大學(xué)畢業(yè)勵(lì)志演講稿
每個(gè)學(xué)校的大學(xué)畢業(yè)都缺不了一番畢業(yè)演講，那么大學(xué)畢業(yè)勵(lì)志演講稿都有哪些呢?一起來看看吧。
大學(xué)畢業(yè)勵(lì)志演講稿：?jiǎn)滩妓乖谒固垢４髮W(xué)畢業(yè)演講稿
'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says
This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.
你必須要找到你所愛的東西
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.
很榮幸和大家一道參加這所世界上最好的一座大學(xué)的畢業(yè)典禮。我大學(xué)沒畢業(yè)，說實(shí)話，這是我第一次離大學(xué)畢業(yè)典禮這么近。今天我想給大家講三個(gè)我自己的故事，不講別的，也不講大道理，就講三個(gè)故事。
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?
第一個(gè)故事講的是點(diǎn)與點(diǎn)之間的關(guān)系。我在里德學(xué)院(Reed College)只讀了六個(gè)月就退學(xué)了，此后便在學(xué)校里旁聽，又過了大約一年半，我徹底離開。那么，我為什么退學(xué)呢?
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.
這得從我出生前講起。我的生母是一名年輕的未婚在校研究生，她決定將我送給別人收養(yǎng)。她非常希望收養(yǎng)我的是有大學(xué)學(xué)歷的人，所以把一切都安排好了，我一出生就交給一對(duì)律師夫婦收養(yǎng)。沒想到我落地的霎那間，那對(duì)夫婦卻決定收養(yǎng)一名女孩。就這樣，我的養(yǎng)父母─當(dāng)時(shí)他們還在登記冊(cè)上排隊(duì)等著呢─半夜三更接到一個(gè)電話: “我們這兒有一個(gè)沒人要的男嬰，你們要么?”“當(dāng)然要”他們回答。但是，我的生母后來發(fā)現(xiàn)我的養(yǎng)母不是大學(xué)畢業(yè)生，我的養(yǎng)父甚至連中學(xué)都沒有畢業(yè)，所以她拒絕在最后的收養(yǎng)文件上簽字。不過，沒過幾個(gè)月她就心軟了，因?yàn)槲业酿B(yǎng)父母許諾日后一定送我上大學(xué)。
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:
17 年后，我真的進(jìn)了大學(xué)。當(dāng)時(shí)我很天真，選了一所學(xué)費(fèi)幾乎和斯坦福大學(xué)一樣昂貴的學(xué)校，當(dāng)工人的養(yǎng)父母傾其所有的積蓄為我支付了大學(xué)學(xué)費(fèi)。讀了六個(gè)月后，我卻看不出上學(xué)有什么意義。我既不知道自己這一生想干什么，也不知道大學(xué)是否能夠幫我弄明白自己想干什么。這時(shí)，我就要花光父母一輩子節(jié)省下來的錢了。所以，我決定退學(xué)，并且堅(jiān)信日后會(huì)證明我這樣做是對(duì)的。當(dāng)年做出這個(gè)決定時(shí)心里直打鼓，但現(xiàn)在回想起來，這還真是我有生以來做出的最好的決定之一。從退學(xué)那一刻起，我就可以不再選那些我毫無興趣的必修課，開始旁聽一些看上去有意思的課。那些日子一點(diǎn)兒都不浪漫。我沒有宿舍，只能睡在朋友房間的地板上。我去退還可樂瓶，用那五分錢的押金來買吃的。每個(gè)星期天晚上我都要走七英里，到城那頭的黑爾-科里施納禮拜堂去，吃每周才能享用一次的美餐。我喜歡這樣。我憑著好奇心和直覺所干的這些事情，有許多后來都證明是無價(jià)之寶。我給大家舉個(gè)例子:
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.
當(dāng)時(shí)，里德學(xué)院的書法課大概是全國(guó)最好的。校園里所有的公告欄和每個(gè)抽屜標(biāo)簽上的字都寫得非常漂亮。當(dāng)時(shí)我已經(jīng)退學(xué)，不用正常上課，所以我決定選一門書法課，學(xué)學(xué)怎么寫好字。我學(xué)習(xí)寫帶短截線和不帶短截線的印刷字體，根據(jù)不同字母組合調(diào)整其間距，以及怎樣把版式調(diào)整得好上加好。這門課太棒了，既有歷史價(jià)值，又有藝術(shù)造詣，這一點(diǎn)科學(xué)就做不到，而我覺得它妙不可言。
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.
當(dāng)時(shí)我并不指望書法在以后的生活中能有什么實(shí)用價(jià)值。但是，十年之后，我們?cè)谠O(shè)計(jì)第一臺(tái) Macintosh 計(jì)算機(jī)時(shí)，它一下子浮現(xiàn)在我眼前。于是，我們把這些東西全都設(shè)計(jì)進(jìn)了計(jì)算機(jī)中。這是第一臺(tái)有這么漂亮的文字版式的計(jì)算機(jī)。要不是我當(dāng)初在大學(xué)里偶然選了這么一門課，Macintosh 計(jì)算機(jī)絕不會(huì)有那么多種印刷字體或間距安排合理的字號(hào)。要不是 Windows 照搬了 Macintosh，個(gè)人電腦可能不會(huì)有這些字體和字號(hào)。要不是退了學(xué)，我決不會(huì)碰巧選了這門書法課，個(gè)人電腦也可能不會(huì)有現(xiàn)在這些漂亮的版式了。當(dāng)然，我在大學(xué)里不可能從這一點(diǎn)上看到它與將來的關(guān)系。十年之后再回頭看，兩者之間的關(guān)系就非常、非常清楚了。
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.
你們同樣不可能從現(xiàn)在這個(gè)點(diǎn)上看到將來;只有回頭看時(shí)，才會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)它們之間的關(guān)系。所以，要相信這些點(diǎn)遲早會(huì)連接到一起。你們必須信賴某些東西─直覺、歸宿、生命，還有業(yè)力，等等。這樣做從來沒有讓我的希望落空過，而且還徹底改變了我的生活。
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
每個(gè)學(xué)校的大學(xué)畢業(yè)都缺不了一番畢業(yè)演講，那么大學(xué)畢業(yè)勵(lì)志演講稿都有哪些呢?一起來看看吧。
大學(xué)畢業(yè)勵(lì)志演講稿：?jiǎn)滩妓乖谒固垢４髮W(xué)畢業(yè)演講稿
'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says
This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.
