Steve Jobs在斯坦福大学2005年毕业典礼上的演讲解析

第一篇：Steve Jobs在斯坦福大学2005年毕业典礼上的演讲解析

Steve Jobs在斯坦福大学2005年毕业典礼上的演讲

我今天很荣幸能和你们一起参加毕业典礼，斯坦福大学是世界上最好的大学之一。我从来没有从大学中毕业，说实话,今天也许是我有生以来离大学毕业典礼最近的一天了。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,只是三个故事而已。

第一个故事是关于如何串起生命中的点点滴滴。

我在Reed大学读了六个月之后就退学了,但之后作为旁听生又混了十八个月以后才真正离开。我为什么要退学呢？

故事从我出生的时候讲起。我的亲生母亲是一个年轻的、没有结婚的大学毕业生。她决定让别人收养我, 但她觉得我一定要被大学毕业生收养。所以她安排好了我出生时将被一个律师和他的妻子所收养。但是她没有料到,当我出生之后, 律师夫妇突然决定他们想要一个女孩。所以我的生养父母（他们在待选名单上）突然在半夜接到了一个电话:“我们现在这儿有一个不小心生出来的男婴,你们想要他吗？”他们回答道: “当然！”但是我亲生母亲随后发现，我的养母从来没有上过大学,我的养父 甚至从没有读过高中。她拒绝签署收养合同。只是在几个月以后,我的父母答应她一定要让我上大学,那个时候她才软化同意。

在十七岁那年,我真的上了大学。但是我很愚蠢的选择了一个几乎和你们斯坦福大学一样贵的学校, 我父母是蓝领阶层，他们几乎把所有积蓄都花在了我的学费上面。在六个月后, 我已经看不到其中的价值所在。我不知道我真正想要做什么,我也不知道大学能怎样帮助我找到答案。但是在这里，我几乎花光了我父母这一辈子的 全部积蓄。所以我决定要退学,我觉得这是个正确的决定。不能否认,我当时确实非常的害怕, 但是现在回头看看,那的确是我这一生中最棒的一个决定。在我做出退学决定的那一刻, 我终于可以不必去读那些令我提不起丝毫兴趣的课，并可以开始去修那些看起来有点意思的课程。

但是这并不是那么罗曼蒂克。我失去了我的宿舍,所以我只能在朋友房间的地板上睡觉,我去捡可以换5美分的可乐罐，仅仅为了填饱肚子, 在星期天的晚上,我需要走七英里的路程，穿过城市到Hare Krishna神庙,只是为了能吃上好饭——这个星期唯一一顿好一点的饭，我喜欢那里的饭菜。

我跟着我的直觉和好奇心走, 遇到的很多东西,此后被证明是无价之宝。让我给你们举一个例子吧：

Reed大学在那时提供也许是全美最好的美术字课程。在这个大学里面的每个海报, 每个抽屉的标签上面全都是漂亮的美术字。因为我退学了, 不必去上正规的课程, 所以我决定去参加这个课程，去学学怎样写出漂亮的美术字。我学到了san serif 和serif字体, 我学会了怎么样在不同的字母组合之中改变空白间距, 还有怎么样才能作出最棒的印刷式样。那种美好、历史感和艺术精妙，是科学永远不能捕捉到的, 我发现那实在是太迷人了。

当时看起来这些东西在我的生命中好像都没有什么实际应用的可能。但是十年之后,当我们在设计第一台Macintosh电脑的时候,就不是那样了。我把当时我学的那些东西全都设计进了Mac。那是第一台使用了漂亮的印刷字体的电脑。如果我当时没有退学, 就不会有机会去参加这个我感兴趣的美术字课程, Mac就不会有这么多丰富的字体以及赏心悦目的字体间距。因为Windows只是抄袭了Mac，所以现在个人电脑就不会有现在这么美妙的字型了。

当然我在大学的时候，还不可能把从前的点点滴滴串连起来,但是当我十年后回顾这一切的时候,真的豁然开朗了。

再次说明的是,你在向未来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串起他们。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,只是让我的生命更加地与众不同。

我的第二个故事是关于爱和失去。

我非常幸运, 因为我在很早的时候就找到了我钟爱的东西。Woz和我在二十岁的时候就在父母的车库里面开创了苹果公司。我们工作得很努力, 十年之后, 这个公司从那两个车库中的穷小子发展到了超过四千名的雇员、价值超过二十亿的大公司。在公司成立的第九年,我们刚刚发布了最好的产品,那就是Macintosh。我也快要到三十岁了。在那一年, 我被炒了鱿鱼。你怎么可能被你自己创立的公司炒了鱿鱼呢? 嗯,在苹果快速成长的时候，我们雇用了一个很有天分的家伙和我一起管理这个公司, 在最初的几年,公司运转的很好。但是后来我们对未来的看法发生了分歧, 最终我们吵了起来。当争吵得不可开交的时候, 董事会站在了他的那一边。所以在三十岁的时候, 我被炒了。在这么多人目光下我被炒了。在而立之年，我生命的全部支柱离自己远去, 这真是毁灭性的打击。

