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- You can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something: your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well worn path.
- Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2005
- Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
- While I am overwhelmingly proud of work that I, believe me, did not do on my own, I can assure you that awards have very little bearing on my own personal happiness, my own sense of well-being and purpose in the world.
- Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
- Your pasion must come from the things that fuel you from the inside. Honors and awards are nice things, but only to the extent that they regard the real respect from your peers.
- Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon Commencement Speech, 2008
- Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history. The great debates of the past, all stirred great passions. They all made somebody angry, and at least once led to a terrible war. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth.
- Barack Obama (1961 - ), University of Michigan Commencement, 2010
- Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.
- Louis Schwartzberg, TED, the hidden beauty of pollination, March 2011
- If Spirituality is that you're humble in the face of forces greater than you and you believe those forces are more inclined toward being good than being bad, then I'm a spiritual person.
- Michael J. Fox (1961 - ), Good Housekeeping, June 2011
- You don’t have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don’t have to explain what you plan to do with your life. You don’t have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. You don’t have to maintain an impeccable credit score. Anyone who expects you to do any of those things has no sense of history or economics or science or the arts.
You have to pay your own electric bill. You have to be kind. You have to give it all you got. You have to find people who love you truly and love them back with the same truth.
But that’s all. - Sugar, The Rumpus Advice Column #72
- The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of America is justice and securing the blessings of liberty.
- George F. Will (1941 - )
- I look forward to an america in which commands respect throughout the world, not only for its strength, but for its civilization as well. And I look forward to a world in which we will be safe not only for democracy and diversity but also for personal distinction.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Speech at Amherst College, October 26, 1963
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