明天更加美好，更加灿烂，我们也衷心祝愿每一位老师身体健康、工作顺利，祝愿学弟学妹们继续开创美好的未来!

在即将踏上新的人生旅途的时候，我们所有人都将记住：没有大海的壮美，可以有小溪的娟秀，没有高山的巍峨，可以有山路的曲折，没有激昂的乐章，可以有抒情的小调。长风破浪会有时，直挂云帆济沧海。在以后漫长的人生旅程中，找到自己的方向，做个最好的自我!这样的人生也美丽!

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大学毕业典礼英语演讲稿

graduates of yale university, i apologize if you have endured this type of prologue before, but i want you to do something for me. please, take a ood look around you. look at the classmate on your left. look at the classmate on your right. now, consider this: five years from now, 10 years from now, even 30 years from now, odds are the person on your left is going to be a loser. the person on your right, meanwhile, will also be a loser. and you, in the middle? what can you e_pect? loser. loserhood. loser cum laude.

"in fact, as i look out before me today, i don"t see a thousand hopes for a bright tomorrow. i don"t see a thousand future leaders in a thousand industries. i see a thousand losers.

"you"re upset. that"s understandable. after all, how can i, lawrence "larry" ellison, college dropout, have the audacity to spout such heresy to the graduating class of one of the nation"s most prestigious institutions? i"ll tell you why. because i, lawrence "larry" ellison, second richest man on the planet, am a college dropout, and you are not.

"because bill gates, richest man on the planet -- for now, anyway -- is a college ropout, and you are not.

"because paul allen, the third richest man on the planet, dropped out of college, and you did not.

"and for good measure, because michael dell, no. 9 on the list and moving up fast, is a college dropout, and you, yet again, are not.

"hmm . . . you"re very upset. that"s understandable. so let me stroke your egos for a moment by pointing out, quite sincerely, that your diplomas were not attained in vain. most of you, i imagine, have spent four to five years here, and in many ways what you"ve learned and endured will serve you well in the years ahead. you"ve established good work habits. you"ve established a network of people that will help you down the road. and you"ve established what will be lifelong relationships with the word "therapy." all that of is good. for in truth, you will need that network. you will need those strong work habits. you will need that therapy.

"you will need them because you didn"t drop out, and so you will never be among the richest people in the world. oh sure, you may, perhaps, work your way up to no. 10 or no. 11, like steve ballmer. but then, i don"t have to tell you who he really works for, do i? and for the record, he dropped out of grad school. bit of a late bloomer.

"finally, i realize that many of you, and hopefully by now most of you, are wondering, "is there anything i can do? is there any hope for me at all?" actually, no. it"s too late. you"ve absorbed too much, think you know too much. you"re not 19 anymore. you have a built-in cap, and i"m not referring to the mortar boards on your heads.

"hmm... you"re really very upset. that"s understandable. so perhaps this would be a good time to bring up the silver lining. not for you, class of "00. you are a write-off, so i"ll let you slink off to your pathetic $200,000-a-year jobs, where your checks will be signed by former classmates who dropped out two years ago.

"instead, i want to give hope to any underclassmen here today. i say to you, and i can"t stress this enough: leave. pack your things and your ideas and don"t come back. drop out. start up.

"for i can tell you that a cap and gown will keep you down just as surely as these security guards dragging me off this stage are keeping me down . . ."

(at this point the oracle ceo was ushered off stage.)

中文译文：

耶鲁的毕业生们，我很抱歉——如果你们不喜欢这样的开场。我想请你们为我做一件事。请你---好好看一看周围，看一看站在你左边的同学，看一看站在你右边的同学。

请你设想这样的情况：从现在起5年之后，2024年之后，或30年之后，今天站在你左边的这个人会是一个失败者;右边的这个人，同样，也是个失败者。而你，站在中间的家伙，你以为会怎样?一样是失败者。失败的经历。失败的优等生。

说实话，今天我站在这里，并没有看到一千个毕业生的灿烂未来。我没有看到一千个行业的一千名卓越领导者，我只看到了一千个失败者。你们感到沮丧，这是可以理解的。为什么，我，埃里森，一个退学生，竟然在美国最具声望的学府里这样厚颜地散布异端?我来告诉你原因。因为，我，埃里森，这个行星上第二富有的人，是个退学生，而你不是。因为比尔-盖茨，这个行星上最富有的人——就目前而言---是个退学生，而你不是。因为艾伦，这个行星上第三富有的人，也退了学，而你没有。再来一点证据吧，因为戴尔，这个行星上第九富有的人——他的排位还在不断上升，也是个退学生。而你，不是。

......你们非常沮丧，这是可以理解的。

你们将来需要这些有用的工作习惯。你将来需要这种"治疗"。你需要它们，因为你没辍学，所以你永远不会成为世界上最富有的人。哦，当然，你可以，也许，以你的方式进步到第10位，第11位，就像steve。但，我没有告诉你他在为谁工作，是吧?

根据记载，他是研究生时辍的学，开化得稍晚了些。

现在，我猜想你们中间很多人，也许是绝大多数人，正在琢磨，"我能做什么? 我究竟有没有前途?"当然没有。太晚了，你们已经吸收了太多东西，以为自己懂得太多。你们再也不是19岁了。你们有了"内置"的帽子，哦，我指的可不是你们脑袋上的学位帽。

嗯......你们已经非常沮丧啦。这是可以理解的。所以，现在可能是讨论实质的时候啦——

绝不是为了你们，2024年毕业生。你们已经被报销，不予考虑了。我想，你们就偷偷摸摸去干那年薪20万的可怜工作吧，在那里，工资单是由你两年前辍学的同班同学签字开出来的。事实上，我是寄希望于眼下还没有毕业的同学。我要对他们说，离开这里。收拾好你的东西，带着你的点子，别再回来。退学吧，开始行动。

我要告诉你，一顶帽子一套学位服必然要让你沦落......就像这些保安马上要把我从这个讲台上撵走一样必然......(此时，larry被带离了讲台)

毕业典礼英文演讲稿范文

you all are leaving your alma mater now. i have no gift to present you all e_cept a piece of advice.

what i would like to advise is that "don’t give up your study." most of the courses you have taken are partly for your certificate. you had no choice but to take them. from now on, you may study on your own. i would advise you to work hard at some special field when you are still young and vigorous. your youth will be gone that will never come back to you again. when you are old, and when your energy are getting poorer, you will not be able to as you wish to. even though you have to study in order to make a living, studies will never live up to you. making a living without studying, you will be shifted out in three or five years. at this time when you hope to make it up, you will say it is too late. perhaps you will say, "after graduation and going into the society, we will meet with an urgent problem, that is, to make a living. for this we have no time to study. even though we hope to study, we have no library nor labs, how can we study further?"毕业典礼英文演讲稿

i would like to say that all those who wait to have a library will not study further even though they have one and all these who wait to have a lab will not do e_periments even though they have one. when you have a firm resolution and determination to solve a problem, you will naturally economize on food and clothing.

as for time, i should say it’s not a problem. you may know that every day he could do only an hour work, not much more than that because darwin was ill for all his life. you must have read his achievements. every day you spend an hour in reading 10 useful pages, then you will read more than 3650 pages every year. in 30 years you will have read 110,000 pages.

my fellow students, reading 110,000 pages will make you a scholar. but it will take you an hour to read three kinds of small-sized newspapers and it will take you an hour and a half to play four rounds of mahjian pieces. reading small-sized newspapers or playing mahjian pieces, or working hard to be a scholar? it’s up to you all.

henrik ibsen said, "it is your greatest duty to make yourself out."

studying is then as tool as casting. giving up studying will destroy yourself.

i have to say goodbye to you all. your alma mater will open her eyes to see what you will be in 10 years. goodbye!

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甲骨文ceo在耶鲁大学毕业典礼上的演讲

耶鲁的毕业生们，我很抱歉——如果你们不喜欢这样的开场。我想请你们为我做一件事。请你—好好看一看周围，看一看站在你左边的同学，看一看站在你右边的同学。

请你设想这样的情况：从现在起5年之后，10年之后，或30年之后，今天站在你左边的这个人会是一个失败者；右边的这个人，同样，也是个失败者。而你，站在中间的家伙，你以为会怎样？一样是失败者。失败的经历。失败的优等生。说实话，今天我站在这里，并没有看到一千个毕业生的灿烂未来。我没有看到一千个行业的一千名卓越领导者，我只看到了一千个失败者。你们感到沮丧，这是可以理解的。为什么，我，埃里森，一个退学生，竟然在美国最具声望的学府里这样厚颜地散布异端？我来告诉你原因。因为，我，埃里森，这个行星上第二富有的人，是个退学生，而你不是。因为比尔-盖茨，这个行星上最富有的人——就目前而言—是个退学生，而你不是。因为艾伦，这个行星上第三富有的人，也退了学，而你没有。再来一点证据吧，因为戴尔，这个行星上第九富有的人——他的排位还在不断上升，也是个退学生。而你，不是。

你们非常沮丧，这是可以理解的。

你们将来需要这些有用的工作习惯。你将来需要这种’治疗’。你需要它们，因为你没辍学，所以你永远不会成为世界上最富有的人。哦，当然，你可以，也许，以你的方式进步到第10位，第11位，就像steve。但，我没有告诉你他在为谁工作，是吧？

根据记载，他是研究生时辍的学，开化得稍晚了些。

现在，我猜想你们中间很多人，也许是绝大多数人，正在琢磨，"我能做什么？我究竟有没有前途？"当然没有。太晚了，你们已经吸收了太多东西，以为自己懂得太多。你们再也不是19岁了。你们有了’内置’的帽子，哦，我指的可不是你们脑袋上的学位帽。

嗯 你们已经非常沮丧啦。这是可以理解的。所以，现在可能是讨论实质的时候啦——

绝不是为了你们，2000年毕业生。你们已经被报销，不予考虑了。我想，你们就偷偷摸摸去干那年薪20万的可怜工作吧，在那里，工资单是由你两年前辍学的同班同学签字开出来的。事实上，我是寄希望于眼下还没有毕业的同学。我要对他们说，离开这里。收拾好你的"东西，带着你的点子，别再回来。退学吧，开始行动。

我要告诉你，一顶帽子一套学位服必然要让你沦落 就像这些保安马上要把我从这个讲台上撵走一样必然 （此时，larry被带离了讲台）

注：演讲人larry.ellison是oracle的ceo。larry.ellison在耶鲁大学2000届毕业典礼上发表了以下世人看来最为狂妄、不受欢迎但又是现实真实状况的演讲。

埃里森（ellison），这个在32岁以前还一事无成的男人，曾经读过三个大学，却没得到一个学位文凭；换过十几家公司，老婆也离他而去，而自己开始创业时只有1200美元的积蓄。然而也正是这个数十年居无室所，甚至东渡日本的男人让oracle公司连续12年销售额每年翻一番，成为世界上第二大软件公司，他自己也成为硅谷首富。ellison以不择手段的经营手腕和强力甚至欺骗的市场竞争，击败了一个又一个的对手,ellison要打倒的最后一个目标就是软件帝国之王微软的比尔.盖茨。

埃里森在耶鲁大学的演讲在互联网上广为流传，人们在震惊之余为其大胆叛逆的观念击节叫好。当然，99.99%的人不会因为演讲词而退学，但他确实促使人们对教育、对传统的观念进行深入的思考。

成功的模式是不同的，但是，仍然有一些有助于成功的通用的因素。如果能够从埃里森的演讲中体悟出几点这样的因素，那么您看这篇文章就算很有收获了。

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尊敬的各位来宾、各位同学们，

大家好!

很高兴参加母校__届毕业生的毕业典礼。

今天的高兴是发自内心的，不是客套话。因为在这之前，有过其他高校，邀请我去做毕业生演讲，(包括美国高校和中国高校)，我都婉拒了!我想啊，第一次做毕业典礼演讲，一定要留给母校!今天我实现了这个愿望!再次感谢宁校长，感谢母校的全体老师和同学们!

今天，我想在座的各位同学，此时此刻都怀着各种各样的心境。有紧张的，因为马上要面对社会，未来有不确定性;有轻松的，感到终于解脱了，特别对那些学习不用功的同学，(我当年就是其中一位);也有十分自信的，特别对学习成绩好的同学。但今天我想给同学们送的一句话是：不论你带着何种心情离开母校，有一样东西，你必须要带着走向社会，是什么呢?那就是梦想!所以我讲的主题是：同学们要带着梦想前行!

有梦想很容易，为了梦想去奋斗，下这个决心也不难，但是芸芸众生当中，究竟有多少人实现了自己的梦想呢?问题出在哪儿?首先是：坚持!同学们走出校门以后，社会上的诱惑很多，当然陷阱也很多，这个时候，还能不能坚守自己的梦想，这个决定了你的梦想能不能实现。

汉能有今天，就是因为坚持。汉能成立20年来只做一件事，那就是清洁能源，业务是水电、风电和太阳能。汉能在清洁能源发展史上创造了两个奇迹，第一，成为全球最大的民营水力发电公司;第二，成为全球最大的薄膜太阳能企业。这20年当中有失败、挑战，还有许许多多的诱惑，但是我相信自己的判断，坚持自己的梦想，咬紧牙扛着，坚持到什么时候?我跟同学们讲，要一直努力到"上帝"出手相救之时!

那么同学们，如何坚守自己的梦想，如何实现自己的梦想呢?创业20年，我谈几点感受，供同学们参考。

第一点，要实现梦想，一定要经过大历练。

凡成大事者，必经八年历练，这个非常巧合。你看，我们打日本，打了八年;看看历史上很多王侯将相，看看李世民，马背八年，拿下天下，非常有意思，这是我总结出来的，都有八年以上的历练。八这个数字非常玄妙，大家懂点儿易经的话就知道。大历练大成长，小历练小成长，你想成大事就要经历八年的历练。汉能的金安桥就是经过了八年历练，十个年头，在金沙江上建成了一个特大型水电站。

在汉能之前，大型水电项目一直是由国家出资建设的，全世界都一样。金安桥水电站两期总装机300万kw，比葛洲坝大10%，比美国的胡佛大坝大近三分之一。民营企业做金安桥这样规模的工程，经受的波折和承受的压力超乎想象，没有相当的定力是没法坚持下去的。金安桥项目总投资超过两百亿(现在投资的话，仅工程就需约400亿)，高峰时期每天投入1000万。在最困难的时刻，我们把好几个建设完的、效益好的优质电站出售，筹集资金保金安桥。最后，我们把多年攒下来的风险准备金全部投了进去，很多高管从家里借来的钱也投了进去……

在这期间，金融、房地产等行业风生水起，很多朋友劝我，把金安桥项目卖了吧，一定能赚快钱，一定能赚大钱。当时，也确实有一些有实力的企业，特别有几个国有企业，出了很好的价钱。要知道，在最困难的时候，那种诱惑往往会成倍放大，但我们始终坚持发展清洁能源这一条根本道路，我们抵住了诱惑，终于把项目干成了!

我体会深刻的一点就是，与其早成功，不如晚成功;与其晚失败，不如早失败，因为失败在所难免。金安桥就是一个晚成功的典范。晚成功，我想，更有底蕴;晚成功，我想，是一种境界。我还有一个总结，就是一个人的成功，二十多岁取得成功的人，只能保持十年;三十岁成功的人，能保持二十年;四十年成功的人，能保持三十年;五十岁以后成功的人，可以一辈子辉煌!所以同学们不要急!

第二点体会，要实现梦想，就要修炼大品格。

什么是大品格?就是为理想而战!为信念而战!有的官员，为官位、为chair;有的企业家，只为钱而战，而奋斗。"要做大事，不要做大官"(习____说的)，要为了做大事，不是挣大钱!

在这里，我想跟大家分享一个秘密，一个如何才能赚大钱的秘密，是什么呢?那就是为理想而战，为信念而战，为梦想而战!这样，钱只是副产品，顺便就赚到了!眼盯着钱的人，一定赚不到大钱!上帝不会垂青他的。

第三点体会，要成功就要有大担当，就是勇于承担责任。

金安桥建成后，汉能拥有600万kw权益水电装机，每年有很稳定的现金流，完全可以什么都不用干了，可以天天打高尔夫了，为什么冒很大风险去做太阳能?我们真的感到有一种使命感，感到汉能有责任把我们国家的新能源，特别是未来的主流方向——薄膜发电产业做起来。

现在的中国社会是一个正在转型的社会，人们都很浮躁，不知道未来的方向在哪里，特别是现在很多人什么事儿都敢干，没有底线。我希望大家不要受这个影响，我们要知道什么可以干、什么不可以干，懂得什么时候放弃、什么时候坚持，要懂得中庸之道!什么是中庸，不同的人有不同的理解。我的理解就是：凡事恰到好处!