在最初的几个月里，我真是不知道该做些什么。我觉得我令上一代的创业家们很失望，我把他们交给我的接力棒弄丢了。我和创办惠普的David Pack、创办Intel的Bob Noyce见面，并试图向他们道歉。我把事情弄得糟糕透顶了。但是我渐渐发现了曙光, 我仍然热爱我从事的这些东西。苹果公司发生的这些事情丝毫的没有改变这些, 一点也没有。我被驱逐了,但是我仍然钟爱我所做的事情。所以我决定从头再来。

我当时没有觉察, 但是事后证明, 从苹果公司被炒是我这辈子发生的最棒的事情。因为，作为一个成功者的负重感被作为一个创业者的轻松感觉所重新代替, 没有比这更确定的事情了。这让我觉得如此自由, 进入了我生命中最有创造力的一个阶段。

在接下来的五年里, 我创立了一个名叫NeXT的公司, 还有一个叫Pixar的公司, 然后和一个后来成为我妻子的优雅女人相识。Pixar 制作了世界上第一个电脑动画电影——“玩具总动员”,Pixar现在也是世界上最成功的电脑制作工作室。在后来的一系列运作中,Apple收购了NeXT, 然后我又回到了Apple公司。我们在NeXT发展的技术在Apple的今天的复兴之中发挥了关键的作用。而且，我还和Laurence 一起建立了一个幸福完美的家庭。

我可以非常肯定,如果我不被Apple开除的话, 这其中一件事情也不会发生的。这个良药的味道实在是很苦,但是我想病人需要这个药。有些时候, 生活会拿起一块砖头向你的脑袋上猛拍一下，不要失去信仰。我很清楚唯一使我一直走下去的，就是我做的事情令我无比钟爱。你需要去找到你所爱的东西。对于工作是如此, 对于你的爱人也是如此。你的工作将会占据生活中很大的一部分。你只有相信自己所做的是伟大的工作, 你才能怡然自得。如果你现在还没有找到, 那么继续找、不要停下来，只要全心全意的去找, 在你找到的时候，你的心会告诉你的。就像任何真诚的关系, 随着岁月的流逝只会越来越紧密。所以继续找，直到你找到它，不要停下来！

我的第三个故事是关于死亡的。

当我十七岁的时候, 我读到了一句话:“如果你把每一天都当作生命中最后一天去生活的话,那么有一天你会发现你是正确的。”这句话给我留下了一个印象。从那时开始,过了33 年,我在每天早晨都会对着镜子问自己:“如果今天是我生命中的最后一天, 你会不会完成你今天想做的事情呢？”当答案连续多天是“No”的时候, 我知道自己需要改变某些事情了。

“记住你即将死去”是我一生中遇到的最重要箴言。它帮我指明了生命中重要的选择。因为几乎所有的事情, 包括所有的荣誉、所有的骄傲、所有对难堪和失败的恐惧,这些在死亡面前都会微不足道。我看到的是留下的真正重要的东西。你有时候会思考你将会失去某些东西, “记住你即将死去”是我知道的避免这些想法的最好办法。如果你清空一切, 你没有理由不去跟随自己内心的声音。

大概一年以前, 我被诊断出癌症。我在早晨七点半做了一个检查, 检查清楚的显示在我的胰腺有一个肿瘤。我当时都不知道胰腺是什么东西。医生告诉我那很可能是一种无法治愈的癌症, 我至多还能活三到六个月的时间。我的医生叫我回家, 然后整理好我的一切, 那是医生对临终病人的标准程序。那意味着你将要把未来十年对你小孩说的话在几个月里面说完.；那意味着把每件事情都安排好, 让你的家人会尽可能轻松的生活；那意味着你要说“再见了”。

我拿着那个诊断书过了一整天，那天晚上我作了一个活切片检查，医生将一个内窥镜从我的喉咙伸进去,通过我的胃, 然后进入我的肠子, 用一根针在我的胰腺上的肿瘤上取了几个细胞。我当时是被麻醉的，但是我的妻子在那里, 后来她告诉我，当医生在显微镜下观察这些细胞的时候他们开始尖叫, 因为这些细胞最后竟然是一种非常罕见的可以用手术治愈的胰腺癌症细胞。我做了这个手术, 现在我痊愈了。

那是我最接近死亡的时候, 我希望这也是以后的几十年最接近的一次。从死亡线上又活了过来,相对于以前只把死亡只当成一 种想象中的概念，我现在可以更肯定一点地对你们说：