你必須要找到你所愛的東西
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.
很榮幸和大家一道參加這所世界上最好的一座大學(xué)的畢業(yè)典禮。我大學(xué)沒畢業(yè)，說實(shí)話，這是我第一次離大學(xué)畢業(yè)典禮這么近。今天我想給大家講三個(gè)我自己的故事，不講別的，也不講大道理，就講三個(gè)故事。
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?
第一個(gè)故事講的是點(diǎn)與點(diǎn)之間的關(guān)系。我在里德學(xué)院(Reed College)只讀了六個(gè)月就退學(xué)了，此后便在學(xué)校里旁聽，又過了大約一年半，我徹底離開。那么，我為什么退學(xué)呢?
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.
這得從我出生前講起。我的生母是一名年輕的未婚在校研究生，她決定將我送給別人收養(yǎng)。她非常希望收養(yǎng)我的是有大學(xué)學(xué)歷的人，所以把一切都安排好了，我一出生就交給一對(duì)律師夫婦收養(yǎng)。沒想到我落地的霎那間，那對(duì)夫婦卻決定收養(yǎng)一名女孩。就這樣，我的養(yǎng)父母─當(dāng)時(shí)他們還在登記冊(cè)上排隊(duì)等著呢─半夜三更接到一個(gè)電話: “我們這兒有一個(gè)沒人要的男嬰，你們要么?”“當(dāng)然要”他們回答。但是，我的生母后來發(fā)現(xiàn)我的養(yǎng)母不是大學(xué)畢業(yè)生，我的養(yǎng)父甚至連中學(xué)都沒有畢業(yè)，所以她拒絕在最后的收養(yǎng)文件上簽字。不過，沒過幾個(gè)月她就心軟了，因?yàn)槲业酿B(yǎng)父母許諾日后一定送我上大學(xué)。
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:
17 年后，我真的進(jìn)了大學(xué)。當(dāng)時(shí)我很天真，選了一所學(xué)費(fèi)幾乎和斯坦福大學(xué)一樣昂貴的學(xué)校，當(dāng)工人的養(yǎng)父母傾其所有的積蓄為我支付了大學(xué)學(xué)費(fèi)。讀了六個(gè)月后，我卻看不出上學(xué)有什么意義。我既不知道自己這一生想干什么，也不知道大學(xué)是否能夠幫我弄明白自己想干什么。這時(shí)，我就要花光父母一輩子節(jié)省下來的錢了。所以，我決定退學(xué)，并且堅(jiān)信日后會(huì)證明我這樣做是對(duì)的。當(dāng)年做出這個(gè)決定時(shí)心里直打鼓，但現(xiàn)在回想起來，這還真是我有生以來做出的最好的決定之一。從退學(xué)那一刻起，我就可以不再選那些我毫無興趣的必修課，開始旁聽一些看上去有意思的課。那些日子一點(diǎn)兒都不浪漫。我沒有宿舍，只能睡在朋友房間的地板上。我去退還可樂瓶，用那五分錢的押金來買吃的。每個(gè)星期天晚上我都要走七英里，到城那頭的黑爾-科里施納禮拜堂去，吃每周才能享用一次的美餐。我喜歡這樣。我憑著好奇心和直覺所干的這些事情，有許多后來都證明是無價(jià)之寶。我給大家舉個(gè)例子:
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.
當(dāng)時(shí)，里德學(xué)院的書法課大概是全國(guó)最好的。校園里所有的公告欄和每個(gè)抽屜標(biāo)簽上的字都寫得非常漂亮。當(dāng)時(shí)我已經(jīng)退學(xué)，不用正常上課，所以我決定選一門書法課，學(xué)學(xué)怎么寫好字。我學(xué)習(xí)寫帶短截線和不帶短截線的印刷字體，根據(jù)不同字母組合調(diào)整其間距，以及怎樣把版式調(diào)整得好上加好。這門課太棒了，既有歷史價(jià)值，又有藝術(shù)造詣，這一點(diǎn)科學(xué)就做不到，而我覺得它妙不可言。
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.
當(dāng)時(shí)我并不指望書法在以后的生活中能有什么實(shí)用價(jià)值。但是，十年之后，我們?cè)谠O(shè)計(jì)第一臺(tái) Macintosh 計(jì)算機(jī)時(shí)，它一下子浮現(xiàn)在我眼前。于是，我們把這些東西全都設(shè)計(jì)進(jìn)了計(jì)算機(jī)中。這是第一臺(tái)有這么漂亮的文字版式的計(jì)算機(jī)。要不是我當(dāng)初在大學(xué)里偶然選了這么一門課，Macintosh 計(jì)算機(jī)絕不會(huì)有那么多種印刷字體或間距安排合理的字號(hào)。要不是 Windows 照搬了 Macintosh，個(gè)人電腦可能不會(huì)有這些字體和字號(hào)。要不是退了學(xué)，我決不會(huì)碰巧選了這門書法課，個(gè)人電腦也可能不會(huì)有現(xiàn)在這些漂亮的版式了。當(dāng)然，我在大學(xué)里不可能從這一點(diǎn)上看到它與將來的關(guān)系。十年之后再回頭看，兩者之間的關(guān)系就非常、非常清楚了。
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.
你們同樣不可能從現(xiàn)在這個(gè)點(diǎn)上看到將來;只有回頭看時(shí)，才會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)它們之間的關(guān)系。所以，要相信這些點(diǎn)遲早會(huì)連接到一起。你們必須信賴某些東西─直覺、歸宿、生命，還有業(yè)力，等等。這樣做從來沒有讓我的希望落空過，而且還徹底改變了我的生活。
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.
