畢業(yè)典禮演講稿英文(通用3篇)
畢業(yè)典禮演講稿英文 篇1
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 down - that i had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. i met with david packard and bob noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. i was a very public failure, and i even thought about running away from the valley. but something slowly began to dawn on me – i still loved what i did. the turn of events at apple had not changed that one bit. i had been rejected, but i was still in love. and so i decided to start over.
i didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. the heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. it freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
during the next five years, i started a company named next, another company named pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife.
pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, toy story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. in a remarkable turn of events, apple bought next, i retuned to apple, and the technology we developed at next is at the heart of apple's current renaissance. and laurene and i have a wonderful family together.
i'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if i hadn't been fired from apple. it was awful tasting medicine, but i guess the patient needed it.
sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. don't lose faith. i'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that i loved what i did.
畢業(yè)典禮演講稿英文 篇2
尊敬的嘉賓、老師們、親愛的同學(xué)們:
大家上午好!
在這喜慶的日子里,學(xué)校為20xx屆畢業(yè)生舉行隆重的畢業(yè)典禮,共話別離的眷戀。我向各位畢業(yè)生表示最熱烈的祝賀,向為本屆高三付出辛勤勞動的學(xué)校領(lǐng)導(dǎo)、所有家長、教職員工表示最誠摯的敬意!
三年前,大家從神農(nóng)之巔、潛襄荊隨、清江之畔奔赴東山之巔的菁菁校園——夷陵中學(xué)。從此開始了不平凡的高中之旅。夷陵中學(xué)永遠記錄下你們在教室里勤學(xué)苦讀;在圖書館里凝思與遐想;在老師身邊的簇擁探討;在美麗校園領(lǐng)略自然奇觀日全食;你們在所坐的田徑場上曾揮灑激情與汗水;在這個主席臺上展示你的自信與昂揚。朗誦,演講與辯論,點燃舌尖智慧、令人蕩氣回腸;歷史劇里,你們展眉揮手,衣袖飄飄,演盡千古風(fēng)流;大合唱中,你們手捧燭火,輕歌淺唱,吟盡青春衷腸;元旦晚會,你們誦詩助興,鏗鏘擊節(jié),說盡學(xué)子情懷;汶川地震,你們上街義賣,收購廢品,為同胞傾囊;火炬?zhèn)鬟f,你們揮動紅旗,助威吶喊,共慶奧林匹克圣火來到荊楚大地。
一次次,在活動中拋棄自卑;一次次,在奉獻中明確使命;一次次,在合作中找到價值;一次次,在學(xué)習(xí)中厚積薄發(fā)。一次次明白青年的心中應(yīng)當(dāng)以天下為國,以國為家,心中有天下。
那些曾經(jīng)穿梭于科技樓的奧賽學(xué)子已經(jīng)保送至清華、科大、人大、浙大、武大、華科等名校,更多的同學(xué)在等待之中。我相信,努力的生命,必然會等到勝利的輝光!
同學(xué)們,我為你們的成長和進步而感到欣慰,為能和你們一起同行而感到自豪!
今天,只是你們高中階段結(jié)束的一天,也是你們向新的征程進發(fā)的一天。在臨別之際,作為師長,作為朋友,我期望:
希望同學(xué)們能夠永遠保持一顆進取之心,腳踏實地,追求卓越。求知若渴,虛心若愚,不斷探求新知、追求真理,永葆思想的活力。
希望同學(xué)們能夠時刻堅守一份責(zé)任之心,甘于奉獻,勇于擔(dān)當(dāng)。有著“天行健,君子以自強不息”的品格,更有著“士不可不弘毅,任重而道遠”的精神。
希望同學(xué)們能夠持久擁有一顆豁達之心,熱愛生活,寬容自信。以豁達的心態(tài)直面人生的高潮與低谷,以寬容的性情對待人生的失落與坎坷,始終自信地去成就有意義、有價值、有創(chuàng)造的未來。
同學(xué)們,夷陵中學(xué)是每一個夷陵人永遠的精神家園!希望同學(xué)們;貋砜纯!老師會永遠關(guān)注你們、支持你們、歡迎你們!
最后,我衷心地祝愿同學(xué)們能唱響新時代的畢業(yè)歌,做好今日平凡之事,成就未來中華棟梁之材!
畢業(yè)典禮演講稿英文 篇3
20xx年,喬布斯在斯坦福大學(xué)
“你的時間有限,所以不要浪費時間去過別人的生活。”
即使你不是一個果粉,你也應(yīng)該聽一聽喬布斯20xx年在斯坦福大學(xué)上的演講。
喬布斯調(diào)侃說這篇演講是他離大學(xué)畢業(yè)最近的一次,他還分享了三個改變他生活的重要轉(zhuǎn)折點——這些都可能成為其他人的指路明燈。他講述了他是如何決定從大學(xué)輟學(xué),這段經(jīng)歷又是如何激發(fā)了他的求知欲,并且最終如何成為他將蘋果電腦推向市場的一大助力。
接下來,喬布斯講到他被他自己一手建立的蘋果公司所拋棄,那時他曾痛苦過,也曾尷尬過,但是這次的離開卻讓喬布斯因禍得福,他之后建立了NeXT公司,最終因其專利技術(shù)而被蘋果公司收購。
喬布斯的演講中最為出彩的是他被診斷出癌癥之后的那部分故事。有一天,由于身患一種極為罕見的胰腺癌,他被告知他的生命只剩下三到六個月,他知道這個病最終只會奪去他的生命。然而之后的活檢結(jié)果顯示他的癌癥雖然罕見,但是可以通過手術(shù)切除。(不幸的是,這個癌癥會復(fù)發(fā),喬布斯在20xx年不幸離世。)
“不要被教條所束縛,也不要盲目活在別人的思想里,不要讓別人嘈雜的觀念淹沒了你自己內(nèi)心的聲音。最重要的是鼓起勇氣,從心出發(fā),相信自己的直覺,從某種程度來說,它們才能真正讓你知道你想成為什么樣的人。”