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"commencement speech" is a talk given at a graduation ceremony. It is usually delivered by a special guest or a notable person who shares advice, inspiration, and encouragement to the graduating students as they begin their new journey in life.
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Forget about politics for a second and check out these inspiring lines from the president's first -
ever commencement speech.
The title of this year's report, Converging at the Crossroads, draws inspiration from the Robert Frost poem about two roads diverged that is so often cited
in commencement speeches.
«Since he's making a movie where he plays Steve Jobs, I bet he saw the famous Steve Jobs
Stanford commencement speech where he says something like, «I'm just gonna tell three stories.
Following a nationally - covered
commencement speech by presidential nominee Mitt Romney in May, the school's invitation to Donald Trump might have seemed mere fodder for a slow news day.
SNIP «At his Arizona State University
commencement speech last Wednesday, Mr. Obama noted that ASU had refused to grant him an honorary degree, citing his lack of experience, and the controversy this had caused.
We've combed through videos of
best commencement speeches from Steve Jobs to Oprah Winfrey to find invaluable entrepreneurial advice.
The section opens with a 2009
commencement speech from the University of Portland titled «You are Brilliant, and the Earth is Hiring».
Jandrey said no good
commencement speech goes off without a good quote and one of his favorites came from Winston Churchill.
In a
famous commencement speech, David Foster Wallace said, «It's a matter of my choosing to do the work of somehow altering or getting free of my natural, hard - wired default setting which is to be deeply and literally self - centered and to see and interpret everything through this lens of self.»
In a
recent commencement speech at Hampton University, he said, «With iPods and iPads; and Xboxes and PlayStations — none of which I know how to work — information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation.»
Trump slammed his critics as «pathetic» during his
first commencement speech since taking office — as his administration comes under fire on multiple fronts.
President Donald Trump went off script during his
Wednesday commencement speech to Coast Guard Academy graduates, saying critics and the media had treated him more unfairly than any politician «in history.»
On receiving an honorary degree from Harvard University, Rowling gave a
heartfelt commencement speech titled «The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination».
Hillary's
fiery commencement speech, the first ever by a Wellesley student, won her national attention — a spot in Life Magazine's feature on the class of 1969 and a speaking invitation to the League of Women Voters.
Inspired by recent round ups by NPR and Brain Pickings of
great commencement speeches, we've highlighted our all - time favorites and the timeless advice they offer.
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«You really should take a job that, if you were independently wealthy, that would be the job you would take,» Buffett said in that
same commencement speech.
Two days ago, the Facebook CEO shared he would be giving the 2017 Harvard
commencement speech along with receiving an honorary degree.
CNN: Romney to deliver Liberty University
commencement speech Mitt Romney will deliver the commencement address at the evangelical Christian university led by Jerry Falwell, Jr., Liberty University said in a Thursday post to their website.
Hillary Clinton, whose first - ever
student commencement speech at Wellesley College in 1969 kicked off her storied career, will be the college's 2017 commencement speaker.
Vice President Joe Biden will also visit South Carolina on Friday, delivering the University of South
Carolina commencement speech and squeezing in a fundraiser for the state Democratic Party.
She made an
incredible commencement speech at the University of Pennsylvania reminding students, «You have the inclination and the ability to change your communities, and to change your slice of the world.
Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman returned to his alma mater of Howard University and delivered a
powerful commencement speech to the graduating class of 2018.
Even as Walter establishes a rapport with his younger son Henry (Riley Thomas Stewart) through the puppet, though, his teenage son Porter (Anton Yelchin)-- a smart but angry kid who keeps a list of Post-Its enumerating all the traits of his father of which he wishes to rid himself, and finds himself hired by valedictorian Norah (Jennifer Lawrence) to pen her forthcoming
graduation commencement speech — remains aloof.
In his widely
noted commencement speech at Stanford University in 2005, Mr. Jobs explained where this design passion came from, describing a typography class he attended after dropping out of college:
Best - selling author Terry McMillan (Waiting to Exhale, How Stella Got Her Groove Back) fell asleep during her own high
school commencement speech, so when she was asked to speak at her son's graduation in 2002, she wanted to make sure to say something original and inspiring.
Rail: You said in the
Cal commencement speech [History of Art Department 2002 Commencement Address at the University of California, Berkeley] that you are «nearly crazy about facts.»
He basically explains that Steve Jobs was wrong when he gave that oft -
tweeted commencement speech and that happiness at work comes not from choosing a career you love, but from control.
Chief Justice John Roberts gave a
remarkable commencement speech last month: Now the commencement speakers will typically also wish you good luck and extend good wishes to you.
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© Commencement speeches have become outlets for sharing some of the most important life lessons ever.
She's known for pushing for greater income equality between the sexes, and she made a point during her recent
commencement speech at UC Berkeley of saying that many don't have the financial support network they need to deal with the loss of a loved one.
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