美国大学的毕业演讲
① 哈佛大学的成功演讲
哈佛有一个着名的理论：人的差别在于业余时间，而一个人的命运决定于晚上8点到10点之间。每晚抽出2个小时的时间用来阅读、进修、思考或参加有意的演讲、讨论，你会发现，你的人生正在发生改变，坚持数年之后，成功会向你招手。以下是我为大家整理的关于哈佛大学的成功演讲，欢迎阅读!
哈佛大学的成功演讲1：
根据这所古老学府的传统，我该慷慨激昂地传授你们一些终身受用的智慧。而现在我站在讲坛上，这身打扮也许已经吓坏了那些声名显赫的祖先们，说不定某些先人还会因此得出巫婆灭绝的根源。可我既然来了，你们也都在，那么我们还是来聊聊真理吧。
其实，早在2007年冬我刚上任那时，我就已经开始准备这次讲话了。
当时我在克兰学舍吃午饭、在莱弗里特吃晚饭时，当我在办公时间接见同学时，甚至当我在国外偶遇刚毕业不久的学生时，同学们都会问我一个问题：为什么我们哈佛的学生中，有那么多人会投身到金融、咨询和电子银行领域中去?
我今天就引用威利顿的话来回答你们。当他被问到为什么抢银行时，他说：银行里有很多钱。
高薪，无可抗拒的盲从应聘心理，到纽约和众多朋友一起工作、生活，享受人生的那种踏实感，使大家奋不顾身地投入到那些领域。
比起回答你们的问题，我更有兴趣知道你们为什么会这么问，为什么这个问题会困扰这么多人?
我想，你们之所以会忧心忡忡，是因为你们不想仅仅取得传统意义上的成功，还想让人生过得有意义，可你们不知道怎么把这两个目标结合起来。你们不确定，是不是在一家大名鼎鼎的名牌企业中拥有一份起薪丰厚、前途光明的工作，就能得到精神上的满足。
其实你们一直在问的都是一些最基本的问题：关于价值、关于怎样去调和有可能存在竞争的事物之间的关系、关于鱼和熊掌不可兼得的领悟。你们现在正处于一个需要作出选择的过渡阶段。选择了其中任何一项比如工作、事业或者读研究生就意味着要舍弃其他的选择。每一个决定都意味着取舍拥抱一种可能性的同时也得放弃一种可能性。你们的问题就是你们对于未来选择的路的失落感。
你们之所以焦虑，是因为你们想获取成功。你们很清楚，受教育不仅仅是为了改变自己的现状，让自己过得舒坦、满足，而是为了改变你们周围的现状。现在，到了你们去设法实现这个可能的时候了。
我想，你们焦虑的第二个原因是你们想过得幸福。你们扎堆选修《乐观心理学》和《幸福学》，就是想从中找到一点秘诀。可怎样才能找到幸福呢?我给你们一个鼓舞人心的答案：成长。调查表明，年纪越大的人比如说我这个岁数的人就比年轻人的幸福感更强烈。
每当听到你们谈论自己面临的选择时，我听得出来，你们非常担忧处理不好成功与幸福的关系，确切地说，怎么样去定义成功才能让它带来或者包含真正的幸福，而不只是金钱与名望。你们担心报酬高的工作不一定最有意义、最令人满足。
答案是：只有试过了你才知道。如果你不试着去做自己喜欢做的事，如果你不试着去追求你认为最有意义的东西，你会后悔的。人生路漫漫，选择第二志愿的机会多的是，但不要把它作为首选。
我把这个叫做职业选择中的停车位理论：不要因为没有停车位就把车停在距离目的地20个街区远的地方。想去哪儿就去哪，之后再折回到你该去的地方。
最重要的是牢记我们对于你们高得不可能再高的期望。就算你们觉得我们的期望高得不可能再高，也要记住，我们的期望像北极星一样，可以指引你们到达对自己、对这个世界都有意义的彼岸。你们的人生意义几何，全在乎你们自己。
我都迫不及待地想看到你们取得的成就了。有时间的话，回来看看，和我们分享你们的成就。
哈佛大学的成功演讲2：
失败只是另寻他路
奥普拉温弗瑞在哈佛大学毕业典礼上的演讲
当你们跌倒时，我要你们记住：不存在失败这一说。失败只是生活试图让我们走另一条路而已。当你们陷入困境时，只不过看起来像是失败。
我感到非常荣幸，我想要为你们做点真正特别的事情。我想在你们的座位底下放上一堆免费的硕士和博士学位，不过你们已经自己搞定了。实话实说，为了与你们分享一些你们没有听过的东西，在过去的几个星期里，我倍感压力，因为你们都是哈佛的学生，我不是。虽然我不是哈佛的毕业生，但我觉得我的个性是很哈佛的。我参加过防火小姐选美比赛.那时我16岁，住在田纳西州纳什维尔，问答环节的问题是小姐，你长大后想成为什么样的人?等问到我的时候，好的答案都被别人说掉了。正好那天早上的《今日秀》嘉宾是芭芭拉沃尔特斯[2],所以我回答：我想要成为一名新闻工作者。我想要以一种不同的方式诉说别人的故事，给他们的生活、给这个世界带来一点变化。当这些话从我嘴里说出来的时候，我心想哇!说得太好了!我要成为一名新闻工作者。我给这个世界带来一点变化。我19岁时就已经上电视了。1986年，我推出了自己的电视秀，一心一意地向成功迈进。我对那场选美比赛很紧张，结果成了我自己的比赛，每年都向着更高的标准迈进，不停地逼自己，用尽全力。有谁听着觉得很熟悉吗?最终，我们真的登上了巅峰，一待就是25年。