我的第二個(gè)故事是關(guān)于好惡與得失。
幸運(yùn)的是，我在很小的時(shí)候就發(fā)現(xiàn)自己喜歡做什么。我在 20 歲時(shí)和沃茲(Woz，蘋果公司創(chuàng)始人之一 Wozon 的昵稱─譯注)在我父母的車庫里辦起了蘋果公司。我們干得很賣力，十年后，蘋果公司就從車庫里我們兩個(gè)人發(fā)展成為一個(gè)擁有 20 億元資產(chǎn)、4,000 名員工的大企業(yè)。那時(shí)，我們剛剛推出了我們最好的產(chǎn)品─ Macintosh 電腦─那是在第 9 年，我剛滿 30 歲。可后來，我被解雇了。你怎么會(huì)被自己辦的公司解雇呢?是這樣，隨著蘋果公司越做越大，我們聘了一位我認(rèn)為非常有才華的人與我一道管理公司。在開始的一年多里，一切都很順利?？墒?，隨后我倆對(duì)公司前景的看法開始出現(xiàn)分歧，最后我倆反目了。這時(shí)，董事會(huì)站在了他那一邊，所以在 30 歲那年，我離開了公司，而且這件事鬧得滿城風(fēng)雨。我成年后的整個(gè)生活重心都沒有了，這使我心力交瘁。
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.
一連幾個(gè)月，我真的不知道應(yīng)該怎么辦。我感到自己給老一代的創(chuàng)業(yè)者丟了臉─因?yàn)槲胰拥袅私坏阶约菏掷锏慕恿Π?。我去見了戴維帕卡德(David Packard，惠普公司創(chuàng)始人之一─譯注)和鮑勃;諾伊斯(Bob Noyce，英特爾公司創(chuàng)建者之一─譯注)，想為把事情搞得這么糟糕說聲道歉。這次失敗弄得沸沸揚(yáng)揚(yáng)的，我甚至想過逃離硅谷。但是，漸漸地，我開始有了一個(gè)想法─我仍然熱愛我過去做的一切。在蘋果公司發(fā)生的這些風(fēng)波絲毫沒有改變這一點(diǎn)。我雖然被拒之門外，但我仍然深愛我的事業(yè)。于是，我決定從頭開始。
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.
雖然當(dāng)時(shí)我并沒有意識(shí)到，但事實(shí)證明，被蘋果公司炒魷魚是我一生中碰到的最好的事情。盡管前景未卜，但從頭開始的輕松感取代了保持成功的沉重感。這使我進(jìn)入了一生中最富有創(chuàng)造力的時(shí)期之一。
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. 在此后的五年里，我開了一家名叫 NeXT 的公司和一家叫皮克斯的公司，我還愛上一位了不起的女人，后來娶了她。皮克斯公司推出了世界上第一部用電腦制作的動(dòng)畫片《玩具總動(dòng)員》(Toy Story)，它現(xiàn)在是全球最成功的動(dòng)畫制作室。世道輪回，蘋果公司買下 NeXT 后，我又回到了蘋果公司，我們?cè)?NeXT 公司開發(fā)的技術(shù)成了蘋果公司這次重新崛起的核心。我和勞倫娜(Laurene)也建立了美滿的家庭。
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. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.
我確信，如果不是被蘋果公司解雇，這一切決不可能發(fā)生。這是一劑苦藥，可我認(rèn)為苦藥利于病。有時(shí)生活會(huì)當(dāng)頭給你一棒，但不要灰心。我堅(jiān)信讓我一往無前的唯一力量就是我熱愛我所做的一切。所以，一定得知道自己喜歡什么，選擇愛人時(shí)如此，選擇工作時(shí)同樣如此。工作將是生活中的一大部分，讓自己真正滿意的唯一辦法，是做自己認(rèn)為是有意義的工作;做有意義的工作的唯一辦法，是熱愛自己的工作。你們?nèi)绻€沒有發(fā)現(xiàn)自己喜歡什么，那就不斷地去尋找，不要急于做出決定。就像一切要憑著感覺去做的事情一樣，一旦找到了自己喜歡的事，感覺就會(huì)告訴你。就像任何一種美妙的東西，歷久彌新。所以說，要不斷地尋找，直到找到自己喜歡的東西。不要半途而廢。
My third story is about death.
When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
我的第三個(gè)故事與死亡有關(guān)。
17 歲那年，我讀到過這樣一段話，大意是:“如果把每一天都當(dāng)作生命的最后一天，總有一天你會(huì)如愿以償。”我記住了這句話，從那時(shí)起，33 年過去了，我每天早晨都對(duì)著鏡子自問: “假如今天是生命的最后一天，我還會(huì)去做今天要做的事嗎?”如果一連許多天我的回答都是“不”，我知道自己應(yīng)該有所改變了。
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
讓我能夠做出人生重大抉擇的最主要辦法是，記住生命隨時(shí)都有可能結(jié)束。因?yàn)閹缀跛械臇|西─所有對(duì)自身之外的希求、所有的尊嚴(yán)、所有對(duì)困窘和失敗的恐懼─在死亡來臨時(shí)都將不復(fù)存在，只剩下真正重要的東西。記住自己隨時(shí)都會(huì)死去，這是我所知道的防止患得患失的最好方法。你已經(jīng)一無所有了，還有什么理由不跟著自己的感覺走呢。
About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.
大約一年前，我被診斷患了癌癥。那天早上七點(diǎn)半，我做了一次掃描檢查，結(jié)果清楚地表明我的胰腺上長(zhǎng)了一個(gè)瘤子，可那時(shí)我連胰腺是什么還不知道呢!醫(yī)生告訴我說，幾乎可以確診這是一種無法治愈的惡性腫瘤，我最多還能活 3 到 6 個(gè)月。醫(yī)生建議我回去把一切都安排好，其實(shí)這是在暗示“準(zhǔn)備后事”。也就是說，把今后十年要跟孩子們說的事情在這幾個(gè)月內(nèi)囑咐完;也就是說，把一切都安排妥當(dāng)，盡可能不給家人留麻煩;也就是說，去跟大家訣別。
I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.
