great speeches
a collection of wonderful speeches (many of them commencement speeches)
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great speeches
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.”
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"
The power of words. One of the best speeches ever. A must listen by Mohammed Qahtani
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