第一篇：Oprah(奧普拉)哈佛大學2013畢業(yè)典禮演講實錄(中英文)

Oprah（奧普拉）哈佛大學2013畢業(yè)典禮演講實錄（中英文）

美國脫口秀天后，國際知名慈善家奧普拉·溫弗瑞(Oprah Winfrey)，5月30日應邀至哈佛大學獲頒榮譽法學博士學位，并在畢業(yè)典禮發(fā)表演說。她敦促畢業(yè)生樂于接受挫折，視之為成長的契機，并在生活與事業(yè)中追求為他人服務的機會。她告訴畢業(yè)生：“人生沒有失敗這檔事，所謂失敗只是讓人生轉(zhuǎn)個彎。有時難免會陷入掙扎卡在困境中，不過你想創(chuàng)造的人生故事會帶著你走出去?！?Oprah（奧普拉）哈佛大學2013畢業(yè)典禮演講實錄

Oh my goodness!I?m at Harvard!Wow!To President Faust, my fellow honorans, Carl [Muller] that was so beautiful, thank you so much, and James Rothenberg, Stephanie Wilson, Harvard faculty, with a special bow to my friend Dr.Henry Lewis Gates.All of you alumni, with a special bow to the Class of ?88, your hundred fifteen million dollars.And to you, members of the Harvard class of 2013!Hello!我的天啊！我在哈...佛！真的！尊敬的Faust校長、和我一起獲得榮譽學位的各位，Carl（注：Carl Muller哈佛校友會主席），真是太棒了，謝謝你們！還有James Rothenberg, Stephanie Wilson和哈佛的教職工們，特別感謝我的朋友Henry Lewis Gates博士（注：美國知名黑人教授）！感謝所有的哈佛校友，特別要感謝88屆的畢業(yè)生，你們?yōu)楣鹁璩鲆粌|一千五百萬美元（注：哈佛歷史上最多的一次同一班次校友捐款）。所有2013屆的各位畢業(yè)生們！大家好！

I thank you for allowing me to be a part of the conclusion of this chapter of your lives and the commencement of your next chapter.To say that I?m honored doesn?t even begin to quantify the depth of gratitude that really accompanies an honorary doctorate from Harvard.Not too many little girls from rural Mississippi have made it all the way here to Cambridge.And I can tell you that I consider today as I sat on the stage this morning getting teary for you all and then teary for myself, I consider today a defining milestone in a very long and a blessed journey.My one hope today is that I can be a source of some inspiration.I?m going to address my remarks to anybody who has ever felt inferior or felt disadvantaged, felt screwed by life, this is a speech for the Quad.感謝你們讓我成為你們?nèi)松@一篇章的結(jié)束與下一篇章開始的紐帶。對我而言，榮幸根本無法表達我內(nèi)心深處對哈佛授予我榮譽學位的感激之情。不是每個來自密西西比州的農(nóng)村小姑娘都能來到劍橋城的（注：哈佛位于波士頓郊劍橋城）。我可以告訴你們，當我今天早上坐在這個臺上，為你們和我自己流下眼淚的時候，我覺得今天是我漫長并被祝福的人生旅途中的一個里程碑。我希望今天我能為你們帶來一些啟發(fā)。我的演講是為那些曾在人生中感到自卑或覺得自己沒有優(yōu)勢，甚至覺得生活一團糟的人，這就是我給哈佛帶來的演講。

Actually I was so honored I wanted to do something really special for you.I wanted to be able to have you look under your seats and there would be free master and doctor degrees but I see you got that covered already.I will be honest with you.I felt a lot of pressure over the past few weeks to come up with something that I could share with you that you hadn?t heard before because after all you all went to Harvard, I did not.But then I realized that you don?t have to necessarily go to Harvard to have a driven obsessive Type A personality.But it helps.And while I may not have graduated from here I admit that my personality is about as Harvard as they come.You know my television career began unexpectedly.As you heard this morning I was in the Miss Fire Prevention contest.That was when I was 16 years old in Nashville, Tennessee, and you had the requirement of having to have red hair in order to win up until the year that I entered.So they were doing the question and answer period because I knew I wasn?t going to win under the swimsuit competition.So during the question and answer period the question came “Why, young lady, what would you like to be when you grow up?” And by the time they got to me all the good answers were gone.So I had seen Barbara Walters on the “Today Show” that morning so I answered, “I would like to be a journalist.I would like to tell other people?s stories in a way that makes a difference in their lives and the world.” And as those words were coming out of my mouth I went whoa!This is pretty good!I would like to be a journalist.I want to make a difference.Well I was on television by the time I was 19 years old.And in 1986 I launched my own television show with a relentless determination to succeed at first.I was nervous about the competition and then I became my own competition raising the bar every year, pushing, pushing, pushing myself as hard as I knew.Sound familiar to anybody here? Eventually we did make it to the top and we stayed there for 25 years.其實我真的很榮幸，因此我想為你們做些特別的事。我想要跟你們說，請看你們座位下面有免費碩士或博士學位證書，但是我發(fā)現(xiàn)你們已經(jīng)有了。說實話，在過去的幾個星期我感到很大的壓力，因為我想要跟你們分享一些你們從沒聽到過的東西，畢竟你們都上了哈佛，而我沒有。但后來我意識到其實并不是一定要上哈佛才能有一個驅(qū)動性強迫型的A型人格，當然上了哈佛還是有幫助的。雖然我沒有從哈佛畢業(yè)，但我認為我的性格和哈佛的畢業(yè)生是一樣。大家都知道，我的電視事業(yè)生涯開始的出乎意料。正如你們早上聽到的，我當時在參加“防火小姐”比賽。那年我16歲（注：奧普拉出生于1954年，今年59歲），在田納西州的納什維爾。在我參加比賽那年之前，想贏的話你必須得是紅頭發(fā)女孩。在進行問答環(huán)節(jié)時，因為我知道我在泳裝比賽中不會贏，所以當問答環(huán)節(jié)問道：“年輕的女士，你長大后想做什么？為什么？”等輪到我回答的時候，好答案都被之前的參賽者說完了。因為那天早上我正好在“今日秀”中看到了芭芭拉·懷特女士，所以我說：“我想成為一名新聞工作者，我想成為為人民帶來一些在某種程度上能改變?nèi)嗣裆詈透淖兪澜绲墓适?。”當我說出這些話時，我覺得：“哇！還挺不錯的！我想做個記者，我要做出一番事業(yè)?！焙髞?，19歲時我上了電視。在1986年，我推出了我自己的電視節(jié)目，一開始就下定決心要成功。我以前對比賽很緊張，后來我和自己競爭，每年設(shè)立一個更高的目標，一步一步地推到極限。對大家來說聽著挺熟悉吧？最終，我們成功達到巔峰，并在那里待了25年。The “Oprah Winfrey Show” was number one in our time slot for 21 years and I have to tell you I became pretty comfortable with that level of success.But a few years ago I decided, as you will at some point, that it was time to recalculate, find new territory, break new ground.So I ended the show and launched OWN, the Oprah Winfrey Network.The initials just worked out for me.So one year later after launching OWN, nearly every media outlet had proclaimed that my new venture was a flop.Not just a flop, but a big bold flop they call it.I can still remember the day I opened up USA Todayand read the headline “Oprah, not quite standing on her OWN.” I mean really, USA Today? Now that?s the nice newspaper!It really was this time last year the worst period in my professional life.I was stressed and I was frustrated and quite frankly I was actually I was embarrassed.It was right around that time that President Faust called and asked me to speak here and I thought you want me to speak to Harvard graduates? What could I possibly say to Harvard graduates, some of the most successful graduates in the world in the very moment when I had stopped succeeding? So I got off the phone with President Faust and I went to the shower.It was either that or a bag of Oreos.So I chose the shower.And I was in the shower a long time and as I was in the shower the words of an old hymn came to me.You may not know it.It?s “By and by, when the morning comes.” And I started thinking about when the morning might come because at the time I thought I was stuck in a hole.And the words came to me “Trouble don?t last always” from that hymn, “this too shall pass.” And I thought as I got out of the shower I am going to turn this thing around and I will be better for it.And when I do, I?m going to go to Harvard and I?m going to speak the truth of it!So I?m here today to tell you I have turned that network around!

