毕业典礼演讲稿英文 篇1
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.
the first story is about connecting the dots.
i dropped out of reed college after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before i really quit. so why did i drop out?
it started before i was born. my biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. she felt very strongly that i should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. except that when i popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. so my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "we have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" they said: "of course." my biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. she refused to sign the final adoption papers. she only relented a few months later when my parents promised that i would someday go to college.
and 17 years later i did go to college. but i naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. after six months, i couldn't see the value in it. i had no idea what i wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. and here i was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. so i decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out ok. it was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions i ever made. the minute i dropped out i could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.
it wasn't all romantic. i didn't have a dorm room, so i slept on the floor in friends' rooms, i returned coke bottles for the 5 deposits to buy food with, and i would walk the 7 miles across town every sunday night to get one good meal a week at the hare krishna temple. i loved it. and much of what i stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. let me give you one example: reed college at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. because i had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, i decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. i learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. it was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and i found it fascinating.
none of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. but ten years later, when we were designing the first macintosh computer, it all came back to me. and we designed it all into the mac. it was the first computer with beautiful typography. if i had never dropped in on that single course in college, the mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. and since windows just copied the mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. if i had never dropped out, i would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when i was in college. but it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.
again, 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. this approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
my second story is about love and loss.
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 company with over 4000 employees. we had just released our finest creation - the macintosh - a year earlier, and i had just turned 30. and then i got fired. how can you get fired from a company you started?
well, as apple grew we hired someone who i thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. but then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. when we did, our board of directors sided with him. so at 30 i was out. and very publicly out. what had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.
i really didn't know what to do for a few months. i felt that i had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that i had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. i met with david packard and bob noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. i was a very public failure, and i even thought about running away from the valley. but something slowly began to dawn on me – i still loved what i did. the turn of events at apple had not changed that one bit. i had been rejected, but i was still in love. and so i decided to start over.
i didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. the heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. it freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
during the next five years, i started a company named next, another company named pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife.
pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, toy story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. in a remarkable turn of events, apple bought next, i retuned to apple, and the technology we developed at next is at the heart of apple's current renaissance. and laurene and i have a wonderful family together.
i'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if i hadn't been fired from apple. it was awful tasting medicine, but i guess the patient needed it.
sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. don't lose faith. i'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that i loved what i did.
毕业典礼演讲稿英文 篇2
今天，我们怀着无比喜悦的心情，在这里隆重举行乃纺小学20xx届小学生毕业典礼。这是一个光荣的时刻，也是一个庄严而充满希望的时刻。我们今天在这里，不仅是为了举行一个毕业典礼，也是为了见证你们得来不易的成功与智慧，见证你们新的未来的开始。作为我们，十分高兴地与你们在一起分享此刻的荣耀;作为你们的母校，也为你们的成长与进步而沉浸在巨大的喜悦之中。
首先，我祝贺你们顺利地完成了小学六年的学习任务，祝贺你们就要从一个新的起点开始人生又一段新的征程!同时，我也要向为你们成长倾注了无数心血的师长们的表示深深的敬意。正是他们的言传身教，无私奉献，才使我们共同迎来了这个充满喜悦的丰收季节。有人说，少年是一本太仓促的书，是的，六年两千多页就这样匆匆翻过。回首来时的路，从牙牙学语到今天的懂事少年，你们留下了一串串深深浅浅的足印。你们勤奋向上，各方面都取得了长足的进步;你们激扬文字，对学校的很多工作提出了很好的意见和建议;你们众志成城，从容面对各种考试和考验;你们追求进步，以成竹在胸的姿态迎接各种检查。作为乃纺小学的毕业生，我为你们对母校的深切的责任感和深深地爱恋之情感动与骄傲。考场上下、课堂内外，你们为母校赢得了无数荣誉，你们的一个个名字也闪烁着耀眼的光环!
