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President Bush Meets with House Republican Conference THE PRESIDENT: I’m pleased to be joined by the Republican House leadership. These are dear friends of mine who are committed to doing what’s right for the country. I just met with the Republican Caucus from the House and I want to share some thoughts with you. First of all, we are committed to a good housi...
Like my friend Warren Buffet, 就像我的朋友沃伦·布非一样， I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. 我为每天都能做自己热爱的事情而感到无比幸运。 He calls it "tap-dancing to work." 他称之为“踢踏舞工作”。 My job at Microsoft is as challenging as ever, 我在微软的工作永远充满挑战， but what makes me "tap-dance to work" is when we ...
One single years of primary eudcation invested in one kid means 10 to 20 percent increase in the wages in their adult life. For every dollar invested in early childhood development programs, that same child will give back 17 dollars. So yeah, education also boosts economic growth. 对孩子们投入一年的基础教育意味着他们成年后的工资水平会增长10%—20%。在早期儿童教育中，当时1美元...
So here’s my final story: 以下是我要说的最后一个故事： On a day like today, 就像今天的某一日， you might feel exhilarated—like you’ve just been shot out of a cannon at the circus—and even invincible. 你们可能感到欣喜若狂,就像你刚从马戏团的大炮口被射了出来——甚至更加所向无敌。 Don’t ever forget that incredible feeling. 绝不要忘了那种难以名状的美妙感觉。 But also: always rememb...
My third story is about death. 我的第三个故事是关于死亡 When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of ...
I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories. 今天与你们一起参加世界上最好的大学之一的毕业典礼，我感到很...
I've always been an optimist 我天生乐观， and I suppose that is rooted in my belief that the power of creativity and intelligence can make the world a better place. 坚信人类凭创造力和聪明才智可以让世界日益美妙，这一设想一直根植于我的内心深处。 For as long as I can remember, I've loved learning new things and solving problems. 自从记事起，我就热衷于接触新事物、挑战难...
Unlike any other creature on this planet, human beings can learn and understand, without having experienced. They can think themselves into other people's places. 与这个星球上任何其他的动物不同，人类可以学习和理解未曾经历过的事情。他们可以换位思考，能够设身处地去体会他人的感受。 Of course, this is a power, like my brand of fictional magic, that is morally neutral. One mi...
Thank you, thank you very much. Thank you very much for this honor you are awarding me tonight. I've always believed that real measures of celebrity success was not just how famous he becomes, but what he does with that fame and fortune. Especially in today's technological and media advanced society, the attention and fortune shower on the individual celebrity is oft...
My Dad became a professor at uh… Michigan State, 我的父亲后来成了···密歇根州立大学的教授， and I was an incredibly lucky boy. 我是一个非常幸运的孩子。 A professor’s life is pretty flexible, 教授的生活安排是非常有弹性的， and he was able to spend oodles of time raising me. 父亲能有大量的时间来培养我。 Could there be a better upbringing than university brat? 还有比大学校...
In fact, there was a fellow. 实际上，有一个同僚。 He was in Omaha, who used to say, he looked with three things in hiring people: integrity, intelligence and energy. 奥哈马市有一位先生说，当他雇人时，他会看三个方面：诚信，智能，和精力。 And he said if the person did not have the first two, the later two would kill him, 雇一个只有高智力和精力，却没有诚信的人会毁了雇者。 becau...
I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. 我认为,通常追寻雄心万丈的梦想更容易些。 I know that sounds completely nuts. 我知道这听起来完全是一派胡言。 But, since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. 不过,既然没有别的人疯狂到会做这件事情,你就没有竞争对手了。 In fact,there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I k...
I had one of those dreams when I was 23. 我23岁的时候,就做过一个那样的梦。 When I suddenly woke up, 我猛然惊醒, I was thinking: What if we could download the whole web, and just keep the links? 想着:如果我们能把整个网络下载下来,但仅保存链接会怎样? And I grabbed a pen andstarted writing! 然后我抓起一支笔写了起来。 Sometimes it’s important to wake up and stop dreaming. 有时候...
And then I would throw in a hooker. 然后，我这里再给你们下个跘儿。 I would say that be part of owning 10% of this person, 在你买进10％你的同学的余生时， you have to get rid of, to short 10% of somebody else in the class. 你还要卖出10％的另外一个同学的余生。 That is more fun, isn’t it? 这不是很有趣吗？ And you think that who do I want to go short of? 你会想我到底卖谁呢？ Agai...
无论老天赋予你什么样的天赋，或者给让你经历什么样的苦难，都不要放弃做自己的机会，每一个人都是不一样的，相信自己。 My name is Olive. 我的名字是奥利弗 Due to a rare congenital condition,I have very small hands. 由于一种罕见的先天因素，我的两只手非常的小 As a youngster, I used anything to hide my hands from you. 青少年时期，在人前我总是把双手藏起来 Tenpin bowling was impossible....
My second story is about love and loss. 我的第二个故事是关于热爱和得失 I was lucky. I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a 2 billion dollars company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation –...
Everyone in my family went here to Michigan: my brother, my Mom, my Dad—all of them. 我们家的所有成员都毕业于密歇根大学:我哥哥、我妈妈和爸爸——我们全家。 My Dad actually got the quantity discount :he got all three and a half of his degrees here. 我的父亲在学位数量上可能要打个折：他从密歇根大学拿到了三个半学位。 His Ph.D. was in Communication Science because they thought Compu...
When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, 当我年轻的时候, 有一本叫做“整个地球的目录”振聋发聩的杂志， which was one of the bibles of my generation. 它是我们那一代人的圣经之一。 It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, 它是一个叫Stewart Brand的家伙在离这里不远的Menlo Park书写的, and he brought it t...
I remember the first time I saw Robert De Niro up on screen. I was 13 years old and despite what I learned career day. I discovered that acting was in fact a profession. My father and I went to see Midnight Run and I remember my dad at the beginning of the film pointed the screen and saying "See that guy there? And that guy is cool! His name is Robert De Niro. You wanna...
And the door into this emotion shift is empathy. As Jung said, emotion is the chief source of becoming conscious. There can be no transforming of lightness into dark of apathy into movement without emotion. Or as Leonard Cohen says, "Pay attention to the cracks because that's where the light gets in." You, young women of Barnard have not had to squeeze yourself...