没有人愿意死, 即使人们想上天堂, 也不会为了去那里而死。但是死亡是我们每个人共同的终点。从来没有人能够逃脱它。也应该如此。因为死亡就是生命中最好的一个发明。它将旧的清除以便给新的让路。你们现在是新的, 但是从现在开始不久以后, 你们将会逐渐的变成旧的然后被送离人生舞台。我很抱歉这很戏剧性, 但是这十分的真实。

你们的时间很有限, 所以不要将他们浪费在重复其他人的生活上。不要被教条束缚,那意味着你和其他人思考的结果一起生活。不要被其他人喧嚣的观点掩盖你真正的内心的声音。还有最重要的是, 你要有勇气去听从你直觉和心灵的指示——它们在某种程度上知道你想要成为什么样子，所有其他的事情都是次要的。

当我年轻的时候, 有一本叫做“整个地球的目录”振聋发聩的杂志，它是我们那一代人的圣经之一。它是一个叫Stewart Brand的家伙在离这里不远的Menlo Park编辑的, 他象诗一般神奇地将这本书带到了这个世界。那是六十年代后期, 在个人电脑出现之前, 所以这本书全部是用打字机,、剪刀还有拍立得照相机编辑的。有点像用软皮包装的google, 在google出现三十五年之前：这是理想主义的，其中有许多灵巧的工具和伟大的想法。

Stewart和他的伙伴出版了几期的“整个地球的目录”,当它完成了自己使命的时候, 他们做出了最后一期的目录。那是在七十年代的中期, 我正是你们的年纪。在最后一期的封底上是清晨乡村公路的照片（如果你有足够冒险精神的话，你就可以自己找到这条路。），在照片之下有这样一段话：“求知若饥，虚心若愚。”这是他们的告别语。“求知若饥，虚心若愚。”我总是希望自己能够那样,现在, 在你们即将毕业，开始新的旅程的时候, 我也希望你们能这样：

求知若饥，虚心若愚。

非常感谢你们

以上为史蒂夫.乔布斯在斯坦福大学2005年毕业典礼上的演讲

This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12，2005.I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world.I never graduated from college.Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation.Today I want to tell you three stories from my life.That's it.No big deal.Just three stories.The first story is about connecting the dots.I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit.So why did I drop out?

It started before I was born.My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption.She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife.Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl.So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: “We have an unexpected baby boy;do you want him?” They said: “Of course.” My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school.She refused to sign the final adoption papers.She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.And 17 years later I did go to college.But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition.After six months, I couldn't see the value in it.I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life.So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK.It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made.The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.It wasn't all romantic.I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple.I loved it.And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.Let me give you one example:

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed.Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this.I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great.It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life.But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me.And we designed it all into the Mac.It was the first computer with beautiful typography.If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts.And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them.If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do.Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college.But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward;you can only connect them looking backwards.So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.My second story is about love and loss.I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life.Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20.We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30.And then I got fired.How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well.But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out.When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him.So at 30 I was out.And very publicly out.What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.I really didn't know what to do for a few months.I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs downthese things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.You are already naked.There is no reason not to follow your heart.About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer.I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas.I didn't even know what a pancreas was.The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months.My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die.It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months.It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family.It means to say your goodbyes.I lived with that diagnosis all day.Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor.I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery.I had the surgery and I'm fine now.This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades.Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:

No one wants to die.Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there.And yet death is the destination we all share.No one has ever escaped it.And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life.It is Life's change agent.It clears out the old to make way for the new.Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away.Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.They somehow already know what you truly want to become.Everything else is secondary.When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation.It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch.This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras.It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue.It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age.On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous.Beneath it were the words: “Stay Hungry.Stay Foolish.” It was their farewell message as they signed off.Stay Hungry.Stay Foolish.And I have always wished that for myself.And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.Stay Hungry.Stay Foolish.Thank you all very much