有的事情是永远不能碰的，同学们!

第四点：要有大爱心。

大爱心，最重要的，是要爱自己的国家。20年来，我接触了全球很多企业家，有一个深刻的体会，就是一个成功的企业家，不同的社会文化背景，性格模型也是不一样的，但是所有的模型中，有一样是共性的，就是：成功的企业家，都爱自己的祖国!一个人如果不爱国，他就没有成功的基础，没有心灵的基础，更没有精神基础。爱心从哪来的呢?来自感恩!"不要总向这个社会要求为你做什么，而要想着你为社会做些什么"。

所以，要常有感恩之心，感恩国家，感恩社会，感恩你生命中的每一个人。感恩你喜欢的人，因为他给你温暖和勇气。感恩你不喜欢的人，因为他教你宽容和尊重;感恩不喜欢你的人，因为他让你自我反省和成长。

第五点，要知大运。

国家的改革开放，社会的发展，给我们创造了大量机会，这是我们的大势。国家往前走。我们的企业就会越来越好，每个人就会越来越好，要相信这个大趋势，顺势而为。现在，可以感知到的，国家的大运已经到来。所以，我们要把自己的运气融到国家的大运当中，国运好了，我们大家的运气就都好了，所以我常说这样一句话：国运则我运!

知大运的人，就会充满使命感，就会有坚定的信念。为理想、为信念而干的人，他会很lucky，很多人都会帮你，仿佛天上有一种很特别的力量，一种神奇的力量，让你什么事情都很走运。我对这一点有特别深切的体会，很多次，当你都快绝望的时候，"上帝"出手了!那是因为我们有使命感!

最后，我想跟大家分享一下汉能人的梦想是什么。

习____提出的中国梦，是一个大梦，这个大梦吧，由许多个小一点的梦想组成的。汉能梦就是中国梦的一个组成部分，汉能的梦想就是——用清洁能源改变世界。同学们，一个国家的崛起，往往伴随着一批优秀企业的崛起，我们知道，韩国之所以在战后崛起，就是因为有三星、现代等一批世界级的企业。中国民营企业，同样肩负实现民族复兴的重大使命。汉能的梦想，就是要像三星在韩国一样，苹果、微软在美国一样，成为中国企业的典范和象征之一!就是要通过薄膜发电产业这件事儿，把世界能源格局给变了，把煤和石油给替代了!汉能人都信这个事儿，因为太阳能大规模替代传统能源的时代已经来临了!

企业的梦想也好，个人的梦想也好，是我们奋斗的方向，是我们战胜困难、走向成功的动力。有梦想不一定成功，但没有梦想和追求，肯定成不了事儿!

同学们，人生就像一张有去无回的单程车票，没有彩排，每一场都是现场直播。在这个旅途中，大家会遇到诱惑、挫折，甚至遭遇厄运，但是请同学们务必记住：有一样东西不论遇到多少艰难困苦都不要放弃——那就是梦想!

愿同学们在人生旅途中，永不放弃梦想!携梦前行!

谢谢大家!

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"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。

故事要从我出生之前开始说起。我的生母是一名年轻的未婚妈妈，当时她还是一所大学的在读研究生，于是决定把我送给其他人收养。她坚持我应该被一对念过大学的夫妇收养，所以在我出生的时候，她已经为我被一个律师和他的太太收养做好了所有的准备。但在最后一刻，这对夫妇改了主意，决定收养一个女孩。侯选名单上的另外一对夫妇，也就是我的养父母，在一天午夜接到了一通电话："有一个不请自来的男婴，你们想收养吗？"他们回答："当然想。"事后，我的生母才发现我的养母根本就没有从大学毕业，而我的养父甚至连高中都没有毕业，所以她拒绝签署最后的收养文件，直到几个月后，我的养父母保证会把我送到大学，她的态度才有所转变。

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hare krishna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。

我举一个例子：那个时候，里德大学提供了全美国最好的书法教育。整个校园的每一张海报，每一个抽屉上的标签，都是漂亮的手写体。由于已经退学，不用再去上那些常规的课程，于是我选择了一个书法班，想学学怎么写出一手漂亮字。在这个班上，我学习了各种衬线和无衬线字体，如何改变不同字体组合之间的字间距，以及如何做出漂亮的版式。那是一种科学永远无法捕捉的充满美感、历史感和艺术感的微妙，我发现这太有意思了。

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__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__年之后再回头看，生命的轨迹变得非常清楚。

再次说明的是,你在向前展望的时候不可能将这些片断串连起来；你只能在回顾的时候将点点滴滴串连起来。所以你必须相信这些片断会在你未来的某一天串连起来。你必须要相信某些东西：你的`勇气、目的、生命、因缘。这个过程从来没有令我失望（let me down）,只是让我的生命更加地与众不同而已。

我的第二个故事是关于爱与失去。

我是幸运的，在年轻的时候就知道了自己爱做什么。在我20岁的时候，就和沃兹在我父母的车库里开创了苹果电脑公司。我们勤奋工作，只用了__年的时间，苹果电脑就从车库里的两个小伙子扩展成拥有4000名员工，价值达到20亿美元的企业。而在此之前的一年，我们刚推出了我们最好的产品macintosh电脑，当时我刚过而立之年。然后，我就被炒了鱿鱼。一个人怎么可以被他所创立的公司解雇呢？（笑声）这么说吧，随着苹果的成长，我们请了一个原本以为很能干的家伙和我一起管理这家公司，在头一年左右，他干得还不错，但后来，我们对公司未来的前景出现了分歧，于是我们之间出现了矛盾。由于公司的董事会站在他那一边，所以在我30岁的时候，就被踢出了局。我失去了一直贯穿在我整个成年生活的重心，打击是毁灭性的。

这是我最接近死亡的一次，我希望在随后的几十年里，都不要有比这一次更接近死亡的经历。在经历了这次与死神擦肩而过的经验之后，死亡对我来说只是一项有效的判断工具，并且只是一个纯粹的理性概念时相比，我能够更肯定地告诉你们以下事实：没人想死；即使想去天堂的人，也是希望能活着进去。（笑声）死亡是我们每个人的人生终点站，没人能够成为例外。生命就是如此，因为死亡很可能是生命最好的造物，它是生命更迭的媒介，送走耋耄老者，给新生代让路。现在你们还是新生代，但不久的将来你们也将逐渐老去，被送出人生的舞台。很抱歉说得这么富有戏剧性，但生命就是如此。

你们的时间有限，所以不要把时间浪费在别人的生活里。不要被条条框框束缚，否则你就生活在他人思考的结果里。不要让他人的观点所发出的噪音淹没你内心的声音。最为重要的是，要有遵从你的内心和直觉的勇气，它们可能已知道你其实想成为一个什么样的人。其他事物都是次要的。

在我年轻的时候，有一本非常棒的杂志叫《全球目录》（the whole earth catalog），它被我们那一代人奉为圭臬。这本杂志的创办人是一个叫斯图尔特．布兰德的家伙，他住在menlo park，距离这儿不远。他把这本杂志办得充满诗意。那是在60年代末期，个人电脑、桌面发排系统还没有出现，所以出版工具只有打字机、剪刀和宝丽来相机。这本杂志有点像印在纸上的google，但那是在google出现的35年前；它充满了理想色彩，内容都是些非常好用的工具和了不起的见解。

斯图尔特和他的团队做了几期《全球目录》，快无疾而终的时候，他们出版了最后一期。那是在70年代中期，我当时处在你们现在的年龄。在最后一期的封底有一张清晨乡间公路的照片，如果你喜欢搭车冒险旅行的话，经常会碰到的那种小路。在照片下面有一排字：物有所不足，智有所不明（stay hungry. stay foolish.）这是他们__的告别留言。物有所不足，智有所不明。我总是以此自诩。现在，在你们毕业开始新生活的时候，我把这句话送给你们

—— 好学若饥、谦卑若愚。 "

大学毕业典礼演讲稿 模板10

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包罗万象---龙应台在香港大学医学院的毕业典礼上的致辞

124年前，第一颗石头打下了桩，铺出的路，一路绵延到下一村——你今天的所在。patrick manson抵抗无知，坚持科学实证的知识学习;孙逸仙抵抗腐坏，坚持清明合理的管理制度。你是否想过：在你的时代里，在你的社会里，你会抵抗些什么，坚持些什么?

学程二期

我一般非常不情愿在毕业典礼演讲，因为这个场合的听众一定是最糟糕的听众——你还没开口，他就巴不得你已经结束，而且，他决心已下，不管你说什么，只要戴着方帽子走出了这个大厅的门，他这一生不会记得你今天说过的任何一句话。

虽然如此，我还是来了，不仅只是因为，受邀到医学院演讲是一份给我的光荣和喜悦，也因为我"精打细算"过了——迟早有一天，我会"落"在你们的手里。当那一天到来的时候，我自然渴望在床边低头探视我的你，不只在专业上出类拔萃，更是一个具有社会承担﹑充满关怀和热情的个人。

我们都说这是一个毕业典礼，五六年非常艰难的医学训练，今天结束了。我倒觉得，是不是可以这样看：今天其实只是你"学程一期"的毕业典礼，一期的核心科目是医学。但是今天同时是你"学程二期"的开学典礼，二期的核心科目是"人生"。二期比一期困难，因为它没有教科书，也没有指导教授。在今天的15分钟里我打算和你们分享的，是一点点我自己的"人生"笔记。

奶粉和头虱

我成长在台湾南部一个滨海的小城，叫做高雄。1961那一年，小学二年级，发生了一件大事。班上一个女生突然严重呕吐，被紧急送到医院。没多久，学校就让我们都回家了，全市的学校关闭。过了一段日子，当我们再回到学校的时候，班上几个小朋友的座位，是空的。那是我第一次听到有一种病，名叫"霍乱"。我们当时当然不知道，高雄的"邻村"——香港，在同时，被同一波传染病所袭击，15个人死亡。早在"非典"之前，我们的命运就是彼此相连的，但是我们懵懂无知。

是的，我是一个在所谓"第三世界"长大的小孩。想象一下这些黑白镜头：年轻的母亲们坐在拥挤不堪的房间里，夜以继日地制作塑料花和廉价的圣诞饰灯，孩子们满地乱跑，身上穿的可能是美援奶粉袋裁剪出来的恤衫;那运气特别好的，刚好在前胸就印着"中美合作"的标语，或者凑巧就是"净重二十磅"。

1975年我到美国留学，第一件感觉讶异的事就是，咦，怎么美国人喝的牛奶不是用奶粉泡出来的?1961年的班上，每一个女生都有头虱，白色细小的虱卵附着在一根一根发丝上，密密麻麻的，乍看之下以为是白的头皮屑。时不时，你会看见教室门口，一个老师手里举着一罐ddt杀虫剂，对准一个蹲着的女生的头，认真喷洒。

香港人和台湾人有很多相同的记忆，而奶粉﹑廉价圣诞灯﹑霍乱和头虱，都是贫穷的印记。如果我们从我的童年时代继续回溯一两代，黑白照片里的景象会更灰暗。一个西方传教士在1895年来到中国，她所看到的是，"街头到处都是皮肤溃烂的人，大脖子的﹑肢体残缺变形的﹑瞎了眼的，还有多得无可想象的乞丐……一路上看到的溃烂皮肤和残疾令我们难过极了。"

192024年，一个日本作家来到了香港，无意间闯进了一家医院，便朝病房里面偷看了一眼。他瞥见一个幽暗的房间，光光的床板上躺着一个"低级中国人，像蛆在蠕动，恶臭刺鼻"，日本人夺门而逃。

可是，为什么和你们说这些呢?为什么在今天这样的时间﹑这样的地点﹑这样的场合，和你们说这些呢?

我有我的理由。

目光如炬者

你们是香港大学一百周年的毕业生，而香港大学的前身，是1887年成立的"香港华人西医学堂"。如果这点你们不觉得有什么特别了不起，那我们看看1887年前后是一个什么样的时代。我们不妨记得，在1887年，尸体的解剖在大多数中国人眼中还是大逆不道的，而西医学堂已经要求它的学生必修解剖课。我们不妨记得，当鲁迅的父亲重病在床——那已是1897年，绍兴的医生给他开的药引，是一对蟋蟀，而且必须是"元配"。了解这个时代氛围，你才能体会到，124年前，创办西医学堂是一个多么重大的﹑改变时代的里程碑，你才能意识到，那幕后推动的人，必须配备多么深沉的社会责任感和多么远大的器识与目光，才可能开创那样的新时代。是何启和patrick manson这样的拓荒者，把你们带到今天这个礼堂里来的。

1887年10月1日，香港华人西医学堂首度举行开学典礼，首任学堂院长patrick manson致辞——曾经在台湾和厦门行医的manson到今天都被尊称为"热带医学之父"——他说，这个西医学堂，"会为香港创造一个机会，使香港不仅只是一个商品中心，它更可以是一个科学研究的中心"。看着台下的入学新生，他语重心长地说，"古典希腊人总爱自豪而且极度认真地数他们的著名伟人，我们可以期待，在未来的新的中国，当学者争论谁是中国的著名伟人的时候，会有一些伟人来自香港，而且此刻就坐在这个开学典礼之中。"

三十多个学生参加了1887年的开学典礼，学习五年之后，1892年的首届毕业生，却只有两名。其中之一，成为婆罗洲山打根的小镇医生，另一个，觉得医治个别病人远不如医治整个国家，于是决定放弃行医，彻底改行。

这个学名登记为"孙逸仙"的学生，起先只有一个非常小的计划，有点像今天的大学生利用暑假去做小区服务。他走在香港的街头，看见英国管理的城市如此井然有序，惊异之余，百思不解：为什么只隔八九十公里的距离，自己的家乡，一个叫香山的小城，却是如此混乱落后?他的小计划，就是把香山变成一个小香港。说到做到，二十多岁的西医学堂学生孙逸仙，利用寒暑假期，回到家乡，号召同村的青年出来铺桥修路，目标是修出一条路将两个邻村连通起来。这个小计划，最后由于地方吏治的腐坏，以失败告终。小计划的失败，震撼了他，他于是转而进行一个略大的计划，就是推翻整个帝国。

从 manson 1887年的开学致辞，到今天2024年的毕业演讲，我们的生活方式有了深沉的改变，而这些改变，来自一些特殊的人。目光如炬者，革新了教育制度;行动如剑者，改造了整个国家;还有很多既聪慧又锲而不舍的人，发明了各种疫苗。今天你我所处的世界，天花彻底灭绝，疟疾和霍乱病毒已经相当程度被控制，台湾和香港的女生已经不知道有"头虱"这个东西。西医学堂创立124年之后的今天，港大医学院培养出很多世界顶尖的学者和医生，为全球社区的幸福作贡献。

而你们，正是踏着这个传统的足迹一路走来的。

亚洲的第一名

也许你会问，既然前面的"长老们"，譬如patrick manson，譬如孙逸仙，已经完成这么多重大的贡献，还有什么是你们这一代人，是你，可以做梦，可以挑战，可以全身投入，可以奉献和追求的呢?今天的世界，还有什么未完成﹑待完成的使命吗?

我相信有。

43岁的patrick manson在创建西医学堂之前，研究过他所处的时与地。地，是香港，那时香港华人的医疗照顾与对洋人的照顾相比是一个悲惨的状态。时，是晚清，传统的价值体系正分崩离析而新的秩序和结构还未成形。孙逸仙毕业时26岁，每天从上环爬上陡峭的石阶上学，无时无刻不在"诊断"这个社会的存在状态，思索如何为人创造更大的幸福。

那么你们所处的时和地又是什么呢?

让我们先看看你们是谁。香港大学医学院的学生，20%来自医学专业家庭，也就是说，这20%的学生有双亲或者双亲之一已经是医生或护士。你们之中60%的人，父母那一代已经具有高等学历。很明确地说，你们是社会的菁英层。即便现在还不是，将来也会是。

而你们所身处的社会，又是一个什么样的社会呢?