那一整天里，我的腦子一直沒離開這個(gè)診斷。到了晚上，我做了一次組織切片檢查，他們把一個(gè)內(nèi)窺鏡通過喉嚨穿過我的胃進(jìn)入腸子，用針頭在胰腺的瘤子上取了一些細(xì)胞組織。當(dāng)時(shí)我用了麻醉劑，陪在一旁的妻子后來告訴我，醫(yī)生在顯微鏡里看了細(xì)胞之后叫了起來，原來這是一種少見的可以通過外科手術(shù)治愈的惡性腫瘤。我做了手術(shù)，現(xiàn)在好了。
This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
這是我和死神離得最近的一次，我希望也是今后幾十年里最近的一次。有了這次經(jīng)歷之后，現(xiàn)在我可以更加實(shí)在地和你們談?wù)撍劳?，而不是純粹紙上談兵，那就? 誰都不愿意死。就是那些想進(jìn)天堂的人也不愿意死后再進(jìn)。然而，死亡是我們共同的歸宿，沒人能擺脫。我們注定會(huì)死，因?yàn)樗劳龊芸赡苁巧詈玫囊豁?xiàng)發(fā)明。它推進(jìn)生命的變遷，舊的不去，新的不來?，F(xiàn)在，你們就是新的，但在不久的將來，你們也會(huì)逐漸成為舊的，也會(huì)被淘汰。對(duì)不起，話說得太過分了，不過這是千真萬確的。
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
你們的時(shí)間都有限，所以不要按照別人的意愿去活，這是浪費(fèi)時(shí)間。不要囿于成見，那是在按照別人設(shè)想的結(jié)果而活。不要讓別人觀點(diǎn)的聒噪聲淹沒自己的心聲。最主要的是，要有跟著自己感覺和直覺走的勇氣。無論如何，感覺和直覺早就知道你到底想成為什么樣的人，其他都是次要的。
When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.
我年輕時(shí)有一本非常好的刊物，叫《全球概覽》(The Whole Earth Catalog)，這是我那代人的寶書之一，創(chuàng)辦人名叫斯圖爾特布蘭德(Stewart Brand)，就住在離這兒不遠(yuǎn)的門洛帕克市。他用詩一般的語言把刊物辦得生動(dòng)活潑。那是 20 世紀(jì) 60 年代末，還沒有個(gè)人電腦和桌面印刷系統(tǒng)，全靠打字機(jī)、剪刀和寶麗萊照相機(jī)(Polaroid)。它就像一種紙質(zhì)的 Google，卻比 Google 早問世了 35 年。這份刊物太完美了，查閱手段齊備、構(gòu)思不凡。
Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself.
斯圖爾特和他的同事們出了好幾期《全球概覽》，到最后辦不下去時(shí)，他們出了最后一期。那是 20 世紀(jì) 70 年代中期，我也就是你們現(xiàn)在的年紀(jì)。最后一期的封底上是一張清晨鄉(xiāng)間小路的照片，就是那種愛冒險(xiǎn)的人等在那兒搭便車的那種小路。照片下面寫道: 好學(xué)若饑、謙卑若愚。那是他們?？暗母鎰e辭。求知若渴，大智若愚。這也是我一直想做到的。
And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
眼下正值諸位大學(xué)畢業(yè)、開始新生活之際，我同樣愿大家:
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
好學(xué)若饑、謙卑若愚。
大學(xué)畢業(yè)勵(lì)志演講稿：湖南師范大學(xué)校長(zhǎng)畢業(yè)典禮勵(lì)志演講
親愛的同學(xué)們：
歲月如梭，轉(zhuǎn)眼就到了你們畢業(yè)的日子。今天，母校專門舉行典禮，給你們壯行，為你們祝福。
數(shù)載寒暑，幾度春秋。親愛的同學(xué)，我怎能忘記，當(dāng)年你們懷揣夢(mèng)想，來到湖南師大求學(xué)深造。得天下英才而教育之，那是所有教育工作者的企盼，有緣成為你們的校友、導(dǎo)師和校長(zhǎng)，那是我的福分和莫大的榮幸!
我們不會(huì)忘記，圖書館的燈光映照過你沉思的身影;英語角的夜幕靜聽過你自信的聲音;體育場(chǎng)的綠茵灑下了你拼搏的汗水;藝術(shù)節(jié)的舞臺(tái)演出過你靚麗的青春。
我們不會(huì)忘記，是你們用論文和思想登陸中外學(xué)術(shù)方陣;是你們用各級(jí)各類獎(jiǎng)項(xiàng)推動(dòng)學(xué)校進(jìn)程;是你們讓眾多媒體敞開鏡頭;是你們將母校的影響傳遍千山萬水。
我們不會(huì)忘記，紅旗下黨徽前，你們莊嚴(yán)宣誓;志愿服務(wù)活動(dòng)中，你們爭(zhēng)先恐后;籌備70周年校慶時(shí)，你們夜以繼日;汶川地震后，你們慷慨捐贈(zèng)。
一幅幅畫卷，一幕幕場(chǎng)景，仿佛就在昨天，是那么的清晰，那么的難忘，那么的令人眷戀。親愛的同學(xué)，母校的建設(shè)發(fā)展同樣傾注了你們?nèi)康淖非蠛秃顾瑓R集了你們所有的智慧和心血。今天，我要再次大聲地表白：老師永遠(yuǎn)愛你們，母校衷心感謝你們!