《奥普拉秀》是同时段收视第一的节目，并且保持了21年之久。我承认，如此成功让我非常受用。但是几年前我决定你们将来也会遇到的是时候重新开始了，去寻找新的大陆，开辟新的征程。所以我停掉了《奥普拉秀》，创立了OWN奥普拉温弗瑞电视网。这个首字母缩写简直是为我量身定制的。在创业一年后，几乎每一家媒体都宣称我的新事业是一个失败。不仅是个失败，而且是惨败，他们就是这么说的。我依然记得那天我翻开《今日美国》，看到一个标题奥普拉，立足未稳[3].我说不是吧，《今日美国》那可是份很稳的报纸啊![4]正是在去年的这个时候我的职业生涯陷入了最低谷。我压力巨大，非常沮丧，坦白讲，还很尴尬。就在那个时候福斯特校长打电话给我，邀请我给你们演讲。我心想你居然要我给哈佛毕业生演讲?他们可是世界上最成功的毕业生，而那时我恰恰与成功无缘。我能给他们讲什么?所以，挂了电话后，我去冲了个澡。当时我想，是去冲个澡呢，还是吃一袋奥利奥呢?我选择了冲澡，冲了很久，冲的时候我突然想起了一首很老的圣歌的歌词。你们可能没听过。歌词是不久，黎明就会到来。我开始想黎明什么时候能来，因为当时我觉得我深陷困境。歌词继续，没有过不去的坎，这也会过去。冲完澡时我想，我要跨过这道坎，我会变得更好。到时候，我就要去哈佛，与大家分享这个道理!所以，今天我在这里告诉你们，我已经让电视网起死回生了!
这完全是因为我想以一个成功者的姿态来给你们演讲，所以非常感谢你们。你们不知道你们给了我怎样的动力，谢谢。我更骄傲地告诉你们一个重要的道理，你们即使是哈佛的毕业生也未必知道，除非你们和纳吉教授研究过古希腊英雄。今天早上，纳吉教授在陪我来的路上对我说：温弗里女士，请果敢地走路。
我要果敢地走路。
这就是我要说的。你们能走多远并不重要。你们早晚会跌跤，只要你们和我们一样，不停地提高标准。如果你们不停地追求更高，那么根据平均律，在某一个时刻，你们就会跌倒，更别说还有伊卡洛斯的前车之鉴[5].当你们跌倒时，我要你们记住：不存在失败这一说。失败只是生活试图让我们走另一条路而已。当你们陷入困境时，只不过看起来像是失败。所以，过去的一年里，我不停地用这些话给自己打气。当你们陷入困境时，当那个时刻到来时，感到郁闷是理所当然的。给自己一点时间，为你们认为可能失去的东西难过，但之后才是关键从每一个错误中吸取教训，因为每一段经历、遭遇，特别是你们的错误，会教给你们一些东西，并迫使你们变成更为真实的自己。然后想想下一步应该做什么。
生活的要诀是在内心创建一套道德和情感的GPS(全球定位系统)，让它能告诉你应该走哪条路。因为，从现在起，当你在谷歌的搜索框内输入自己的名字时，结果会显示哈佛，2013.在一个竞争异常激烈的世界，这可是一张名片啊，因为，作为一个有很多员工的老板，我可以告诉你们，当我看到哈佛二字时，我会稍稍坐直身体，说：他/她在哪儿?让他/她进来。这是一张闪亮的名片，而且能通向更为灿烂的前程律师、参议员、首席执行官、科学家、物理学家、诺贝尔奖和普利策奖获得者，或者深夜脱口秀主持人。但我发现，生活的挑战是打造一份简历，让它诉说的故事不仅能告诉别人你想变成什么样，还能让他们知道你想成为谁;不仅能告诉别人你想要成就的事业，还能让他们知道你的理由;不仅罗列出一串头衔和职位，还能说出你的目标。因为，当你们不可避免地跌倒，发现自己陷于困境的时候，你们简历上的故事将会让你们东山再起。
你理想的职业是什么?你的道德准则是什么?你的目标是什么?我自己是在1994年想到的，当时我访问一个小女孩，她决定把零用钱积攒起来，帮助其他有需要的人。她自己一个人募集了一千美元。我想，如果那个9岁的小女孩儿仅凭一个小桶和一颗大大的爱心就能做到那样，我能做什么呢?所以我让我们的观众拿出自己的零用钱。一个月后，我们零零散散地募集到了三百多万美元零钱。我们在美国每一个州挑选出一名学生，用这笔钱来供他们读大学。后来就有了天使网络(Angel Network)。
