Sentences with phrase «commencement speeches»

Sometimes, commencement speeches are actually worth sitting through.

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.

Exercises include the traditional commencement speeches and orations.

Here are the best commencement speeches of 2013, and Dave Kerpen advises graduates to master these 15 simple skills.

Commencement speeches are targeted toward a very specific audience of people who are on the verge of starting their careers, but the best speakers tend to offer age - agonistic advice.

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.

The address was the first of three commencement speeches Obama has scheduled this spring, his final ones as president.

These eight business leaders brought some serious game to their commencement speeches.

Commencement speeches aren't typically renowned for their riveting content or brevity, but, once in a while, hopeful graduates get a speaker who is not only entertaining but also drops wisdom like a grenade and brings hungover graduates out of their seats.

Former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, delivered the commencement speech at her alma mater, Wellesley College, on Friday, May 26.

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.

«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.

«If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts,» Jobs said during a commencement speech at Stanford University in 2005.

Social entrepreneur Melinda Gates spoke about the importance of making ethical choices and leaving a mark on humanity during her 2013 commencement speech at Duke University.

The Queen of America gave a commencement speech to Georgia's Agnes Scott College and addressed the idea of being full of herself: «I used to be afraid of that, [but now]?

Tech entrepreneur Drew Houston spoke about the importance of obsessing over your dream during his 2013 commencement speech at MIT.

You heard it from Steve Jobs» 2005 Stanford commencement speech, you heard it from me in my new book, Real Leaders Don't Follow, and now you're hearing it from Kagan: Getting fired can be the best thing that ever happened to you, but only if you take a cold, hard look in the mirror and face the truth.

In his Harvard University commencement speech earlier this year, Zuckerberg expressed similar sentiments.

In a tech - driven world, the development of communication technology has influenced the «Net Generation» (a.k.a. people born between 1982 and 1991), bringing them into a world where the possibilities come with immense responsibility, Steve Blank told graduates of Dalhousie University during his commencement speech earlier this week.

By the time she delivered a commencement speech at Smith College in 2013, she was preaching the gospel of a good night's sleep and asking graduates to measure their lives by a «third metric» — changing the world for the better — in addition to those timeless standards, money and power.

«When no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition,» Google's Larry Page said in a 2005 commencement speech.

«An exceptionally short - lived marriage had imploded, and I was jobless, a lone parent, and as poor as it is possible to be in modern Britain, without being homeless... By every usual standard, I was the biggest failure I knew,» Rowling said during a 2008 Harvard University commencement speech.

In his oft - quoted 2005 Stanford University commencement speech, Jobs said that this time away from Apple was actually beneficial.

«If I had to understand everything about connecting people before I began, I never would have started Facebook,» Zuckerberg said in his commencement speech to Harvard graduates this spring.

«Ubuntu,» a South African word, means «I am because of you,» he explained during his commencement speech.

«Measure your impact on humanity not in likes but in the lives you touch, not in popularity but the people you serve,» Cook said during his commencement speech.

«I quit my job,» he [told graduates at a commencement speech at his] alma mater in 1999.

This book, written by a former Navy SEAL, is the result of a commencement speech gone viral.

In his recent Harvard commencement speech, Mark Zuckerberg explained how a couple years into his venture, some big companies wanted to buy Facebook.

Trump was presented with a ceremonial saber after giving a commencement speech.

In his commencement speech to Stanford in 2005, the late Apple co-founder elaborated on what he asks himself each morning: «If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I'm about to do?»

Again, as he said last week at his commencement speech at Howard University, he had no expectations that his election would signal a post racial society.

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.»

While you might not be able to recall anything from your own undergraduate commencement speech, chances are you've been inspired by some of the most memorable ones.

Finally, Steve Jobs offered plenty of advice on life, death and pursuing your dreams in his 2005 commencement speech made to a graduating class at Stanford.

In a 2007 commencement speech given at the USC School of Law, Charlie Munger said:

«Big opportunities in life have to be seized,» he said in a commencement speech at Georgia State.

Mr. Bernanke said that the near - term outlook remains murky but nonetheless put himself firmly in the optimists» camp in a commencement speech last month at Bard College at Simon's Rock in Massachusetts.

A similar assumption underlies Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg's widely publicized 2011 commencement speech at Barnard, and her earlier TED talk, in which she lamented the dismally small number of women at the top and advised young women not to «leave before you leave.»

For instance, while Page was working for Trump, in July 2016, he traveled to Moscow to give a commencement speech at a Russian university, which certainly would have raised some red flags at the bureau.

-- Steve Jobs, 2005 Stanford University commencement speech

It began with a commencement speech by Sen. John McCain and ended when he suffered a grand mal seizure that forced him into a medical retirement.

Last Friday, he informed me that President Obama will be giving the commencement speech and will be awarded an honorary degree.

«House Speaker John Boehner emphasized «humility, patience and faith» in his commencement speech...»

In a commencement speech, Admiral William McRaven provoked graduates from the University of Texas with this exhortation: «If every one of you changed the lives of just 10 people, and each one of those folks changed the lives of another 10 people — just 10 — then in six generations this class will have changed the lives of the entire population of the world, eight billion people.»

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.

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.

Bolds is teammates with four - star LB Drew Singleton at Paramus Catholic, where Jim Harbaugh is scheduled to give the commencement speech this year.

It was announced recently that Jim Harbaugh will deliver the commencement speech for Paramus Catholic High School on June 9th.