香港这个"村子"，有一个非常独特的地方。享有近三万美金的每年人均所得，700万居民中却有123万人生存在贫穷线下——所谓"贫穷线"，指的是收入低于市民平均所得的一半以下。如果这听起来太抽象，没感觉，你试试看走到大学前面般含道的某一个街口站一会儿，数一数放学回家走在马路上的学童：一﹑二﹑三﹑四，在香港，每四个孩子之中，就有一个生活在贫穷线下。

我不知道你是否注意过，在最繁华﹑最气派的中环，那些推着重物上坡的白发老婆婆是如何佝偻着背，与她的负荷挣扎的?在你们所属的这个社会里，40%的长辈属于贫穷线下的低收入户。

来到香港机场的访客，马上会被一个漂亮的招牌所吸引，广告词很简单："香港是亚洲的世界大都会。"这个广告不说出来的是，香港是亚洲贫富不均第一名的大都会，贫富差距之大，超过印度，超过中国大陆。在全世界的已开发地区里，香港的分配不均，也名列首位。

你和我所生活的这个社会，最特殊的地方就是，一个摄影师不必守候太久就可以在街头捕捉到这样的画面：刚好一辆 rolls royce 缓缓驶过一个老人的身影，他正低着头在路边的垃圾桶里翻找东西。

最寻常最微小的

我无意鼓吹你们应该效法鲁迅弃医从文，或者跟随孙逸仙做革命家，或者全都去从事社会工作，因为人生有太多有趣的路可以选择了。我想说的仅只是，身为这么一个重要传承的接棒人，你也许可以多花那么一点点时间思索一下自己来自哪里﹑何处可之。124年前，第一颗石头打下了桩，铺出的路，一路绵延到下一村——你今天的所在。patrick manson抵抗无知，坚持科学实证的知识学习;孙逸仙抵抗腐坏，坚持清明合理的管理制度。你是否想过：在你的时代里，在你的社会里，你会抵抗些什么，坚持些什么?

我倒不希望你能立即回答，因为如果你能随口回答，我反而要怀疑你的真诚。一个人所抵抗的以及所坚持的，汇成一个总体，就叫做"信仰"。但是信仰，依靠的不是隆重的大声宣告;信仰深藏在日常生活的细节里，信仰流露在举手投足之间最寻常最微小的决定里。

patrick manson后来担任伦敦殖民部的医疗顾问，负责为申请到热带亚非地区做下层工作的人进行体检，体检不通过的，就得不到这样的工作机会。这时，他发现了一个未曾预料的问题：90%的体检者都有一口烂牙，检查不合格。毕竟，有钱人才看得起牙医。他该怎么办呢?

manson是这么处理的。他给上司写了封信，说，以烂牙理由"淘汰掉他们等同于淘汰掉整个他们这个阶层的人"，他建议政府为穷困的人提供牙医的服务。

有些专业者看见烂牙就是烂牙。有些人，譬如manson，看见烂牙的同时，却也看见人的存在状态——他认识痛苦。就是这种看起来很不重要﹑极其普通的日常生活里的判断和抉择，决定了我们真正是什么样的人。

花香不散

我14岁那年，全家搬到一个台湾南部的小渔村。因为贫穷，孩子们生病时，母亲不敢带我们去看医生——她付不起医药费。有一天，小弟发高烧，咳嗽严重到一个程度，母亲不得不鼓起勇气去找村子里的医生。我们都被带去了。四个年龄不同﹑高高矮矮的孩子一字排开，愣愣地站在这个乡村医生的对面。他很安静，几乎不说话，偶尔开口，声音轻柔，说的话我们却听不十分懂，是在地腔话的闽南语，还有日语。

林医师仔细地检查孩子的身体，把护士拿过来的药塞进母亲的手里，用听不懂的语言教导她怎么照顾孩子，然后，坚持不收母亲的钱。此后，一直到四个孩子都长大，他不曾接受过母亲的付费。

那是我记忆中第一个医生。那个小小的诊疗室，几乎没什么家具，地板是光秃秃的水泥，却是一尘不染。诊疗室外连着一个窄窄的院落，洒进墙里的阳光照亮了花草油晶晶的叶子。茉莉花盛开，香气一直在房间里绕着不散。

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chancellor wrighton, members of the board of trustees and the administration, distinguished faculty, class of 1965, hard-working staff, my fellow honorees, proud and relieved parents, calm and serene grandparents, distracted but secretly pleased siblings, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, graduating students, good morning. i am deeply honored that you have asked me here to say a few words at this momentous occasion, that you might find what i have to say worthy of your attention on so important a day at this remarkable institution.

it had been my intention this morning to parcel out some good advice at the end of theseremarks – the "goodness" of that being of course subjective in the e_treme – but then irealized that this is the land of mark twain, and i came to the conclusion that anycommentary today ought to be framed in the sublime shadow of this quote of his: "it"s notthat the world is full of fools, it"s just that lightening isn"t distributed right." … more on mr.twain later.

i am in the business of history. it is my job to try to discern some patterns and themes fromthe past to help us interpret our dizzyingly confusing and sometimes dismaying present.without a knowledge of that past, how can we possibly know where we are and, mostimportant, where we are going? over the years i"ve come to understand an important fact, ithink: that we are not condemned to repeat, as the cliché goes and we are fond of quoting,what we don"t remember. that"s a clever, even poetic phrase, but not even close to the truth.nor are there cycles of history, as the academic community periodically promotes. the bible,ecclesiastes to be specific, got it right, i think: "what has been will be again. what has beendone will be done again. there is nothing new under the sun."

what that means is that human nature never changes. or almost never changes. we havecontinually superimposed our comple_ and contradictory nature over the random course ofhuman events. all of our inherent strengths and weaknesses, our greed and generosity, ourpuritanism and our prurience parade before our eyes, generation after generation aftergeneration. this often gives us the impression that history does repeat itself. it doesn"t. itjust rhymes, mark twain is supposed to have said…but he didn"t (more on him later).

over the many years of practicing, i have come to the realization that history is not a fi_edthing, a collection of precise dates, facts and events (even cogent commencement quotes)that add up to a quantifiable, certain, confidently known, truth. it is a mysterious andmalleable thing. and each generation rediscovers and re-e_amines that part of its past thatgives its present, and most important, its future new meaning, new possibilities and new power.

listen. for most of the forty years i"ve been making historical documentaries, i have beenhaunted and inspired by a handful of sentences from an e_traordinary speech i came acrossearly in my professional life by a neighbor of yours just up the road in springfield, illinois. injanuary of 1838, shortly before his 29th birthday, a tall, thin lawyer, prone to bouts ofdebilitating depression, addressed the young men"s lyceum. the topic that day was nationalsecurity. "at what point shall we e_pect the approach of danger?" he asked his audience. "…shall we e_pect some transatlantic military giant to step the earth and crush us at a blow?"then he answered his own question: "never. all the armies of europe, asia, and africa … couldnot by force take a drink from the ohio [river] or make a track on the blue ridge in a trial of athousand years … if destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. as anation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide." it is a stunning,remarkable statement.

that young man was, of course, abraham lincoln, and he would go on to preside over theclosest this country has ever come to near national suicide, our civil war – fought over themeaning of freedom in america. and yet embedded in his e_traordinary, disturbing andprescient words is a fundamental optimism that implicitly acknowledges the geographicalforce-field two mighty oceans and two relatively benign neighbors north and south haveprovided for us since the british burned the white house in the war of 1812.

we have counted on abraham lincoln for more than a century and a half to get it right whenthe undertow in the tide of those human events has threatened to overwhelm and capsize us.we always come back to him for the kind of sustaining vision of why we americans still agree tocohere, why unlike any other country on earth, we are still stitched together by words and, mostimportant, their dangerous progeny, ideas. we return to him for a sense of unity, conscienceand national purpose. to escape what the late historian arthur schlesinger, jr., said is ourproblem today: "too much pluribus, not enough unum."

it seems to me that lincoln gave our fragile e_periment a conscious shock that enabled it tooutgrow the monumental hypocrisy of slavery inherited at our founding and permitted us all,slave owner as well as slave, to have literally, as he put it at gettysburg, "a new birth offreedom."

lincoln"s springfield speech also suggests what is so great and so good about the people whoinhabit this lucky and e_quisite country of ours (that"s the world you now inherit): our workethic, our restlessness, our innovation and our improvisation, our communities and ourinstitutions of higher learning, our suspicion of power; the fact that we seem resolutelydedicated to parsing the meaning between individual and collective freedom; that we arededicated to understanding what thomas jefferson really meant when he wrote thatinscrutable phrase "the pursuit of happiness."

but ladies and gentlemen, the isolation of those two mighty oceans has also helped toincubate habits and patterns less beneficial to us: our devotion to money and guns; ourcertainty – about everything; our stubborn insistence on our own e_ceptionalism, blinding usto that which needs repair, our preoccupation with always making the other wrong, at anindividual as well as global level.

and then there is the issue of race, which was foremost on the mind of lincoln back in 1838. itis still here with us today. the jazz trumpeter wynton marsalis told me that healing thisquestion of race was what "the kingdom needed in order to be well." before the enormousstrides in equality achieved in statutes and laws in the 150 years since the civil war thatlincoln correctly predicted would come are in danger of being undone by our still imperfecthuman nature and by politicians who now insist on a hypocritical color-blindness – after fourcenturies of discrimination. that discrimination now takes on new, sometimes subtler, lessobvious but still malevolent forms today. the chains of slavery have been broken, thank god,and so too has the feudal dependence of sharecroppers as the vengeful jim crow era recedes(sort of) into the distant past. but now in places like – but not limited to – your otherneighbors a few miles as the crow flies from here in ferguson, we see the ghastly remnants ofour great shame emerging still, the shame lincoln thought would lead to national suicide, ourinability to see beyond the color of someone"s skin. it has been with us since our founding.

when thomas jefferson wrote that immortal second sentence of the declaration that begins, "we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal…," he owned more thana hundred human beings. he never saw the contradiction, he never saw the hypocrisy, andmore important never saw fit in his lifetime to free any one of those human beings, ensuring aswe went forward that the young united states – born with such glorious promise – would bebedeviled by race, that it would take a bloody, bloody civil war to even begin to redress theimbalance.

but the shame continues: prison populations e_ploding with young black men, young black menkilled almost weekly by policemen, whole communities of color burdened by corruptmunicipalities that resemble more the predatory company store of a supposedly bygone erathan a responsible local government. our cities and towns and suburbs cannot become modernplantations.

it is unconscionable, as you emerge from this privileged sanctuary, that a few miles fromhere – and nearly everywhere else in america: baltimore, new york city, north charleston,cleveland, oklahoma, sanford, florida, nearly everywhere else – we are still playing out, sadly,an utterly american story, that the same stultifying conditions and sentiments that brought onour civil war are still on such vivid and unpleasant display. today, today. there"s nothingnew under the sun.

many years after our civil war, in 1883, mark twain took up writing in earnest a novel he hadstarted and abandoned several times over the last half-dozen years. it would be a different kindof story from his celebrated tom sawyer book, told this time in the plain language of hismissouri boyhood – and it would be his masterpiece.

set near here, before the civil war and emancipation, ‘the adventures of huckleberry finn" isthe story of two runaways – a white boy, tom sawyer"s old friend huck, fleeing civilization, anda black man, jim, who is running away from slavery. they escape together on a raft goingdown the mississippi.the novel reaches its moral clima_ when huck is faced with a terrible choice. he believes he has committed a grievous sin in helping jim escape, and he finally writes out a letter, telling jim"s owner where her runaway property can be found. huck feels good about doing this at first, he says, and marvels at "how close i came to being lost and going to hell."

but then he hesitates, thinking about how kind jim has been to him during their adventure. "…somehow," huck says, "i couldn"t seem to strike no place to harden me against him, but only the other kind. i"d see him standing my watch on top of his"n, ‘stead of calling me, so i could go on sleeping; and see how glad he was when i come back out of the fog;…and such like times; and would always call me honey…and do everything he could think of for me, and how good he always was…"

then, huck remembers the letter he has written. "i took it up, and held it in my hand," he says. "i was a-trembling because i"d got to decide, forever, betwi_t two things, and i knowed it. i studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself: ‘all right then, i"ll go to hell" – and tore it up."

that may be the finest moment in all of american literature. ernest hemingway thought all of american literature began at that moment.

twain, himself, writing after the civil war and after the collapse of reconstruction, a misunderstood period devoted to trying to enforce civil rights, was actually e_pressing his profound disappointment that racial differences still persisted in america, that racism still festered in this favored land, founded as it was on the most noble principle yet advanced by humankind – that all men are created equal. that civil war had not cleansed our original sin, a sin we continue to confront today, daily, in this supposedly enlightened "post-racial" time.

it is into this disorienting and sometimes disappointing world that you now plummet, i"m afraid, unprotected from the shelter of family and school. you have fresh prospects and real dreams and i wish each and every one of you the very best. but i am drafting you now into a new union army that must be committed to preserving the values, the sense of humor, the sense of cohesion that have long been a part of our american nature, too. you have no choice, you"ve been called up, and it is your difficult, but great and challenging responsibility to help change things and set us right again.

let me apologize to you in advance on behalf of all the people up here. we broke it, but you"ve got to fi_ it. you"re joining a movement that must be dedicated above all else – career and personal advancement – to the preservation of this country"s most enduring ideals. you have to learn, and then re-teach the rest of us that equality – real equality – is the hallmark and birthright of all americans. thankfully, you will become a vanguard against a new separatism that seems to have infected our ranks, a vanguard against those forces that, in the name of our great democracy, have managed to diminish it. then, you can change human nature just a bit, to appeal, as lincoln also implored us, to appeal to "the better angels of our nature." that"s the objective. and i know, i know you can do it.

ok. rounding third.

let me speak directly to the graduating class. (watch out. here comes the advice.)

remember: black lives matter. all lives matter.

reject fundamentalism wherever it raises its ugly head. it"s not civilized. choose to live in thebedford falls of "it"s a wonderful life," not its oppressive opposite, pottersville.

do not descend too deeply into specialism. educate all of your parts. you will be healthier.

replace cynicism with its old-fashioned antidote, skepticism.

don"t confuse monetary success with e_cellence. the poet robert penn warren once warnedme that "careerism is death."

try not to make the other wrong.

be curious, not cool.

remember, insecurity makes liars of us all.

listen to jazz. a lot, a lot. it is our music.

read. the book is still the greatest manmade machine of all – not the car, not the tv, not thecomputer or the smartphone.

do not allow our social media to segregate us into ever smaller tribes and clans, fiercely andsometimes appropriately loyal to our group, but also capable of metastasizing into profounddistrust of the other.

serve your country. by all means serve your country. but insist that we fight the right wars.governments always forget that.

convince your government that the real threat, as lincoln knew, comes from within.governments always forget that, too. do not let your government outsource honesty,transparency or candor. do not let your government outsource democracy.

vote. elect good leaders. when he was nominated in 1936, franklin delano roosevelt said, "better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than theconsistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference." we alldeserve the former. and insist on it.

insist that we support science and the arts, especially the arts. they have nothing to do withthe actual defense of the country – they just make our country worth defending.

be about the "unum," not the "pluribus."

do not lose your enthusiasm. in its greek etymology, the word enthusiasm means simply, "god in us."

and even though lightning still isn"t distributed right, try not to be a fool. it just gets marktwain riled up a bit.

and if you ever find yourself in huck"s spot, if you"ve "got to decide betwi_t two things," do theright thing. don"t forget to tear up the letter. he didn"t go to hell – and you won"t either.

so we come to an end of something today – and for you also a very special beginning. godspeed to you all.

