great speeches
a collection of wonderful speeches (many of them commencement speeches)
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great speeches
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
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"
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Anna Quindlen's Commencement Address at Villanova
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Love this speech by Bill Gurley - one of the common things across top professionals like Bob Dylan, Danny Meyer, etc was that they studied everything they could find about their field, they were masterful students first.
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.”
Three Callings for Your Life and for Our Time | The On Being Project
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