http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html

第二篇：奥普拉在斯坦福大学2008毕业典礼演讲稿

脱口秀女王奥普拉在斯坦福大学2008毕业典礼上的演讲

Thank you, President Hennessy, and to thetrustees and the faculty, to all of the parents and grandparents, to you, the Stanford graduates.Thank you for letting me share this amazing day with 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 me to be your Commencement speaker, because this is the first time I've been allowed on campus since 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2008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, she says.Not in terms of who she knows.So, she never wants anyone who's first meeting her to know that I know her and she knows me.So, when she first came to Stanford for new student orientation with her mom, I hear that they arrived and everybody was so welcoming, and somebody came up to Kirby and they said, “Ohmigod, that's Gayle King!” Because a lot of people 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's like, “Uh-huh.She's my mom.”And so the person says, “Ohmigod, does it mean, like, you know Oprah 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 I can e-mail to you all of Kirby riding horsey with me on all fours.So, I more than sort-of know Kirby Bumpus.And I'm so happy to be here, just happy that I finally, after four years, get to see her room.There's really nowhere else I'd rather be, because I'm so proud of Kirby, who graduates 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's asked me in the past couple of weeks what I was doing, I would say, “I'm getting ready to go to Stanford.” 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 degree at all, 'cause I didn't go to Stanford.I went to Tennessee State University.But I never would have gotten my diploma at all, because I was supposed to graduate back in 1975, but I was short one credit.And I figured, I'm just going to forget it, 'cause, you know, I'm not going to march with my class.Because by that point, I was already on television.I'd been in television since I was 19 and a sophomore.Granted, I was the only television anchor person that had an 11 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 that time 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 that degree.” 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 to get 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.By then, I had my own show, was nationally syndicated.I'd made a movie, had been nominated for an Oscar and founded my company, Harpo.But I told them, I cannot come and give a speech unless I can earn one more credit, because my dad's still saying I'm not going to get anywhere without 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 was very 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, “The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take that away from you.” And learning is really 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 school and our life the classrooms.And sometimes here in this Planet Earth school the lessons often come dressed up as detours or roadblocks.And sometimes as full-blown crises.And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons, lessons from the grandest university of 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 is going 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 next level of understanding, the next level of 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 reporter when 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 of yourself.” 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 that there's a lesson in almost everything that you do and every experience, and getting the lesson is how you move forward.It's how you enrich your spirit.And, trust me, I know that inner wisdom 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 journey so 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, with failure 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 in Baltimore, because the whole goal in the media at the time I was coming up was you try to move to larger markets.And Baltimore was a much larger market than Nashville.So, getting the 6 o'clock news co-anchor job at 22 was such a big deal.It felt like the biggest deal in the world 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 years old, making $22,000 a year.And it's where I met my best friend, Gayle, who was an intern at the 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.The first sign, as President Hennessy was saying, was when they tried to change my name.The news director said to me at the time, “Nobody's going to remember Oprah.So, we want to change your name.We've come up with a name we think that people will remember and people will 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't Suzie.And, you know, I'd grown up not really loving my name, because when you're looking for your little name on the lunch boxes and the license plate tags, you're never going to find Oprah.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 my name and do I look like a Suzie to you? So, I thought, no, it doesn't feel right.I'm not going to change 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 could call you in and say, “I don't like the way you look.” Now that would be called a lawsuit, but back then they could just say, “I don't like the way you look.” Which, in case some of you in the back, if you can't tell, is nothing like Barbara Walters.So, they sent me to a salon where they gave me a perm, and after a few days all my hair fell out and I had to shave my head.And then 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 other people's tragedies as a part of my daily duty, knowing that I was just expected to observe, when everything in my instinct told me that I should be doing something, I should be lending a 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 the victims blankets.And I wouldn't be able to sleep at night because of all the things I was covering 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 be myself, I could be a pretty good Oprah.I was trying to sound elegant like Barbara.And sometimes I didn't read my copy, because something inside me said, this should be spontaneous.So, I wanted to get the news as I was giving it to the people.So, sometimes, I wouldn't read my copy and it would be, like, six 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 come across a list of words I didn't know and I'd mispronounce.And one day I was reading copy and I called Canada “ca nada.” And I decided, this Barbara thing's not going too well.I should try being 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 an anchor, 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 expectation and obligation and feeling really miserable with myself.I'd go home at night and fill up my journals, 'cause I've kept a journal since I was 15—so I now have volumes of journals.So, I'd go home at night and fill up my journals about how miserable I was and frustrated.Then I'd eat my anxiety.That's where I learned 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.But since they didn't want to pay out the contract, they put me on a talk show in Baltimore.And the moment I sat down on that show, the moment I did, I felt like I'd come home.I realized that TV could be more than just a playground, but a platform for service, for helping other people lift their lives.And the moment I sat down, doing that talk show, it felt like breathing.It felt 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 every day 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? It feels so.What I know now is that feelings are really your GPS system for life.When you're supposed to do something or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.The trick is to learn to check your ego at the door and start checking your gut instead.Every right decision I've made—every right decision I've ever made—has come from my gut.And every wrong decision I've ever made was a result of me not listening to the greater 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, my friends, a lot of grief.Even doubt means don't.This is what I've learned.There are many times when you don't know what to do.When you don't know what to do, get still, get very still, until you 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 your personal 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 new age.And he calls it the Conceptual Age, where traits that set people apart today are going to come 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 of ourselves in our work, both our expertise 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 to your passion.Honor your calling.Everybody has one.Trust your heart and success will come to you.