“奧普拉秀”在同一時間段的電視節(jié)目中連續(xù)21年排名第一，我必須說我對于這個成功非常的滿足。但是幾年前，我覺得，在人生的某一時刻，你必須重新來過，找到新的領(lǐng)域，實現(xiàn)新的突破。所以我離開了“奧普拉秀”，以我的名字命名推出了我自己的電視網(wǎng)絡(luò)“奧普拉·溫福瑞電視網(wǎng)”，縮寫正好是“OWN（自己的）”。在奧普拉·溫福瑞電視網(wǎng)推出一年后，幾乎所有的媒體都認為我的新項目是失敗的。不僅僅是失敗，他們稱之為一個大寫的失敗。我還記得有一天我打開《今日美國報》時看到頭條新聞說“ 奧普拉搞不定?自己的?電視網(wǎng)”。不是吧，今日美國報啊？真是份好報紙....這正是去年我職業(yè)生涯最低谷的時刻。我壓力超大近乎崩潰，老實說，我感到羞愧。就在那個時候，F(xiàn)aust校長打電話邀請我到哈佛做畢業(yè)演講。我心想：“你讓我給哈佛的畢業(yè)生演講?我能跟這些世界上最成功的畢業(yè)生說什么？而我已經(jīng)不再成功?！蔽覓炝薋aust校長的電話后去洗了個澡。要么去吃奧利奧要么去洗澡，我選擇了洗澡。那個澡我洗了很長時間，在洗澡的時候我突然想到某首古老贊美詩中的一句話，你可能沒聽過“終于，清晨來臨...”，之后我就想，我的黎明也許要來了。因為那時我覺得我被困在一個洞里了。我又想到那首古老贊美詩中的一句話：“困難只是暫時的，都會過去...”當我走出浴室時，我想：我遇到的麻煩同樣會有結(jié)束的一天，我會將這一頁翻過去，我會好起來的，等我做到了，我就去哈佛，把這個真實的故事告訴大家！今天我來了 并且想告訴你們我已經(jīng)把“奧普拉·溫福瑞電視網(wǎng)”帶上正軌了。

And it was all because I wanted to do it by the time I got to speak to you all so thank you so much.You don?t know what motivation you were for me, thank you.I?m even prouder to share a fundamental truth that you might not have learned even as graduates of Harvard unless you studied the ancient Greek hero with Professor Nagy.Professor Nagy as we were coming in this morning said, “Please Ms.Winfrey, walk decisively.”

這一切都是因為我想在來哈佛之前把事情做好，所以非常感謝你們！你們不知道你們給了我多大的動力，謝謝！我甚至能更驕傲地來和各位分享一個基本的真理。作為哈佛的畢業(yè)生你也未必知道，除非你上過Nagy教授的課程知道古希臘英雄人物。在今天早上來的路上，Nagy教授說：“溫福瑞女士，請堅決地向前走。” I shall walk decisively.我應該堅決地向前走。

This is what I want to share.It doesn?t matter how far you might rise.At some point you are bound to stumble because if you?re constantly doing what we do, raising the bar.If you?re constantly pushing yourself higher, higher the law of averages not to mention the Myth of Icarus predicts that you will at some point fall.And when you do I want you to know this, remember this: there is no such thing as failure.Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.Now when you?re down there in the hole, it looks like failure.So this past year I had to spoon feed those words to myself.And when you?re down in the hole, when that moment comes, it?s really okay to feel bad for a little while.Give yourself time to mourn what you think you may have lost but then here?s the key, learn from every mistake because every experience, encounter, and particularly your mistakes are there to teach you and force you into being more who you are.And then figure out what is the next right move.And the key to life is to develop an internal moral, emotional G.P.S.that can tell you which way to go.Because now and forever more when you Google yourself your search results will read “Harvard, 2013″.And in a very competitive world that really is a calling card because I can tell you as one who employs a lot of people when I see “Harvard” I sit up a little straighter and say, “Where is he or she? Bring them in.” It?s an impressive calling card that can lead to even more impressive bullets in the years ahead: lawyer, senator, C.E.O., scientist, physicist, winners of Nobel and Pulitzer Prizes or late night talk show host.But the challenge of life I have found is to build a résumé that doesn?t simply tell a story about what you want to be but it?s a story about who you want to be.It?s a résumé that doesn?t just tell a story about what you want to accomplish but why.A story that?s not just a collection of titles and positions but a story that?s really about your purpose.Because when you inevitably stumble and find yourself stuck in a hole that is the story that will get you out.What is your true calling? What is your dharma? What is your purpose? For me that discovery came in 1994 when I interviewed a little girl who had decided to collect pocket change in order to help other people in need.She raised a thousand dollars all by herself and I thought, well if that little 9-year-old girl with a bucket and big heart could do that, I wonder what I could do? So I asked for our viewers to take up their own change collection and in one month, just from pennies and nickels and dimes, we raised more than three million dollars that we used to send one student from every state in the United States to college.That was the beginning of the Angel Network.這就是我想分享的。無論你已經(jīng)達到怎樣的成就，在某個節(jié)點，你會發(fā)現(xiàn)你會跌倒，因為如果你一直不斷的在做我們每個人做的事：不斷設(shè)定更高的目標。如果你一直不斷把你自己推向更高的目標，你將在某一點上落下，更不必說伊卡洛斯能預測你會跌倒的神話。當你真的跌倒時我想讓你知道，并請記?。骸笆篱g并不存在失敗，那不過是生活想讓我們換個方向走走罷了，現(xiàn)在當你在人生谷底，那看起來像是失敗?！痹谶^去的一年里，這些話支撐著我自己。當你到了人生谷底，到那時候，你可以難過一段時間，給自己時間去哀悼你認為你可能失去的一切，但關(guān)鍵在于：從每個失敗和遭遇中學習特別是你的每個錯誤，都會教并迫使你成為真正的自己，然后想想接下來怎么做。生活的重點在于建立內(nèi)在道德、情感的定位系統(tǒng)，它能為你指路，因為現(xiàn)在或?qū)懋斈阍诠雀枭纤阉髂阕约?，結(jié)果會是“哈佛2013畢業(yè)生”。在這個競爭激烈的世界，那的確是塊敲門磚。我作為一個雇傭過很多人的人，可以說當我聽到哈佛的畢業(yè)生，我都會坐直一點，然后說“他/她在哪，帶來見我”。這是一個令人印象深刻的敲門磚，在未來的日子里那的確是顆有力的子彈：成為律師、議員、老板、科學家、物理學家，諾貝爾獎普利策獎獲得者或者晚間脫口秀主持人。然而來自生活的挑戰(zhàn)并不是做個履歷簡單地告訴大家你想做什么，而是你想成為什么樣的人。這份履歷不只是告訴大家你完成了什么，而是你為什么做這些？這份履歷不僅僅是一個頭銜和職位的羅列，而是告訴大家你究竟想做什么？因為當你不可避免地跌倒或陷入困境時，它可以幫你走出困境，人生真正的意義是什么？你的人生哲學是什么？你的目標是什么？對我來說，我是在1994年采訪了一位決定攢零花錢來幫助他人的小女孩，她籌集了一千美金。我想：“嗯，如果一個9歲的小姑娘，用一個筐和熱忱的心就能做到，我能做到什么？”所以我請我們的觀眾拿出自己的零錢，在一個月內(nèi)我從一分一毫籌集超過300萬美金，我們用這筆錢從每個州選出一個學生上大學。這就是“天使網(wǎng)絡(luò)”的開始。

And so what I did was I simply asked our viewers, “Do what you can wherever you are, from wherever you sit in life.Give me your time or your talent your money if you have it.” And they did.Extend yourself in kindness to other human beings wherever you can.And together we built 55 schools in 12 different countries and restored nearly 300 homes that were devastated by hurricanes Rita and Katrina.So the Angel Network — I have been on the air for a long time — but it was the Angel Network that actually focused my internal G.P.S.It helped me to decide that I wasn?t going to just be on TV every day but that the goal of my shows, my interviews, my business, my philanthropy all of it, whatever ventures I might pursue would be to make clear that what unites us is ultimately far more redeeming and compelling than anything that separates me.Because what had become clear to me, and I want you to know, it isn?t always clear in the beginning because as I said I had been on television since I was 19 years old.But around ?94 I got really clear.So don?t expect the clarity to come all at once, to know your purpose right away, but what became clear to me was that I was here on Earth to use television and not be used by it;to use television to illuminate the transcendent power of our better angels.So this Angel Network, it didn?t just change the lives of those who were helped, but the lives of those who also did the helping.It reminded us that no matter who we are or what we look like or what we may believe, it is both possible and more importantly it becomes powerful to come together in common purpose and common effort.I saw something on the “Bill Moore Show” recently that so reminded me of this point.It was an interview with David and Francine Wheeler.They lost their 7-year-old son, Ben, in the Sandy Hook tragedy.And even though gun safety legislation to strengthen background checks had just been voted down in Congress at the time that they were doing this interview they talked about how they refused to be discouraged.Francine said this, she said, “Our hearts are broken but our spirits are not.I?m going to tell them what it?s like to find a conversation about change that is love, and I?m going to do that without fighting them.” And then her husband David added this, “You simply cannot demonize or vilify someone who doesn?t agree with you, because the minute you do that, your discussion is over.And we cannot do that any longer.The problem is too enormous.There has to be some way that this darkness can be banished with light.” In our political system and in the media we often see the reflection of a country that is polarized, that is paralyzed and is self-interested.And yet, I know you know the truth.We all know that we are better than the cynicism and the pessimism that is regurgitated throughout Washington and the 24-hour cable news cycle.Not my channel, by the way.We understand that the vast majority of people in this country believe in stronger background checks because they realize that we can uphold the Second Amendment and also reduce the violence that is robbing us of our children.They don?t have to be incompatible.其實我做的只是簡單的請求我們的觀眾：“無論你在哪里處于人生的哪個階段，如果可以，請拿出你的時間、天賦以及金錢，做你力所能及的事。”他們這樣做了。無論你在哪里，將你的仁慈帶給他人。眾人拾柴火焰高，我們一起在12個國家建了55所學校，重建了近300個被麗塔和卡特里娜颶風摧毀的家園。所以“天使網(wǎng)絡(luò)”聚集了我內(nèi)在的定位系統(tǒng)。它能幫助我知道，我不是僅僅每天在電視上出現(xiàn)，還有我的采訪目標，我的生意，我的慈善事業(yè)，所有的一切。無論我追求怎樣的事業(yè)，我更清楚把我們凝聚在一起的力量比分離我們的力量更令人滿足和不可抗拒。但我想讓你們知道，任何事情的一開始對于我們未必明朗，正如我所說我19歲就開始上電視，然而到了94年我才漸漸清楚，所以不要期待一下子就想清楚、并馬上明白自己的使命。對我來說，我最終清楚，我要利用電視而不是被電視利用，利用電視來照亮我們內(nèi)在天使的一面。這個“天使網(wǎng)絡(luò)”，它不只是改變那些我們幫助過的人們的生活，同時也改變那些提供幫助的人們的生活。它提醒我們，無論是誰，看上去如何，或者我們相信什么，更重要的是它成為了我們?yōu)楣餐繕俗叩揭黄鸬尿?qū)動力。我最近在“比利摩爾秀”上看到一些東西再次提醒了我。那是一個采訪戴維和弗朗辛·惠勒的節(jié)目，他們在Sandy Hook慘案中痛失他們7歲幼子Ben。盡管在此次訪談時國會已經(jīng)否決了加強背景調(diào)查的槍支安全立法，他們談到他們拒絕被國會的否決所打擊。弗朗辛說：“我們的心都碎了，但我們的精神沒有垮，我想告訴他們關(guān)于變故的對話是怎樣的感覺，那感覺就是愛。我將會接受他而不是抵觸?！比缓笏恼煞虼骶S繼續(xù)說：“你不能詆毀或妖魔化那些持有異見的人，因為如果你這樣做的那一刻，就不再有下文，我不能再那樣做了，問題已經(jīng)很嚴重了，總會有方法將光明驅(qū)逐黑暗?！痹谖覀兊恼误w系和媒體環(huán)境下，我們經(jīng)?？吹綄@個國家的反思，這個兩級分化，近乎癱瘓、自我利益的國家。然而，我知道你們明白真相。我們都知道我們比電視上新聞媒體24小時滾動從華盛頓傳來的那些憤世嫉俗和悲觀主義更好。順便說一句，那不是我的電視頻道。我們理解，在這個國家絕大多數(shù)人相信并支持背景調(diào)查，因為他們明白我們可以支持憲法第二次修正案，同時減少殘殺我們孩子的暴力。而這兩者并不必水火不相容。