毕业了，不能忘记隐藏在你们耀眼光环后面的全体老师那亲切、平易而疲惫的脸庞。多少个不眠之夜，老师们为你们筹谋畅想。你还记得吗?当你不交作业时，是老师追着你，催着你，让你完成;当你摔跤时，是老师在扶起你、关怀你，让你破涕为笑;当你遇到困难时，是老师在呵护你、鼓励你，令你增强信心;当你犯错误时，是他们在纠正你、原谅你，让你奋进!老师每一次与你长谈之后，泪流满面的你可否注意到了老师双眸中那盈盈的泪光?他们，甚至比你的父母更了解你的愿望需求，更明白你的喜怒哀乐，更知道你的优点和不足!
毕业了，依依不舍的是彼此之间建立了很深的感情。老师们喜欢课堂上你们思索的眼神，也欣赏运动场上你们风一样掠过的青春身影;喜欢你们无拘无束的慷慨陈词，也欣赏你们在不断成长中表现出的深思熟虑;喜欢你们挫折时有些脆弱和疲惫满含期望和信任的眼神，也欣赏你们在激烈地竞争中不屈不饶的志气;敬佩你们朝着自己心中的理想孜孜不倦的追求，也感动于你们携手并进的友情。我想象不出少了你们身影的校园，将会是什么样子，但是天下没有不散的宴席，年轻人志在四方，为了自己的前程，我们要坚强地走出去，去开创自己美好的明天!
同学们，作为乃纺小学的毕业生，你们承载了师生们太多的期望。我们期待着，期待着你们中间产生造福百姓的政治家，叱咤风云的军事家，探索奥秘的科学家，搏击商海的实业家!我们期待着，期待着你们超越先辈，创造伟业，为母校争光。我们也期待着，期待着你们成为“理想远大、热爱祖国的人”，成为“追求真理、勇于创新的人”，成为“德才兼备、全面发展的人”，成为“视野开阔、胸怀宽广的人”，成为“知行统一、脚踏实地的人”，成为“大写的人”，成为“和谐的人”，成为“脱离了低级趣味的人”，成为“幸福生活的人”，成为“有益于他人的人”，成为“走向世界的现代中国人”!
希望大家牢牢记住“爱拼才会赢”!只要我们努力拼搏，就一定能取得成功。一切成功的，都是源于坚持的。那么，我们要坚持什么?坚持我们心中的理想和信念!你们在这里度过了六年美好的小学生活，那是人生的花季，这里也是你们的人生驿站，母校永远做你们的坚强后盾，母校永远是你们的最爱!
海阔凭鱼跃、天高任鸟飞，值今天这个机会，我为大家壮行。毕业这个词在英文的词根里是没有“完成”、“结束”的意思，它是蕰含开始、进步的意义。我觉得今天我们不是庆祝“结束”，而是欢呼开始;不是纪念“完成”，而是宣布进步。就让你们的生命之舟在新的岁月港湾里启航，载着对太阳的憧憬和对未来的畅想，脚踏实地，乘风破浪，勇往直前。
祝福你们，也相信你们一定会一路平安，一帆风顺!
毕业典礼演讲稿英文 篇3
老师们，同学们：
大家好!今天，我们在这里相聚一堂，举行_年302班的毕业座谈会，这也就意味着你们即将圆满完成高中学业，意味着你们将在新的起跑线上，跨入人生的另一段精彩赛程.在此，我想代表302班的全体老师，向大家表示热烈的祝贺和美好的祝愿! 回首三年，一千多个日日夜夜，我们一起走过.尽管我与你们相处只有两年，做班主任只有一年，但是很怀念和大家在一起的时光.尽管有的学生经常违纪，惹去生气，但你们毕竟是我的学生，毕竟我们师生一场。毕竟我们认真过，毕竟我们努力过，毕竟我们用心地付出过。
校园里，寝室里，操场上，花园旁，到处都留下了你们的脚步和身影，此时此刻，我们：
难忘夏日炎炎，大家坐在教室刻苦学习的时光;
难忘运动会上那矫健的身姿划出的青春飞扬;
难忘辩论会上语言和智慧碰撞出的火花;
难忘艺术节上，我们一起放声歌唱;
难忘元旦晚会，几个女生淋漓尽致表演出的.相亲相爱;
难忘准备宣传栏时，我们一起忙忙碌碌的身影;
难忘批评你时，你委屈得要哭出来的样子;
难忘考试失利时，你脸上充满了失望与惆怅;
难忘教室里紧皱的眉头和沉静的身影雕刻出来的求索和拼搏;
难忘我生气时你安慰我鼓励我令我再次饱怀希望;
一千多个日日夜夜，尤其是我们相处的高三的一年的时光，我们有成功时的欢呼雀跃，也有失利时的泪洒考场.我们师生为了共同的理想，风雨无阻，日夜兼程，激情燃烧的岁月.
