“I've always liked the story of the college student who got a C on his final paper because his idea was implausible. The idea ... an overnight delivery service. The student ... Fred Smith. You may know him better as the CEO of FedEx. So, don't let anyone else take the measure of your worth and capabi…”— Margaret Spellings, graduationwisdom.com
“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 others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.…”— Steve Jobs, news.stanford.edu
“Know yourself and to your own self be true. You may find some day three or four years from now that you simply don't like engineering, or teaching, or architecture, or government, or the company you started with. You have little in common with the people you work with, and relative to your peers, yo…”— David L. Calhoun, graduationwisdom.com
“Get a life. A real life, not a manic pursuit of the next promotion the bigger paycheque, the larger house. Do you think you'd care so very much about those things if you blew an aneurysm one afternoon, or found a lump in your breast? Get a life in which you notice the smell of salt water pushing its…”— Anna Quindlen, cs.oswego.edu
“As you begin your new journey, you can try to remove everything that you find distasteful in the world, or you can just pour in more love. It's the only thing that the more you give away, the more you have. So take all that warm, fuzzy stuff you've been hiding and spread it around a little. And then…”— Jerry Zucker, news.wisc.edu
“You are our link to a new generation. You must reassess, re-examine and clarify your priorities and not just be satisfied with the status quo. Whether you go into research, business, law, medicine, public service or education, neither you nor society can continue to survive or prosper simply by impl…”— Yvonne Thorton, graduationwisdom.com
“I'm not telling you to make the world better, because I don't think that progress is necessarily part of the package. I'm just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at it. To try to get the picture. To live re…”— Joan Didion, joandidion.wordpress.com