And we understand that most Americans believe in a clear path to citizenship for the 12,000,000 undocumented immigrants who reside in this country because it?s possible to both enforce our laws and at the same time embrace the words on the Statue of Liberty that have welcomed generations of huddled masses to our shores.We can do both.我們知道大多數(shù)美國人相信讓1200萬沒有合法身份的移民居住在這個國家成為公民會有一條清晰的路徑。因為在捍衛(wèi)法律的同時，我們還要擁抱自由女神像上的辭藻，而這些話語歡迎了一代代人到達美國的海岸。我們都能做得到。And we understand.I know you do because you went to Harvard.There are people from both parties, and no party, [who] believe that indigent mothers and families should have access to healthy food and a roof over their heads and a strong public education because here in the richest nation on Earth, we can afford a basic level of security and opportunity.So the question is, what are we going to do about it? Really, what are you going to do about it? Maybe you agree with these beliefs.Maybe you don?t.Maybe you care about these issues and maybe there are other challenges that you, Class of 2013, are passionate about.Maybe you want to make a difference by serving in government.Maybe you want to launch your own television show.Or maybe you simply want to collect some change.Your parents would appreciate that about now.The point is your generation is charged with this task of breaking through what the body politic has thus far made impervious to change.Each of you has been blessed with this enormous opportunity of attending this prestigious school.You now have a chance to better your life, the lives of your neighbors and also the life of our country.When you do that let me tell you what I know for sure.That?s when your story gets really good.Maya Angelou always says, “When you learn, teach.When you get, give.That my friends is what gives your story purpose and meaning.” So you all have the power in your own way to develop your own Angel Network and in doing so, your class will be armed with more tools of influence and empowerment than any other generation in history.I did it in an analog world.I was blessed with a platform that at its height reached nearly 20,000,000 viewers a day.Now here in a world of Twitter and Facebook and YouTube and Tumbler, you can reach billions in just seconds.You?re the generation that rejected predictions about your detachment and your disengagement by showing up to vote in record numbers in 2008.And when the pundits said, they said they talked about you, they said you?d be too disappointed, you?d be too dejected to repeat that same kind of turnout in 2012 election and you proved them wrong by showing up in even greater numbers.That?s who you are.正如我們了解的那樣，你們能理解，因為你們上了哈佛。來自兩黨派和無黨派的人同樣堅信：貧困的母親和家庭都理應獲得使其健康的食物、住所以及強有力的教育支持。因為我們現(xiàn)在正生活在全世界最為富有的國家中，我們有能力去提供安全與機遇最基礎(chǔ)的社會保障。于是問題便隨之而來：我們將對此有何打算呢？說真的，我們將要對此做些什么呢？也許你是贊同這些理念的，也有可能你會持反對意見?；蛟S你作為2013屆哈佛的畢業(yè)生，對這些問題很上心，抑或是你把關(guān)注點放在了其他極具挑戰(zhàn)性的事情上。你可能想要通過行政工作改變我們的社會，你可能想要做自己的電視節(jié)目，你也可能僅僅是想收集一些零錢，你的父母會贊揚你現(xiàn)在的所作所為。關(guān)鍵是你們這一代人肩負著突破國家積年累月無法突破的重重圍嶂的使命。你們每一位上了哈佛這所名校的人都擁有千萬機會、無盡不可。現(xiàn)在你有機會來改善你的生活，改變你周圍人的生活，以及整個國家的命運。當你這樣做的時候，我可以堅定地告訴你：這個時候，有關(guān)你的故事已然盡善盡美。Maya Angelou常常說：“有所學時你要去施教，有所得時你便去給予。我親愛的朋友，那將賦予你的故事以目的與意義。”你們都有能力用自己的方式去打造屬于你們自己的“天使網(wǎng)絡(luò)”，與此同時你會擁有史無前例的影響力與權(quán)力的工具。我用虛擬網(wǎng)絡(luò)的方式做到這一點，我的網(wǎng)絡(luò)電視在鼎盛時期的日瀏覽量能夠達到2000萬，在這個Twitter、Facebook、YouTube與Tumbler盛行的時代，你在片刻之間便可獲得幾十億的瀏覽量。就是你們這一代，在其他人都以為你們會對政治漠不關(guān)心的時候，你們用你們的一腔熱情，徹底顛覆了世人的想象，你們在2008年的時候，參與總統(tǒng)大選投票的人數(shù)創(chuàng)造新高。當那些“博學多識”的人們猜測道，你們必然已經(jīng)失望透頂，你們在2012年總統(tǒng)大選中由于太沮喪而不可能重復2008年的輝煌時，你們用甚至比2008年更高的參與記錄，再一次讓世人刮目相看。這就是你們這一代.This generation, your generation I know, has developed a finely honed radar for B.S.Can you say “B.S.” at Harvard? The spin and phoniness and artificial nastiness that saturates so much of our national debate.I know you all understand better than most that real progress requires authentic — an authentic way of being, honesty, and above all empathy.I have to say that the single most important lesson I learned in 25 years talking every single day to people, was that there is a common denominator in our human experience.Most of us, I tell you we don?t want to be divided.What we want, the common denominator that I found in every single interview, is we want to be validated.We want to be understood.I have done over 35,000 interviews in my career and as soon as that camera shuts off everyone always turns to me and inevitably in their own way asks this question “Was that okay?” I heard it from President Bush, I heard it from President Obama.I?ve heard it from heroes and from housewives.I?ve heard it from victims and perpetrators of crimes.I even heard it from Beyonce and all of her Beyonceness.She finishes performing, hands me the microphone and says, “Was that okay?” Friends and family, yours, enemies, strangers in every argument in every encounter, every exchange I will tell you, they all want to know one thing: was that okay? Did you hear me? Do you see me? Did what I say mean anything to you? And even though this is a college where Facebook was born my hope is that you would try to go out and have more face-to-face conversations with people you may disagree with.我所了解的你們這一代對一些胡言亂語有極為敏銳的追求，你能在哈佛“胡說”嗎？關(guān)于我們的國家，虛偽幻象鋪張在你眼前，紛擾流言充斥在你耳畔。我深知你們比眾人更加了解，一個國家真正的進步是要求建立在真實而坦然的基礎(chǔ)之上的，還有更為重要的——一種感同身受的心理。我想我不得不坦言，在我25年的訪談歷程中，我所學到的最重要的，我們的人生有一個共同的公分母。我可以告訴你的是，我們中的大多數(shù)人，并不愿意被分割。我在每次訪談中發(fā)現(xiàn)我們的“公分母”，發(fā)現(xiàn)我們想要的，是我們想要被證實、被認可。我們渴望被理解。我的職業(yè)生涯中容納了大約35000個訪談，每每在攝像機的鏡頭關(guān)閉后，幾乎所有人都不可避免地轉(zhuǎn)向我，用他們各自的方式，詢問著同一個問題“像這樣可以嗎？”布什總統(tǒng)這樣問，奧巴馬總統(tǒng)這樣問，我在英雄的口中聽到過這個疑問，同樣也在家庭主婦的口中聽說過這句話。我聽受害者這樣問，也聽過那些有罪行的人們這樣問，我甚至聽過碧昂斯和她的粉絲們這樣問。碧昂斯結(jié)束表演之后，把麥克風遞到我手中，問道：“像我這樣可以嗎？”朋友或家人、支持者或敵人、每次爭論或邂逅的陌生人，有關(guān)每一次交流，我都可以篤定地告訴你們，他們都想知道一件事兒——“像這樣可以嗎？你聽得見我嗎？你看的見我嗎?我之所言是否對你有些許意義？”盡管這里是Facebook誕生的大學，我還是希望你們能夠脫離虛擬，盡可能多的和那些與你意見相左的人進行一些面對面的交流。That you?ll have the courage to look them in the eye and hear their point of view and help make sure that the speed and distance and anonymity of our world doesn?t cause us to lose our ability to stand in somebody else?s shoes and recognize all that we share as a people.This is imperative, for you as an individual, and for our success as a nation.“There has to be some way that this darkness can be banished with light,” says the man whose little boy was massacred on just an ordinary Friday in December.So whether you call it soul or spirit or higher self, intelligence, there is I know this, there is a light inside each of you, all of us, that illuminates your very human beingness if you let it.And as a young girl from rural Mississippi I learned long ago that being myself was much easier than pretending to be Barbara Walters.Although when I first started because I had Barbara in my head I would try to sit like Barbara, talk like Barbara, move like Barbara and then one night I was on the news reading the news and I called Canada “Can-a-da,” and that was the end of me being Barbara.I cracked myself up on TV.Couldn?t start laughing and my real personality came through and I figured out, oh gee, I can be a much better Oprah than I could be a pretend Barbara.你們要有勇氣去直視他們的雙眼，去聆聽他們的觀點，并且確保這世界的高速、距離、匿名不會讓我們失去站在他人的立場上去認可那些我們作為人類共同享受東西的能力。這是你作為一個個體或是為了整個國家的成功必須要做到的?！耙欢ù嬖谀撤N方法可以使光明驅(qū)逐黑暗。”一位孩子在12月一個普通的星期五被殺害的父親如是說道。所以無論你愿意稱她為靈魂、精神、抑或是更高尚的自我，天資什么的，我知道，我們內(nèi)心深處的星星之火總能夠點燃我們——只要你愿意讓自己被點亮。作為一個來自密西西比州農(nóng)村的年輕姑娘，我早就知道，成為自己比假裝成芭芭拉更容易?？v使我對自己的堅守是因為我想要成為芭芭拉而起，我希望的的坐姿像芭芭拉、談吐像芭芭拉，舉止像芭芭拉。直到有一天晚上，我在電視上讀新聞的時候，我把“Canada”讀成“Can-a-da”，這就成了我試圖變成芭芭拉的終止。我在電視上把自己層層剖析，我笑個不停。隨后真正的自我脫穎而出，我突然就想通了“哦，哎呀，與其成為芭芭拉我能夠成為一個更出色的奧普拉。”