这个天使网络，不仅仅改变了受助者的生活，还改变了帮助者的生活。它让我们知道，即使我们的身份、长相和信仰千差万别，我们都有可能走到一起，为一个共同的目标共同努力。更重要的是，这会让我们变得强大。最近一期《比尔穆尔秀》让我深深认识到了这一点。那期的嘉宾是大卫和弗朗辛魏勒夫妇。他们在桑迪岬惨案[6]中失去了7岁的儿子本。在他们接受访谈的时候，加强背景检查的枪支安全提案刚刚遭到国会否决。即便如此，他们依然表达了他们有多么不愿放弃。弗朗辛说：我们的心碎了，但精神没有崩溃。我要告诉他们(国会议员)，一场关于改变的对话的本质其实是爱，而且我不会采用对抗的方式。然后她的丈夫大卫补充道：你绝不能把与你观点不同的人妖魔化，或对他们恶语中伤。因为你一旦那样做了，你们的对话就结束了。我们不能再那样做了。这个问题太大了，必须想办法让光明驱散这片黑暗。
玛娅安杰洛常说：当你学会了，去教。当你得到了，去给。我的朋友，那才是赋予你的故事目标和意义的东西。所以，你们都有以自己的方式去创建你们自己的天使网络的力量。当你们这么做的时候，你们这一届人将会被赋予更多的工具，影响和力量，超过以前的任何一代人。我有幸获得了一个平台，在巅峰时期每天拥有近20,000,000名观众。现在，在一个推特、脸书、Youtube和Tumbler大行其道的世界，你们在几秒钟里就能获得数十亿观众。
我要说在过去25年的脱口秀生涯中，我学到的最重要的一课是，我们所有人都有一个共同点。我们绝大多数人，我告诉你们，都不想成为异类。我们想要得到肯定，这是我在每一期访谈中发现的共同点。我们渴望理解。在我的职业生涯中，我做了35000多期访谈，每次摄像机一关，每一个人都转向我，以他们自己的方式问我一个问题刚才还可以吗?无一例外。布什总统问过，奥巴马总统问过。英雄问过，家庭主妇问过。受害者问过，罪犯问过。连碧昂丝也问过。她表演结束后，把麦克风递给我，问：刚才还可以吗?所有人的朋友和家人，你们的，敌人的，陌生人的，在每一次交流、每一次沟通中，他们都想知道一件事：刚才还可以吗?即使这里是脸书的诞生地，我依然希望你们可以试着走出去，与持有不同观点的人进行更多面对面的交流。
如今的世界，生活节奏飞快，人与人之间保持距离，隐匿身份。希望你们有勇气直视持有不同观点的人的眼睛，倾听他们的观点，确保我们依然能够站在别人的角度看待问题，并认识到全人类所具有的共性。不论是对于你们个人，还是对于我们国家的成功，这都至关重要。你们每一个人，我们所有人心中都有一道光，只要你不挡住它，就会照亮你的本真。
我知道，在即将离开舒适的校园并让那些哈佛的证书接受检验之际，你们现在可能都有点焦虑和犹豫。但无论你们遇到什么挑战或挫折，你们都会找到真正的成功和幸福，只要你们只有一个目标，目标真的只有一个，那就是：做最真实的自己。
神学家霍华德瑟曼做了最好的阐述。他说：不要问你自己世界需要什么，问你自己是什么让你充满活力?世界需要劳德尔堡的迈克尔斯托尔岑贝格那样的人。当迈克尔只有8岁的时候，一场细菌感染让他失去了双手双脚，还差点送命。这个活泼的小男孩儿一下子被截去了四肢，人生就此改变。但是，失去了曾经的自己的迈克尔发现了他想要成为谁。他不愿整日坐在轮椅上自怨自艾，他穿上假肢，重新学会了走路、奔跑和玩耍，中学时还加入了校长曲棍球队。上个月，当他得知波士顿马拉松爆炸中很多受害者将会被截肢时，迈克尔决定让光明驱散那片黑暗。迈克尔和他哥哥哈里斯创办了Mikeysrun.com,要在哈里斯参加2014年波士顿马拉松赛跑之前为那些受害者筹集100万美元。当年波士顿像个大家庭那样组织起来支持迈克尔;现在，在离这里1000多英里的地方这两兄弟正以同样的方式号召人们支持波士顿。当这个13岁的小孩被问及与他同病相怜的待截肢者时，他说：首先他们会很伤心。他们会失去永远无法拿回的东西，这很可怕。当时我也很害怕。但是他们会没事的。他们只是暂时还不知道。
我有信心，无论如何，2013届的毕业生们，你们会没事的，你们还会让我们的国家也没事的。我的信心来自于那个募集零花钱的9岁的小女孩儿。我的信心来自于大卫和弗朗辛魏勒。我的信心来自于迈克尔和哈里斯斯托尔岑贝格。我的信心来自于你们，坐着下面的一群天使。
你们时不时会绊脚、跌倒，你们一定会碰到的，这是必然的，你们会对自己的道路产生疑问和怀疑。但是我知道，如果你们愿意听从并接受内心GPS的引导，去发现是什么让你们保持活力，你们一定会没事的。你们会幸福、成功，让世界有所不同。祝贺你们，2013届毕业生。祝贺你们的家人和朋友。祝你们好运，感谢你们的聆听。我讲得还可以吗?