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 up here and tell you that it's not about money, 'cause money is very nice.I like money.It's good for 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 you want is money and meaning.You want your work to be meaningful.Because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.What you really want is to be surrounded by people you trust and treasure and by people who cherish you.That's when you're really rich.So, lesson one, 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's just life's way of saying time to change course.So, ask every failure—this is what I do with every failure, every crisis, every difficult time—I say, what is this here to teach me? And as soon as you get the lesson, you get to move on.If you really get the lesson, you pass and you don't have 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'll get a scream.Whatever you resist persists.But, if you ask the right question—not why is this happening, but what is this here to teach me?—it puts you in the place and space to get the lesson 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 about letting 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 the solution 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 I founded 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 the students.I wanted every girl to feel her worth reflected in her surroundings.So, I checked every blueprint, I picked every pillow.I was looking at the grout in between the bricks.I knew every thread count of the sheets.I chose every girl from the villages, from nine provinces.And yet, last fall, I was faced with a crisis I had never anticipated.I was told that one of the dorm matrons was suspected of sexual 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 about half an hour.And then I said, let's get to it;that's all you get, a half an hour.You need to focus on the now, what you need to do now.So, I contacted a child trauma specialist.I put together a team of investigators.I made sure the girls had counseling and support.And Gayle and I got on 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 difficult as that experience 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 the outside in, when what really mattered was the inside out.So, it's a lesson that applies to all of our lives as a whole.What matters most is what's inside.What matters most is the sense of integrity, of quality and beauty.I got that lesson.And what I know is that the girls came away with something, too.They have emerged from this more resilient and knowing that their voices 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 leads me to my final lesson—the one about finding happiness—which we could talk about all day, but I 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 to the 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 the present.You have to be in the moment.Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power 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 I know for sure: In order to be truly happy, you must live along with and you have to stand for something larger than yourself.Because life is a reciprocal exchange.To move forward you have to give back.And to me, that is the greatest lesson of life.To be happy, you have to give something 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 this university.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 lost their only child to typhoid at the age of 15.They had every right and they had every reason to turn their backs against the world at that time, but instead, they channeled their grief and their pain into an act of grace.Within a year of their son's death, they had made the founding grant for this great school, pledging to do for other people's children what they were not able to 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 their hurt.If you're in pain, help somebody else's pain.And when you're in a mess, you get yourself out of the mess helping somebody out of theirs.And in the process, you get to become a member of what I call the greatest fellowship of all, the sorority of compassion and the fraternity 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 they understood that helping others is the way we help ourselves.And this wisdom is increasingly supported 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 want to 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 service provides, because I know this for sure, that doing good actually makes you better.So, whatever field you choose, if you operate from the paradigm of service, I know your life will have more value 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, of joy, that I really can't describe to you or measure when I stopped just being on TV and looking at TV as a job and decided to use television, to use it and not have it use me, to use it as 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 most inspires 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 other degrees, to the professions of business, law, engineering, humanities, science, medicine, if you choose 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 I know 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 world and to share that abundance with others.My constant prayer for myself is to be used in service 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, “Not everybody 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 pee quietly.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, because greatness is determined by service.” Those of you who are history scholars may know the rest of that passage.He said, “You don't have to have a college degree to serve.You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve.You don't have to know about Plato or Aristotle to serve.You don't have to know Einstein's theory of relativity to serve.You don't have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve.You only need a heart full of grace and 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2008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 will you now use those gifts? You've got the diploma, so go out and get the lessons, 'cause I know great 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, I wanted to share a graduation gift with you.Underneath your seats you'll find two of my favorite books.Eckhart Tolle's A New Earth is my current book club selection.Our New Earth webcast has 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！08年的毕业生们！