I know that you all might have a little anxiety now and hesitation about leaving the comfort of college and putting those Harvard credentials to the test.But no matter what challenges or setbacks or disappointments you may encounter along the way, you will find true success and happiness if you have only one goal, there really is only one, and that is this: to fulfill the highest most truthful expression of yourself as a human being.You want to max out your humanity by using your energy to lift yourself up, your family and the people around you.Theologian Howard Thurman said it best.He said, “Don?t ask yourself what the world needs.Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” The world needs … People like Michael Stolzenberg from Fort Lauderdale.When Michael was just 8 years old Michael nearly died from a bacterial infection that cost him both of his hands and both of his feet.And in an instant, this vibrant little boy became a quadruple amputee and his life was changed forever.But in losing who he once was Michael discovered who he wanted to be.He refused to sit in that wheelchair all day and feel sorry for himself so with prosthetics he learned to walk and run and play again.He joined his middle school lacrosse team and last month when he learned that so many victims of the Boston Marathon bombing would become new amputees, Michael decided to banish that darkness with light.Michael and his brother, Harris, created Mikeysrun.com to raise $1 million for other amputees — by the time Harris runs the 2014 Boston Marathon.More than 1,000 miles away from here these two young brothers are bringing people together to support this Boston community the way their community came together to support Michael.And when this 13-year-old man was asked about his fellow amputees he said this, “First they will be sad.They?re losing something they will never get back and that?s scary.I was scared.But they?ll be okay.They just don?t know that yet.” We might not always know it.We might not always see it, or hear it on the news or even feel it in our daily lives, but I have faith that no matter what, Class of 2013, you will be okay and you will make sure our country is okay.I have faith because of that 9-year-old girl who went out and collected the change.I have faith because of David and Francine Wheeler, I have faith because of Michael and Harris Stolzenberg, and I have faith because of you, the network of angels sitting here today.One of them Khadijah Williams, who came to Harvard four years ago.Khadijah had attended 12 schools in 12 years, living out of garbage bags amongst pimps and prostitutes and drug dealers;homeless, going in to department stores, Wal-Mart in the morning to bathe herself so that she wouldn?t smell in front of her classmates, and today she graduates as a member of the Harvard Class of 2013.我非常理解在你們即將離開大學象牙塔一樣舒服單純的生活，把你們在哈佛里積累的經(jīng)驗拿出去實踐的時候，或多或少會有些焦慮與猶豫不決，但是無論你一路上經(jīng)歷到怎樣的挑戰(zhàn)、挫折、險釁、絕望，如果你自始至終都只有一個目標，真的只有一個目標，你就會找到真正的成功和幸福。這個目標就是：作為一個人，你要滿足你最真摯、最坦誠的自我表達，奮力拓展自己的人生領(lǐng)域，去追逐生命的最大化，去改變你周圍你親友，讓他們的人生也因你而不同。神學家Howard Thurman將這件事兒闡釋的淋漓盡致，他說：“不要追問這世界需要什么樣的人，捫心自問是什么支持著你活到現(xiàn)在，然后你奔赴你的信仰、因為這世界需要的就是人們充滿活力地活在世上，”這是世界需要的——正如來自勞德代爾堡的邁克爾·斯托爾岑貝格。邁克爾年僅8歲時險些喪命于細菌感染，雖然他活了下來，但卻永遠失去了雙手雙腳。須臾之間，原本一個完整的，充滿活力的男孩兒失去四肢，成為一個殘疾人，他的命運軌跡在這一劫難之后被硬生生地扭轉(zhuǎn)。但在失去一切之后，他聽懂了他的心，他明白了自己真正想成為誰，他拒絕整日坐在輪椅中上沮喪、難過，而是選擇了在假肢的扶持下繼續(xù)行走、奔跑、玩耍、他甚至加入了他高中的曲棍球隊。上個月當他得知在波士頓馬拉松的轟炸中，有一些不幸的人同樣被截肢時，他決心用同樣的“燈光”幫助他們驅(qū)逐黑暗，于是邁克爾和他的兄弟哈里斯創(chuàng)辦了mikeysrun.com為其他被截肢的人募捐。他希望集資100萬美元，等到2014年哈里斯從1000多英里外跑波士頓馬立松時，這兩位年輕的兄弟將把人們聚集在一起來支持整個波士頓社區(qū)，如同他們的社區(qū)支持邁克爾那樣。當這個十三歲的孩子第一次被問及一些關(guān)于同樣被截肢的人的事時，他說：“他們一定會很傷心，因為他們失去了生命中重且永不復返的東西，那是很可怕的一件事，但是他們一定會振作起來的，他們只是現(xiàn)在還沒察覺罷了。”我們可能對這種事所知甚少，這些事情并不常見，在電視里也鮮聽聞，我們的日常生活中也不能有所獲知。但是我對你們有信心，不管發(fā)生什么，2013屆的畢業(yè)生們，請相信，柳暗花明又一村，你們也要記得去確保我們的國家的安康。我有信心，因為那個9歲小女孩會出去收集零錢；我有信心，因為David和Wheeler；我有信心，因為邁克爾和哈里斯。我有信心是你們讓我充滿信心，因為你，因為“天使網(wǎng)絡(luò)”現(xiàn)在就在這里。這其中就有四年前來到哈佛的Khadijah Williams。Khadijah在過去的12年中上了12個不同的學校，身處在皮條客、妓女、毒品販子和流浪兒之間的垃圾袋子里，她為了不讓同學們聞到他身上的異味，他每天清晨會去百貨大樓、沃爾瑪超市洗澡，今天他成為2013屆哈佛畢業(yè)生的一員。From time to time you may stumble, fall, you will for sure, count on this, no doubt, you will have questions and you will have doubts about your path.But I know this, if you?re willing to listen to, be guided by, that still small voice that is the G.P.S.within yourself, to find out what makes you come alive, you will be more than okay.You will be happy, you will be successful, and you will make a difference in the world.Congratulations Class of 2013.Congratulations to your family and friends.Good luck, and thank you for listening.不時地，你可能會失足跌倒，我們之中誰也難以幸免。對你的未來之路你會彷徨、會憂慮、會無所適從，但是我知道：只要你肯聽聽你內(nèi)心深處的聲音，你體內(nèi)隱藏的GPS定位系統(tǒng)，能讓你回歸你人生的本真，你可能會因此活的更加奪目。你一定會快樂，一定會成功。你一定可以讓世界因你而不同。祝賀你們，2012屆哈佛的畢業(yè)生們。把祝賀同樣送給你們的親朋好友們。祝你們的命運永遠備受眷顧，同時感謝你們的聆聽。Was that okay?像這樣可以嗎？