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亲爱的同学们、老师们：

寒来暑往，春华秋实。同学们在中国人民大学度过了一段人生最美好的时光。这些年来，同学们在读书治学、文体活动、社会实践、国际交流、志愿服务等各个舞台上挥洒汗水，展示了人大学子的自信与昂扬；在北京奥运会、60周年国庆、抗震救灾等重大事件中，表现出了人大学子的担当精神和奉献精神。不仅如此，同学们在各类科技、文艺、体育竞赛中都取得了优异的成绩，为学校争得了荣誉。毕业时刻到来了，同学们就要离开母校了，此时此刻，我由衷地为同学们的成长和进步而高兴，为人大拥有你们这样优秀的学生而自豪！

大学之大，乃学生之大。学生是学校最活跃的主人、最亮丽的风景，也是最重要的成果。一所学校办得好不好，人才培养质量是最重要的衡量标准。这些年，学校始终把促进学生成长成才作为学校一切工作的出发点和落脚点，始终把人才培养作为核心任务，立德树人，大力提高教育质量，开展通识教育，加强课程建设，开办国际小学期，不断提升国际性水平，不断丰富社会实践教学平台，不断完善创新人才培养机制，为同学们的成长成才探索新的机制，搭建新的平台。这些努力是否有成效，需要你们来评价，更需要通过你们日后的.成绩来评价。

六月是一个离别的季节，也是不少同学离开校园、奔向新的前途的时刻，这些天，我怀着不舍的心情，全程参与了2010届毕业周的一系列活动。不论是毕业生代表座谈会、学位授予仪式，还是毕业晚会、拍摄毕业照，我都深切感受到了同学们对母校的无限眷恋，感受到了同学们对师长的深切情谊，感受到了同学们之间的纯真友谊，更加感受到了同学们在中国正在和平崛起的伟大时代将要放飞理想的激情和对成就事业的渴望。我感慨万千，充满欣喜，充满牵挂，也充满祝福。按照惯例，作为你们的师长和校长，向你们提出几点希望。

第一，希望大家永怀为民报国之志，争当"国民表率、社会栋梁"。

把每一位毕业生都塑造成为具有远大理想、高尚情操、创新精神和实践能力的"国民表率、社会栋梁"，这是我们始终追求的目标。要想成为"国民表率、社会栋梁"，需要常怀为民之心、报国之愿，践行"立学为民、治学报国"的人大精神，以高度的社会责任感勇于担纲，报效祖国，服务人民。在座的大部分同学即将从"人大学生"转变为"人大校友"。无论同学们走向什么工作岗位，都希望你们志存高远，勤奋工作，甘于奉献，在敬事乐业中建功立业，在服务祖国、奉献人民、引领未来的过程中实现个人的远大理想和人生价值，真正为民族复兴和社会进步做出自己的贡献。许多毕业生同学选择到西部、到基层、到祖国最需要的地方去工作。这是中国大学生就业的优良传统，我很高兴这一传统在新一代人大学子的身上得到发扬。同学们用实际行动诠释了人大人爱国、奉献、与党和人民同呼吸、共命运的精神风采，告诉世界"80后"是堪当重任的一代，是建设中国特色社会主义的合格建设者和接班人！

第二，希望大家持守进取务实之心，实践"行为精英、心为平民"

"行为精英、心为平民"是我们对每一个人大人的期望和要求。《老子》有言，"圣人无常心,以百姓心为心"。作为一名人大学子，要深深扎根于社会实践，扎根于人民群众，扎根于广阔的大地。如同古希腊神话中的大力士泰坦，离开了大地母亲就会丧失掉力量一样，名牌大学培养出的所谓"社会精英"，如果丧失了平民之心，离开了当代的社会实践，即使掌握着高深的理论，也会丧失更好地为社会做贡献的实际力量。

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大家上午好!

能够在今天的毕业典礼上作为2024届毕业生代表发言，是我大学生活中所获得的最珍贵、分量的一份荣誉!此时，每个毕业生心中都有千言万语，想要说给母校、诉诸同窗，但有一句话却一定是大家内心最无法抑制的，那就是：我们，毕业了!此刻，青海民族大学2024届的毕业生们已经褪去了迷茫，抚平了离殇，唯有胸中不灭的是未来憧憬的豪情万丈，心里不舍的是母校情丝的眷恋绵长。

是的，毕业了!从初入校门时一日看尽长安花的青涩与开怀，到今天蓦然回首，那人却在灯火阑珊处的喜悦与沉淀。正是在学校进德修业，自强不息的校训氛围熏陶下，伴着何峰校长那篇文笔精炼、内蕴深厚的《磐石记》的引领，我们一点点发现着自己的内心，也一点点书写着自己的人生。个人简历这里，铭刻着我们的青春记忆，这里，铸就了我们的未来动力。

今天早上，我又一次漫步在校园里，历史的光影与现实的辉煌在我的脑海中不断的交错变换。第一次走进校园的欣喜，第一次住进宿舍的无眠，第一次感受到提前花完生活费、囊中羞涩的拮据，第一次独立处理那么多问题的紧张和解决问题后的兴奋想起了曾经军训时弄得自己满身泥泞的土操场，而今已成为绿茵缤纷、喷泉相伴的磐石广场;看到了在我们不长的几年大学时光中拔地而起的新图书馆、逸夫综合楼、小岛文体馆和即将竣工而我们已无缘入住的四栋崭新的宿舍楼;触到了2024年青海民族学院正式更名青海民族大学那里程碑意义一刻的兴奋与激动;听到了在60周年校庆大会上强卫书记对学校那三个基地，一个窗口的高度评价这些都让我愈发感到对母校深深的热爱和眷恋。

曾经，我们也会在私底下、闲谈中，抱怨学校的种种：抱怨馨香餐厅的饭菜太差，范文写作抱怨那还在使用的60年代的绿桃公寓，抱怨鸿文楼阶梯教室的设备不清晰，抱怨学校时间观念差、办事效率低、官僚气息重，抱怨图书资料缺乏，甚至抱怨学校的漂亮_太少。可是，当这所有的一切都即将成为过去，都和自己最美好的青春一起凝结成一段化不开的回忆的时候，我们才会发现，正因为深深地爱着母校，我们才会对她如此挑剔。今后，步入社会，我们恐怕再也找不到一年只要1000块的房子，再也找不到这么多好朋友一起玩三国杀，再也找不到能在宿舍楼下点燃心形蜡烛手捧玫瑰的男孩儿，再也找不到这么多兄弟姐妹在一起的家。

然而，弹指一挥间，大学时光已经悄然结束了，我们终将背起行囊，开赴新的征程。母校以偌大的胸怀，包容过我们的稚嫩，见证着我们的发展，更将目睹我们的成功。李开复先生说：经过大学四年，你会从思考中确立自我，从学习中寻求真理，从独立中体验自主，从计划中把握时间，从交流中锻炼表达，从交友中品味成熟，从实践中赢得价值，从兴趣中攫取快乐，从追求中获得力量。在青海民族大学的时光，我们收获的，不仅仅是知识，更是灵动的个性;我们领略的，不仅仅是开阔的视野，更是仰望星空与脚踏实地相伴的进取精神。虽然我们的母校与一流大学还有些许距离，但它同样给了我们一个奋斗的驿站，一个公平的展示自我、锻炼自我的舞台，而我们正是这个舞台上自由的舞者。热门思想汇报几年来，我们由当初的天真烂漫、懵懂无知，到今天成熟稳重、壮志满怀，因此，我们成长了。成长了，这便是我们在母校的收获。

我们会永远铭记，恩师们对我们的谆谆教诲和亲切关怀。何其有幸，在大学里如饥似渴求学的我们，遇到过多少位德高学厚、兢兢授业，将我们这群懵懂无知的学子领进了神圣学术殿堂的授业导师;又何其有幸，遇到了我们的班主任和专、兼职辅导员，他们昭昭传道、孜孜诲人，对我们倾注了满腔的关怀和家人般的温暖。

让陪伴了我们整个大学生活的英华楼作证，让无悔的青春作证，承载着各位领导、老师们的殷切期望和深情嘱托，青海民族大学2024届的毕业生们一定会做拥有智慧并富有_的人，做胸怀大志并脚踏实地的人，做德才兼备并勇于创新的人，做富有责任并敢挑重担的人!我们进德修业，允文允武，立地擎天，自强不息，同心同德，负重致远!在青海民族大学发展的史册上，我们注定会写就属于自己的精彩篇章!光荣和梦想属于我们，我们将在您厚重的肩膀上展翅飞翔，在您宽广的胸怀里激流勇进，在您智慧的目光下高歌远航!

似水流年的大学时光匆匆而过，今天我们将在此离别。我们没有办法像徐志摩先生那么潇洒，挥一挥衣袖，不带走一片云彩。因为，我们把成长的足迹留在这里，把美好的回忆留在这里，把一生中最动人最美丽并将永不归来的一段青春都留在了这里。从今以后，不论我们走多远，我们灵魂的归宿永远是雪域高原上青海民族大学的这片圣土。

最后，我谨代表全体毕业生衷心的祝愿：

祝愿我们的母校在《行动计划》的指引下与时俱进、蒸蒸日上、再铸辉煌!

祝愿我们的各位领导和老师们身体健康，桃李芬芳，硕果累累，工作顺利!

祝愿学弟学妹们的青春时光精彩绚烂，大学生涯繁花似锦!

祝愿20__届的毕业生们大鹏一日同风起，扶摇直上九万里!

再见了，纯真的青春时光;再见了，尊敬的领导和老师;再见了，亲爱的兄弟和姐妹;再见了，我的母校，我的大学!

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李嘉诚在汕头大学毕业典礼上的演讲

对成功的欲望大于对失败的恐惧

在通往成功的道路上充满了挣扎，这对谁都一样，唯一的区别在于如何应对它们。

下面是李嘉诚在汕头大学的毕业典礼上分享的他的成功秘方：

也许你们都听过我如何挣扎求存、抗争命运变幻无常的故事，但你们可能不知道，我在与你们同龄的时候，多次拒绝放弃理想以换取眼前的安逸。我一直深信，如果世界上有任何"成功秘方"，其中最关键的元素必定是你对成功的欲望远远大于对失败的`恐惧。这心态像是刀锋——锐化你对什么是"可能"的触觉和激发你的梦想；这心态像是预警系统，令你对自满情绪和停滞时刻警惕，令你审慎律己、敢爱、敢说实话、敢当万绿丛中的那点红。

当你到我这个年龄，你不会想带着后悔和遗憾感慨，曾经是开朗、热情、自信的你，却选择无梦和无理想地过了一辈子。你曾经正直无畏，真诚和勇气烙在你那颗赤子之心上，但面对生活冷酷的考验，你选择了放弃理想、原则和目标，在道德路上迷失了你的灵魂、你的谦卑和爱贡献的心。

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thank you all and good afternoon alumni, graduates, families, friends, honored guests. for seven years now, it has been my assignment and my privilege to deliver an annual report to our alumni, and to serve as the warm-up act for our distinguished speaker.

whether this is your first opportunity to be a part of these e_ercises or your fiftieth, it is worthtaking a minute to soak in this place—its sheltering trees, its familiar buildings, its enduringvoices. in 1936, this part of harvard’s yard was named tercentenary theatre, in recognition ofharvard’s three hundredth birthday. it is a place where giants have stood, and history has beenmade.

we were reminded this morning of george washington’s adventures here. and from this stagein 1943, winston churchill addressed an overflow crowd that included 6,000 uniformedharvard students heading off to war. he said he hoped the young recruits would come toregard the british soldiers and sailors they would soon fight alongside as their “brothers inarms,” and he assured the audience that “we shall never tire, nor weaken, but march withyou … to establish the reign of justice and of law.”

four years later, from this same place, george marshall introduced a plan that aidedreconstruction across war-stricken europe, and ended his speech by asking: “what is needed?what can best be done? what must be done?”

here, in 1998, nelson mandela addressed an audience of 25,000 and spoke of our sharedfuture. “the greatest single challenge facing our globalized world,” he said, “is to combat anderadicate its disparities.” ellen johnson sirleaf, the first female head of state in africa, stoodhere 13 years later and encouraged graduates to resist cynicism and to be fearless.

here, on the terrible afternoon of september 11, 2024, we gathered under a cloudless sky toshare our sadness, our horror, and our disbelief.

and here, just three years ago, we marked harvard’s 375th anniversary dancing in the mud of atorrential downpour. here, president franklin delano roosevelt had celebrated harvard’s threecenturies of accomplishment in a comparably soaking rain.

here, j.k. rowling encouraged graduates to “think themselves into other people’s places.” andconan o’brien told them that “every failure was freeing.”

here, honorary degrees have been presented to carl jung and jean piaget, ellsworth kelly andgeorgia o’keefe, helen keller and martha graham, ravi shankar and leonard bernstein, joandidion and philip roth, eric kandel and elizabeth blackburn, bill gates and tim berners-lee.

i remember feeling awed by that history when i spoke here at my installation as harvard’s28th president, and when i reflected on what has always seemed to me the essence of auniversity: that among society’s institutions, it is uniquely accountable to the past and to thefuture.

our accountability to the past is all around us: behind me stands memorial church, amonument to harvardians who gave their lives at the somme and ypres and verdun duringworld war one. dedicated on armistice day in 1932, it represents harvard’s long tradition ofcommitment to service.

in front of me is widener library, a gift from a bereaved mother, named in honor of her sonharry, who perished aboard the titanic. a library built to advance the learning and discoveryenabled by one of the most diverse and broad collections in the world. widener’s twelvemajestic columns safeguard te_ts and manuscripts—some centuries old—that are deployedevery day by scholars to help us interpret—and reinterpret—the past.

but this afternoon i would like to spend a few minutes considering our accountability to thefuture, because these obligations must be “our compass to steer by,” our common purpose andour shared commitment.

what does harvard—what do universities—owe the future?

first, we owe the world answers.

discovery is at the heart of what universities do. universities engage faculty and studentsacross a range of disciplines in seeking solutions to problems that may have seemedunsolvable, endeavoring to answer questions that threaten to elude us. the scientific researchundertaken today at harvard, and tomorrow by the students we educate, has a capacity toimprove human lives in ways virtually unimaginable even a generation ago. in this past yearalone, harvard researchers have solved riddles related to the treatment of alzheimer’s, thecost-effective production of malaria vaccine, and the origins of the universe. harvardresearchers have proposed answers to challenges as varied as nuclear proliferation, americancompetitiveness, and governance of the internet.

we must continue to support our answer-seekers, who work at the crossroads of thetheoretical and the applied, at the ne_us of research, public policy, and entrepreneurship.together, they will shape our future and enhance our understanding of the world.

second, we owe the world questions.

just as questions yield answers, answers yield questions. human beings may long forcertainty, but, as oliver wendell holmes put it, “certainty generally is illusion, and repose isnot the destiny of man.” universities produce knowledge. they must also produce doubt. thepursuit of truth is restless. we search for answers not by following prescribed paths, but byfinding the right questions—by answering one question with another question, by nurturing astate of mind that is fle_ible and alert, dissatisfied and imaginative. it is what universitiesare designed to do. in an essay in harvard magazine, one of today’s graduates, cheroneduggan, wrote about seeking what she called “an education of questions.” i hope we haveindeed given her that.

questions are the foundation for progress—for ensuring that the world transcends where weare now, what we know now.

and questions are also the foundation for a third obligation that we as universities owe thefuture: we owe the future meaning.

universities must nurture the ability to interpret, to make critical judgments, to dare to askthe biggest questions, the ones that reach well beyond the immediate and the instrumental.we must stimulate the appetite for curiosity.

we find many of these questions in the humanities: what is good? what is just? how do weknow what is true? but we find them in the sciences as well. can there be any question moreprofound, more fundamental than to ask about the origins of the universe? how did we gethere?

questions like these can be unsettling, and they can make universities unsettling places. butthat too is an essential part of what we owe the future—the promise to combatcomplacency, to challenge the present in order to prepare for what is to come. to shape thepresent in service of an uncertain and yet impatient future.

we owe the future answers. we owe the future questions. we owe the future meaning. theharvard campaign, launched last september, will help us fulfill these obligations, and pay ourdebt to the future, just as the gifts of previous generations anchor us here today.

as today’s ceremonies so powerfully remind us, we also owe the future the men and women whoare prepared to ask questions and seek answers and search for meaning for decades to come.today we send some 6,500 graduates into the world, to be teachers and lawyers, scientists andphysicians, poets and planners and public servants, and—as our speaker this morning remindedus—to be in their own ways revolutionaries. ready to take on everything from water scarcity tovirtual currency to community policing. we must continue to invest in financial aid to attractand support the talented students who can build our future, and also we must invest insupporting the teaching and learning that ensures the fullest development of their capacities ina rapidly changing world.

if we fulfill our obligation, today’s graduates will have found the “education of questions”cherone described, a place where, as she put it, “ceilings are only made of sky.” but look aroundyou: we are there. this space is a “theatre” without walls, without a roof, and without limits. itis a place where e_traordinary individuals have preceded us, a place that must encourage ourgraduates—of today and all the years past—to emulate those women and men, to look skywardand to soar.

thank you very much.

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想必大家一定都还记得randy pausch那篇曾经感动过无数人的《真正实现你的童年梦想》的演讲吧。我这里推荐的是他2024年5月19号(大约在他去世前的两多月)，在其母校卡内基梅隆大学毕业典礼上的演讲。这篇演讲只有6分钟左右，而且风格和之前的那篇很不同。在这篇演讲里，他少了些幽默，却多了些真诚的忠告。相信大家看后一定会受益匪浅。

最后，谨以此文献给randy pausch。

september 18, 2024

兰迪·波许在卡内基梅隆大学毕业典礼上的演讲 演讲稿中英文对照

i am glad to be here today, hell, i am glad to be anywhere today.

很高兴今天能够来到这里。天啊，今天不论在哪里我都很高兴。

president cohon asked me to come and give the charge to the graduates. i assure you, it"snothing compared to the charge you have just given me.

柯汉校长邀请我来给毕业生一些鼓励。我向诸位保证，你们刚刚给我的鼓励更多。

this is an incredible place. i have seen it through so many lenses. i saw it when i was agraduate student that didn"t get admitted and then somebody invited me back and said, ok,we"ll change our mind.