第三篇：八年级在九年级毕业典礼上演讲稿

尊敬的老师、各位同学、九年级大哥哥、大姐姐们：

大家上午好！首先请允许我代表七年级和八年级的同学们，向即将毕业的你们表示最衷心的祝贺！祝贺你们圆满完成了初中三年的学习生涯，祝贺你们羽翼渐丰、即将展开新的征程。

虽然我们仅仅只有两年的校园相处时间，但就在这短短两年的时光里，我们从你们身上汲取了太多成长的营养。我们从你们勤学好问、行色匆匆的身影里，学到了惜时如金；我们从你们助学助弱、热心帮扶的行动里，学到了永存爱心；我们从你们青春、阳光、灿烂的微笑里，学会了积极向上；我们从你们不怕失败、不惧困难的毅力里，学会了坚持不懈。

各位学哥学姐，在你们的人生旅途中你们已经历了学习生涯中的第一次挑战！我想那一定是惊心动魄的，明年的此时将是我们坐在这里开毕业典礼大会，我真心希望那时也和你们一样精神饱满、斗志昂扬，满怀信心的憧憬着更高一级学府的美好学习生涯，以最好的成绩去实现自己梦寐以求的理想。我想那将会是多么的美妙和有意义啊！

今天你们就要离开一千个日日夜夜朝夕相处的老师、同学、母

校了，我知道你们的心情一定很复杂，有留恋有难舍，十八里堡初级中学的每个角落都印着你们走过的足迹，留有你们的欢声笑语，记录着你们经历的喜怒哀乐，请你们都一一地留在脑海，常回家看看。母校将以你们自豪、骄傲。

在十八里堡初级中学里，我们学会了知恩、感恩，所以我们长大了更要学会报恩。请你们毕业后多关顾你们引以为荣的母校，她记录着我们每个人的成长历史，她永远是我们人生最美好的起点站！今天，你们就要离开这熟悉的校园，迎接人生路途中的第一次挑战，实现你们心中久违的梦想，我们七八年级的全体同学们，衷心祝你们中考成功，梦圆人生。

大哥哥大姐姐们，灿烂的明天正在向你们招手，美丽的未来在向你们微笑。在这里，我们为你们加油，为你们鼓掌，为你们祝福，祝你们金榜题名，人生辉煌！

我的发言完毕，谢谢大家！

2014-06-13

第四篇：毕业典礼上演讲稿_演讲稿

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毕业典礼上的演讲稿

毕业典礼，它标志着又有一批学生胜利地完成了学业而即将走上新的学习道路。

下面是橙子搜集整理的毕业典礼上的演讲稿，欢迎阅读。更多资讯请继续关注毕业典礼栏目!毕业典礼上的演讲稿

亲爱的同学们，尊敬的各位老师，各位家长朋友们：

我们又一次相聚在体育馆，祝贺同学们经过数年寒窗苦读，圆满完成大学学业。首先，我代表学校向 20xx 届全体本科毕业生表示热烈的祝贺和衷心的祝福!在此，我也提议，请同学们把最热烈的掌声献给你们到场的和未

到场的父母，向他们表达最真挚的感激之情!把最热烈的掌声献给传授你们知识和力量的全体老师们，献给为你们的生活、学习、安全做 好服务保障的全体职工们，向他们表达最衷心的尊敬之意!2019 年我从中国农业大学来到西北农林科技大学工作，与同学

们同一年进入这所大学。

你们是我亲手迎来的第一届本科生，你们是在我心中具有特殊位置的一群学生，我们有着特殊的情缘，我们是

“同桌的你我”!四年来，我们竭尽全力地为同学们的成长成才创造良好的环境条

件，也不断地被同学们所感动，不断地收获着同学们为学校带来的成就和荣耀。我记得，为做好建校 80 周年暨合并组建 15 周年纪念活动，1 / 10

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同学们牺牲暑假的时间，冒着高温酷暑排练节目，特别是 9 月 11 日晚上顶着倾盆大雨一直排练到凌晨，这一刻感动了全校所有的师生。

毕业之后，一批同学将远涉重洋留学，追求更大的人生梦想。一

大批同学将怀着高考时没有实现的理想，奔赴更好的大学攻读更高的学位。一批同学将扎根西部和边疆，为改变欠发达地区的面貌奉献自己的青春。一批同学将走进基层，为国家民族的未来施展自己的才华。在毕业之际，作为教育工作者，我们更加深刻体会到大学的伟大，更

加深刻体会到大学的价值，大学因学生而美丽，大学因学生而充满生命力!儒家经典《礼记

?大学》开篇讲到：“大学之道，在明明德，在亲民，在止于至善。”大学是科学与知识的殿堂，是精神与价值的高

地。大学的根本使命是立德树人，大学的永恒追求是造就人才和创造知识。自 1934 年创建以来，西北农林科技大学始终传承着“经国本、解民生、尚科学”的办学理念。这是这所大学所坚守的价值，也是我 们所秉承的价值观，以及教授给学生所追求的价值取向。接下来，我 想就“价值与价值观”这一主题，为同学们上最后一课，谈一谈对同学们的期许和勉励。

我们先谈谈价值观。

哲学意义上的价值观是，一个人对周围的客观事物(包括人、事、物)的意义、作用、效果和重要性的总体评价和看法，是基于一定思维感官之上作出的认知、理解、判断或抉择，也

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现着一个社会评判是非曲直的价值标准。

一个国家，需要一种共同信仰的核心价值观，凝聚全社会的力量，引领国家的发展与繁荣;一个民族需要一种核心的价值观，支撑民族的文明与延续;一个社会组织需要一种核心的价值观，实现组织的愿景与卓越;一个大学需要一种核心的价值观，践行大学的使命与责任，教育广大学子爱国、敬业、诚信、友善，坚持真理、追求卓越。一个人也更加需要一种核心的价