第二篇：奧普拉哈佛畢業(yè)典禮演講中英文

oh my goodness!im at harvard!wow!to president faust, my fellow honorands, carl that was so beautiful, thank you so much, and james rothenberg, stephanie wilson, harvard faculty with a special bow to my friend dr.henry lewis gates.all of you alumni with a special bow to the class of 88, your hundred fifteen million dollars.and to you, members of the harvard class of 2013!hello!decided as you will at some point, that it was time to recalculate, find new territory, break new ground.so i ended the show and launched own, the oprah winfrey network.the initials just worked out for me.so one year later after launching own nearly every media outlet had proclaimed that my new venture was a flop.not just a flop but a big bold flop they call it.i can still remember the day i opened up usa today and read the headline oprah, not quite standing on her own.i mean really, usa today? now thats the nice newspaper!it really was this time last year the worst period in my professional life.i was stressed and i was frustrated and quite frankly i was actually i was embarrassed.and it was all because i wanted to do it by the time i got to speak to you all so thank you so much.you dont know what motivation you were for me, thank you.im even where is he or she? bring them in.its an impressive calling card that can lead to even and so what i did was i simply asked our viewers do what you can wherever you are, from wherever you sit in life.give me your time or your talent your money if you have it.and they did.extend yourself in kindness to other human beings wherever you can.and together we built 55 schools in 12 different countries and restored nearly 300 homes that were devastated by hurricanes rita and katrina.so the angel network i have been on the air for a long time, but it was the angel network that actually focused my internal g.p.s.it helped me to decide that i wasnt going to just be on tv every day but that the goal of my shows, added this, you simply cannot demonize or vilify someone who doesnt agree with you, because the minute you do that, your discussion is over.and we cannot do that any longer.the problem is too enormous.there has to be some way that this darkness can be banished with light.in our political system and in the media we often see the reflection of a country that is polarized, that is paralyzed and is self-interested.and yet, i know you know the truth.we all know that we are better than the cynicism and the pessimism that is regurgitated throughout washington and the 24-hour cable news cycle.not my channel, by the way.we understand that the vast majority of people in this and we understand.i know you do because you went to harvard.there are people from both parties and no party believe that indigent mothers and families should have access to healthy food and a roof over their heads and a strong public education because here in the richest nation on earth we can afford a basic level of security and opportunity.so the question is what are we going to do about it? really what are you going to do about it? maybe you agree with these beliefs.maybe you dont.maybe you care about these issues and maybe there are other challenges that you, class of 2013, are passionate about.maybe you want to make a difference by serving in government.maybe you want to launch your own television show.or maybe you simply want to collect some change.your parents would appreciate that about now.the point is your generation is charged with this task of breaking through what the body politic has thus far made impervious to change.each of you has been blessed with this enormous opportunity of attending this prestigious school.you now have a chance to better your life, the lives of your neighbors and also the life of our country.when you do that let me tell you what i know for sure.thats when your story gets really good.maya angelou always says when you learn, teach.when you get, give.that my friends is what gives your story purpose and meaning.so you all have the power in your own way to develop your own angel network and in doing so your class will be armed with more tools of influence and empowerment than any other generation in history.i did it in an analog world.i was blessed with a platform that at its height reached nearly 20,000,000 viewers a day.now here in a world of twitter and facebook and youtube and tumbler, you can reach billions in just seconds.youre the generation that rejected predictions about your detachment and your disengagement by showing up to vote in record numbers in 2008.and when the pundits said they said they talked about you, they said youd be too disappointed, youd be too dejected to repeat that same kind of turnout in 2012 election and you proved them wrong by showing up in even greater numbers.thats who you are.this generation your generation i know has developed a finely honed radar for b.s.can you say b.s.at harvard? the spin and phoniness and artificial nastiness that that youll have the courage to look them in the eye and hear their point of view and help make sure that the speed and distance and anonymity of our world doesnt cause us to lose our ability to stand in somebody elses shoes and recognize all that we share as a people.this is imperative for you as an individual and for our success as a nation.there has to be some way that this darkness can be banished with light, says the man whose little boy was massacred on just an ordinary friday in december.so whether you call it soul or spirit or higher self, intelligence, there is i know this, there is a light inside each of you all of us that illuminates your very human beingness if you let it.and as a young girl from rural mississippi i learned long ago that being myself was much easier than pretending to be barbara walters.although when i first started because i had barbara in my head i would try to sit like barbara, talk like barbara, move like barbara and then one night i was on the news reading the news and i called canada can-a-da, and that was the end of me being barbara.i cracked myself up on tv.couldnt stop laughing and my real personality came through and i figured out oh gee, i can be a much better oprah than i could be a pretend barbara.奧普拉哈佛畢業(yè)典禮演講：人生唯一目標就是做真實的自己 oh my goodness!im at haaaaaarvard!thats how oprah winfrey began her speech at harvard university graduation ceremony—in her spirited, signature way.winfrey also received an honorary doctor of law degree from the university before taking to the podium.溫弗瑞演講中4條最勵志的語錄

談失敗的好處 there is no such thing as failure.failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.世間并不存在“失敗”，那不過是生活想讓我們換個方向走走罷了。learn from every mistake, because every experience, particularly your mistakes, are there to teach you and force you into being more who you are.要從錯誤中吸取教訓，因為你的每一次經(jīng)歷、尤其是你犯下的錯誤，都將幫助你、推動你更好地做自己。

2.on her own biggest personal failure.談自身最大的失敗

我突然想到某首古老贊美詩中的一句話：“困難只是暫時的”，我遇到的麻煩同樣會有結(jié)束的一天。然后我想，我會將這一頁翻過去，我會好起來的。

談職業(yè)生涯所做訪談的共同性 beyonce in all her beyonce-ness...they all want to know: was that okay? did you hear me? did you see me? did what i said mean anything to you? 我發(fā)現(xiàn)，我所有的訪談有一個共同性，那就是人人都希望自己被認可、被理解。they all want to know: was that okay? did you hear me? did you see me? did what i said mean anything to you? 我的采訪對象都想知道：“我的表現(xiàn)ok嗎？你聽到我看到我嗎？我說的話對你有價值嗎？”

4.on the key to success and happiness.談成功和快樂的關(guān)鍵 you will find true success and happiness if you have only one goal.there really is only one, and that is this: to fulfill the highest, most truthful expression of yourself as a human being.如果你只認準一個目標，那你就能獲得真正的成功和快樂。人生確實只有一個目標，那就是：最大程度地、最真實地展現(xiàn)自己。

“不要問自己世界需要什么，問問是什么讓你精神抖擻地活著，然后就去做，因為世界所需要的就是一個個朝氣蓬勃的人?！逼簥W普拉哈佛畢業(yè)典禮演講

奧普拉哈佛畢業(yè)典禮演講：人生唯一目標就是做真實的自己 oprah winfrey: oh my goodness!im at harvard!wow!to president faust, my fellow honorands, carl that was so beautiful, thank you so much, and james rothenberg, stephanie wilson, harvard faculty with a special bow to my friend dr.henry lewis gates.oprah winfrey: all of you alumni with a special bow to the class of 88, your hundred fifteen million dollars.oprah winfrey: and to you, members of the harvard class of 2013!hello!oprah winfrey: and we understand that most americans believe in a clear path to citizenship for the 12,000,000 undocumented immigrants who reside in this country because its possible to both enforce our篇四：2008年jk羅琳：哈佛畢業(yè)典禮演講(中英文對照)2008年jk羅琳哈佛畢業(yè)典禮演講（中英文對照）“2008年6月5日是哈佛大學的畢業(yè)典禮，請來的演講嘉賓是《哈利波特》的作者j.k.羅琳女士。她的演講題目是《失敗的好處和想象的重要性》（the fringe benefits of failure, and the importance of imagination）。我讀了一遍講稿，覺得很好，很感染人。

