著名毕业典礼演讲

世界十大最著名毕业典礼上的演讲

1.david foster wallace，美国著名小说作家、评论家、幽默作家，代表作《无尽的玩

笑》，入选《时代周刊》“百部最佳英文小说”。david foster wallace2008年9月13日患抑

郁症自杀家中，享年46岁。

david foster wallace, kenyon, 2005 learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over

how and what you think. it means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you

pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. because

if you cannot exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed. this address at kenyon was vintage wallace: a smart, occasionally meandering

discussion of the issues that consumed him, from the banality of life to the meaning

of consciousness. i know that this stuff probably doesnt sound fun and breezy and

grandly inspirational, he concluded. what it is, so far as i can see, is the truth ...

the capital-t truth is about life before death. it is about making it to 30, or maybe

50, without wanting to shoot yourself in the head. all the reasons wallace didnt make

it to 50 are apparent here; in hindsight, the speech reads like the first draft of

a suicide note for an author who took his own life last year at age 46. while its a macabre read, theres tons thats worthwhile here: the speech crackles with wit and

intelligence — and offers tricks for escaping the depression to which wallace

ultimately succumbed。

2．steve jobs，苹果电脑创始人，声名显赫的“计算机狂人”

steve jobs, stanford, 2005 your time is limited, so dont waste it living someone elses life. dont be trapped

by dogma — which is living with the results of other peoples thinking. dont let the

noise of others opinions drown out your own inner voice. and most important, have

the courage to follow your heart and intuition ... stay hungry, stay foolish.

3. conan obrien，美国著名脱口秀主持人。

conan obrien, harvard (class day), 2000 i left the cocoon of harvard, i left the cocoon of saturday night live, i left

the cocoon of the simpsons. and each time it was bruising and tumultuous. and yet, every failure was freeing, and today im as nostalgic for

the bad as i am for the good。

so, thats what i wish for all of you: the bad as well as the good. fall down,

make a mess, break something occasionally. and remember that the story is never over. when conan obrien spoke at harvard universitys 2000 class day, he had a lot of

things to say — many of them about harvard. obrien graduated from the prestigious

university in 1985, and he took at few shots at his alma maters expense. the last

time i was invited to harvard it cost me $110,000, he said, so youll forgive me if

im a bit suspicious.

he endured along the way. he discussed his bombed television pilot, embarrassingly bad reviews and what it was like to be 28 and unemployed in new

york city, proving that no one, not even the man who would one day take over the tonight

show, escapes disappointment and self-doubt. but despite his stumbles, obrien kept

going. and he told harvards class of 2000 that they should too。

4. russell baker，《纽约时报》专栏作家，1982年普利策奖获得者。成名作为个人自

传《成长》。

russell baker, connecticut college, 1995 listen once in a while. its amazing what you can hear. on a hot summer day in

the country you can hear the corn growing, the crack of a tin roof buckling under

the power of the sun. in a real old-fashioned parlor silence so deep you can hear

the dust settling on the velveteen settee, you might hear the footsteps of something

sinister gaining on you, or a

heart-stoppingly beautiful phrase from mozart you havent heard since childhood, or the voice of somebody — now gone — whom you loved. or sometime

when youre talking up a storm so brilliant, so charming that you can hardly believe

how wonderful you are, pause just a moment and listen to yourself. its good for the

soul to hear yourself as others hear you, and next time maybe, just maybe, you will

not talk so much, so loudly, so brilliantly, so charmingly, so utterly shamelessly

foolishly。

baker, a pulitzer prize–winning author and columnist, knows how to reach college kids. hes funny and engaging (the best advice i can give anybody about

going out into the world is this: dont do it) without being cynical, and lands enough

light jabs to remind his audience that his advice — from get married to sleep in

the nude — is worth heeding。

5．winston churchill，英国前首相。

winston churchill, harrow school, 1941 never give in. never give in. never, never, never, never — in nothing, great or small, large or petty — never give in, except to convictions

of honor and good sense.

no leader in history, perhaps, matched churchills capacity for 6. george marshall，1880-1959，美国将军、政治家，出任国务卿期间，推出欧洲复兴

计划。

篇二：十篇著名的大学毕业典礼演讲

1. winston churchill (harrow school) memorable quote: never give in. never give in. never, never, never, never--in

nothing, great or small, large or petty--never give in, except to convictions of honor

and good sense. never yield to force. never yield to the apparently overwhelming might

of the enemy.