这所学校棒极了!我可从很多方面了解它。我也曾从这里毕业，遗憾的是并没有申请上研究生。然而一位恩师邀我回来并说：我们改变主意啦，你被录取了。

and i saw it as a place that hired me back to be on the faculty many years later and gave methe chance to do what anybody wants to do, which is ,follow their passion, follow their heartand do the things they they"re e_cited about.

许多年以后，我被聘回到这里执教。这是一个所有人都梦寐以求的机会。在这里，你可以追随热情，听从心灵的召唤，并能够做自己感到刺激的事。

and the great thing about this university unlike almost all the other ones i know of is thatnobody gets in your way when you try to do it. and that"s just fantastic.

这所学校胜过其他学校的地方在于当你尝试实现梦想时，没有人会阻拦你。这太美妙了!

and to the degree that a human being can love an institution. i love this place and i love all ofthe people and i am very grateful to jerry cohon and everyone else for all the kindness thathave shown me.

我无比的热爱这所学校，也爱这里的所有人。我十分感激柯汉校长和我的同事，感谢他们给我的温暖。

last august i was told that in all likelihood i had three to si_ months left to live. i am onmonth nine now and i am gonna get down and do any push-ups…but there will be a short pick-up basketball game later.

去年8月，我被告知只能再活3到6个月了。可现在已是第九个月了。我想低下身来做俯地挺身(他在人生最后一课时，小试身手，还幽默地说不要同情他，除非也能做那麽多下的俯地挺身)…但一会将有来一小段报队篮球赛(一般打半场，三对三，先进十一分或十五赢)。

somebody said to me, in light of those numbers, wow, so you aer really beating the grimreaper. and what i said without even thinking about is that we don"t beat the reaper by livinglonger. we beat the reaper by living well, and living fully.

当我说完前面的那些数字后，有些人对我说：天啊，你真的战神了冷酷的死神。而我毫不犹疑的回答他：仅靠多活几天是不能战胜死神的。战胜死神最好的方式是活得好，活得充实。

for the reaper will come for all of us, the question is what do we do between the time we areborn and the time he shows up.

人终会有一死，关键是从出生的那一刻起到死神降临的这一段时间内，我们都做了什麽。

"cause he shows up it is too late to do all the things that you"re always gonna kind of "get roundto". so i think the only advice i can give you on how to live your life well is, first off, remember,it"s a cliche, but love cliche, "it is not the things we do in life that we regret on our deathbed,it is the things we do not".

当死神降临时，想要做些我们一直想做而没时间去做的事，却已为时晚矣。因此，关于如何才能活的好，我给大家的唯一建议是，马上去做，请千万牢记，虽说这是老生常谈，但我喜欢老生常谈，"临终时我们不会后悔做过某些事，而是后悔没有去做某些事。"

"cause i assure you i"ve done a lot of stupid things and none of them bother me. all themistakes, all the dopy things and all the times i was embarrassed they don"t matter. whatmatter is that, i can kind of look back and say, "pretty much anytime i got a chance to dosomething cool, i tried to grab for it." and that"s where my solace come from.

坦率地说，我也曾做过很多蠢事，但它们中没有一件令我烦恼。所有那些犯过的错，做过的蠢事，还有令我尴尬的时刻，其实它们都不重要。真正重要的是，当我回首往事时，我会说：「只要有机会去做那些很酷的事，我将会毫不犹豫的去争取。」这才让我足堪告慰。

the second thing i would add to that, and i didn"t coordinate on the subject of this word but ithink it"s the right word that comes up, is passion. and you will need to find you passion.many of you have already done it, many of you will later, many of you will take till your 30s or40s. but don"t give up on finding it. alright? "cause then all you"re doing is waiting for thereaper. find you passion and follow it.

第二件我想说的事就是，我并没有规划用这个字眼。但我想这个字眼很合适，那就是“热情”二字。你们必须要找到自己的热情所在。你们当中有些人已经找到了，许多人将来也会找到，也许很多人要到三、四十岁时才找得到。但千万不要放弃寻找你的激情。好吗?因为你若放弃了，那你所能做的仅是等待死亡而已。去寻找你的热情所在，并追随它的脚步!

and if there"s anything i have learned in my life, you will not find passion in things. and youwill not find that passion in money. because the more things and the more money you have,the more you will just look around and use that as the metric, and there will always be someonewith more.

如果说我这一生中学到了什麽的话，那就是你不可能在物质中找到热情。你不会在金钱中找到热情。因为你拥有的财富越多，你就越有可能用它去衡量你周围的世界，然而总是有人比你更富有。

so your passion must come from the things that fuel you from the inside. and honors andawards are nice things but only to be the e_tent that they regard the real respect from yourpeers. and to be thought well of by other people that you think even more highly of is atremendous honor that i"ve been granted.

因此，热情必须来自于能从内在激发你。荣誉和奖赏是好事，但仅限于出于同行们真心的尊敬。或是像我一样能够被自己所尊敬的人所认同，这才是最大的荣幸。

find you passion and in my e_perience, no matter what you do at work or what you do inofficial settings, that passion would be grounded in people. and it will be grounded in therelationships you have with people, and what they think of you, when you time comes. and ifyou can gain the respect of those around you, and the passion and true love, and i"ve said thisbefore, but i waited till 39 to get married because i had to wait that long to find someonewhere her happiness was more important than mine. and if nothing else i hope that all of youcan find that kind of passion and that kind of love in your life.

去寻找你的热情吧。在我看来，无论你从事什麽样工作，处在怎样的环境当中，激情都是和人有关的。热情基于人与人之间的关係，基于当你离开人世时，人们对你的看法。如果你能赢的身边人的尊敬，正如我之前所说的你有热情和真爱。我等到39岁才结婚，是因为我必须等这麽久才能找到一位她的幸福比我的更重要的人。抛开一切其他不谈，我祝在座的各位，此生都能够找到那样的热情和真爱。

thank you!

谢谢!

大学毕业典礼演讲稿 模板17

阅读小贴士：模板17共计1467个字，预计阅读时长4分钟。朗读需要8分钟，中速朗读10分钟，在庄重严肃场合朗读需要14分钟，有153位用户喜欢。

各位同学们，大家早上好：

今年的教育界有一则新闻，相信很多同学都已听说.原复旦大学校长杨福家教授被英国诺丁汉大学推举为 chancellor 。英国的大学校长称作 vice chancellor, chancellor 则相当于校董会主席，或名誉校长。虽然不管学校的行政事务，但毕业典礼是一定要来的，因为学位是由 chancellor 授予的。参加毕业典礼后回到上海的杨教授对记者说，看来，我们的大学毕业典礼也应该搞得更隆重些。我想他是看到许许多多毕业生的亲朋好友列席毕业典礼，校园里到处都是热烈庆祝的场面有感而发说了这番话的。

大学毕业毕竟不同于中小学。大学毕业标志着成熟、标志着自立。今天在座的 974 名北邮毕业生， 619 人已经签约就业， 355 人已经收到研究生录取通知书。不论你们大学毕业后的第一步走上了哪一条道，相信你们都会有光辉的前程，请允许我代表全校师生员工向你们表示热烈的祝贺。（掌声）

毕业这个词英文用" graduation " , 这个词的词根没有"完成"、"结束"的意思，而是蕴含开始、进步的意义。这其实是对毕业很好的诠释，希望你们也能从中得到启迪。我们今天隆重集会，不是庆祝"结束"，而是欢呼开始；不是纪念"完成"，而是宣布进步。

大学毕业生要就业，因此就客观存在着二个统计数字：就业比率和就业年薪。前面这个数字已有省市报刊在相继公布，引起了一些议论。后面这个数字不太好统计，即使统计出来，要在媒体公布，恐怕更会有争论。比如说，我在研究生毕业典礼上讲，非常高的学生质量、非常高的就业比率、非常高的就业年薪是北邮的三大特征，有人诧异，大学校长怎么可以把年薪、把钱字挂在嘴边？是不是会误导青年呀？

五千年的文明，给我们留下许多，给我们留下太多。

"两耳不闻窗外事，一心只读圣贤书"，如果大学生真是这样，这与僧侣、修女的区别何在？（笑声、掌声）

"君子固穷"与其说是读书人的骨气，不如说是农业社会读书人的无奈。我们曾经忍受"原子弹不如茶叶蛋，手术刀不如剃头刀"这种社会分配的不公，不能把它留给你们这一代。今天的大学，必须面对经济发展、面对科技发展、面对社会发展。

在我们这个世界，人才在流动、资金在流动、物资在流动、信息在流动。支配着这四种流动的是经济、科技、社会发展的规律。而正是这四种流动，在推动着经济繁荣、科技进步和社会发展。政府的责任是要规定并维持这四种流动的游戏规则。大学的职能，是把握好这种规律，建设好学科与专业，组织好教学与科研，培养好优秀人才。要判断一个大学是否办得好、是否对社会作出了较多的贡献，最直接、最说明问题的标准就是学生质量、就业比率和就业年薪。因此，北邮一定要把这三个"非常高"保持到永远。（掌声）

就业不等于创业。就业是在这四种流动中相对被动地寻找到一个适合自己的岗位。创业是指主动参与、积极影响这四种流动。创业者，无论是科学家、教授，还是企业家、经纪人，都要组织人才、筹集资金、调动物资、采集信息。就业，当一个好职工，要求高尚的职业道德、扎实的理论基础、熟练的职业技能、良好的团队精神。传统的高等教育对此非常重视，有一整套的培养手段和严格的评价体系。我相信你们已经具备了这些优良素质。然而，一个成功的创业者则还需要风险意识、决断能力、人格魅力和雄辩口才。怎样使我们的大学生具备这样的能力与素质，是高等教育面临的新课题。

前年，加利福尼亚大学 riverside 分校校长来访就告诉我，他们有本科生创办软件公司，教师是公司的顾问，问北邮有没有，我说没有。后来北邮试行弹性学制，可以休学办公司。但两年来，只有一个研究生与校长说过他有这个打算，但后来还是决定获得博士学位以后再说。

大学毕业典礼演讲稿 模板18

阅读小贴士：模板18共计6416个字，预计阅读时长17分钟。朗读需要33分钟，中速朗读43分钟，在庄重严肃场合朗读需要59分钟，有275位用户喜欢。

尊敬的bok校长，rudenstine前校长，即将上任的faust校长，哈佛集团的各位成员，监管理事会的各位理事，各位老师，各位家长，各位同学：

有一句话我等了三十年，现在终于可以说了："老爸，我总是跟你说，我会回来拿到我的学位的!"

我要感谢哈佛大学在这个时候给我这个荣誉。明年，我就要换工作了(注：指从微软公司退休)......我终于可以在简历上写我有一个大学学位，这真是不错啊。

我为今天在座的各位同学感到高兴，你们拿到学位可比我简单多了。哈佛的校报称我是"哈佛大学历史上最成功的辍学生"。我想这大概使我有资格代表我这一类学生发言......在所有的失败者里，我做得最好。

但是，我还要提醒大家，我使得steve ballmer(注：微软总经理)也从哈佛商学院退学了。因此，我是个有着恶劣影响力的人。这就是为什么我被邀请来在你们的毕业典礼上演讲。如果我在你们入学欢迎仪式上演讲，那么能够坚持到今天在这里毕业的人也许会少得多吧。

对我来说，哈佛的求学经历是一段非凡的经历。校园生活很有趣，我常去旁听我没选修的课。哈佛的课外生活也很棒，我在radcliffe过着逍遥自在的日子。每天我的寝室里总有很多人一直待到半夜，讨论着各种事情。因为每个人都知道我从不考虑第二天早起。这使得我变成了校园里那些不安分学生的头头，我们互相粘在一起，做出一种拒绝所有正常学生的姿态。

radcliffe是个过日子的好地方。那里的女生比男生多，而且大多数男生都是理工科的。这种状况为我创造了最好的机会，如果你们明白我的意思。可惜的是，我正是在这里学到了人生中悲伤的一课：机会大，并不等于你就会成功。

我在哈佛最难忘的回忆之一，发生在1975年1月。那时，我从宿舍楼里给位于albuquerque的一家公司打了一个电话，那家公司已经在着手制造世界上第一台个人电脑。我提出想向他们出售软件。

我很担心，他们会发觉我是一个住在宿舍的学生，从而挂断电话。但是他们却说："我们还没准备好，一个月后你再来找我们吧。"这是个好消息，因为那时软件还根本没有写出来呢。就是从那个时候起，我日以继夜地在这个小小的课外项目上工作，这导致了我学生生活的结束，以及通往微软公司的不平凡的旅程的开始。

不管怎样，我对哈佛的回忆主要都与充沛的精力和智力活动有关。哈佛的生活令人愉快，也令人感到有压力，有时甚至会感到泄气，但永远充满了挑战性。生活在哈佛是一种吸引人的特殊待遇......虽然我离开得比较早，但是我在这里的经历、在这里结识的朋友、在这里发展起来的一些想法，永远地改变了我。

但是，如果现在严肃地回忆起来，我确实有一个真正的遗憾。

我离开哈佛的时候，根本没有意识到这个世界是多么的不平等。人类在健康、财富和机遇上的不平等大得可怕，它们使得无数的人们被迫生活在绝望之中。

我在哈佛学到了很多经济学和政治学的新思想。我也了解了很多科学上的新进展。

但是，人类最大的进步并不来自于这些发现，而是来自于那些有助于减少人类不平等的发现。不管通过何种手段--民主制度、健全的公共教育体系、高质量的医疗保健、还是广泛的经济机会--减少不平等始终是人类最大的成就。

我离开校园的时候，根本不知道在这个国家里，有几百万的年轻人无法获得接受教育的机会。我也不知道，发展中国家里有无数的人们生活在无法形容的贫穷和疾病之中。

我花了几十年才明白了这些事情。

在座的各位同学，你们是在与我不同的时代来到哈佛的。你们比以前的学生，更多地了解世界是怎样的不平等。在你们的哈佛求学过程中，我希望你们已经思考过一个问题，那就是在这个新技术加速发展的时代，我们怎样最终应对这种不平等，以及我们怎样来解决这个问题。

为了讨论的方便，请想象一下，假如你每个星期可以捐献一些时间、每个月可以捐献一些钱--你希望这些时间和金钱，可以用到对拯救生命和改善人类生活有最大作用的地方。你会选择什么地方?

对melinda(注：盖茨的妻子)和我来说，这也是我们面临的问题：我们如何能将我们拥有的资源发挥出最大的作用。

在讨论过程中，melinda和我读到了文章，里面说在那些贫穷的国家，每年有数百万的儿童死于那些在美国早已不成问题的疾病。麻疹、疟疾、肺炎、乙型肝炎、黄热病、还有一种以前我从未听说过的轮状病毒，这些疾病每年导致50万儿童死亡，但是在美国一例死亡病例也没有。

我们被震惊了。我们想，如果几百万儿童正在死亡线上挣扎，而且他们是可以被挽救的，那么世界理应将用药物拯救他们作为头等大事。但是事实并非如此。那些价格还不到一美元的救命的药剂，并没有送到他们的手中。

如果你相信每个生命都是平等的，那么当你发现某些生命被挽救了，而另一些生命被放弃了，你会感到无法接受。我们对自己说："事情不可能如此。如果这是真的，那么它理应是我们努力的头等大事。"

所以，我们用任何人都会想到的方式开始工作。我们问："这个世界怎么可以眼睁睁看着这些孩子死去?"