她幾乎沒有談到哈里波特，而是說了年輕時的一些經(jīng)歷。雖然j·k·羅琳現(xiàn)在很有錢，是英國僅次于女皇的最富有的女人，但是她曾經(jīng)有一段非常艱辛的日子，30歲了，還差點流落街頭。她主要談的是，自己從這段經(jīng)歷中學到的東西?！? 以下是英文文稿和中文翻譯： text as delivered follows.copyright of jk rowling, june 2008 president faust, members of the harvard corporation and the board of overseers, members of the faculty, proud parents, and, above all, graduates.actually, i have wracked my mind and heart for what i ought to say to you today.i have asked myself what i wish i had known at my own graduation, and what important lessons i have learned in the 21 years that have expired between that day and this.failure.and as you stand on the threshold of what is sometimes called ?real life?, i want to extol the crucial importance of imagination.these may seem quixotic or paradoxical choices, but please bear with me.i was convinced that the only thing i wanted to do, ever, was to write novels.however, my parents, both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing personal quirk that would never pay a mortgage, or secure a pension.i know that the irony strikes with the force of a cartoon anvil, now.i cannot remember telling my parents that i was studying classics;they might well have found out for the first time on graduation day.of all the subjects on this planet, i think they would have been hard put to name one less useful than greek mythology when it came to securing the keys to an executive bathroom.i would like to make it clear, in parenthesis, that i do not blame my parents for their point of view.there is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction;the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.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 stress, and sometimes depression;it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.what i feared most for myself at your age was not poverty, but failure.at your age, in spite of a distinct lack of motivation at university, where i had spent far too long in the coffee bar writing stories, and far too little time at lectures, i had a knack for passing examinations, and that, for years, had been the measure of success in my life and that of my peers.i am not dull enough to suppose that because you are young, gifted and well-educated, you have never known hardship or heartbreak.talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates, and i do not for a moment suppose that everyone here has enjoyed an existence of unruffled privilege and contentment.however, the fact that you are graduating from harvard suggests that you are not very well-acquainted with failure.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.now, i am not going to stand here and tell you that failure is fun.that period of my life was a dark one, and i had no idea that there was going to be what the press has since represented as a kind of fairy tale resolution.i had no idea then how far the tunnel extended, and for a long time, any light at the end of it was a hope rather than a reality.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 that mattered to me.had i really succeeded at anything else, i might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena i believed i truly belonged.i was set free, because my greatest fear had been realised, and i was still alive, and i still had a daughter whom i adored, and i had an old typewriter and a big idea.and so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which i rebuilt my life.you might never fail on the scale i did, but some failure in life is inevitable.it is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.failure gave me an inner security that i had never attained by passing examinations.failure taught me things about myself that i could have learned no other way.i discovered that i had a strong will, and more discipline than i had suspected;i also found out that i had friends whose value was truly above the price of rubies.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 adversity.such knowledge is a true gift, for all that it is painfully won, and it has been worth more than any qualification i ever earned.now you might think that i chose my second theme, the importance of imagination, because of the part it played in rebuilding my life, but that is not wholly so.though i personally will defend the value of bedtime stories to my last gasp, i have learned to value imagination in a much broader sense.imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation.in its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathise with humans whose experiences we have never shared.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 stories during my lunch hours, i paid the rent in my early 20s by working at the african research department at amnesty international?s headquarters in london.there in my little office i read hastily scribbled letters smuggled out of totalitarian regimes by men and women who were risking imprisonment to inform the outside world of what was happening to them.i saw photographs of those who had disappeared without trace, sent to amnesty by their desperate families and friends.i read the testimony of torture victims and saw pictures of their injuries.i opened handwritten, eye-witness accounts of summary trials and executions, of kidnappings and rapes.and as long as i live i shall remember walking along an empty corridor and suddenly hearing, from behind a closed door, a scream of pain and horror such as i have never heard since.the door opened, and the researcher poked out her head and told me to run and make a hot drink for the young man sitting with her.she had just had to give him the news that in retaliation for his own outspokenness against his country?s regime, his mother had been seized and executed.every day of my working week in my early 20s i was reminded how incredibly fortunate i was, to live in a country with a democratically elected government, where legal representation and a public trial were the rights of everyone.every day, i saw more evidence about the evils humankind will inflict on their fellow humans, to gain or maintain power.i began to have nightmares, literal nightmares, about some of the things i saw, heard, and read.and yet i also learned more about human goodness at amnesty international than i had ever known before.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 personal well-being and security are assured, join together in huge numbers to save people they do not know, and will never meet.my small participation in that process was one of the most humbling and inspiring experiences of my life.unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced.they can think themselves into other people?s places.of course, this is a power, like my brand of fictional magic, that is morally neutral.one might use such an ability to manipulate, or control, just as much as to understand or sympathise.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 wilfully unimaginative see more monsters.they are often more afraid.one of the many things i learned at the end of that classics corridor down which i ventured at the age of 18, in search of something i could not then define, was this, written by the greek author plutarch: what we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.篇五：比爾·蓋茨在哈佛大學畢業(yè)典禮上的演講(中英文對照)比爾·蓋茨在哈佛大學畢業(yè)典禮上的演講

尊敬的bok校長，rudenstine前校長，即將上任的faust校長，哈佛集團的各位成員，監(jiān)管理事會的各位理事，各位老師，各位家長，各位同學： 有一句話我等了三十年，現(xiàn)在終于可以說了：“老爸，我總是跟你說，我會回來拿到我的學位的！” i want to thank harvard for this timely honor.ill be changing my job next year ?

and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my resume.我要感謝哈佛大學在這個時候給我這個榮譽。明年，我就要換工作了（注：指從微軟公司退休）??我終于可以在簡歷上寫我有一個本科學位，這真是不錯啊。i applaud the graduates today for taking a much more direct route to your degrees.for my part, im just happy that the crimson has called me harvards most successful dropout.i guess that makes me valedictorian of my own special class ? i did the best of everyone who failed.我為今天在座的各位同學感到高興，你們拿到學位可比我簡單多了。哈佛的校報稱我是“哈佛大學歷史上最成功的輟學生”。我想這大概使我有資格代表我這一類學生發(fā)言??在所有的失敗者里，我做得最好。but i also want to be recognized as the guy who got steve ballmer to drop out of business school.im a bad influence.thats why i was invited to speak at your graduation.if i had spoken at your orientation, fewer of you might be here today.但是，我還要提醒大家，我使得steve ballmer（注：微軟總經(jīng)理）也從哈佛商學院退學了。因此，我是個有著惡劣影響力的人。這就是為什么我被邀請來在你們的畢業(yè)典禮上演講。如果我在你們?nèi)雽W歡迎儀式上演講，那么能夠堅持到今天在這里畢業(yè)的人也許會少得多吧。

harvard was just a phenomenal experience for me.academic life was fascinating.i used to sit in on lots of classes i hadnt 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 dorm room late at night discussing things, because everyone knew i didnt worry about getting up in the morning.thats how i came to be the leader of the anti-social group.we clung to each other as a way of validating our rejection of all those social people.對我來說，哈佛的求學經(jīng)歷是一段非凡的經(jīng)歷。校園生活很有趣，我常去旁聽我沒選修的課。哈佛的課外生活也很棒，我在radcliffe過著逍遙自在的日子。每天我的寢室里總有很多人

一直待到半夜，討論著各種事情。因為每個人都知道我從不考慮第二天早起。這使得我變成了校園里那些不安分學生的頭頭，我們互相粘在一起，做出一種拒絕所有正常學生的姿態(tài)。radcliffe是個過日子的好地方。那里的女生比男生多，而且大多數(shù)男生都是理工科的。這種狀況為我創(chuàng)造了最好的機會，如果你們明白我的意思。可惜的是，我正是在這里學到了人生中悲傷的一課：機會大，并不等于你就會成功。

我在哈佛最難忘的回憶之一，發(fā)生在1975年1月。那時，我從宿舍樓里給位于albuquerque的一家公司打了一個電話，那家公司已經(jīng)在著手制造世界上第一臺個人電腦。我提出想向他們出售軟件。

我很擔心，他們會發(fā)覺我是一個住在宿舍的學生，從而掛斷電話。但是他們卻說：“我們還沒準備好，一個月后你再來找我們吧?！边@是個好消息，因為那時軟件還根本沒有寫出來呢。就是從那個時候起，我日以繼夜地在這個小小的課外項目上工作，這導致了我學生生活的結(jié)束，以及通往微軟公司的不平凡的旅程的開始。what i remember above all about harvard was being in the midst of so much energy and intelligence.it could be exhilarating, intimidating, sometimes even discouraging, but always challenging.it was an amazing privilege – and though i left early, i was transformed by my years at harvard, the friendships i made, and the ideas i worked on.不管怎樣，我對哈佛的回憶主要都與充沛的精力和智力活動有關(guān)。哈佛的生活令人愉快，也令人感到有壓力，有時甚至會感到泄氣，但永遠充滿了挑戰(zhàn)性。生活在哈佛是一種吸引人的特殊待遇??雖然我離開得比較早，但是我在這里的經(jīng)歷、在這里結(jié)識的朋友、在這里發(fā)展起來的一些想法，永遠地改變了我。but taking a serious look back ? i do have one big regret.但是，如果現(xiàn)在嚴肅地回憶起來，我確實有一個真正的遺憾。i left harvard with no real awareness of the awful inequities in the world –