值观，创造人生的价值，服务国家的发展，推进民族的振兴。

当前中国比历史上任何时候都更加接近实现民族复兴的伟大梦

想。成就这项伟大的事业，我们不仅要建成世界经济和科技强国，更 应当注重主流价值观的建设，让主流价值观成为每个公民的信仰，让每个人为国家的发展、社会的和谐贡献自己的力量。

当我们在努力实现国家富强、和平崛起之时，必须更加重视培育和践行核心价值观，并为世界输出有益于人类文明进步的精神价值。

否则，我们很难成为一个真正受人景仰的世界强国，很难实现真正意义的民族复兴。

接下来，我想与同学们谈一谈 2019 年“感动中国”两位获奖者 朱敏才先生、孙丽娜女士的故事。朱敏才在商务部工作近四十年，曾

任中国驻尼泊尔大使馆经济参赞，妻子孙丽娜则是新中国培养出的第一批小学英语老师。朱敏才、孙丽娜退休后，没有选择北京安逸的晚

年生活，而是来到贵州的偏远山区义务支教，一来就是十年。十年里，他们的足迹遍及望谟、尖山苗寨、遵义龙坪等地，在大山深处架起一/ 10

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座希望的彩虹。从风度翩翩的外交官到地地道道的乡村老师，朱敏才、孙丽娜把义务支教作为人生的新起点，用十年的坚守，扎根在大山的深处。他们行程上万公里，走过半个地球，先后支教 5 所乡村小学，为山区孩子倾注全部的热情和心血。他们用爱的双手打开一扇窗口，让山里的孩子们发现新的世界。他们废寝忘食、乐以忘忧，改变了无数贫困山区孩子的命运，成为人们心中的“最美乡村教师”。

2019 年 2 月 27 日，当看到中央电视台“感动中国”人物颁 奖典礼的现场，我感动得流泪了。朱敏才、孙丽娜都是平凡的人，他

们所做的都是平凡的事情。

他们怀着大爱之心，把人生的十年全部奉献给落后地区偏远山区的乡村教育。

他们用十年的坚守和付出，把平凡做成了不平凡，用平凡的举动成就着伟大的信念和高尚的价值观。

所以，他们又是不平凡的人。我们可以想象，如果没有这种坚定的信

念和崇高的价值观，他们会在花甲之年，选择从事乡村孩子的教育事业吗?当感动于他们的默默坚守、无私奉献之时，我们不禁追问：人 生的价值是什么，什么才是真正有价值的人生 ?我们还要反思：当前的社会出现各种各样的人格扭曲、信仰缺失、追求错位，甚至我们的大学也在出现形形色色的“精致的利己主义者”，不正是人生的价值观出现了问题，人生的价值取向出现了偏差吗 ? 价值观对人生有着至关重要的指引作用。

对待同样的事物，怀着不同的价值观，会对事物做出截然不同的认知判断。

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有价值的事情，他们完全可以在北京度过舒适安逸的晚年。

如果抱着一种道德的责任感，就会有完全不同的体会感悟。我们不难理解，到

底是什么样的力量支撑两个年过花甲的老人十年的坚守，乃至奉献出自己的生命健康，是高尚的价值观，是对山区孩子命运的关切，是燃

烧自己、照亮别人的大爱。

人之所以为万物之灵，不仅需要生存层面的物质满足，更需要更高精神层面的价值追求。

()人生的价值和尊严在于担当与奉献。爱因斯坦说 : “一个人对社会的价值首先取决于他的感情、思想和行动对增进人类利益有多大作用。”

受过高等教育的人，应当有自我判断的价值选择、关怀他人的道德担当。我在很多场合讲过，作为一所国家重点大学，我们培养的学生，应当把道德责任感和正确的价值观作为最重要的人生品质，要有对自己、对他人，对国家乃至人类的历史使命感和道义担当精神，这正是立德树人的核心内容，也是大学的社会责任和价值所在。

我深信，当我们为更多的人的幸福而奋斗的时候，我们的人生一定是幸福的;

当我们用自己的力量帮助更多人的获得幸福的时候，我们一定会更有意义、更有尊严地生存。

同学们，刚才毕业生代表于航同学谈到，你们在大学最后一年才品尝到学校最新的科研成果，了解到身边的科学家们的学术成就，享受到宿舍空调带来的夏日凉爽，确实有些晚了，有些事情学校做得不够好、不够及时。学校向你们承诺，在今后的办学中，我们一定会以