答案很简单，也很令人难堪。在市场经济中，拯救儿童是一项没有利润的工作，政府也不会提供补助。这些儿童之所以会死亡，是因为他们的父母在经济上没有实力，在政治上没有能力发出声音。

但是，你们和我在经济上有实力，在政治上能够发出声音。

我们可以让市场更好地为穷人服务，如果我们能够设计出一种更有创新性的资本主义制度--如果我们可以改变市场，让更多的人可以获得利润，或者至少可以维持生活--那么，这就可以帮到那些正在极端不平等的状况中受苦的人们。我们还可以向全世界的政府施压，要求他们将纳税人的钱，花到更符合纳税人价值观的地方。

如果我们能够找到这样一种方法，既可以帮到穷人，又可以为商人带来利润，为政治家带来选票，那么我们就找到了一种减少世界性不平等的可持续的发展道路。这个任务是无限的。它不可能被完全完成，但是任何自觉地解决这个问题的尝试，都将会改变这个世界。

在这个问题上，我是乐观的。但是，我也遇到过那些感到绝望的怀疑主义者。他们说："不平等从人类诞生的第一天就存在，到人类灭亡的最后一天也将存在。--因为人类对这个问题根本不在乎。"我完全不能同意这种观点。

我相信，问题不是我们不在乎，而是我们不知道怎么做。

此刻在这个院子里的所有人，生命中总有这样或那样的时刻，目睹人类的悲剧，感到万分伤心。但是我们什么也没做，并非我们无动于衷，而是因为我们不知道做什么和怎么做。如果我们知道如何做是有效的，那么我们就会采取行动。

改变世界的阻碍，并非人类的冷漠，而是世界实在太复杂。

为了将关心转变为行动，我们需要找到问题，发现解决办法的方法，评估后果。但是世界的复杂性使得所有这些步骤都难于做到。

即使有了互联网和24小时直播的新闻台，让人们真正发现问题所在，仍然十分困难。当一架飞机坠毁了，官员们会立刻召开新闻发布会，他们承诺进行调查、找到原因、防止将来再次发生类似事故。

但是如果那些官员敢说真话，他们就会说："在今天这一天，全世界所有可以避免的死亡之中，只有0.5%的死者来自于这次空难。我们决心尽一切努力，调查这个0.5%的死亡原因。"

显然，更重要的问题不是这次空难，而是其他几百万可以预防的死亡事件。

我们并没有很多机会了解那些死亡事件。媒体总是报告新闻，几百万人将要死去并非新闻。如果没有人报道，那么这些事件就很容易被忽视。另一方面，即使我们确实目睹了事件本身或者看到了相关报道，我们也很难持续关注这些事件。看着他人受苦是令人痛苦的，何况问题又如此复杂，我们根本不知道如何去帮助他人。所以我们会将脸转过去。

就算我们真正发现了问题所在，也不过是迈出了第一步，接着还有第二步：那就是从复杂的事件中找到解决办法。

如果我们要让关心落到实处，我们就必须找到解决办法。如果我们有一个清晰的和可靠的答案，那么当任何组织和个人发出疑问"如何我能提供帮助"的时候，我们就能采取行动。我们就能够保证不浪费一丁点全世界人类对他人的关心。但是，世界的复杂性使得很难找到对全世界每一个有爱心的人都有效的行动方法，因此人类对他人的关心往往很难产生实际效果。

从这个复杂的世界中找到解决办法，可以分为四个步骤：确定目标，找到最高效的方法，发现适用于这个方法的新技术，同时最聪明地利用现有的技术，不管它是复杂的药物，还是最简单的蚊帐。

艾滋病就是一个例子。总的目标，毫无疑问是消灭这种疾病。最高效的方法是预防。最理想的技术是发明一种疫苗，只要注射一次，就可以终生免疫。所以，政府、制药公司、基金会应该资助疫苗研究。但是，这样研究工作很可能十年之内都无法完成。因此，与此同时，我们必须使用现有的技术，目前最有效的预防方法就是设法让人们避免那些危险的行为。

要实现这个新的目标，又可以采用新的四步循环。这是一种模式。关键的东西是永远不要停止思考和行动。我们千万不能再犯上个世纪在疟疾和肺结核上犯过的错误，那时我们因为它们太复杂，而放弃了采取行动。

在发现问题和找到解决方法之后，就是最后一步--评估工作结果，将你的成功经验或者失败经验传播出去，这样其他人就可以从你的努力中有所收获。

当然，你必须有一些统计数字。你必须让他人知道，你的项目为几百万儿童新接种了疫苗。你也必须让他人知道，儿童死亡人数下降了多少。这些都是很关键的，不仅有利于改善项目效果，也有利于从商界和政府得到更多的帮助。

但是，这些还不够，如果你想激励其他人参加你的项目，你就必须拿出更多的统计数字;你必须展示你的项目的人性因素，这样其他人就会感到拯救一个生命，对那些处在困境中的家庭到底意味着什么。

几年前，我去瑞士达沃斯旁听一个全球健康问题论坛，会议的内容有关于如何拯救几百万条生命。天哪，是几百万!想一想吧，拯救一个人的生命已经让人何等激动，现在你要把这种激动再乘上几百万倍......但是，不幸的是，这是我参加过的最最乏味的论坛，乏味到我无法强迫自己听下去。

那次经历之所以让我难忘，是因为之前我们刚刚发布了一个软件的第13个版本，我们让观众激动得跳了起来，喊出了声。我喜欢人们因为软件而感到激动，那么我们为什么不能够让人们因为能够拯救生命而感到更加激动呢?

除非你能够让人们看到或者感受到行动的影响力，否则你无法让人们激动。如何做到这一点，并不是一件简单的事。

同前面一样，在这个问题上，我依然是乐观的。不错，人类的不平等有史以来一直存在，但是那些能够化繁为简的新工具，却是最近才出现的。这些新工具可以帮助我们，将人类的同情心发挥最大的作用，这就是为什么将来同过去是不一样的。

这个时代无时无刻不在涌现出新的革新--生物技术，计算机，互联网--它们给了我们一个从未有过的机会，去终结那些极端的贫穷和非恶性疾病的死亡。

六十年前，乔治.马歇尔也是在这个地方的毕业典礼上，宣布了一个计划，帮助那些欧洲国家的战后建设。他说："我认为，困难的一点是这个问题太复杂，报纸和电台向公众源源不断地提供各种事实，使得大街上的普通人极端难于清晰地判断形势。事实上，经过层层传播，想要真正地把握形势，是根本不可能的。"

马歇尔发表这个演讲之后的三十年，我那一届学生毕业，当然我不在其中。那时，新技术刚刚开始萌芽，它们将使得这个世界变得更小、更开放、更容易看到、距离更近。

低成本的个人电脑的出现，使得一个强大的互联网有机会诞生，它为学习和交流提供了巨大的机会。

网络的神奇之处，不仅仅是它缩短了物理距离，使得天涯若比邻。它还极大地增加了怀有共同想法的人们聚集在一起的机会，我们可以为了解决同一个问题，一起共同工作。这就大大加快了革新的进程，发展速度简直快得让人震惊。

与此同时，世界上有条件上网的人，只是全部人口的六分之一。这意味着，还有许多具有创造性的人们，没有加入到我们的讨论中来。那些有着实际的操作经验和相关经历的聪明人，却没有技术来帮助他们，将他们的天赋或者想法与全世界分享。

我们需要尽可能地让更多的人有机会使用新技术，因为这些新技术正在引发一场革命，人类将因此可以互相帮助。新技术正在创造一种可能，不仅是政府，还包括大学、公司、小机构、甚至个人，能够发现问题所在、能够找到解决办法、能够评估他们努力的效果，去改变那些马歇尔六十年前就说到过的问题--饥饿、贫穷和绝望。

哈佛是一个大家庭。这个院子里在场的人们，是全世界最有智力的人类群体之一。

我们可以做些什么?

毫无疑问，哈佛的老师、校友、学生和资助者，已经用他们的能力改善了全世界各地人们的生活。但是，我们还能够再做什么呢?有没有可能，哈佛的人们可以将他们的智慧，用来帮助那些甚至从来没有听到过"哈佛"这个名字的人?

请允许我向各位院长和教授，提出一个请求----你们是哈佛的智力领袖，当你们雇用新的老师、授予终身教职、评估课程、决定学位颁发标准的时候，请问你们自己如下的问题：

我们最优秀的人才是否在致力于解决我们最大的问题?

哈佛是否鼓励她的老师去研究解决世界上最严重的不平等?哈佛的学生是否从全球那些极端的贫穷中学到了什么......世界性的饥荒......清洁的水资源的缺乏......无法上学的女童......死于非恶性疾病的儿童.......哈佛的学生有没有从中学到东西?

那些世界上过着最优越生活的人们，有没有从那些最困难的人们身上学到东西?

这些问题并非语言上的修辞。你必须用自己的行动来回答它们。

我的母亲在我被哈佛大学录取的那一天，曾经感到非常骄傲。她从没有停止督促我，去为他人做更多的事情。在我结婚的前几天，她主持了一个新娘进我家的仪式。在这个仪式上，她高声朗读了一封关于婚姻的信，这是她写给melinda的。那时，我的母亲已经因为癌症病入膏肓，但是她还是认为这是又一个传播她的信念的机会。在那封信的结尾，她写道："你的能力越大，人们对你的期望也就越大。"

想一想吧，我们在这个院子里的这些人，被给予过什么--天赋、特权、机遇--那么可以这样说，全世界的人们几乎有无限的权力，期待我们做出贡献。

同这个时代的期望一样，我也要向今天各位毕业的同学提出一个忠告：你们要选择一个问题，一个复杂的问题，一个有关于人类深刻的不平等的问题，然后你们要变成这个问题的专家。如果你们能够使得这个问题成为你们职业的核心，那么你们就会非常杰出。但是，你们不必一定要去做那些大事。每个星期只用几个小时，你就可以通过互联网得到信息，找到志同道合的朋友，发现困难所在，找到解决它们的途径。

不要让这个世界的复杂性阻碍你前进。要成为一个行动主义者。将解决人类的不平等视为己任。它将成为你生命中最重要的经历之一。

在座的各位毕业的同学，你们所处的时代是一个神奇的时代。当你们离开哈佛的时候，你们拥有的技术，是我们那一届学生所没有的。你们已经了解到了世界上的不平等，我们那时还不知道这些。有了这样的了解之后，要是你再弃那些你可以帮助的人们于不顾，就将受到良心的谴责，只需一点小小的努力，你就可以改变那些人们的生活。你们比我们拥有更大的能力;你们必须尽早开始，尽可能长时期坚持下去。

知道了你们所知道的一切，你们怎么可能不采取行动呢?

我希望，30年后你们还会再回到哈佛，想起你们用自己的天赋和能力所做出的一切。我希望，在那个时候，你们用来评价自己的标准，不仅仅是你们的专业成就，而包括你们为改变这个世界深刻的不平等所做出的努力，以及你们如何善待那些远隔千山万水、与你们毫不涉及的人们，你们与他们唯一的共同点就是同为人类。

最后，祝各位同学好运。

人物评价

他享受辩论，就想听到不同观点，又总是想赢。可是好胜心和好奇心，并没有影响盖茨最终成为一个谦虚的人。(李开复评 )

比尔·盖茨盖茨是一个对技术有热情、对人类有使命感的人。他有很多财富，但他自己的生活方式很简单，这种使命感是发自内心的，而不是装出来的。(张亚勤评)

比尔·盖茨赚的钱比人类历史上所有人都多，他在努力把钱捐献出去。大多数人也许会把钱用在别的地方，或是只捐出一点点，并希望别人给他们别上勋章，而不是像比尔·盖茨那样，把全部的时间都用在寻找真正行之有效的东西。这就是他毕生的工作。(克林顿评 )

如果盖茨卖的不是软件而是汉堡，他也会成为世界汉堡大王。(巴菲特评)

他是一个非常非常聪明的家伙，而且深爱技术。(贝瑞特评 )

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尊敬的各位领导、老师，亲爱的同学们：

大家上午好!

非常高兴作为教师代表做毕业致辞。今天是一个充满喜悦和希望的日子，充盈在我们心里的，除了师生的惜别之情，更多是一份骄傲和自豪。因为亲爱的同学们即将开始自己新的人生里程。所以，请允许我代表我系全体教师向经过三年努力学习，圆满完成学业的同学们表示最热烈的祝贺!

每一年，学校里都有这么几天，伴着初夏的燥热，校园里处处充满了离别的伤愁。睡在上铺的兄弟，你为他找到理想的工作而高兴，可他明天就要奔赴远方;阅览室里暗恋了许久的女生，终于敬了她一杯酒，可以后还能见到那一低头的温柔吗?还有许多被你们在背后起了外号的老师，昨天还是那么真实地存在，今天过后很快就会变成回忆了。

在这三年中，我们共同经历了很多，记住了很多。我们记住了迎新晚会的新鲜和希望，我们记住了红五月歌赛的激扬和团结，我们记住了社团活动的丰富和烂漫，我们记住了运动会的动感与竞争。我们还记住了很多很多。

回首这三年，我相信大家都会感慨万千，孤单过、快乐过、努力过、挫折过，失败过、成功过、哭过、笑过、迷惘过、希望过，但无论怎样，在千滋百味的大学三年如白驹过隙时，我们都知道，从今天起，你们毕业了!

同时，你们又都将面对一个新的挑战，从这个意义上讲，各位又重新站在了同一条起跑线上。所以，曾经辉煌的同学请你不要骄傲，曾经失败的同学更不要气馁，机会对大家都是平等的，只要肯努力，时间会给大家在社会这张答卷上一个满意的评分。

在我及全体老师即将成为大家大学时代的回忆之前，我想衷心的建议每一位同学：

一是要摆正自己的位置，始终保持一种平和的心态，从零开始，从小事做起，虚心向他人学习，真诚向实践请教。书本上的知识总是有限的，而社会才是一个大课堂。

二是要学会学习。现在人类的知识总量，大约3年就翻一番，所以我们应该努力寻求获得知识的方法，学会如何学习，以适应知识日新月异迅速增长的趋势。

三是要学会做人。陶行知先生在论述教师和学生的职责与任务时，曾经言简意赅地说过十六个字："千教万教，教人求真;千学万学，学会做人"。学会做人的一方面就是学会与人交流，与人交往，与人合作。同学们毕业后，无论是走向工作第一线，还是继续选择深造，都要不断地、踏实地学习新的知识，充实自己。在现在的知识经济时代，靠一个人单枪匹马地奋斗是无法建功立业的，所以希望大家要学会做人，学会做事，学会合作，在各方面都不断地完善自我，有一个健康的体魄，保持一种健康的心理状态，充满信心地面对未来。每天都能寻找到学习、生活、工作中的快乐，每天都能使自己取得一点点进步，成为一个全新的人，从而为社会，为国家做出贡献。

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feelings, failure and finding happiness

感觉、失败及寻找幸福

thank you, president hennessy, and to thetrustees and the faculty, to all of the parents andgrandparents, to you, the stanford graduates. thank you for letting me share this amazing daywith you.

hennessy校长，全体教员，家长，还有斯坦福的毕业生门，非常感谢你们。感谢你们让我和你们分享这美好的一天。

i need to begin by letting everyone in on a little secret. the secret is that kirby bumpus,stanford class of "08, is my goddaughter. so, i was thrilled when president hennessy asked meto be your commencement speaker, because this is the first time i"ve been allowed on campussince kirby"s been here.

我决定透漏一个小秘密给大家来作为这次演讲的开始。这个秘密就是kirby bumpus，斯坦福2024年的毕业生，是我的义女。所以当hennessy校长让我来做演讲时，我受宠若惊，因为自从kirby来这上学以来，这是我第一次被允许到斯坦福来。

you see, kirby"s a very smart girl. she wants people to get to know her on her own terms, shesays. not in terms of who she knows. so, she never wants anyone who"s first meeting her toknow that i know her and she knows me. so, when she first came to stanford for new studentorientation with her mom, i hear that they arrived and everybody was so welcoming, andsomebody came up to kirby and they said, "ohmigod, that"s gayle king!" because a lot ofpeople know gayle king as my bff [best friend forever].

正如你们知道的那样kirby是一个非常聪明的女孩。她说，她希望大家通过她自己的努力了解她，而不是她认识谁。因此她从来不希望每一个第一次见到她的人知道她认识我。当她和她妈妈第一次来到斯坦福参加开学典礼时，我听说每个人都十分热情。他们说：“我的天啊，那是gayle king”。因为很多人都知道gayle king是我最好的朋友。

and so somebody comes up to kirby, and they say, "ohmigod, is that gayle king?" and kirby"slike, "uh-huh. she"s my mom."and so the person says, "ohmigod, does it mean, like, you knowoprah winfrey?"and kirby says, "sort of."

有些人走到kirby面前，对kirby说：“我的天啊，那是gayle king吗?”kirby说：“嗯，她是我妈妈。”然后人们说：“我的天啊，难道说，你认识oprah winfrey。”kirby说：“有点吧。”

i said, "sort of? you sort of know me?" well, i have photographic proof. i have pictures which ican e-mail to you all of kirby riding horsey with me on all fours. so, i more than sort-of knowkirby bumpus. and i"m so happy to be here, just happy that i finally, after four years, get tosee her room. there"s really nowhere else i"d rather be, because i"m so proud of kirby, whograduates today with two degrees, one in human bio and the other in psychology. love you,kirby cakes! that"s how well i know her. i can call her cakes.

我说：“有一点。你有一点认识我”。我还有照片为证。我可以把kirby 和我骑马时的照片e-mail给你们。因此我不仅仅只是有点认识kirby bumpus。我非常高兴来到这里，因为四年来我第一次来到她的寝室。我为kirby感到自豪，因为她获得了人类生物学和心理学的双学位。这就是我多么的了解她。我可以叫她cakes。

and so proud of her mother and father, who helped her get through this time, and her brother,will. i really had nothing to do with her graduating from stanford, but every time anybody"sasked me in the past couple of weeks what i was doing, i would say, "i"m getting ready to go tostanford."