the appalling disparities of health, and wealth, and opportunity that condemn millions of people to lives of despair.我離開哈佛的時候，根本沒有意識到這個世界是多么的不平等。人類在健康、財富和機遇上的不平等大得可怕，它們使得無數(shù)的人們被迫生活在絕望之中。i learned a lot here at harvard about new ideas in economics and politics.i got great exposure to the advances being made in the sciences.我在哈佛學到了很多經(jīng)濟學和政治學的新思想。我也了解了很多科學上的新進展。but humanitys greatest advances are not in its discoveries – but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity.whether through democracy, strong public education, quality health care, or broad economic opportunity – reducing inequity is the highest human achievement.但是，人類最大的進步并不來自于這些發(fā)現(xiàn)，而是來自于那些有助于減少人類不平等的發(fā)現(xiàn)。不管通過何種手段——民主制度、健全的公共教育體系、高質(zhì)量的醫(yī)療保健、還是廣泛的經(jīng)濟機會——減少不平等始終是人類最大的成就。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.我離開校園的時候，根本不知道在這個國家里，有幾百萬的年輕人無法獲得接受教育的機會。我也不知道，發(fā)展中國家里有無數(shù)的人們生活在無法形容的貧窮和疾病之中。it took me decades to find out.我花了幾十年才明白了這些事情。you graduates came to harvard at a different time.you know more about the worlds inequities than the classes that came before.in your years here, i hope youve had a chance to think about how – in this age of accelerating technology – we can finally take on these inequities, and we can solve them.在座的各位同學，你們是在與我不同的時代來到哈佛的。你們比以前的學生，更多地了解世界是怎樣的不平等。在你們的哈佛求學過程中，我希望你們已經(jīng)思考過一個問題，那就是在這個新技術(shù)加速發(fā)展的時代，我們怎樣最終應對這種不平等，以及我們怎樣來解決這個問題。

imagine, just for the sake of discussion, that you had a few hours a week and a few dollars a month to donate to a cause – and you wanted to spend that time and money where it would have the greatest impact in saving and improving lives.where would you spend it? 為了討論的方便，請想象一下，假如你每個星期可以捐獻一些時間、每個月可以捐獻一些錢——你希望這些時間和金錢，可以用到對拯救生命和改善人類生活有最大作用的地方。你會選擇什么地方？ for melinda and for me, the challenge is the same: how can we do the most good for the greatest number with the resources we have.對melinda（注：蓋茨的妻子）和我來說，這也是我們面臨的問題：我們?nèi)绾文軐⑽覀儞碛械馁Y源發(fā)揮出最大的作用。during our discussions on this question, melinda and i read an article about the millions of children who were dying every year in poor countries from diseases that we had long ago made harmless in this country.measles, malaria, pneumonia, hepatitis b, yellow fever.one disease i had never even heard of, rotavirus, was killing half a million kids each year – none of them in the united states.在討論過程中，melinda和我讀到了一篇文章，里面說在那些貧窮的國家，每年有數(shù)百萬的兒童死于那些在美國早已不成問題的疾病。麻疹、瘧疾、肺炎、乙型肝炎、黃熱病、還有一種以前我從未聽說過的輪狀病毒，這些疾病每年導致50萬兒童死亡，但是在美國一例死亡病例也沒有。we were shocked.we had just 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 could save lives that just werent being delivered.我們被震驚了。我們想，如果幾百萬兒童正在死亡線上掙扎，而且他們是可以被挽救的，那么世界理應將用藥物拯救他們作為頭等大事。但是事實并非如此。那些價格還不到一美元的救命的藥劑，并沒有送到他們的手中。if you believe that every life has equal value, its revolting to learn that some lives are seen as worth saving and others are not.we said to ourselves: this cant be true.but if it is true, it deserves to be the priority of our giving.如果你相信每個生命都是平等的，那么當你發(fā)現(xiàn)某些生命被挽救了，而另一些生命被放棄了，你會感到無法接受。我們對自己說：“事情不可能如此。如果這是真的，那么它理應是我們努力的頭等大事?！? so we began our work in the same way anyone here would begin it.we asked: how could the world let these children die? 所以，我們用任何人都會想到的方式開始工作。我們問：“這個世界怎么可以眼睜睜看著這些孩子死去？” the answer is simple, and harsh.the market did not reward saving the lives of these children, and governments did not subsidize it.so the children died because their mothers and their fathers had no power in the market and no voice in the system.答案很簡單，也很令人難堪。在市場經(jīng)濟中，拯救兒童是一項沒有利潤的工作，政府也不會提供補助。這些兒童之所以會死亡，是因為他們的父母在經(jīng)濟上沒有實力，在政治上沒有能力發(fā)出聲音。but you and i have both.但是，你們和我在經(jīng)濟上有實力，在政治上能夠發(fā)出聲音。we can make market forces work better for the poor if we can develop a more creative capitalism – if we can stretch the reach of market forces so that more people can make a profit, or at least make a living, serving people who are suffering from the worst inequities.we also can press governments around the world to spend taxpayer money in ways that better reflect the values of the people who pay the taxes.我們可以讓市場更好地為窮人服務，如果我們能夠設(shè)計出一種更有創(chuàng)新性的資本主義制度——如果我們可以改變市場，讓更多的人可以獲得利潤，或者至少可以維持生活——那么，這就可以幫到那些正在極端不平等的狀況中受苦的人們。我們還可以向全世界的政府施壓，要求他們將納稅人的錢，花到更符合納稅人價值觀的地方。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.but a conscious effort to answer this challenge will change the world.如果我們能夠找到這樣一種方法，既可以幫到窮人，又可以為商人帶來利潤，為政治家?guī)磉x票，那么我們就找到了一種減少世界性不平等的可持續(xù)的發(fā)展道路。這個任務是無限的。它不可能被完全完成，但是任何自覺地解決這個問題的嘗試，都將會改變這個世界。i believe we have more caring than we know what to do with.我相信，問題不是我們不在乎，而是我們不知道怎么做。all of us here in this yard, at one time or another, have seen human tragedies that broke our hearts, and yet we did nothing – not because we didnt care, but because we didnt know what to do.if we had known how to help, we would have acted.此刻在這個院子里的所有人，生命中總有這樣或那樣的時刻，目睹人類的悲劇，感到萬分傷心。但是我們什么也沒做，并非我們無動于衷，而是因為我們不知道做什么和怎么做。如果我們知道如何做是有效的，那么我們就會采取行動。

為了將關(guān)心轉(zhuǎn)變?yōu)樾袆?，我們需要找到問題，發(fā)現(xiàn)解決辦法的方法，評估后果。

第三篇：奧普拉哈佛大學畢業(yè)典禮演講稿

奧普拉哈佛畢業(yè)典禮演講：人生唯一目標就是做真實的自己 oh my goodness!im at haaaaaarvard!thats how oprah winfrey began her speech at harvard university graduation ceremony—in her spirited, signature way.winfrey also received an honorary doctor of law degree from the university before taking to the podium.溫弗瑞演講中4條最勵志的語錄

談失敗的好處 there is no such thing as failure.failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.世間并不存在“失敗”，那不過是生活想讓我們換個方向走走罷了。learn from every mistake, because every experience, particularly your mistakes, are there to teach you and force you into being more who you are.要從錯誤中吸取教訓，因為你的每一次經(jīng)歷、尤其是你犯下的錯誤，都將幫助你、推動你更好地做自己。

2.on her own biggest personal failure.談自身最大的失敗

我突然想到某首古老贊美詩中的一句話：“困難只是暫時的”，我遇到的麻煩同樣會有結(jié)束的一天。然后我想，我會將這一頁翻過去，我會好起來的。

談職業(yè)生涯所做訪談的共同性 beyonce in all her beyonce-ness...they all want to know: was that okay? did you hear me? did you see me? did what i said mean anything to you? 我發(fā)現(xiàn)，我所有的訪談有一個共同性，那就是人人都希望自己被認可、被理解。they all want to know: was that okay? did you hear me? did you see me? did what i said mean anything to you? 我的采訪對象都想知道：“我的表現(xiàn)ok嗎？你聽到我看到我嗎？我說的話對你有價值嗎？”

4.on the key to success and happiness.談成功和快樂的關(guān)鍵 you will find true success and happiness if you have only one goal.there really is only one, and that is this: to fulfill the highest, most truthful expression of yourself as a human being.如果你只認準一個目標，那你就能獲得真正的成功和快樂。人生確實只有一個目標，那就是：最大程度地、最真實地展現(xiàn)自己。