② 史蒂夫．乔布斯05年在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲稿。谢谢
5213zxjx果CEO乔布斯在斯坦福大学的演讲稿[中英]苹果计算机公司CEO史蒂夫•乔布斯6.14在斯坦福大学对即将毕业的大学生们进行演讲时说，从大学里辍学是他这一生做出的最为明智的一个选择，因为它逼迫他学会了创新。 乔布斯对操场上挤的满满的毕业生、校友和家长们说：“你的时间有限，所以最好别把它浪费在模仿别人这种事上。” －－同样地，如果还在学校的话，似乎不应该去模仿退学的牛人们。
You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says
Jobs说，你必须要找到你所爱的东西。
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.
这是苹果公司和Pixar动画工作室的CEO Steve Jobs于2005年6月12号在斯坦福大学的毕业典礼上面的演讲稿。
I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.
我今天很荣幸能和你们一起参加毕业典礼，斯坦福大学是世界上最好的大学之一。我从来没有从大学中毕业。说实话,今天也许是在我的生命中离大学毕业最近的一天了。今天我想向你们讲述我生活中的三个故事。不是什么大不了的事情,只是三个故事而已。
The first story is about connecting the dots.
第一个故事是关于如何把生命中的点点滴滴串连起来。
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?
我在Reed大学读了六个月之后就退学了,但是在十八个月以后——我真正的作出退学决定之前,我还经常去学校。我为什么要退学呢？
It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graates, 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 graated from college and that my father had never graated 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.
故事从我出生的时候讲起。我的亲生母亲是一个年轻的,没有结婚的大学毕业生。她决定让别人收养我, 她十分想让我被大学毕业生收养。所以在我出生的时候，她已经做好了一切的准备工作，能使得我被一个律师和他的妻子所收养。但是她没有料到,当我出生之后,律师夫妇突然决定他们想要一个女孩。 所以我的生养父母（他们还在我亲生父母的观察名单上）突然在半夜接到了一个电话:“我们现在这儿有一个不小心生出来的男婴,你们想要他吗？”他们回答道:“当然！”但是我亲生母亲随后发现，我的养母从来没有上过大学,我的父亲甚至从没有读过高中。她拒绝签这个收养合同。只是在几个月以后,我的父母答应她一定要让我上大学,那个时候她才同意。
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.
在十七岁那年,我真的上了大学。但是我很愚蠢的选择了一个几乎和你们斯坦福大学一样贵的学校, 我父母还处于蓝领阶层，他们几乎把所有积蓄都花在了我的学费上面。在六个月后, 我已经看不到其中的价值所在。我不知道我想要在生命中做什么,我也不知道大学能帮助我找到怎样的答案。 但是在这里，我几乎花光了我父母这一辈子的所有积蓄。所以我决定要退学,我觉得这是个正确的决定。不能否认,我当时确实非常的害怕, 但是现在回头看看,那的确是我这一生中最棒的一个决定。在我做出退学决定的那一刻, 我终于可以不必去读那些令我提不起丝毫兴趣的课程了。然后我还可以去修那些看起来有点意思的课程。
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:
但是这并不是那么罗曼蒂克。我失去了我的宿舍,所以我只能在朋友房间的地板上面睡觉,我去捡5美分的可乐瓶子，仅仅为了填饱肚子, 在星期天的晚上,我需要走七英里的路程，穿过这个城市到Hare Krishna寺庙（注：位于纽约Brooklyn下城）,只是为了能吃上饭——这个星期唯一一顿好一点的饭。但是我喜欢这样。我跟着我的直觉和好奇心走, 遇到的很多东西,此后被证明是无价之宝。让我给你们举一个例子吧：
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.
Reed大学在那时提供也许是全美最好的美术字课程。在这个大学里面的每个海报, 每个抽屉的标签上面全都是漂亮的美术字。因为我退学了, 没有受到正规的训练, 所以我决定去参加这个课程，去学学怎样写出漂亮的美术字。我学到了san serif 和serif字体, 我学会了怎么样在不同的字母组合之中改变空格的长度, 还有怎么样才能作出最棒的印刷式样。那是一种科学永远不能捕捉到的、美丽的、真实的艺术精妙, 我发现那实在是太美妙了。
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.