我为她的父母感到骄傲，她的父母给了她很大帮助，还有她的哥哥will。我对kirby大学四年真的没有什么帮助。但是在过去的几周里，每当人们问我在做什么时，我都会说：“我正准备去斯坦福”

i just love saying "stanford." because the truth is, i know i would have never gotten my degreeat all, "cause i didn"t go to stanford. i went to tennessee state university. but i never wouldhave gotten my diploma at all, because i was supposed to graduate back in 1975, but i wasshort one credit. and i figured, i"m just going to forget it, "cause, you know, i"m not going tomarch with my class. because by that point, i was already on television. i"d been in televisionsince i was 19 and a sophomore. granted, i was the only television anchor person that had an11 o"clock curfew doing the 10 o"clock news.

我就是喜欢这样说stanford(用一种奇怪的语调)。因为这是真的，我知道根本不会拿到我的学位，因为我没有去斯坦福念书。我去了tennessee 州立大学。但是我本来不会拿到我的毕业证，因为我本应该在1975年毕业，但是我少了一个学分。我认为我还是会忘了这件事。你们知道，我不会比得上我的同班同学。因为我已经上了电视。我在19岁还是大学二年级的时候就已经上了电视。我是唯一一个电视节目主持人，虽然有11点的宵禁，却做着10点钟的新闻。

seriously, my dad was like, "well, that news is over at 10:30. be home by 11."

but that didn"t matter to me, because i was earning a living. i was on my way. so, i thought,i"m going to let this college thing go and i only had one credit short. but, my father, from thattime on and for years after, was always on my case, because i did not graduate. he"d say, "oprah gail"—that"s my middle name—"i don"t know what you"re gonna do without thatdegree." and i"d say, "but, dad, i have my own television show."

严肃地说，我爸爸告诉我，“好吧，新闻10：30结束。11点之前到家。”但是这对我并不重要，因为我已经自食其力了。我在走我自己的路。所以我想，我不能让关于我大学的那件事就这么过去，我还少一个学分。但是我的父亲从那时起却成了问题。由于我没有毕业，他总是说：“oprah gail(我的中间名字)，我不知道没有学位你能做些什么。”然后我说：“但是，爸爸，我已经有我自己的电视节目啦。”

and he"d say, "well, i still don"t know what you"re going to do without that degree."

and i"d say, "but, dad, now i"m a talk show host." he"d say, "i don"t know how you"re going toget another job without that degree."

他说：“好吧，但是我还是不知道没有那个学位你能干什么。”我说：“但是，爸爸，现在我已经是脱口秀的主持人了”。他还是说：“我不知道没有那个学位你怎么去找其他的工作。”

so, in 1987, tennessee state university invited me back to speak at their commencement. bythen, i had my own show, was nationally syndicated. i"d made a movie, had been nominated foran oscar and founded my company, harpo. but i told them, i cannot come and give a speechunless i can earn one more credit, because my dad"s still saying i"m not going to get anywherewithout that degree.

在1987年，tennessee州立大学邀请我回去做他们的毕业典礼演讲。在那时，我已经有了自己的电视节目，并加入了国家联合会。我制作了一部电影，并被奥斯卡提名，而且成立了我自己的公司harpo。可我告诉他们，我不能去演讲除非我得到那一个学分，因为我爸爸总是说没了那学位我将一事无成。

so, i finished my coursework, i turned in my final paper and i got the degree.and my dad wasvery proud. and i know that, if anything happens, that one credit will be my salvation.

因此，我完成了我的课程，上交了我的毕业论文，然后拿到了学位。我的爸爸非常的骄傲。从此我知道，无论什么事发生，那一个学分是我的救世主

but i also know why my dad was insisting on that diploma, because, as b. b. king put it, "thebeautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take that away from you." and learning isreally in the broadest sense what i want to talk about today, because your education, of course,isn"t ending here. in many ways, it"s only just begun.

但是我知道为什么我爸爸总是坚持让我获得文凭，因为，正如b. b. king所说：“关于学习的美好在于别人不会把知识从你身上拿走”学习正是我今天想说的，因为你们的教育并没有在这里结束。在很多情况下，这才是刚刚开使。

the world has so many lessons to teach you. i consider the world, this earth, to be like a schooland our life the classrooms. and sometimes here in this planet earth school the lessons oftencome dressed up as detours or roadblocks. and sometimes as full-blown crises. and the secreti"ve learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons, lessons from the grandest universityof all, that is, the universe itself.

这个世界将会教会你们很多。我认为这个世界，这个地球，就像一个学校和我们人生的教室。有时这些课程会是弯路和障碍。有时会充满危机。我所学的应付这一切的秘密就是去勇于面对，正如我们面对大学课程一样。

it"s being able to walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which isgoing to best help you evolve, "cause that"s really why we"re here, to evolve as human beings.to grow into more of ourselves, always moving to the ne_t level of understanding, the ne_t levelof compassion and growth.

我们能够充满激情的去生活和自我提高，这就是我们存在的意义。不断自我提高，去追求人生的更高境界，去追求更高级别的怜悯和自我提高。

i think about one of the greatest compliments i"ve ever received: i interviewed with a reporterwhen i was first starting out in chicago. and then many years later, i saw the same reporter.and she said to me, "you know what? you really haven"t changed. you"ve just become more ofyourself."

我记得我所受到的最大的赞扬就是当我刚刚在芝加哥开始工作时，我采访了一个记者。很多年以后我们又见面了。她对我说：“你知道吗?你一点也没有变。你变得更为自我了。”

and that is really what we"re all trying to do, become more of ourselves. and i believe thatthere"s a lesson in almost everything that you do and every e_perience, and getting the lessonis how you move forward. it"s how you enrich your spirit. and, trust me, i know that innerwisdom is more precious than wealth. the more you spend it, the more you gain.

这就是我们一直努力在做的，去做我们自己。我坚信你们会从每一件做过的事上学到经验，这样你们就会取得进步。这样你们丰富了心灵。相信我，内在的智慧比外在的财富更加珍贵。你越是使用它，你就得到更多。

so, today, i just want to share a few lessons—meaning three—that i"ve learned in my journeyso far. and aren"t you glad? don"t you hate it when somebody says, "i"m going to share a few,"and it"s 10 lessons later? and, you"re like, "listen, this is my graduation. this is not about you."so, it"s only going to be three.

今天我想和大家分享我人生的三个经验。你们难道不觉得高兴吗?你们是否会反感，当有人对你说：“我想分享一些”但事实上却是10个经验。你们肯定在想：“听着，这是我的毕业典礼，不是你的”。因此这里只有三个经验我想和大家分享。

the three lessons that have had the greatest impact on my life have to do with feelings, withfailure and with finding happiness.

这三个经验对我的人生产生了很大影响，它们是关于感情，失败和追求幸福。

a year after i left college, i was given the opportunity to co-anchor the 6 o"clock news inbaltimore, because the whole goal in the media at the time i was coming up was you try tomove to larger markets. and baltimore was a much larger market than nashville. so, gettingthe 6 o"clock news co-anchor job at 22 was such a big deal. it felt like the biggest deal in theworld at the time.

当我离开大学一年后，在baltimore我得到了一个共同主持6点新闻的机会。在那时媒体界的最大目标就是获得更大的市场，而baltimore是一个比nashville大得多的市场，因此在22岁时得到这个机会对我来说非常重要。它那时对我来说它仿佛是世界上最重要的事。

and i was so proud, because i was finally going to have my chance to be like barbara walters,which is who i had been trying to emulate since the start of my tv career. so, i was 22 yearsold, making $22,000 a year. and it"s where i met my best friend, gayle, who was an intern atthe same tv station. and once we became friends, we"d say, "ohmigod, i can"t believe it!you"re making $22,000 and you"re only 22. imagine when you"re 40 and you"re making$40,000!"

我非常自豪，因为我终于有机会去效法barbara walters。而她正是我从业以来一直效法的对象。那时我22岁，每年挣22,000美元。我遇到了在电视台做实习生的gayle，我们立刻成了好朋友。我们说：“我的天啊，真难以置信。你在22岁时挣每年能挣22,000美元。想象一下吧，当你40岁时你每年就会挣40,000美元”

when i turned 40, i was so glad that didn"t happen.

当我真的40岁时，我很高兴这并没有成真。

so, here i am, 22, making $22,000 a year and, yet, it didn"t feel right. it didn"t feel right. thefirst sign, as president hennessy was saying, was when they tried to change my name. thenews director said to me at the time, "nobody"s going to remember oprah. so, we want tochange your name. we"ve come up with a name we think that people will remember and peoplewill like. it"s a friendly name: suzie."

这就是我，22岁时每年挣22,000美元，然而，这种感觉并不好。首先，正如hennessy校长所说，当他们试图让我改名字。那时导演对我说：“没人会记住oprah这个名字。因此我们想让你改名字。我们已经为你想了一个大家都会记住和喜欢的名字——suzie。”

hi, suzie. very friendly. you can"t be angry with suzie. remember suzie. but my name wasn"tsuzie. and, you know, i"d grown up not really loving my name, because when you"re looking foryour little name on the lunch bo_es and the license plate tags, you"re never going to findoprah.

suzie，一个很友善的名字。你不会厌恶suzie。记住suzie吧。但是我的名字不是suzie。你们可以看到，自小我就不怎么喜欢我的名字。因为当你在午餐箱和牌号寻找你的名字时，你永远也不会找oprah。

so, i grew up not loving the name, but once i was asked to change it, i thought, well, it is myname and do i look like a suzie to you? so, i thought, no, it doesn"t feel right. i"m not going tochange my name. and if people remember it or not, that"s ok.

我从小就不怎么喜欢我的名字，但是当我被告知去改名字时，我想，好吧，那时我的名字，但是suzie真的适合我吗?因此我想，它并不适合我。我不会改我的名字。我也不介意人们是否记得住我的名字，这没什么大不了的。

and then they said they didn"t like the way i looked. this was in 1976, when your boss couldcall you in and say, "i don"t like the way you look." now that would be called a lawsuit, butback then they could just say, "i don"t like the way you look." which, in case some of you in theback, if you can"t tell, is nothing like barbara walters. so, they sent me to a salon where theygave me a perm, and after a few days all my hair fell out and i had to shave my head. andthen they really didn"t like the way i looked.because now i am black and bald and sitting on tv.not a pretty picture.

然后他们还对我说他们不喜欢我的长相。那是在1976年，你的老板可以那么说。但是如果是现在的话，那就是一件很严重的事了。可是那时他们还是说：“我不喜欢你的造型。”我根本不像barbara walters。于是他们把我送到沙龙，给我烫了发。可是几天后我的头发一团糟。我不得不剃光我的头发。此时他们更不喜欢我的造型了。因为作为一个光头黑人坐在摄影机前，我肯定不漂亮的。

but even worse than being bald, i really hated, hated, hated being sent to report on otherpeople"s tragedies as a part of my daily duty, knowing that i was just e_pected to observe,when everything in my instinct told me that i should be doing something, i should be lendinga hand.

比光头更令我讨厌的是我不得不把播报别人遭受的痛苦作为我的日常工作。我深知我期待去观察，我的内心告诉我，我应该做些什么了。我需要为他人提供帮助。

so, as president hennessy said, i"d cover a fire and then i"d go back and i"d try to give thevictims blankets. and i wouldn"t be able to sleep at night because of all the things i wascovering during the day.

正如hennessy校长所说的那样，我播报了一起火灾，然后应当去给受害者拿毯子。由于白天播报的那些新闻导致我晚上难以入睡。

and, meanwhile, i was trying to sit gracefully like barbara and make myself talk like barbara.and i thought, well, i could make a pretty goofy barbara. and if i could figure out how to bemyself, i could be a pretty good oprah. i was trying to sound elegant like barbara. andsometimes i didn"t read my copy, because something inside me said, this should bespontaneous. so, i wanted to get the news as i was giving it to the people. so, sometimes, iwouldn"t read my copy and it would be, like, si_ people on a pileup on i-40. oh, my goodness.

与此同时我尽量表现的优雅一些，使我更像barbara。我认为我可能会成为一个傻傻的barbara。如果我做回我自己，我就会成为一个很棒的oprah。我努力像barbara那样优雅。有时我并不读我的稿件，因为我的内心告诉我这是不自主的。所以我想为大家播报一些我想要的新闻。有时，我不会播报像6个人在连环车祸中受伤这类的新闻。哦，我的天啊。

and sometimes i wouldn"t read the copy—because i wanted to be spontaneous—and i"d comeacross a list of words i didn"t know and i"d mispronounce. and one day i was reading copy and icalled canada "ca nada." and i decided, this barbara thing"s not going too well. i should trybeing myself.

有时出于内心的本能，我不会去播报一些新闻。我还会遇到一些不认识的和念错的词。一天当我播新闻时，我把加拿大读错了。我想这样下去学barbara可不大好。我应该做回我自己。

but at the same time, my dad was saying, "oprah gail, this is an opportunity of a lifetime.you better keep that job." and my boss was saying, "this is the nightly news. you"re ananchor, not a social worker. just do your job."

但那是我爸爸却对我说：“这是你一生的机会。你最好继续那份工作。”我的老板也说：“这是晚间新闻。你是播报员，不是福利工作者。还是做你的本职工作吧。”

so, i was juggling these messages of e_pectation and obligation and feeling reallymiserable with myself. i"d go home at night and fill up my journals, "cause i"ve kept a journalsince i was 15—so i now have volumes of journals. so, i"d go home at night and fill up myjournals about how miserable i was and frustrated. then i"d eat my an_iety. that"s where ilearned that habit.

我歪曲了这些期待和义务，并感觉很糟。晚上回到家后我会记日记。自从15岁时我就开始记日记了，于是现在我已经有了好几卷日记。我晚上回到家后，我会记录下我是多么的不幸和沮丧。然后我消除了焦虑。这就是我如何养成了那个习惯。

and after eight months, i lost that job. they said i was too emotional. i was too much. butsince they didn"t want to pay out the contract, they put me on a talk show in baltimore. andthe moment i sat down on that show, the moment i did, i felt like i"d come home. i realizedthat tv could be more than just a playground, but a platform for service, for helping otherpeople lift their lives. and the moment i sat down, doing that talk show, it felt like breathing. itfelt right. and that"s where everything that followed for me began.

8个月后我失去了那份工作。他们说我太情绪化了。但因为他们不想违背合约，他们就让我去baltimore主持一档脱口秀节目。从我开始主持那档节目的一刻开始，我感觉好像回到了家一样。我意识到电视不应该仅仅是一个娱乐场，更应该是一个以服务为目的的平台，以帮助他人更好的生活。当我开始主持节目的时间侯，就像呼吸一样。感觉好极啦。这就是我工作的真正开始。

and i got that lesson. when you"re doing the work you"re meant to do, it feels right and everyday is a bonus, regardless of what you"re getting paid.

这就是我学到的经验。当你做的是一份你喜欢的工作时，那感觉棒极了。无论你能挣到多少钱，你都会有很大收获。

it"s true. and how do you know when you"re doing something right? how do you know that? itfeels so. what i know now is that feelings are really your gps system for life. when you"resupposed to do something or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance systemlets you know. the trick is to learn to check your ego at the door and start checking your gutinstead. every right decision i"ve made—every right decision i"ve ever made—has come frommy gut. and every wrong decision i"ve ever made was a result of me not listening to thegreater voice of myself.

这是真的。但是你怎么知道你所做的是对的呢?你怎么知道呢?我所知道的就是你的内心是你人生的导航系统。当你应该或者不应该改做某事时，你的内心会告诉你怎样去做。关键是去面对你自己，面对你自己的内心。我所做过的所有正确选择都是源自我内心的。我所做过的所有错误选择都是因为没有听取来自我内心的声音。

if it doesn"t feel right, don"t do it. that"s the lesson. and that lesson alone will save you, myfriends, a lot of grief. even doubt means don"t. this is what i"ve learned. there are many timeswhen you don"t know what to do. when you don"t know what to do, get still, get very still, untilyou do know what to do.

如果感觉不好，就不要去做。这就是我的经验。我的朋友，这个经验会帮你避免很多痛苦。甚至怀疑都意味着不要去做。这就是我所学到的。有很多次当你不知道如何去做时，什么也不要做，直到你知道怎么做为止。

and when you do get still and let your internal motivation be the driver, not only will yourpersonal life improve, but you will gain a competitive edge in the working world as well.because, as daniel pink writes in his best-seller, a whole new mind, we"re entering a whole newage. and he calls it the conceptual age, where traits that set people apart today are going tocome from our hearts—right brain—as well as our heads. it"s no longer just the logical, linear,rules-based thinking that matters, he says. it"s also empathy and joyfulness and purpose,inner traits that have transcendent worth.

