În SUA există tradiția de a invita persoane publice, din diverse domenii, să țină un discurs în fața tinerilor absolvenți ai universităților. Echipa #diez a selectat 10 discursuri care ne-au impresionat în mod special.
Dacă în instituțiile noastre de învățământ discursurile de la careuri, ceremoniile de absolvire, de regulă, reprezintă partea mai puțin interesantă sau chiar teribil de plictisitoare a evenimentului, în SUA lucrurile stau cu totul altfel.
Îți prezentăm 10 discursuri în care nu vei auzi despre „corăbii care pornesc în largul mării să înfrunte valurile vieții”, „primul examen al maturității” sau „ultima licărire a copilăriei”, ci vei asculta sfaturi, mărturisiri din experiența personală și multe glume bune.
Puțin probabil că îți vor revoluționa viziunea asupra vieții, oferi răspunsuri la întrebări care te macină de mult timp sau salva în momente dificile, dar există șanse să îți ofere un pic de curaj, încredere și, cu siguranță, măcar un zâmbet.
J. K. Rowling
„I think it fair to say that by any conventional measure, a mere seven years after my graduation day, I had failed on an epic scale. An exceptionally short-lived marriage had imploded, and I was jobless, a lone parent, and as poor as it is possible to be in modern Britain, without being homeless. The fears that my parents had had for me, and that I had had for myself, had both come to pass, and by every usual standard, I was the biggest failure I knew.”
Neil Gaiman
„Husband runs off with a politician? Make good art. Leg crushed and then eaten by mutated boa constrictor? Make good art. IRS on your trail? Make good art. Cat exploded? Make good art. Someone on the Internet thinks what you’re doing is stupid or evil or it’s all been done before? Make good art. Probably things will work out somehow, and eventually time will take the sting away, but that doesn’t matter. Do what only you can do best. Make good art.”
Meryl Streep
„This is your time and it feels normal to you but really there is no normal. There’s only change, and resistance to it and then more change.”
Steve Jobs
„Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. 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.”
Will Ferrell
„I wasn’t extremely confident that I would succeed during this time period, and after moving back to L.A., there were many a night where in my L.A. apartment, I would sit down to a meal of spaghetti topped with mustard, with only $20 in my checking account and I would think to myself, ‘Oh well I can always be a substitute schoolteacher.”
Oprah Winfrey
„The single most important lesson I learned in 25 years talking every single day to people, was that there’s a common denominator in our human experience. The common denominator I found in every single interview is we want to be validated. We want to be understood. I’ve done over 35,000 interviews in my career. And as soon as that camera shuts off, and inevitably in their own way, everyone asks this question: ‘Was that okay?’”
Ellen Degeneres
„Follow your passion. Stay true to yourself. Never follow someone else’s path unless you’re in the woods and you’re lost and you see a path. By all means, you should follow that.”
Amy Poehler
„So I will end with this quote: Heyah, Heyah, Heyah, Heyah, Heyah, heyah, heyah, heyah, alright alrightalright, alright, alright. The group: Outcast; the song: Heyah. The lyrics: nonsense. I’m sorry it was really late when I wrote this.
This is what I want to say. When you feel scared, hold someone’s hand and look into their eyes. And when you feel brave, do the same thing.”
Jim Carrey
„Why not take a chance on faith? Not religion, but faith. Not hope, but faith. I don’t believe in hope. Hope is a beggar. Hope walks through the fire and faith leaps over it.”
David Foster Wallace
„Think of the old cliché about quote „the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master.” This, like many clichés, so lame and unexciting on the surface, actually expresses a great and terrible truth. It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms almost always shoot themselves in the head. They shoot the terrible master.And the truth is that most of these suicides are actually dead long before they pull the trigger.”
