名校励志英语演讲 16:失败的额外收益和想象力的重要性
What is more, I cannot criticise my parents for hoping that I would never experience poverty. They had been poor themselves, and I have since been poor, and I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear, and str
名校励志英语演讲 17:失败的额外收益和想象力的重要性
You might be driven by a fear of failure quite as much as a desire for success. Indeed, your conception of failure might not be too far from the average person's idea of success, so high have you already flown. 你们对失败的恐惧很可能与你们
名校励志英语演讲 18:失败的额外收益和想象力的重要性
So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work
名校励志英语演讲 19:失败的额外收益和想象力的重要性
The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive. You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversit
名校励志英语演讲 20:失败的额外收益和想象力的重要性
One of the greatest formative experiences of my life preceded Harry Potter, though it informed much of what I subsequently wrote in those books. This revelation came in the form of one of my earliest day jobs. Though I was sloping off to write storie
名校励志英语演讲 21:失败的额外收益和想象力的重要性
He was a foot taller than I was, and seemed as fragile as a child. I was given the job of escorting him back to the Underground Station afterwards, and this man whose life had been shattered by cruelty took my hand with exquisite courtesy, and wished
名校励志英语演讲 22:失败的额外收益和想象力的重要性
Amnesty mobilises thousands of people who have never been tortured or imprisoned for their beliefs to act on behalf of those who have. The power of human empathy, leading to collective action, saves lives, and frees prisoners. Ordinary people, whose
名校励志英语演讲 23:失败的额外收益和想象力的重要性
I might be tempted to envy people who can live that way, except that I do not think they have any fewer nightmares than I do. Choosing to live in narrow spaces leads to a form of mental agoraphobia, and that brings its own terrors. I think the wilful
名校励志英语演讲 24:失败的额外收益和想象力的重要性
If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice; if you choose to identify not only with the powerful, but with the powerless; if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of tho
名校励志英语演讲 25:如何解决这个世界上最严重的不平等?
Thank you! President Bok, former President Rudenstine, incoming President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty, parents, and especially the graduates: 谢谢大家！尊敬的伯克校长，鲁登
名校励志英语演讲 26:如何解决这个世界上最严重的不平等?
Harvard was a phenomenal experience for me. Academic life was fascinating. I used to sit in on lots of classes I hadn't even signed up for. And dorm life was terrific. I lived up at Radcliffe, in Currier House. There were always lots of people in my
名校励志英语演讲 27:如何解决这个世界上最严重的不平等?
From that moment, I worked day and night on that extra credit project that marked the end of my college education and the beginning of a remarkable journey with Microsoft. 从那一刻起，我日以继夜地致力于这个课外项目，这标志着我
名校励志英语演讲 28:如何解决这个世界上最严重的不平等?
I left campus knowing little about the millions of young people cheated out of educational opportunities here in this country. And I knew nothing about the millions of people living in unspeakable poverty and disease in developing countries. 我离开校
名校励志英语演讲 29:如何解决这个世界上最严重的不平等?
We were shocked. We had assumed that if millions of children were dying and they could be saved, the world would make it a priority to discover and deliver the medicines to save them. But it did not. For under a dollar, there were interventions that
名校励志英语演讲 30:如何解决这个世界上最严重的不平等?
If we can find approaches that meet the needs of the poor in ways that generate profits for business and votes for politicians, we will have found a sustainable way to reduce inequity in the world. This task is open-ended. It can never be finished. B