当时看起来这些东西在我的生命中，好像都没有什么实际应用的可能。但是十年之后,当我们在设计第一台Macintosh电脑的时候,就不是那样了。我把当时我学的那些家伙全都设计进了Mac。那是第一台使用了漂亮的印刷字体的电脑。如果我当时没有退学, 就不会有机会去参加这个我感兴趣的美术字课程, Mac就不会有这么多丰富的字体，以及赏心悦目的字体间距。那么现在个人电脑就不会有现在这么美妙的字型了。当然我在大学的时候，还不可能把从前的点点滴滴串连起来,但是当我十年后回顾这一切的时候,真的豁然开朗了。
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.
再次说明的是,你在向前展望的时候不可能将这些片断串连起来；你只能在回顾的时候将点点滴滴串连起来。所以你必须相信这些片断会在你未来的某一天串连起来。你必须要相信某些东西：你的勇气、目的、生命、因缘。这个过程从来没有令我失望（let me down）,只是让我的生命更加地与众不同而已。
My second story is about love and loss.
我的第二个故事是关于爱和损失的。
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 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 alt life was gone, and it was devastating.
我非常幸运, 因为我在很早的时候就找到了我钟爱的东西。Woz和我在二十岁的时候就在父母的车库里面开创了苹果公司。我们工作得很努力, 十年之后, 这个公司从那两个车库中的穷光蛋发展到了超过四千名的雇员、价值超过二十亿的大公司。在公司成立的第九年,我们刚刚发布了最好的产品,那就是Macintosh。我也快要到三十岁了。在那一年, 我被炒了鱿鱼。你怎么可能被你自己创立的公司炒了鱿鱼呢? 嗯,在苹果快速成长的时候，我们雇用了一个很有天分的家伙和我一起管理这个公司, 在最初的几年,公司运转的很好。但是后来我们对未来的看法发生了分歧, 最终我们吵了起来。当争吵不可开交的时候, 董事会站在了他的那一边。所以在三十岁的时候, 我被炒了。在这么多人的眼皮下我被炒了。在而立之年，我生命的全部支柱离自己远去, 这真是毁灭性的打击。
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.
在最初的几个月里，我真是不知道该做些什么。我把从前的创业激情给丢了, 我觉得自己让与我一同创业的人都很沮丧。我和David Pack和Bob Boyce见面，并试图向他们道歉。我把事情弄得糟糕透顶了。但是我渐渐发现了曙光, 我仍然喜爱我从事的这些东西。苹果公司发生的这些事情丝毫的没有改变这些, 一点也没有。我被驱逐了,但是我仍然钟爱它。所以我决定从头再来。
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.
我当时没有觉察, 但是事后证明, 从苹果公司被炒是我这辈子发生的最棒的事情。因为，作为一个成功者的极乐感觉被作为一个创业者的轻松感觉所重新代替: 对任何事情都不那么特别看重。这让我觉得如此自由, 进入了我生命中最有创造力的一个阶段。
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.
在接下来的五年里, 我创立了一个名叫NeXT的公司, 还有一个叫Pixar的公司, 然后和一个后来成为我妻子的优雅女人相识。Pixar 制作了世界上第一个用电脑制作的动画电影——“”玩具总动员”,Pixar现在也是世界上最成功的电脑制作工作室。在后来的一系列运转中,Apple收购了NeXT, 然后我又回到了Apple公司。我们在NeXT发展的技术在Apple的复兴之中发挥了关键的作用。我还和Laurence 一起建立了一个幸福的家庭。
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.
我可以非常肯定,如果我不被Apple开除的话, 这其中一件事情也不会发生的。这个良药的味道实在是太苦了,但是我想病人需要这个药。有些时候, 生活会拿起一块砖头向你的脑袋上猛拍一下。不要失去信心。我很清楚唯一使我一直走下去的，就是我做的事情令我无比钟爱。你需要去找到你所爱的东西。对于工作是如此, 对于你的爱人也是如此。你的工作将会占据生活中很大的一部分。你只有相信自己所做的是伟大的工作, 你才能怡然自得。如果你现在还没有找到, 那么继续找、不要停下来、全心全意的去找, 当你找到的时候你就会知道的。就像任何真诚的关系, 随着岁月的流逝只会越来越紧密。所以继续找，直到你找到它，不要停下来！
My third story is about death.
我的第三个故事是关于死亡的。
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.
当我十七岁的时候, 我读到了一句话:“如果你把每一天都当作生命中最后一天去生活的话,那么有一天你会发现你是正确的。”这句话给我留下了深刻的印象。从那时开始,过了33年,我在每天早晨都会对着镜子问自己:“如果今天是我生命中的最后一天, 你会不会完成你今天想做的事情呢？”当答案连续很多次被给予“不是”的时候, 我知道自己需要改变某些事情了。
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.
“记住你即将死去”是我一生中遇到的最重要箴言。它帮我指明了生命中重要的选择。因为几乎所有的事情, 包括所有的荣誉、所有的骄傲、所有对难堪和失败的恐惧,这些在死亡面前都会消失。我看到的是留下的真正重要的东西。你有时候会思考你将会失去某些东西,“记住你即将死去”是我知道的避免这些想法的最好办法。你已经赤身裸体了, 你没有理由不去跟随自己的心一起跳动。
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.