当你什么也不要做时，让你的内心作为驱动力。不仅仅你的个人生活会提高，你在工作中也会获得竞争力。正如daniel pink在他的畅销书a whole new mind中所说的那样，我们进入了一个新时代，一个他称之为概念时代的时代。人们的内心使人与人之间产生隔阂。他说，重要的不仅仅是逻辑上的，线性的，直尺式的思维方式。移情，快乐，目标和内部特质同样也有卓越的价值。

these qualities bloom when we"re doing what we love, when we"re involving the wholeness ofourselves in our work, both our e_pertise and our emotion.

当我们做自己喜欢的事时，当我们全身心的投入到工作中时，这些特质就会焕发生机。

so, i say to you, forget about the fast lane. if you really want to fly, just harness your power toyour passion. honor your calling. everybody has one. trust your heart and success will come toyou.

因此我对你说，忘掉那些快车道吧。如果你真的像飞翔，就把你的力量投入到你的激情当中。尊重你内心的召唤。每一个人都会有的。相信你的心灵，你会成功的。

so, how do i define success? let me tell you, money"s pretty nice. i"m not going to stand uphere and tell you that it"s not about money, "cause money is very nice. i like money. it"s goodfor buying things.

那么我是如何定义成功的呢?让我告诉你，钱很美好。我不会告诉你们成功与钱无关，因为钱是好东东。我喜欢钱。它能买东西。

but having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. what youwant is money and meaning. you want your work to be meaningful. because meaning is whatbrings the real richness to your life. what you really want is to be surrounded by people youtrust and treasure and by people who cherish you. that"s when you"re really rich.so, lessonone, follow your feelings. if it feels right, move forward. if it doesn"t feel right, don"t do it.

但是拥有很多钱并不能使你自然而然的成为一个成功者。你想要的是钱和意义。你想你的工作更有意义。因为有意义使你的生活更加充实。你所希望得到的是被信任你珍视你的人包围。这才是你真正富有的时候。因此，第一个经验，跟随你的心灵。如果感觉对了，就继续前进。如果感觉不对，就不要做了。

now i want to talk a little bit about failings, because nobody"s journey is seamless or smooth.we all stumble. we all have setbacks. if things go wrong, you hit a dead end—as you will—it"sjust life"s way of saying time to change course. so, ask every failure—this is what i do withevery failure, every crisis, every difficult time—i say, what is this here to teach me? and as soonas you get the lesson, you get to move on. if you really get the lesson, you pass and you don"thave to repeat the class. if you don"t get the lesson, it shows up wearing another pair of pants—or skirt—to give you some remedial work.

现在我想谈谈失败。没有人他的一生是一帆风顺的。我们都会遇到困难，受到挫折。如果事情出错了，你进入了死胡同，这正是生活在告诉你是时候改变了。所以，每当遇到困难和危机时，我都会问它教会了我什么?只要你吸取了教训，你就会继续前进。如果你真正吸取了教训，你就会顺利通过考验，不用再取经受失败了。如果你没有吸取教训，它会以另外一种形式给出现在你面前并给你一些补救。

and what i"ve found is that difficulties come when you don"t pay attention to life"s whisper,because life always whispers to you first. and if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you"llget a scream. whatever you resist persists. but, if you ask the right question—not why is thishappening, but what is this here to teach me?—it puts you in the place and space to get thelesson you need.

我注意到当你没有仔细对待生活的细节时，困难就会出现。因为生活总是提前低声的告戒你。如果你忽视了这个低声的告诫，过不了多久你就会得到一个惊声尖叫，无论你怎样反抗。但是如果你不去想为什困难会发生，而是去反思困难会教给我什么时，你就会学到你需要的东西。

my friend eckhart tolle, who"s written this wonderful book called a new earth that"s all aboutletting the awareness of who you are stimulate everything that you do, he puts it like this:he says, don"t react against a bad situation; merge with that situation instead. and thesolution will arise from the challenge. because surrendering yourself doesn"t mean giving up;it means acting with responsibility.

我的朋友eckhart tolle。他写了一本非常棒的书，名叫a new earth。这本书就是关于让你的意识激励你去做事。他说，不要去反抗困境，相反，要融入到其中。事情会变的越来越好的。因为暂时的屈服并不意味着放弃，它意味着一种责任感。

many of you know that, as president hennessy said, i started this school in africa. and ifounded the school, where i"m trying to give south african girls a shot at a future like yours—stanford. and i spent five years making sure that school would be as beautiful as thestudents. i wanted every girl to feel her worth reflected in her surroundings. so, i checkedevery blueprint, i picked every pillow. i was looking at the grout in between the bricks. i knewevery thread count of the sheets. i chose every girl from the villages, from nine provinces. andyet, last fall, i was faced with a crisis i had never anticipated. i was told that one of the dormmatrons was suspected of se_ual abuse.

你们当中很多人都知道，正如hennessy校长所说，我在非洲创办了一个学校。我希望给南非的女孩们一个像你们一样的未来。我花了5年时间来确保学校会像学生们一样好。我想让每一个女孩感觉到自己的价值受到重视。所以我检查了每一个设计图，亲自挑选每个枕头，甚至检查砖块间的水泥。我知道每一个细节。每一学生都是我从9个省的村落里亲自选出来的。然而，去年的秋天我却遇到了一个我从未预料的危机。我被告知有一名宿舍管理员涉嫌性虐待。

that was, as you can imagine, devastating news. first, i cried—actually, i sobbed—for abouthalf an hour. and then i said, let"s get to it; that"s all you get, a half an hour. you need to focuson the now, what you need to do now. so, i contacted a child trauma specialist. i put togethera team of investigators. i made sure the girls had counseling and support. and gayle and i goton a plane and flew to south africa.

你们可以想象得到这是多么令人沮丧的消息啊。首先，我哭了，啜泣了大约半个小时。然后我说，我们得面对它。一个半小时，这就是你全部所能得到的。你需要把注意力集中到现在，现在你因该做些什么。所以我联系了一位儿科创伤专家。我派了一队调查人员。我确定女孩们得到了安慰和支持。gayle和我坐上飞机飞向南非。

and the whole time i kept asking that question: what is this here to teach me? and, as difficultas that e_perience has been, i got a lot of lessons. i understand now the mistakes i made,because i had been paying attention to all of the wrong things. i"d built that school from theoutside in, when what really mattered was the inside out.so, it"s a lesson that applies to all ofour lives as a whole. what matters most is what"s inside. what matters most is the sense ofintegrity, of quality and beauty. i got that lesson. and what i know is that the girls cameaway with something, too. they have emerged from this more resilient and knowing that theirvoices have power.

整个过程中我都在问自己：“这件事教会了我什么?”虽然这个经历十分困难，但是我学到了很多。我意识到自己所犯的错误，因为我一直以来都把注意力集中在错事上。我从外向内建造了那所学校，然而正真对我有意义的是从内向外的去建造它。最重要的是我对正直，品质和美好的理解。我学到了那个教训。我也明白女孩们也学到了一些事。她们从中恢复了过来并意识到她们的声音是有影响力的。

and their resilience and spirit have given me more than i could ever give to them, which leadsme to my final lesson—the one about finding happiness—which we could talk about all day, buti know you have other wacky things to do.

她们的恢复力和精神给了我很多东西，以至于比我给她们的还多。接下来是我最后的经验—关于寻找幸福，我可以谈论一整天，但是我有其他古怪的事要做。

not a small topic this is, finding happiness. but in some ways i think it"s the simplest of all.gwendolyn brooks wrote a poem for her children. it"s called "speech to the young : speech tothe progress-toward." and she says at the end, "live not for battles won. / live not for the-end-of-the-song. / live in the along." she"s saying, like eckhart tolle, that you have to live for thepresent. you have to be in the moment. whatever has happened to you in your past has nopower over this present moment, because life is now.

追求幸福并不是一个小话题。但在某种程度上来说它又是最简单的话题。gwendolyn brooks为她的孩子写了一首诗，诗名是speech to the young : speech to the progress-toward.在诗的最后她说到，不要为了战胜而生活，不要为了歌曲的结尾而生活，要享受生活。她说，你应当为了现在而生活，无论过去发生了什么都不应该影响到现在，因为生活就是过好现在。

but i think she"s also saying, be a part of something. don"t live for yourself alone. this is what iknow for sure: in order to be truly happy, you must live along with and you have to stand forsomething larger than yourself. because life is a reciprocal e_change. to move forward youhave to give back. and to me, that is the greatest lesson of life. to be happy, you have to givesomething back.

我想她还说过，去参与一些事。不要仅仅为了自己而生活。我可以非常肯定的是为了追求真正的快乐，你必须为了一些更有意义的事而生活。生活是互动的。为了前进，你必须后退。对于我而言，这是人生中最重要的经验。想要获得快乐你必须付出。

i know you know that, because that"s a lesson that"s woven into the very fabric of thisuniversity. it"s a lesson that jane and leland stanford got and one they"ve bequeathed to you.because all of you know the story of how this great school came to be, how the stanfords losttheir only child to typhoid at the age of 15. they had every right and they had every reason toturn their backs against the world at that time, but instead, they channeled their grief andtheir pain into an act of grace. within a year of their son"s death, they had made the foundinggrant for this great school, pledging to do for other people"s children what they were not ableto do for their own boy.

我知道你们已经很了解了，因为这个经验已经深深的融入了斯坦福。这个经验是jane and leland传承给你们的。因为你们所有的人都知道这座伟大的大学是如何建成的。斯坦福夫妇的独子在15岁时得了伤寒离开了他们。他们有权利和理由去恨这个世界，但是他们却用优雅的行动疏导了心中的悲伤。在他们儿子死后不到一年内，他们已经这所伟大的大学筹集了建设经费，并发誓要为别人的孩子做一些他们自己的孩子不能得到事。

the lesson here is clear, and that is, if you"re hurting, you need to help somebody ease theirhurt. if you"re in pain, help somebody else"s pain. and when you"re in a mess, you get yourselfout of the mess helping somebody out of theirs. and in the process, you get to become amember of what i call the greatest fellowship of all, the sorority of compassion and thefraternity of service.

这个经验非常明显，那就是，如果你受了伤，你需要帮助他人减轻伤痛。如果你感到痛苦，帮助他人减轻痛苦。如果你的生活一团糟，去帮助其他处在困难中的人摆脱困境。这样一来，你就变成了妇女联谊会或是互助会中最伟大的一个员。

the stanfords had suffered the worst thing any mom and dad can ever endure, yet theyunderstood that helping others is the way we help ourselves. and this wisdom is increasinglysupported by scientific and sociological research. it"s no longer just woo-woo soft-skills talk.there"s actually a helper"s high, a spiritual surge you gain from serving others. so, if you wantto feel good, you have to go out and do some good.

斯坦福夫妇遭受了世上父母所能遭受的最大痛苦，然而他们懂得通过帮助他人来帮助自己。这种智慧渐渐的被科学和社会学研究所证实。这不仅仅是某种软技能的谈话。这事实上是在帮助者的高度，一种从帮助别人而获得的精神大爆发。所以如果你想快乐，去帮助别人吧。

but when you do good, i hope you strive for more than just the good feeling that serviceprovides, because i know this for sure, that doing good actually makes you better. so, whateverfield you choose, if you operate from the paradigm of service, i know your life will have morevalue and you will be happy.

但是当你做好事时，我希望你不仅仅是为了获得的快乐，因为我深知做好事可以让你变得更棒。所以无论你怎样选择，若你能以服务他人为榜样，我相信你的生活会更有价值，你也会更快乐。

i was always happy doing my talk show, but that happiness reached a depth of fulfillment, ofjoy, that i really can"t describe to you or measure when i stopped just being on tv andlooking at tv as a job and decided to use television, to use it and not have it use me, to use itas a platform to serve my viewers. that alone changed the trajectory of my success.

我也很高兴做我的脱口秀节目，那种快乐是一种更深层次的成就感，我很难去表达和衡量。我决定以电视作为我的职业，我要用电视这个平台来为我的观众服务，而不是让电视利用我。这改变了我成功的轨迹。

so, i know this—that whether you"re an actor, you offer your talent in the way that mostinspires art. if you"re an anatomist, you look at your gift as knowledge and service to healing.whether you"ve been called, as so many of you here today getting doctorates and otherdegrees, to the professions of business, law, engineering, humanities, science, medicine, if youchoose to offer your skills and talent in service, when you choose the paradigm of service,looking at life through that paradigm, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift. and iknow you haven"t spent all this time at stanford just to go out and get a job.

我知道无论你是否是一名演员，你都应该把你的才智贡献给能够鼓舞他人的事业。如果你是一名剖析家，你应当把你们的智慧投入到医治他人当中。无论你是否被召唤，你们中的很多人在经济，法律，人权，科学，医药方面都获得了诸如博士一类的学位，如果你们决定把你们的技能和智慧奉献给服务他人们，选择把服务他人作为榜样，你们的工作就会变成一种天赋。我知道你们在斯坦福所在的一切就是为了出去找一份工作。

you"ve been enriched in countless ways. there"s no better way to make your mark on the worldand to share that abundance with others. my constant prayer for myself is to be used inservice for the greater good.

你们在很多方面都得到了提高。没有其它更好的方式能够分享你的丰富的才智了。我永恒的祈祷就是让自己能够为他人提供更好的服务

so, let me end with one of my favorite quotes from martin luther king. dr. king said, "noteverybody can be famous." and i don"t know, but everybody today seems to want to be famous.

就让我引用马丁路德金的话来作为结束语吧。他说：“不是所有人都会出名。”我不知道，但似乎今天所有人都想出名。

but fame is a trip. people follow you to the bathroom, listen to you pee. it"s just—try to peequietly. it doesn"t matter, they come out and say, "ohmigod, it"s you. you peed."

但是成名也是一种代价。有些人会尾随你到卫生间，听你尿尿。你会尽量尿的轻一些。这没什么大不了的。他们会对你说：“我的天啊，是你!你尿尿啦。”

that"s the fame trip, so i don"t know if you want that.

这就是成名的代价，我不知道你们是否喜欢。

so, dr. king said, "not everybody can be famous. but everybody can be great, becausegreatness is determined by service." those of you who are history scholars may know the restof that passage. he said, "you don"t have to have a college degree to serve. you don"t have tomake your subject and verb agree to serve. you don"t have to know about plato or aristotle toserve. you don"t have to know einstein"s theory of relativity to serve. you don"t have to knowthe second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. you only need a heart full of graceand a soul generated by love."

所以，正如马丁路德金所说，“不是所有人都会成名。但每个人都可以变的伟大，因为伟大是通过为他人服务而界定的。” 你们当中学历史的人可能会知道他接下来的话，“为别人提供服务，并不一定要有大学学历，并不一定要主谓一致，并不一定要认识柏拉图和亚里士多德，并不一定要会爱因斯坦的相对论，并不一定要了解热力学第二定律。你所需要的是一颗优雅的心灵和充满爱的灵魂。”

in a few moments, you"ll all be officially stanford"s "08.

不久你们就会正式成为斯坦福大学2024年的毕业生了。

you have the heart and the smarts to go with it. and it"s up to you to decide, really, where willyou now use those gifts? you"ve got the diploma, so go out and get the lessons, "cause i knowgreat things are sure to come.

你们有聪明才智。你们将会决定如何利用它。说真的，你们将会如何利用它呢?你们拿到了学位。走向社会吧，我坚信伟大的事将会发生的。

you know, i"ve always believed that everything is better when you share it, so before i go, iwanted to share a graduation gift with you. underneath your seats you"ll find two of my favoritebooks. eckhart tolle"s a new earth is my current book club selection. our new earth webcasthas been downloaded 30 million times with that book. and daniel pink"s a whole new mind:why right-brainers will rule the future has reassured me i"m in the right direction.

你们知道，我一直坚信，如果你和他人分享，那么事情就会变得更好。所以在我离开之前，我想和大家分享一下毕业礼物。在你们的座位底下，你们会发现两本我最喜欢的书。eckhart tolle的a new earth流行书俱乐部的精选品。我们的new earth广播已经被下载3亿次。daniel pink的a whole new mind: why right-brainers will rule the future 使我确定我在人生的正轨上。

i really wanted to give you cars but i just couldn"t pull that off! congratulations, "08!

我真的想送大家轿车，只是开不过来!祝贺大家!2024年的毕业生们!