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