大概一年以前, 我被诊断出癌症。我在早晨七点半做了一个检查, 检查清楚的显示在我的胰腺有一个肿瘤。我当时都不知道胰腺是什么东西。医生告诉我那很可能是一种无法治愈的癌症, 我还有三到六个月的时间活在这个世界上。我的医生叫我回家, 然后整理好我的一切, 那就是医生准备死亡的程序。那意味着你将要把未来十年对你小孩说的话在几个月里面说完.；那意味着把每件事情都搞定, 让你的家人会尽可能轻松的生活；那意味着你要说“再见了”。
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.
我整天和那个诊断书一起生活。后来有一天早上我作了一个活切片检查，医生将一个内窥镜从我的喉咙伸进去,通过我的胃, 然后进入我的肠子, 用一根针在我的胰腺上的肿瘤上取了几个细胞。我当时很镇静,因为我被注射了镇定剂。但是我的妻子在那里, 后来告诉我，当医生在显微镜地下观察这些细胞的时候他们开始尖叫, 因为这些细胞最后竟然是一种非常罕见的可以用手术治愈的胰腺癌症。我做了这个手术, 现在我痊愈了。
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:
那是我最接近死亡的时候, 我还希望这也是以后的几十年最接近的一次。从死亡线上又活了过来, 死亡对我来说，只是一个有用但是纯粹是知识上的概念的时候，我可以更肯定一点地对你们说：
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 graally become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
没有人愿意死, 即使人们想上天堂, 人们也不会为了去那里而死。但是死亡是我们每个人共同的终点。从来没有人能够逃脱它。也应该如此。 因为死亡就是生命中最好的一个发明。它将旧的清除以便给新的让路。你们现在是新的, 但是从现在开始不久以后, 你们将会逐渐的变成旧的然后被清除。我很抱歉这很戏剧性, 但是这十分的真实。
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 other's 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.
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 notion
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. And now, as you graate to begin anew, I wish that for you.
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
Thank you all very much.
③ 美国励志人物大学演讲稿中英文对照版，有哪些
Madam President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, faculty, family, friends, and, most importantly, today's graates,x0dx0a尊敬的Faust校长，哈佛集团的各位成员，监管理事会的各位理事，各位老师，各位家长，各位朋友，以及最重要的各位毕业生同学，x0dx0a x0dx0aThank you for letting me share this wonderful day with you.x0dx0a感谢你们，让我有机会同你们一起分享这个美妙的日子。x0dx0a x0dx0aI am not sure I can live up to the high standards of Harvard Commencement speakers. Last year, J.K. Rowling, the billionaire novelist, who started as a classics student, graced this podium. The year before, Bill Gates, the mega-billionaire philanthropist and computer nerd stood here. Today, sadly, you have me. I am not a billionaire, but at least I am a nerd.x0dx0a我不太肯定，自己够得上哈佛大学毕业典礼演讲人这样的殊荣。去年登上这个讲台的是，英国亿万身家的小说家J.K. Rowling女士，她最早是一个古典文学的学生。前年站在这里的是比尔•盖茨先生，他是一个超级富翁、一个慈善家和电脑高手。今年很遗憾，你们的演讲人是我，虽然我不是很有钱，但是至少我也算一个高手。x0dx0a x0dx0aI am grateful to receive an honorary degree from Harvard, an honor that means more to me than you might care to imagine. You see, I was the academic black sheep of my family. My older brother has an M.D./Ph.D. from MIT and Harvard while my younger brother has a law degree from Harvard. When I was awarded a Nobel Prize, I thought my mother would be pleased. Not so. When I called her on the morning of the announcement, she replied, "That's nice, but when are you going to visit me next." Now, as the last brother with a degree from Harvard, maybe, at last, she will be satisfied.x0dx0a我很感激哈佛大学给我荣誉学位，这对我很重要，也许比你们会想到的还要重要。要知道，在学术上，我是我们家的不肖之子。我的哥哥在麻省理工学院得到医学博士，在哈佛大学得到哲学博士；我的弟弟在哈佛大学得到一个法律学位。我本人得到诺贝尔奖的时候，我想我的妈妈会高兴。但是，我错了。消息公布的那天早上，我给她打电话，她听了只说："这是好消息，不过我想知道，你下次什么时候来看我？"如今在我们兄弟当中，我最终也拿到了哈佛学位，我想这一次，她会感到满意。x0dx0a x0dx0aAnother difficulty with giving a Harvard commencement address is that some of you may disapprove of the fact that I have borrowed material from previous speeches. I ask that you forgive me for two reasons.x0dx0a在哈佛大学毕业典礼上发表演讲，还有一个难处，那就是你们中有些人可能有意见，不喜欢我重复前人演讲中说过的话。我要求你们谅解我，因为两个理由。x0dx0a x0dx0aFirst, in order to have impact, it is important to deliver the same message more than once. In science, it is important to be the first person to make a discovery, but it is even more important to be the last person to make that discovery.x0dx0a首先，为了产生影响力，很重要的方法就是重复传递同样的信息。在科学中，第一个发现者是重要的，但是在得到公认前，最后一个将这个发现重复做出来的人也许更重要。