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有品味内涵，让更多的学子接受正确价值观的熏陶教育。

值此离别之际，我也殷切希望，在未来的日子里，你们能以正确的价值观照亮前

行的道路，创造人生的价值，绽放生命的精彩!以此与大家共勉!谢谢大家!毕业典礼上的演讲稿

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

!向朝夕相处的兄弟姐妹道声：继续努力!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，/ 10

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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/ 10

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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

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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!毕业典礼上的演讲稿 同学们、老师们、家长们：

大家好!今天我们在这里举行毕业典礼，它标志着又有一批小学生在党的阳光雨露的滋润下，胜利地完成了小学的学业而即将走上新的学习道路。因此我首先代表学校热烈祝贺六年级的毕业同学德、智、体、美 等方面考核成绩合格，取得小学毕业资格。

同学们，你们的成绩既是你们个人努力的成功，也是老师教育的成功以及家长教育的成功。

所以我既要祝贺你们，也要感谢老师和家长。

今天你们小学毕业了，但不是终点，而是攀登新高度的新起点。

因此，我希望每一个同学都要认真回顾小学六年的生活、学习、提高、发展的过程，总结经验、汲取教训，学习他人，提高自己。我希望大

家把善于反思、善于总结作为一个人必备的潜能，要知道这是每一个事业成功者所必须具有的优秀品质与潜能，如果我们每个小学生人人都有这种潜能，你们今后才会成长得更快，才会取得更大的成功!你们即将由小学生变成中学生，这是一个新的飞跃，我衷心地希

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望你们慎重而又明智地选择自己的前途。今后的路就在你们的脚下，希望你们要走好自己的路。

下面我们齐读一句话，并牢记心间，努力表现。齐读“养成良好习惯，成就美好未来”。

最后，我祝愿大家进入中学后更成功，更辉煌。原大家常回家看 看!

谢谢!

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在女儿毕业典礼上的讲话

尊敬的唐园长，敬爱的老师们，亲爱的孩子们，家长朋友们：

大家晚上好!首先请允许我代表所有的家长向辛勤耕耘于皋南幼儿园的全体老师深情道一声：唐园长，各位老师，你们辛苦了!谢谢你们三年来对孩子们的倾情付出和无私奉献。正是在你们的精心培育下，孩子们才茁壮成长，蓬勃向上。今天，孩子们兴高采烈地汇聚在这里举行毕业典礼，他们将为精彩的幼儿生活画上一个圆满的句号。作为家长，我们高兴、激动。回首三年前，正是唐园长踏实、严谨、科学、人文的办园风格，正是全体教职员工们的真诚、善良、热情、智慧的教学艺术深深吸引着我，我毅然决然地选择了皋南幼儿园。直至今天，我都在为我当初的选择而欣慰。

快乐是孩子们成长的源泉。皋南幼儿园就为孩子们提供了这样一片澄澈的泉水。女儿上幼儿园后，我问她：“你快乐吗？”当孩子津津有味地向我讲述园中那些生动活泼的故事时，我也便分享着孩子的快乐。

爱是孩子们成长的阳光。园里的每位老师都像太阳一样散发着爱的光芒，她们爱岗敬业的精神深深感染着我，还记得刚入园，我孩子的手臂被一位男生咬了一口，陈老师和缪老师细心呵护着，还特意上门表示歉意，让我们当家长的更添一份对园的信赖。她们尽心尽责的职业情操更是打动着我。无论刮风还是下雨，每天早晨，唐园长必然带领值班老师在门口迎接每一位孩子；每天放学，每个班的老师一定会亲自将孩子送到我们每一位家长的手中。寒来暑往，三年啊！我相信这样的场景一定会铭记在我们特别是孩子的内心，并将温暖我们在场所有人的一生。

激励是孩子们进步的阶梯。在尊重孩子身心发展规律的前提下，皋南幼儿园能根据幼儿不同的发展水平，充分激励孩子在个性上求发展，给每个孩子搭建展现自我的舞台，充分表现的机会，激发了孩子们昂然向上的信心。

我们欣喜地看到：活动室里，孩子们的一双双小手在老师的引导下灵巧起来。那些自制玩具，楼房，积木……闪耀着创造性光辉；艺术长廊中，那一幅幅充满童真童趣的图画告诉我们：孩子们在艺术的熏陶下正健康成长；丰富多彩的课堂上，孩子们明亮的眼眸是多么欢快呀！

如今，就像鸟儿一样，孩子们将飞向更广阔的蓝天，去搏击长空。在这里，我想对孩子们说：今天的离别是为了将昨天的幸福珍藏，是为了将明天的美好开创。我坚信你们一定能做个勇敢坚强的好孩子，与勤奋牵手，有理想导航，扬起自信的风帆，驶向成功的彼岸。衷心祝福你们快乐，健康，愿你们的明天更灿烂，更辉煌！

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