多少美好与感动，多少艰辛与拼搏，汇成一支难以忘怀的青春之歌，它，意蕴久远，荡气回肠.
回首往日，晨昏交替，寒暑易节，师生情，同学情，朋友情，情思万缕，织成高中生活的斑斓锦缎;求学心，成才心，感恩心，心事浩茫，写就青春书卷的动人篇章.
同学们，祝贺你们顺利完成了成长道路上一次艰难的跋涉和穿越;祝贺你们即将踏入一个更为广阔的追逐和实现梦想的舞台;祝贺你们将自己执着的精神和不懈的追求演绎成一道独一无二的风景，永远地定格在了阳光高中20_年的历史上!
这段时间，看着你们的留言、合影;看着你们一个个准备打起行囊…我知道我们分别的时刻就要来临!你们已走过了烂漫如花的高一，欢快如歌的高二，激情似火的高三，一路欢笑一路汗水。在三年的磨炼中，你们付出了辛劳，播种了希望;在三年的成长中，你们的目光变得更为坚定，步伐变得更加稳健，曾经青涩莽撞的少年已变成今天踌躇满志的青年。作为老师，我们感到由衷的欣慰。在同学们即将奔赴新的征程之际，老师有几句话想送给你们：
1.“不要抛弃学问”。这是1929年著名学者胡适在中国公学18年级毕业典礼上说的一句话。高考并不意味着学习的终结，走进大学也不意味着达到知识的顶峰。上个世纪八十年代曾造出一个词汇“知识爆炸”，那已是让人目不暇接了;时至今日，大学毕业生知识的半衰期更已缩短为五年，用“日新月异”也丝毫不为过了。所以，只有坚持不懈地更新知识，充实自己，脚踏实地，与时俱进的人才可以成为真正的精英。要做到，哪怕“为伊消得人憔悴”，我也“衣带渐宽终不悔”!
2.正确认识自己，学会给自己定位.要知道，人生的大河不可能永远风平浪静，生活的道路一定有荆棘和鲜花相伴左右，成功时要想到“三人行，必有我师”，记得保持一份谦逊;失意时也别忘了“天生我才必有用”，永远不要自弃。只有正确认识自己，才能使迈向成功的脚步更为坚实。同时，要对自己的情况了如指掌，知道自己的优点是什么，知道自己的不足在哪里，知道自己适合做什么，然后去努力，这样，你才不会迷失方向.
3要从小事做起，从我做事，不要过于抱怨.我在黑板上贴的这句话：不以善小而不为，不以恶小而为之.对大家永远都管用.你们要学会从小事做起，要学会从我做起，哪怕是点滴的机会，都要学会去有力的把握.遇事要学会沉住气，不要过于抱怨，因为抱怨根本于事无补，只会起反作用.
4.善待身边的每一个人。“人无完人，金无足赤”，“海纳百川，有容乃大”。要学会理解，保持善意。没有宽容的胸怀，怎能期待别人的肯定?没有宽广的胸襟，又怎能拥有更广阔的天地?要学会严于律已，宽于待人.
最后想说的一句话是：常回母校看看，同时毕业后能够保持联系!祝愿大家好运!