x0dx0a x0dx0aSecond, authors who borrow from others are following in the footsteps of the best. Ralph Waldo Emerson, who graated from Harvard at the age of 18, noted "All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients." Picasso declared "Good artists borrow. Great artists steal." Why should commencement speakers be held to a higher standard?x0dx0a其次，一个借鉴他人的作者，正走在一条前人开辟的最佳道路上。哈佛大学毕业生、诗人爱默生曾经写下："古人把我最好的一些思想都偷走了。"画家毕加索宣称"优秀的艺术家借鉴，伟大的艺术家偷窃。"那么为什么毕业典礼的演说者，就不适用同样的标准呢？x0dx0a x0dx0aI also want to point out the irony of speaking to graates of an institution that would have rejected me, had I the chutzpah to apply. I am married to "Dean Jean," the former dean of admissions at Stanford. She assures me that she would have rejected me, if given the chance. When I showed her a draft of this speech, she objected strongly to my use of the word "rejected." She never rejected applicants; her letters stated that "we are unable to offer you admission." I have difficulty understanding the difference. After all, deans of admissions of highly selective schools are in reality, "deans of rejection." Clearly, I have a lot to learn about marketing.x0dx0a我还要指出一点，向哈佛毕业生发表演说，对我来说是有讽刺意味的，因为如果当年我斗胆向哈佛大学递交入学申请，一定会被拒绝。我的妻子Jean当过斯坦福大学的招生主任，她向我保证，如果当年我申请斯坦福大学，她会拒绝我。我把这篇演讲的草稿给她过目，她强烈反对我使用"拒绝"这个词，她从来不拒绝任何申请者。在拒绝信中，她总是写："我们无法提供你入学机会。"我分不清两者到底有何差别。在我看来，那些大热门学校的招生主任与其称为"准许你入学的主任"，还不如称为"拒绝你入学的主任"。很显然，我需要好好学学怎么来推销自己。x0dx0a x0dx0aMy address will follow the classical sonata form of commencement addresses. The first movement, just presented, were light-hearted remarks. This next movement consists of unsolicited advice, which is rarely valued, seldom remembered, never followed. As Oscar Wilde said, "The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself." So, here comes the advice. First, every time you celebrate an achievement, be thankful to those who made it possible. Thank your parents and friends who supported you, thank your professors who were inspirational, and especially thank the other professors whose less-than-brilliant lectures forced you to teach yourself. Going forward, the ability to teach yourself is the hallmark of a great liberal arts ecation and will be the key to your success. To your fellow students who have added immeasurably to your ecation ring those late night discussions, hug them. Also, of course, thank Harvard. Should you forget, there's an alumni association to remind you. Second, in your future life, cultivate a generous spirit. In all negotiations, don't bargain for the last, little advantage. Leave the change on the table. In your collaborations, always remember that "credit" is not a conserved quantity. In a successful collaboration, everybody gets 90 percent of the credit.x0dx0a毕业典礼演讲都遵循古典奏鸣曲的结构，我的演讲也不例外。刚才是第一乐章----轻快的闲谈。接下来的第二乐章是送上门的忠告。这样的忠告很少被重视，几乎注定被忘记，永远不会被实践。但是，就像王尔德说的："对于忠告，你所能做的，就是把它送给别人，因为它对你没有任何用处。"所以，下面就是我的忠告。第一，取得成就的时候，不要忘记前人。要感谢你的父母和支持你的朋友，要感谢那些启发过你的教授，尤其要感谢那些上不好课的教授，因为他们迫使你自学。从长远看，自学能力是优秀的文理教育中必不可少的，将成为你成功的关键。你还要去拥抱你的同学，感谢他们同你进行过的许多次彻夜长谈，这为你的教育带来了无法衡量的价值。当然，你还要感谢哈佛大学。不过即使你忘了这一点，校友会也会来提醒你。第二，在你们未来的人生中，做一个慷慨大方的人。在任何谈判中，都把最后一点点利益留给对方。不要把桌上的钱都拿走。在合作中，要牢记荣誉不是一个守恒的量。成功合作的任何一方，都应获得全部荣誉的90%。x0dx0a x0dx0aJimmy Stewart, as Elwood P. Dowd in the movie "Harvey" got it exactly right. He said: "Years ago my mother used to say to me, 'In this world, Elwood, you must be ... she always used to call me Elwood ... in this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant.'" Well, for years I was smart. ... I recommend pleasant. You may quote me on that.x0dx0a电影《Harvey》中，Jimmy Stewart扮演的角色Elwood P. Dowd，就完全理解这一点。他说："多年前，母亲曾经对我说，'Elwood，活在这个世界上，你要么做一个聪明人，要么做一个好人。'"我做聪明人，已经做了好多年了。......但是，我推荐你们做好人。你们可以引用我这句话。