3. jon stewart (college of william and mary) memorable quote: im sure my fellow doctoral graduates--who have spent so long

toiling in academia, sinking into debt, sacrificing god knows how many years of what,

in truth, is a piece of parchment that, in truth, has been so devalued by our instant

gratification culture as to have been rendered meaningless--will join in

congratulating me.

with jokes, but stewart also dished out valuable advice to graduates near the

end, telling them to love what you do and get good at it. 4. theodor geisel (lake

forest college)

memorable quote: as you partake of the worlds bill of fare, thats darned good advice to follow. do a lot of spitting out the hot air. and be careful what you

swallow.

in 1977, the beloved theodor geisel (a.k.a. dr. seuss) was chosen as the memorable quote: out of the many here assembled, it is the heart of he or she that i seek who looks at a life of vapid materialism, of capitalist excess, and

finds it simply intolerable. it may be one hundred of you, or fifty, or even ten,

or even one of you who

makes that choice. i am here to honor and applaud that choice and to warn you

that, though the suffering may indeed be great, it is nothing to the joy of doing

the right thing.

evergreen state college via audiotape. the speech was controversial because

abu-jamal was a death row inmate convicted of murdering a police officer. students,

law enforcement officers, the policemans widow, congressman tom delay and a number

of others protested the schools choice of speakers, but abu-jamals speech was

delivered

6. russell baker (connecticut college) memorable quote: the best advice i can

give anybody about going out into the world is this: dont do it. i have been out there. it is a mess. american columnist, pulitzer prize-winning author and political satirist russell 7. will ferrell (harvard university) memorable quote: after months of secret negotiations, several hundred secret ballots, and a weekend retreat with vice president dick cheney in his secret

mountain

bunker, a class day speaker was chosen, and it was me. you obviously have made

a grave error. but its too late now. so lets just go with it. love him or hate him, actor will ferrell is responsible for one of the funniest

and

memorable quote: i have two last pieces of advice. first, being pre-approved for

a credit card does not mean you have to apply for it. and lastly, the best career

advice i can give you is to get your own tv show. it pays well, the hours are good,

and you are famous.

candid advice for college grads. he also shows off his ability to ask for a

mcdonalds happy meal in five different languages. 9. david foster wallace (kenyon

college)

conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how

you construct meaning from experience. because if you cannot exercise this kind of

choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed. in 2005, a couple of years before his tragic suicide, influential postmodern

author

10. j.k. rowling (harvard university) memorable quote: the knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from

setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive. you will

never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have

been tested by adversity. such knowledge is a true gift, for all that it is painfully

won, and it has been worth more than any qualification i ever earned. j.k. rowling may be one of the best-selling authors of all time, but before she published harry potter she was an unemployed single parent one step away from 10大最佳毕业典礼演讲

what makes a great speech? persuasion.

成就一场演讲的是什么？说服力。

分析沟通技能公司quantified impressions的专家认为，这是与听众建立联系的关键点

——至少当听众是大学毕业生时是这样的。

这家公司选出了31场被媒体称为精彩难忘的毕业嘉宾演讲，对照一般演讲和日常对话数

据库进行了评估。分析涵盖了80项不同的指标，结果发现，这31场演讲最普遍的共性就是

说服力指标或变量。 and based on that, quantified impressions came up with a list of

10 best speeches.

根据这项分析评估，quantified impressions评选出了十佳毕业典礼演讲。

these speeches are the best because the speakers persuade the audience to be

emotionally moved, says noah zandan, quantified impressions president.

“这些演讲非常出色，演讲者从情感上说服了听众，让他们真心被打动，”quantified

impressions的总裁诺阿?赞登说。

turns out, the best speakers persuade by doing three key things. they explain

their relevance (i was just like you). they give insight (heres what life will be

like). and they use inclusive words:you, we, us, with, along.

分析显示，这些顶级的演讲人做了三件关键的事情。与听众建立联系（“当时我就像你们

一样”）。提供真知灼见（“我们来谈谈，未来生活将是什么样子？”）。使用包容性的词汇：你

们、我们、和、与。

排在第一名的人不出意料是奥普拉?温弗里。她五年前在斯坦福大学（stanford）做的那

次演讲事实上超出了她上周对哈佛（harvard）毕业生做的演讲。

the speech ranked no. 3 below is particularly historic this week: its 50 years

ago this month that john f. kennedy, in the midst of the cold war and on the heels

of the cuban missile crisis, startled the soviets by offering unilateral nuclear

restraint.

排名第三的演讲本周特别值得怀念：五十年前的6月，正值冷战时期，古巴导弹危机

（cuban missile crisis）刚刚发生，约翰?f.?肯尼迪提出的单边核克制震动了苏联人。

1. oprah winfrey - 2008, stanford

1.奥普拉?温弗里——2008年, 斯坦福大学

2. david foster wallace - 2005, kenyon

2.大卫?福斯特?华莱士——2005年, 肯尼恩学院（kenyon）

3. john f. kennedy - 1963, american university

3.约翰?f.?肯尼迪——1963年，美国大学（american university）

4. maya angelou - 1977, university of california, riverside 4.玛雅?安吉罗——1977年，加利福尼亚大学大学河滨分校（university of california,

riverside）

5. winston churchill - 1941, harrow school 5.温斯顿?丘吉尔——1941年, 哈罗公学（harrow school）

6. arianna huffington - 2013, smith

6.阿瑞安娜?赫芬顿——2013年，史密斯学院（smith）

7. oprah winfrey - 2013, harvard

7.奥普拉?温弗里——2013年，哈佛大学（harvard）

8. aaron sorkin - 2012, syracuse

8.阿伦?索尔金——2012年，雪城大学（syracuse）

9. former yahoo (yhoo) ceo carol bartz - 2012, university of wisconsin - madison 9.前雅虎（yahoo）ceo卡罗尔?巴茨——2012年，威斯康辛大学麦迪逊分校(university

of wisconsin - madison)

where is steve jobs--his famous 2005 speech at stanford--in the quantified

impressions rankings? no. 20.

