great speeches

a collection of wonderful speeches (many of them commencement speeches)

“Failures of Kindness”

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.”

alex

ADL's Never Is Now 2019 | ADL International Leadership Award Presented to Sacha Baron Cohen

Anti-Defamation League youtube.com

andrea

Fred Rogers unforgetable Emmy Award Speech ever -1997

youtube.com

simon

"2005 Stanford Commencement Address"

Steve Jobs jamesclear.com

sari

Zhang Yiming’s Last Speech: Part II

Zhang Yiming interconnect.substack.com

sari

"The Danger of a Single Story"

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie jamesclear.com

sari

The Road to Self-Renewal

Junto medium.com

andrea

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.

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"

Elena