麓山常青，湘水長(zhǎng)流。親愛的同學(xué)，母校記錄了你人生一段最為寶貴的時(shí)光，也見證了你曾經(jīng)的甘苦與憂樂。
你是否還記得，課堂上，老師帶你們誦讀儒道詩書，探究宇宙奧微;實(shí)驗(yàn)室里，導(dǎo)師給你們釋疑解惑，指點(diǎn)迷津;樟樹園中，輔導(dǎo)員同你們促膝交談，置腹推心。
你是否還記得，岳麓山上指點(diǎn)江山，橘子洲頭慷慨激情;岳王亭前閑庭信步，木蘭路上縱論風(fēng)云;桃子湖畔竊竊私語，丹桂樹下海誓山盟。
你是否還記得，夜歸天馬時(shí)的行色匆匆，寢室臥談中的激烈爭(zhēng)論，周末舞會(huì)上的熱情奔放，校園排檔里的相敬如賓……
這一切都將成為你們成長(zhǎng)途中有益的磨練，都將成為你們?nèi)松须y得的財(cái)富和美好回憶。
別情依依，前路漫漫。親愛的同學(xué)，是什么讓你淚眼汪汪，是什么讓你一步三回頭、“哥要走了”的畢業(yè)簽名紅遍校園。此時(shí)此刻，我的心中寫滿牽掛，充滿期待。
我牽掛著你是否找到了合適的工作?今年的就業(yè)形勢(shì)依然嚴(yán)峻，或許你還漂著，但天無絕人之路，通向成功的路也有千萬條。無論燈紅酒綠的大都市，還是條件艱苦的基層和西部;無論是按部就班的機(jī)關(guān)和事業(yè)單位，還是波濤洶涌的商海，都能演繹精彩人生。
親愛的同學(xué)，我期待著你們理性就業(yè)，勇敢創(chuàng)業(yè);我期待著你們體面地勞動(dòng)，有尊嚴(yán)地生活。
我牽掛著你是否做好了步入社會(huì)的準(zhǔn)備?社會(huì)可沒有學(xué)校那么單純，前行的路上充滿挑戰(zhàn)，充滿競(jìng)爭(zhēng)，甚至?xí)龅较葳搴颓G棘，你必須學(xué)會(huì)勤奮、堅(jiān)韌和創(chuàng)新。為人處世是一門必修課、大學(xué)問，值得一輩子去鉆研，你必須讀懂忠誠(chéng)、善良和謙遜。
親愛的同學(xué)，我期待著你們既要仰望星空，又要腳踏實(shí)地;我期待著你們成功時(shí)不要得意忘形，失敗時(shí)不要輕言放棄。
我牽掛著你是否懂得珍惜和感恩?有太多的人在為你的成長(zhǎng)付出和奉獻(xiàn)，含辛茹苦的父母為你操碎了心，尊敬的老師把自己燃燒照亮你前行，朝夕相處的同學(xué)彼此攙扶走過春夏秋冬，或許他們之中還有你純真的戀情。
親愛的同學(xué)，我期待著你們把電話留下，把郵箱留下，把地址留下，方便的時(shí)候回母校走一走，別忘了給老師送去問候;我期待著你們?cè)诼L(zhǎng)的人生旅途中珍惜友情、愛情和親情，?；丶铱纯?，陪陪守望的親人。
古人感嘆：聚散苦匆匆，此恨無窮。確實(shí)，天底下沒有不散的筵席，但就母校之情、師生之誼而言，既然曾經(jīng)擁有，必將天長(zhǎng)地久!
親愛的同學(xué)，讓我們一起珍藏昨天，讓我們一起把握今天，讓我們一起開創(chuàng)明天!
大學(xué)畢業(yè)勵(lì)志演講稿：又是一年畢業(yè)時(shí)
轉(zhuǎn)眼間，又一批熟悉的面孔將帶著大學(xué)四年的回憶離開校園。四年時(shí)光匆匆，大一的青澀懵懂，大二的奮起拼搏，大三的勤學(xué)苦練似乎都還在眼前，還未好好享受，卻要輕輕揮手，告別哭過、笑過、鬧過的兄弟姐妹，告別迷惘過、奮斗過的校園青春。
大學(xué)里最值得驕傲的事情也許是堅(jiān)持并實(shí)現(xiàn)了自己的夢(mèng)想，也許是收獲了甜蜜的愛情，也許是結(jié)識(shí)到了知己。有無悔，也有遺憾。比賽的失力，考試的掛科，同學(xué)間的小摩擦等等，也在調(diào)劑著大學(xué)這碗五味雜陳的湯。當(dāng)然，還會(huì)有不少感悟。新聞學(xué)院大四的鄒佼向記者暢談道：“我認(rèn)為大一到大四都要堅(jiān)持努力學(xué)習(xí)，勞逸結(jié)合，學(xué)和玩都不能少。 大一做到適應(yīng)大學(xué)生活，學(xué)會(huì)獨(dú)立，多閱讀、多交朋友，打下良好基礎(chǔ)。 大二思考一下自己想做什么，確定大體的方向，并做初步準(zhǔn)備。大三可以根據(jù)之前所學(xué)去實(shí)踐一下，并為自己選擇的道路做最后的沖刺。在大四，一方面要淡定地等待努力的結(jié)果，另一方面可以去做自己以前沒時(shí)間做的事情。”這些感悟都為學(xué)弟學(xué)妹們提供了良好的借鑒，促進(jìn)他們積極向上，創(chuàng)造一個(gè)多彩無悔的大學(xué)生活。
我始終相信，告別是為了下一次更好的相見。步入競(jìng)爭(zhēng)激烈的社會(huì)，才真正的見識(shí)到擁擠的招聘大廳，或是切實(shí)地感受到考研的重重壓力，遇到了以前從未碰到的難題，拉開了另一個(gè)生活場(chǎng)景的帷幕。據(jù)了解，今年全國(guó)畢業(yè)生數(shù)量達(dá)到699萬人，被戲稱為“史上最難就業(yè)年”，競(jìng)爭(zhēng)壓力可想而知。與此同時(shí)，在收入等嚴(yán)峻的實(shí)際問題驅(qū)使之下，眾多大學(xué)生竟相信花20萬就能進(jìn)銀行、國(guó)企或事業(yè)單位等騙局，不僅打碎了“鐵飯碗”夢(mèng)，也將自己推入更深的淵谷。這其中雖然有許多社會(huì)急待解決的問題，但仔細(xì)想想許多大學(xué)生的觀念更是亟須糾正，走后門、托關(guān)系的投機(jī)取巧心理是萬萬不可行的，既危害個(gè)人，又?jǐn)纳鐣?huì)風(fēng)氣。
要想出人頭地，大學(xué)畢業(yè)生不應(yīng)該嫌棄職位的高低貴賤，三百六十行，行行出狀元，只要腳踏實(shí)地，做好手頭工作，多積累經(jīng)驗(yàn)，終有出頭日。
又到了要說再見的時(shí)候了，可是再見是為了再一次的相見。等到幾年、十幾年、幾十年之后，等到大家都接受了社會(huì)和生活的磨煉，等到每個(gè)人都變得成熟優(yōu)秀，等到各自都有了全新的生活，再次相見，微微一笑，大家仍然是朋友，仍然有擁抱的理由，因?yàn)橛颜x地久天長(zhǎng)，因?yàn)榍啻褐档梦覀內(nèi)プ窇洝?/p>
畢業(yè)離歌漸響，還未離開，卻已開始懷念。青春終究是會(huì)逝去的，不必傷感，不必慌張，它將永刻在歲月里，化成一股溫暖的力量，讓前行的路因回憶而充滿無限陽光。
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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.我的第二個(gè)故事是關(guān)于好惡與得失。
幸運(yùn)的是，我在很小的時(shí)候就發(fā)現(xiàn)自己喜歡做什么。我在 20 歲時(shí)和沃茲(Woz，蘋果公司創(chuàng)始人之一 Wozon 的昵稱─譯注)在我父母的車庫里辦起了蘋果公司。我們干得很賣力，十年后，蘋果公司就從車庫里我們兩個(gè)人發(fā)展成為一個(gè)擁有 20 億元資產(chǎn)、4,000 名員工的大企業(yè)。那時(shí)，我們剛剛推出了我們最好的產(chǎn)品─ Macintosh 電腦─那是在第 9 年，我剛滿 30 歲?？珊髞恚冶唤夤土?。你怎么會(huì)被自己辦的公司解雇呢?是這樣，隨著蘋果公司越做越大，我們聘了一位我認(rèn)為非常有才華的人與我一道管理公司。在開始的一年多里，一切都很順利?？墒?，隨后我倆對(duì)公司前景的看法開始出現(xiàn)分歧，最后我倆反目了。這時(shí)，董事會(huì)站在了他那一邊，所以在 30 歲那年，我離開了公司，而且這件事鬧得滿城風(fēng)雨。我成年后的整個(gè)生活重心都沒有了，這使我心力交瘁。
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.