2005年在斯坦福大学做了那场著名演讲的史蒂夫?乔布斯在quantified impressions的

排名中位列第几？答案是，第20名篇四：10大最佳毕业典礼演讲

10大最具智慧毕业典礼演讲

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12-13 10:46 1. 苹果ceo史蒂夫·乔布斯(steve jobs)，2005年，斯坦福大学

史蒂夫〃乔布斯

精彩语录：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。”这句话给我留下了深刻的印象。从那时起

的33年内，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？”当答案连续多次都是“不”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，都会在死

亡面前消失。

没有人愿意死，即使人们想上天堂，人们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。……因为死亡就是生命中最好的一个发明。

你们的时间很有限，所以不要将它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。

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。

求知若饥，虚心若愚。

2. 亚马逊ceo杰夫·贝索斯(jeff bezos)，2008年，卡耐基·梅隆大学

杰夫〃贝索斯

精彩语录：成功人士关注他们所喜欢的事情，并等待这个世界呈现在他们面前，而另外

一种做法，即追逐当时的热点则是一条艰难之旅。在1999年互联网淘金热时，我看到许多人

对电脑、技术并没有真正的兴趣，对真正的商业利益和安心挖掘互联网的价值没有真正的兴

趣。你会发现自己与一批有着更多激情的人同场竞技非常危险。

3. 全球最富有的作家、《哈利波特》j·k·罗琳，2008年，哈佛大学

《哈利波特》j〃k〃罗琳

精彩语录：你们可能从未象我这样经历过如此多的失败，但生命中必然存在失败。没有

人可以永远成功，除非你象根本没有活着一样地小心生活——而这根本就是一种彻头彻尾的

失败。

4. 微软创始人兼董事长比尔·盖茨(bill gates)，2007年，哈佛大学

比尔〃盖茨

精彩语录：人类最大的进步并不是表现在科技的发现和发明上，而是表现在如何用它来消除不平等。（有几个人能明白这句话的意义？）

5. 谷歌创始人拉里·佩奇(larry page)，2009年，密歇根大学

谷歌创始人拉里〃佩奇

精彩语录：我们中的许多人都很幸运地举家前来这里，我们中有些人有亲密的朋友和家人，也许你们当中的一些人就像露茜(lucy)和我一样，正在梦想着建立自己未来的家庭。和我一样，你的家庭将你们带到这里，你将你的家庭带到这里。请关心你的家人，同时记住：他们才是生命中真正重要的。

6. 谷歌ceo埃里克·施密特(eric schmidt)，2009年，宾夕法尼亚大学

谷歌ceo埃里克〃施密特

精彩语录：我们的目标是让你们尽可能地与与电脑连接在一起，但也要知道哪里可以关闭电脑。你可能在电脑中打发时间，但生命在于你周围的人。

这些工具有着巨大的影响力，使用它们，然后关闭它们，多和周围的人交流。

7. 维亚康姆董事长雷石东(sumner redstone)，2002年，凯洛格商学院

维亚康姆董事长雷石东

精彩语录：如果你在28岁时悲叹命运的不幸，你应该听从下面这三条来自一位在过去50年中从来没有悲叹过的人的忠告：

- 机会从来不会主动敲门

- 追逐梦想，但立足现实

- 这与财富无关，而是与成功有关

8. 谷歌全球销售高级副总裁奥米德·柯德斯塔尼(omid kordestani)，2007年，圣何塞州立大学谷歌全球销售高级副总裁奥米德〃柯德斯塔尼

精彩语录：为了保持我的敏锐，我必须象移民一样思考和行动，他们的乐观和动力让我受益匪浅。移民是天生的梦想家和斗士。

9. 1999-2005年惠普ceo卡莉·菲奥莉娜(carly fiorina)，2004年，加州理工学院

惠普ceo卡莉〃菲奥莉娜

精彩语录：什么才能称得上你们这一代的伟大之处？我认为是使用你们在这里所学的知识，不仅仅是找到与计算机连接的方式，而且找到与人的连接方式；不仅仅是架设桥梁填补技术间的鸿沟，更是架设文化间的桥梁；不仅仅是使用数字和公式创造，更是使用语言去引领。在这个过程中，填补愚昧与智慧间的差距。（有几个人能明白这句话的意义？）

10. 通用电气ceo杰夫·伊梅尔特(jeff immelt)，2007年，圣母大学

通用电气ceo杰夫〃伊梅尔特

精彩语录：通过你的决心让自己脱颖而出，努力锻炼自己的能力，为生活设定一个目的，你将定义你自己的目标。努力工作并实现你的梦想。