great speeches
a collection of wonderful speeches (many of them commencement speeches)
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great speeches
The Common Denominator of Success
The key to success lies in forming the habit of doing what failures don't like to do, backed by a strong purpose and practical, emotional goals.
amnesta.netYou are not special. You are not exceptional.
Contrary to what your u9 soccer trophy suggests, your glowing seventh grade report card, despite every assurance of a certain corpulent purple dinosaur, that nice Mister Rogers and your batty Aunt Sylvia, no matter how often your maternal caped crusader has swooped in to save you... you’re nothing... See more
Contrary to what your u9 soccer trophy suggests, your glowing seventh grade report card, despite every assurance of a certain corpulent purple dinosaur, that nice Mister Rogers and your batty Aunt Sylvia, no matter how often your maternal caped crusader has swooped in to save you... you’re nothing... See more
Bob Brown • Wellesley High grads told: "You're not special" - The Swellesley Report
The world is opening up to the fact that genius does not stem from individuals like us on stage, but rather genius emerges from the collective. We are all products of our context. We are all descendants of something and someone.... See more
And I want to acknowledge my context, my immigrant parents, my father who fell in love with movies because he needed to
Devon Frye • Director Daniel Kwan: "Genius Emerges From the Collective"
2024 Commencement Address by Roger Federer at Dartmouth
youtube.com1 Effortless is a myth
2 Belief in yourself has to be earned
3 Grit > Gift
4 Discipline is talent
5 Trust and loving the process is talent
6 You can do your best and still lose
7 Life is bigger than the court
From JK Rowlings' 2008 Harvard speech, this line:
“There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.”
Wow. Wow. Wow.
Incredible powerful message (incredible speech writing)—to those who stumbled on the wrong path and may ruin their future for not knowing the past.
The weight of history
wow.
what a speech.
what a delivery.