一連幾個(gè)月，我真的不知道應(yīng)該怎么辦。我感到自己給老一代的創(chuàng)業(yè)者丟了臉─因?yàn)槲胰拥袅私坏阶约菏掷锏慕恿Π?。我去見了戴維帕卡德(David Packard，惠普公司創(chuàng)始人之一─譯注)和鮑勃;諾伊斯(Bob Noyce，英特爾公司創(chuàng)建者之一─譯注)，想為把事情搞得這么糟糕說聲道歉。這次失敗弄得沸沸揚(yáng)揚(yáng)的，我甚至想過逃離硅谷。但是，漸漸地，我開始有了一個(gè)想法─我仍然熱愛我過去做的一切。在蘋果公司發(fā)生的這些風(fēng)波絲毫沒有改變這一點(diǎn)。我雖然被拒之門外，但我仍然深愛我的事業(yè)。于是，我決定從頭開始。
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.
雖然當(dāng)時(shí)我并沒有意識(shí)到，但事實(shí)證明，被蘋果公司炒魷魚是我一生中碰到的最好的事情。盡管前景未卜，但從頭開始的輕松感取代了保持成功的沉重感。這使我進(jìn)入了一生中最富有創(chuàng)造力的時(shí)期之一。
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. 在此后的五年里，我開了一家名叫 NeXT 的公司和一家叫皮克斯的公司，我還愛上一位了不起的女人，后來娶了她。皮克斯公司推出了世界上第一部用電腦制作的動(dòng)畫片《玩具總動(dòng)員》(Toy Story)，它現(xiàn)在是全球最成功的動(dòng)畫制作室。世道輪回，蘋果公司買下 NeXT 后，我又回到了蘋果公司，我們?cè)?NeXT 公司開發(fā)的技術(shù)成了蘋果公司這次重新崛起的核心。我和勞倫娜(Laurene)也建立了美滿的家庭。
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. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.
我確信，如果不是被蘋果公司解雇，這一切決不可能發(fā)生。這是一劑苦藥，可我認(rèn)為苦藥利于病。有時(shí)生活會(huì)當(dāng)頭給你一棒，但不要灰心。我堅(jiān)信讓我一往無前的唯一力量就是我熱愛我所做的一切。所以，一定得知道自己喜歡什么，選擇愛人時(shí)如此，選擇工作時(shí)同樣如此。工作將是生活中的一大部分，讓自己真正滿意的唯一辦法，是做自己認(rèn)為是有意義的工作;做有意義的工作的唯一辦法，是熱愛自己的工作。你們?nèi)绻€沒有發(fā)現(xiàn)自己喜歡什么，那就不斷地去尋找，不要急于做出決定。就像一切要憑著感覺去做的事情一樣，一旦找到了自己喜歡的事，感覺就會(huì)告訴你。就像任何一種美妙的東西，歷久彌新。所以說，要不斷地尋找，直到找到自己喜歡的東西。不要半途而廢。
My third story is about death.
When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
我的第三個(gè)故事與死亡有關(guān)。
17 歲那年，我讀到過這樣一段話，大意是:“如果把每一天都當(dāng)作生命的最后一天，總有一天你會(huì)如愿以償。”我記住了這句話，從那時(shí)起，33 年過去了，我每天早晨都對(duì)著鏡子自問: “假如今天是生命的最后一天，我還會(huì)去做今天要做的事嗎?”如果一連許多天我的回答都是“不”，我知道自己應(yīng)該有所改變了。
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
讓我能夠做出人生重大抉擇的最主要辦法是，記住生命隨時(shí)都有可能結(jié)束。因?yàn)閹缀跛械臇|西─所有對(duì)自身之外的希求、所有的尊嚴(yán)、所有對(duì)困窘和失敗的恐懼─在死亡來臨時(shí)都將不復(fù)存在，只剩下真正重要的東西。記住自己隨時(shí)都會(huì)死去，這是我所知道的防止患得患失的最好方法。你已經(jīng)一無所有了，還有什么理由不跟著自己的感覺走呢。
About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.
大約一年前，我被診斷患了癌癥。那天早上七點(diǎn)半，我做了一次掃描檢查，結(jié)果清楚地表明我的胰腺上長(zhǎng)了一個(gè)瘤子，可那時(shí)我連胰腺是什么還不知道呢!醫(yī)生告訴我說，幾乎可以確診這是一種無法治愈的惡性腫瘤，我最多還能活 3 到 6 個(gè)月。醫(yī)生建議我回去把一切都安排好，其實(shí)這是在暗示“準(zhǔn)備后事”。也就是說，把今后十年要跟孩子們說的事情在這幾個(gè)月內(nèi)囑咐完;也就是說，把一切都安排妥當(dāng)，盡可能不給家人留麻煩;也就是說，去跟大家訣別。
I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.