x0dx0a x0dx0aMy third piece of advice is as follows: As you begin this new stage of your lives, follow your passion. If you don't have a passion, don't be satisfied until you find one. Life is too short to go through it without caring deeply about something. When I was your age, I was incredibly single-minded in my goal to be a physicist. After college, I spent eight years as a graate student and postdoc at Berkeley, and then nine years at Bell Labs. During that my time, my central focus and professional joy was physics.x0dx0a我的第三个忠告是，当你开始生活的新阶段时，请跟随你的爱好。如果你没有爱好，就去找，找不到就不罢休。生命太短暂，如果想有所成，你必须对某样东西倾注你的深情。我在你们这个年龄，是超级的一根筋，我的目标就是非成为物理学家不可。本科毕业后，我在加州大学伯克利分校又待了8年，读完了研究生，做完了博士后，然后去贝尔实验室待了9年。在这些年中，我关注的中心和职业上的全部乐趣，都来自物理学。x0dx0a x0dx0aHere is my final piece of advice. Pursuing a personal passion is important, but it should not be your only goal. When you are old and gray, and look back on your life, you will want to be proud of what you have done. The source of that pride won't be the things you have acquired or the recognition you have received. It will be the lives you have touched and the difference you have made.x0dx0a我还有最后一个忠告，就是说兴趣爱好固然重要，但是你不应该只考虑兴趣爱好。当你白发苍苍、垂垂老矣、回首人生时，你需要为自己做过的事感到自豪。你的物质生活和得到的承认，都不会产生自豪。只有那些你出手相助、被你改变过的人和事，才会让你产生自豪。x0dx0a x0dx0aAfter nine years at Bell labs, I decided to leave that warm, cozy ivory tower for what I considered to be the "real world," a university. Bell Labs, to quote what was said about Mary Poppins, was "practically perfect in every way," but I wanted to leave behind something more than scientific articles. I wanted to teach and give birth to my own set of scientific children.x0dx0a在贝尔实验室待了9年后，我决定离开这个温暖舒适的象牙塔，走进我眼中的"真实世界"----大学。我对贝尔实验室的看法，就像别人形容电影Mary Poppins的话，"实际上完美无缺"。但是，我想为世界留下更多的东西，不只是科学论文。我要去教书，培育我自己在科学上的后代。x0dx0a x0dx0aTed Geballe, a friend and distinguished colleague of mine at Stanford, who also went from Berkeley to Bell Labs to Stanford years earlier, described our motives best:x0dx0a我在斯坦福大学有一个好友兼杰出同事Ted Geballe。他也是从伯克利分校去了贝尔实验室，几年前又离开贝尔实验室去了斯坦福大学。他对我们的动机做出了最佳描述：x0dx0a x0dx0a"The best part of working at a university is the students. They come in fresh, enthusiastic, open to ideas, unscarred by the battles of life. They don't realize it, but they're the recipients of the best our society can offer. If a mind is ever free to be creative, that's the time. They come in believing textbooks are authoritative, but eventually they figure out that textbooks and professors don't know everything, and then they start to think on their own. Then, I begin learning from them."x0dx0a"在大学工作，最大的优点就是学生。他们生机勃勃，充满热情，思想自由，还没被生活的重压改变。虽然他们自己没有意识到，但是他们是这个社会中你能找到的最佳受众。如果生命中曾经有过思想自由和充满创造力的时期，那么那个时期就是你在读大学。进校时，学生们对课本上的一字一句毫不怀疑，渐渐地，他们发现课本和教授并不是无所不知的，于是他们开始独立思考。从那时起，就是我开始向他们学习了。"x0dx0a x0dx0aMy students, post doctoral fellows, and the young researchers who worked with me at Bell Labs, Stanford, and Berkeley have been extraordinary. Over 30 former group members are now professors, many at the best research institutions in the world, including Harvard. I have learned much from them. Even now, in rare moments on weekends, the remaining members of my biophysics group meet with me in the ether world of cyberspace.x0dx0a我教过的学生、带过的博士后、合作过的年轻同事，都非常优秀。他们中有30多人，现在已经是教授了。他们所在的研究机构有不少是全世界第一流的，其中就包括哈佛大学。我从他们身上学到了很多东西。即使现在，我偶尔还会周末上网，向现在还从事生物物理学研究的学生请教。x0dx0a x0dx0aI began teaching with the idea of giving back; I received more than I gave. This brings me to the final movement of this speech. It begins with a story about an extraordinary scientific discovery and a new dilemma that it poses. It's a call to arms and about making a difference.x0dx0a我怀着回报社会的想法，开始了教学生涯。我的一生中，得到的多于我付出的，所以我要回报社会。这就引出了这次演讲的最后一个乐章。首先我要讲一个了不起的科学发现，以及由此带来的新挑战。它是一个战斗的号令，到了做出改变的时候了。x0dx0a x0dx0ax0dx0a x0dx0ax0dx0a