那一整天里，我的腦子一直沒離開這個(gè)診斷。到了晚上，我做了一次組織切片檢查，他們把一個(gè)內(nèi)窺鏡通過喉嚨穿過我的胃進(jìn)入腸子，用針頭在胰腺的瘤子上取了一些細(xì)胞組織。當(dāng)時(shí)我用了麻醉劑，陪在一旁的妻子后來告訴我，醫(yī)生在顯微鏡里看了細(xì)胞之后叫了起來，原來這是一種少見的可以通過外科手術(shù)治愈的惡性腫瘤。我做了手術(shù)，現(xiàn)在好了。
This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
這是我和死神離得最近的一次，我希望也是今后幾十年里最近的一次。有了這次經(jīng)歷之后，現(xiàn)在我可以更加實(shí)在地和你們談?wù)撍劳?，而不是純粹紙上談兵，那就? 誰都不愿意死。就是那些想進(jìn)天堂的人也不愿意死后再進(jìn)。然而，死亡是我們共同的歸宿，沒人能擺脫。我們注定會(huì)死，因?yàn)樗劳龊芸赡苁巧詈玫囊豁?xiàng)發(fā)明。它推進(jìn)生命的變遷，舊的不去，新的不來?，F(xiàn)在，你們就是新的，但在不久的將來，你們也會(huì)逐漸成為舊的，也會(huì)被淘汰。對(duì)不起，話說得太過分了，不過這是千真萬確的。
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
你們的時(shí)間都有限，所以不要按照別人的意愿去活，這是浪費(fèi)時(shí)間。不要囿于成見，那是在按照別人設(shè)想的結(jié)果而活。不要讓別人觀點(diǎn)的聒噪聲淹沒自己的心聲。最主要的是，要有跟著自己感覺和直覺走的勇氣。無論如何，感覺和直覺早就知道你到底想成為什么樣的人，其他都是次要的。
When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.
我年輕時(shí)有一本非常好的刊物，叫《全球概覽》(The Whole Earth Catalog)，這是我那代人的寶書之一，創(chuàng)辦人名叫斯圖爾特布蘭德(Stewart Brand)，就住在離這兒不遠(yuǎn)的門洛帕克市。他用詩一般的語言把刊物辦得生動(dòng)活潑。那是 20 世紀(jì) 60 年代末，還沒有個(gè)人電腦和桌面印刷系統(tǒng)，全靠打字機(jī)、剪刀和寶麗萊照相機(jī)(Polaroid)。它就像一種紙質(zhì)的 Google，卻比 Google 早問世了 35 年。這份刊物太完美了，查閱手段齊備、構(gòu)思不凡。
Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself.
斯圖爾特和他的同事們出了好幾期《全球概覽》，到最后辦不下去時(shí)，他們出了最后一期。那是 20 世紀(jì) 70 年代中期，我也就是你們現(xiàn)在的年紀(jì)。最后一期的封底上是一張清晨鄉(xiāng)間小路的照片，就是那種愛冒險(xiǎn)的人等在那兒搭便車的那種小路。照片下面寫道: 好學(xué)若饑、謙卑若愚。那是他們停刊前的告別辭。求知若渴，大智若愚。這也是我一直想做到的。
And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
眼下正值諸位大學(xué)畢業(yè)、開始新生活之際，我同樣愿大家:
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
好學(xué)若饑、謙卑若愚。
大學(xué)畢業(yè)勵(lì)志演講稿：湖南師范大學(xué)校長(zhǎng)畢業(yè)典禮勵(lì)志演講
親愛的同學(xué)們：
歲月如梭，轉(zhuǎn)眼就到了你們畢業(yè)的日子。今天，母校專門舉行典禮，給你們壯行，為你們祝福。
數(shù)載寒暑，幾度春秋。親愛的同學(xué)，我怎能忘記，當(dāng)年你們懷揣夢(mèng)想，來到湖南師大求學(xué)深造。得天下英才而教育之，那是所有教育工作者的企盼，有緣成為你們的校友、導(dǎo)師和校長(zhǎng)，那是我的福分和莫大的榮幸!
我們不會(huì)忘記，圖書館的燈光映照過你沉思的身影;英語角的夜幕靜聽過你自信的聲音;體育場(chǎng)的綠茵灑下了你拼搏的汗水;藝術(shù)節(jié)的舞臺(tái)演出過你靚麗的青春。
我們不會(huì)忘記，是你們用論文和思想登陸中外學(xué)術(shù)方陣;是你們用各級(jí)各類獎(jiǎng)項(xiàng)推動(dòng)學(xué)校進(jìn)程;是你們讓眾多媒體敞開鏡頭;是你們將母校的影響傳遍千山萬水。
我們不會(huì)忘記，紅旗下黨徽前，你們莊嚴(yán)宣誓;志愿服務(wù)活動(dòng)中，你們爭(zhēng)先恐后;籌備70周年校慶時(shí)，你們夜以繼日;汶川地震后，你們慷慨捐贈(zèng)。
一幅幅畫卷，一幕幕場(chǎng)景，仿佛就在昨天，是那么的清晰，那么的難忘，那么的令人眷戀。親愛的同學(xué)，母校的建設(shè)發(fā)展同樣傾注了你們?nèi)康淖非蠛秃顾?，匯集了你們所有的智慧和心血。今天，我要再次大聲地表白：老師永遠(yuǎn)愛你們，母校衷心感謝你們!
麓山常青，湘水長(zhǎng)流。親愛的同學(xué)，母校記錄了你人生一段最為寶貴的時(shí)光，也見證了你曾經(jīng)的甘苦與憂樂。
你是否還記得，課堂上，老師帶你們誦讀儒道詩書，探究宇宙奧微;實(shí)驗(yàn)室里，導(dǎo)師給你們釋疑解惑，指點(diǎn)迷津;樟樹園中，輔導(dǎo)員同你們促膝交談，置腹推心。
你是否還記得，岳麓山上指點(diǎn)江山，橘子洲頭慷慨激情;岳王亭前閑庭信步，木蘭路上縱論風(fēng)云;桃子湖畔竊竊私語，丹桂樹下海誓山盟。
你是否還記得，夜歸天馬時(shí)的行色匆匆，寢室臥談中的激烈爭(zhēng)論，周末舞會(huì)上的熱情奔放，校園排檔里的相敬如賓……
這一切都將成為你們成長(zhǎng)途中有益的磨練，都將成為你們?nèi)松须y得的財(cái)富和美好回憶。
別情依依，前路漫漫。親愛的同學(xué)，是什么讓你淚眼汪汪，是什么讓你一步三回頭、“哥要走了”的畢業(yè)簽名紅遍校園。此時(shí)此刻，我的心中寫滿牽掛，充滿期待。
我牽掛著你是否找到了合適的工作?今年的就業(yè)形勢(shì)依然嚴(yán)峻，或許你還漂著，但天無絕人之路，通向成功的路也有千萬條。無論燈紅酒綠的大都市，還是條件艱苦的基層和西部;無論是按部就班的機(jī)關(guān)和事業(yè)單位，還是波濤洶涌的商海，都能演繹精彩人生。
親愛的同學(xué)，我期待著你們理性就業(yè)，勇敢創(chuàng)業(yè);我期待著你們體面地勞動(dòng)，有尊嚴(yán)地生活。
我牽掛著你是否做好了步入社會(huì)的準(zhǔn)備?社會(huì)可沒有學(xué)校那么單純，前行的路上充滿挑戰(zhàn)，充滿競(jìng)爭(zhēng)，甚至?xí)龅较葳搴颓G棘，你必須學(xué)會(huì)勤奮、堅(jiān)韌和創(chuàng)新。為人處世是一門必修課、大學(xué)問，值得一輩子去鉆研，你必須讀懂忠誠(chéng)、善良和謙遜。
親愛的同學(xué)，我期待著你們既要仰望星空，又要腳踏實(shí)地;我期待著你們成功時(shí)不要得意忘形，失敗時(shí)不要輕言放棄。
我牽掛著你是否懂得珍惜和感恩?有太多的人在為你的成長(zhǎng)付出和奉獻(xiàn)，含辛茹苦的父母為你操碎了心，尊敬的老師把自己燃燒照亮你前行，朝夕相處的同學(xué)彼此攙扶走過春夏秋冬，或許他們之中還有你純真的戀情。
親愛的同學(xué)，我期待著你們把電話留下，把郵箱留下，把地址留下，方便的時(shí)候回母校走一走，別忘了給老師送去問候;我期待著你們?cè)诼L(zhǎng)的人生旅途中珍惜友情、愛情和親情，常回家看看，陪陪守望的親人。
古人感嘆：聚散苦匆匆，此恨無窮。確實(shí)，天底下沒有不散的筵席，但就母校之情、師生之誼而言，既然曾經(jīng)擁有，必將天長(zhǎng)地久!
親愛的同學(xué)，讓我們一起珍藏昨天，讓我們一起把握今天，讓我們一起開創(chuàng)明天!
大學(xué)畢業(yè)勵(lì)志演講稿：又是一年畢業(yè)時(shí)
轉(zhuǎn)眼間，又一批熟悉的面孔將帶著大學(xué)四年的回憶離開校園。四年時(shí)光匆匆，大一的青澀懵懂，大二的奮起拼搏，大三的勤學(xué)苦練似乎都還在眼前，還未好好享受，卻要輕輕揮手，告別哭過、笑過、鬧過的兄弟姐妹，告別迷惘過、奮斗過的校園青春。
大學(xué)里最值得驕傲的事情也許是堅(jiān)持并實(shí)現(xiàn)了自己的夢(mèng)想，也許是收獲了甜蜜的愛情，也許是結(jié)識(shí)到了知己。有無悔，也有遺憾。比賽的失力，考試的掛科，同學(xué)間的小摩擦等等，也在調(diào)劑著大學(xué)這碗五味雜陳的湯。當(dāng)然，還會(huì)有不少感悟。新聞學(xué)院大四的鄒佼向記者暢談道：“我認(rèn)為大一到大四都要堅(jiān)持努力學(xué)習(xí)，勞逸結(jié)合，學(xué)和玩都不能少。 大一做到適應(yīng)大學(xué)生活，學(xué)會(huì)獨(dú)立，多閱讀、多交朋友，打下良好基礎(chǔ)。 大二思考一下自己想做什么，確定大體的方向，并做初步準(zhǔn)備。大三可以根據(jù)之前所學(xué)去實(shí)踐一下，并為自己選擇的道路做最后的沖刺。在大四，一方面要淡定地等待努力的結(jié)果，另一方面可以去做自己以前沒時(shí)間做的事情。”這些感悟都為學(xué)弟學(xué)妹們提供了良好的借鑒，促進(jìn)他們積極向上，創(chuàng)造一個(gè)多彩無悔的大學(xué)生活。
我始終相信，告別是為了下一次更好的相見。步入競(jìng)爭(zhēng)激烈的社會(huì)，才真正的見識(shí)到擁擠的招聘大廳，或是切實(shí)地感受到考研的重重壓力，遇到了以前從未碰到的難題，拉開了另一個(gè)生活場(chǎng)景的帷幕。據(jù)了解，今年全國(guó)畢業(yè)生數(shù)量達(dá)到699萬人，被戲稱為“史上最難就業(yè)年”，競(jìng)爭(zhēng)壓力可想而知。與此同時(shí)，在收入等嚴(yán)峻的實(shí)際問題驅(qū)使之下，眾多大學(xué)生竟相信花20萬就能進(jìn)銀行、國(guó)企或事業(yè)單位等騙局，不僅打碎了“鐵飯碗”夢(mèng)，也將自己推入更深的淵谷。這其中雖然有許多社會(huì)急待解決的問題，但仔細(xì)想想許多大學(xué)生的觀念更是亟須糾正，走后門、托關(guān)系的投機(jī)取巧心理是萬萬不可行的，既危害個(gè)人，又?jǐn)纳鐣?huì)風(fēng)氣。
要想出人頭地，大學(xué)畢業(yè)生不應(yīng)該嫌棄職位的高低貴賤，三百六十行，行行出狀元，只要腳踏實(shí)地，做好手頭工作，多積累經(jīng)驗(yàn)，終有出頭日。
又到了要說再見的時(shí)候了，可是再見是為了再一次的相見。等到幾年、十幾年、幾十年之后，等到大家都接受了社會(huì)和生活的磨煉，等到每個(gè)人都變得成熟優(yōu)秀，等到各自都有了全新的生活，再次相見，微微一笑，大家仍然是朋友，仍然有擁抱的理由，因?yàn)橛颜x地久天長(zhǎng)，因?yàn)榍啻褐档梦覀內(nèi)プ窇洝?/p>
畢業(yè)離歌漸響，還未離開，卻已開始懷念。青春終究是會(huì)逝去的，不必傷感，不必慌張，它將永刻在歲月里，化成一股溫暖的力量，讓前行的路因回憶而充滿無限陽光。
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