“不要問自己世界需要什么，問問是什么讓你精神抖擻地活著，然后就去做，因為世界所需要的就是一個個朝氣蓬勃的人?！逼簥W普拉哈佛畢業(yè)典禮演講

奧普拉哈佛畢業(yè)典禮演講：人生唯一目標就是做真實的自己 oprah winfrey: oh my goodness!im at harvard!wow!to president faust, my fellow honorands, carl that was so beautiful, thank you so much, and james rothenberg, stephanie wilson, harvard faculty with a special bow to my friend dr.henry lewis gates.oprah winfrey: all of you alumni with a special bow to the class of 88, your hundred fifteen million dollars.oprah winfrey: and to you, members of the harvard class of 2013!hello!oprah winfrey: and we understand that most americans believe in a clear path to citizenship for the 12,000,000 undocumented immigrants who reside in this country because its possible to both enforce our篇三：奧普拉2013年哈佛大學畢業(yè)演講(英文版)oh my goodness!im at harvard!wow!to president faust, my fellow honorands, carl that was so beautiful, thank you so much, and james rothenberg, stephanie wilson, harvard faculty with a special bow to my friend dr.henry lewis gates.all of you alumni with a special bow to the class of 88, your hundred fifteen million dollars.and to you, members of the harvard class of 2013!hello!decided as you will at some point, that it was time to recalculate, find new territory, break new ground.so i ended the show and launched own, the oprah winfrey network.the initials just worked out for me.so one year later after launching own nearly every media outlet had proclaimed that my new venture was a flop.not just a flop but a big bold flop they call it.i can still remember the day i opened up usa today and read the headline oprah, not quite standing on her own.i mean really, usa today? now thats the nice newspaper!it really was this time last year the worst period in my professional life.i was stressed and i was frustrated and quite frankly i was actually i was embarrassed.and it was all because i wanted to do it by the time i got to speak to you all so thank you so much.you dont know what motivation you were for me, thank you.im even where is he or she? bring them in.its an impressive calling card that can lead to even and so what i did was i simply asked our viewers do what you can wherever you are, from wherever you sit in life.give me your time or your talent your money if you have it.and they did.extend yourself in kindness to other human beings wherever you can.and together we built 55 schools in 12 different countries and restored nearly 300 homes that were devastated by hurricanes rita and katrina.so the angel network i have been on the air for a long time, but it was the angel network that actually focused my internal g.p.s.it helped me to decide that i wasnt going to just be on tv every day but that the goal of my shows, added this, you simply cannot demonize or vilify someone who doesnt agree with you, because the minute you do that, your discussion is over.and we cannot do that any longer.the problem is too enormous.there has to be some way that this darkness can be banished with light.in our political system and in the media we often see the reflection of a country that is polarized, that is paralyzed and is self-interested.and yet, i know you know the truth.we all know that we are better than the cynicism and the pessimism that is regurgitated throughout washington and the 24-hour cable news cycle.not my channel, by the way.we understand that the vast majority of people in this and we understand.i know you do because you went to harvard.there are people from both parties and no party believe that indigent mothers and families should have access to healthy food and a roof over their heads and a strong public education because here in the richest nation on earth we can afford a basic level of security and opportunity.so the question is what are we going to do about it? really what are you going to do about it? maybe you agree with these beliefs.maybe you dont.maybe you care about these issues and maybe there are other challenges that you, class of 2013, are passionate about.maybe you want to make a difference by serving in government.maybe you want to launch your own television show.or maybe you simply want to collect some change.your parents would appreciate that about now.the point is your generation is charged with this task of breaking through what the body politic has thus far made impervious to change.each of you has been blessed with this enormous opportunity of attending this prestigious school.you now have a chance to better your life, the lives of your neighbors and also the life of our country.when you do that let me tell you what i know for sure.thats when your story gets really good.maya angelou always says when you learn, teach.when you get, give.that my friends is what gives your story purpose and meaning.so you all have the power in your own way to develop your own angel network and in doing so your class will be armed with more tools of influence and empowerment than any other generation in history.i did it in an analog world.i was blessed with a platform that at its height reached nearly 20,000,000 viewers a day.now here in a world of twitter and facebook and youtube and tumbler, you can reach billions in just seconds.youre the generation that rejected predictions about your detachment and your disengagement by showing up to vote in record numbers in 2008.and when the pundits said they said they talked about you, they said youd be too disappointed, youd be too dejected to repeat that same kind of turnout in 2012 election and you proved them wrong by showing up in even greater numbers.thats who you are.this generation your generation i know has developed a finely honed radar for b.s.can you say b.s.at harvard? the spin and phoniness and artificial nastiness that saturates so much of our national debate.i know you all understand better than most that real progress requires authentic-an authentic way of being, honesty, and above all that youll have the courage to look them in the eye and hear their point of view and help make sure that the speed and distance and anonymity of our world doesnt cause us to lose our ability to stand in somebody elses shoes and recognize all that we share as a people.this is imperative for you as an individual and for our success as a nation.there has to be some way that this darkness can be banished with light, says the man whose little boy was massacred on just an ordinary friday in december.so whether you call it soul or spirit or higher self, intelligence, there is i know this, there is a light inside each of you all of us that illuminates your very human beingness if you let it.and as a young girl from rural mississippi i learned long ago that being myself was much easier than pretending to be barbara walters.although when i first started because i had barbara in my head i would try to sit like barbara, talk like barbara, move like barbara and then one night i was on the news reading the news and i called canada can-a-da, and that was the end of me being barbara.i cracked myself up on tv.couldnt stop laughing and my real personality came through and i figured out oh gee, i can be a much better oprah than i could be a pretend barbara.感謝你們讓我成為你們?nèi)松@一篇章的結(jié)束與下一篇章開始的紐帶。對我而言，榮幸根本無法表達我內(nèi)心深處對哈佛授予我榮譽學位的感激之情。不是每個來自密西西比州的農(nóng)村小姑娘都能來到劍橋城的（注：哈佛位于波士頓郊劍橋城）。我可以告訴你們，當我今天早上坐在這個臺上，為你們和我自己流下眼淚的時候，我覺得今天是我漫長并被祝福的人生旅途中的一個里程碑。我希望今天我能為你們帶來一些啟發(fā)。我的演講是為那些曾在人生中感到自卑或覺得自己沒有優(yōu)勢，甚至覺得生活一團糟的人，這就是我給哈佛帶來的演講。后來我和自己競爭，每年設(shè)立一個更高的目標，一步一步地推到極限。對大家來說聽著挺熟悉吧？最終，我們成功達到巔峰，并在那里待了25年。

“奧普拉秀”在同一時間段的電視節(jié)目中連續(xù)21年排名第一，我必須說我對于這個成功非常的滿足。但是幾年前，我覺得，在人生的某一時刻，你必須重新來過，找到新的領(lǐng)域，實現(xiàn)新的突破。所以我離開了“奧普拉秀”，以我的名字命名推出了我自己的電視網(wǎng)絡(luò)“奧普拉·溫福瑞電視網(wǎng)”，縮寫正好是“own（自己的）”。在奧普拉·溫福瑞電視網(wǎng)推出一年后，幾乎所有的媒體都認為我的新項目是失敗的。不僅僅是失敗，他們稱之為一個大寫的失敗。我還記得有一天我打開《今日美國報》時看到頭條新聞說“ 奧普拉搞不定?自己的?電視網(wǎng)”。不是吧，今日美國報?。空媸欠莺脠蠹?...這正是去年我職業(yè)生涯最低谷的時刻。我壓力超大近乎崩潰，老實說，我感到羞愧。就在那個時候，faust校長打電話邀請我到哈佛做畢業(yè)演講。我心想：“你讓我給哈佛的畢業(yè)生演講?我能跟這些世界上最成功的畢業(yè)生說什么？而我已經(jīng)不再成功?！蔽覓炝薴aust校長的電話后去洗了個澡。要么去吃奧利奧要么去洗澡，我選擇了洗澡。那個澡我洗了很長時間，在洗澡的時候我突然想到某首古老贊美詩中的一句話，你可能沒聽過“終于，清晨來臨...”，之后我就想，我的黎明也許要來了。因為那時我覺得我被困在一個洞里了。我又想到那首古老贊美詩中的一句話：“困難只是暫時的，都會過去...”當我走出浴室時，我想：我遇到的麻煩同樣會有結(jié)束的一天，我會將這一頁翻過去，我會好起來的，等我做到了，我就去哈佛，把這個真實的故事告訴大家！今天我來了并且想告訴你們我已經(jīng)把“奧普拉·溫福瑞電視網(wǎng)”帶上正軌了。

這一切都是因為我想在來哈佛之前把事情做好，所以非常感謝你們！你們不知道你們給了我多大的動力，謝謝！我甚至能更驕傲地來和各位分享一個基本的真理。作為哈佛的畢業(yè)生你也未必知道，除非你上過nagy教授的課程知道古希臘英雄人物。在今天早上來的路上，nagy教授說：“溫福瑞女士，請堅決地向前走?！?i shall walk decisively.我應該堅決地向前走。

這就是我想分享的。無論你已經(jīng)達到怎樣的成就，在某個節(jié)點，你會發(fā)現(xiàn)你會跌倒，因為如果你一直不斷的在做我們每個人做的事：不斷設(shè)定更高的目標。如果你一直不斷把你自己推向更高的目標，你將在某一點上落下，更不必說伊卡洛斯能預測你會跌倒的神話。當你真的跌倒時我想讓你知道，并請記?。骸笆篱g并不存在失敗，那不過是生活想讓我們換個方向走走罷了，現(xiàn)在當你在人生谷底，那看起來像是失敗?！痹谶^去的一年里，這些話支撐著我自己。當你到了人生谷底，到那時候，你可以難過一段時間，給自己時間去哀悼你認為你可能失去的一切，但關(guān)鍵在于：從每個失敗和遭遇中學習特別是你的每個錯誤，都會教并迫使你成為真正的自己，然后想想接下來怎么做。生活的重點在于建立內(nèi)在道德、情感的定位系統(tǒng)，它能為你指路，因為現(xiàn)在或?qū)懋斈阍诠雀枭纤阉髂阕约?，結(jié)果會是“哈佛2013畢業(yè)生”。在這個競爭激烈的世界，那的確是塊敲門磚。我作為一個雇傭過很多人的人，可以說當我聽到哈佛的畢業(yè)生，我都會坐直一點，然后說“他/她在哪，帶來見我”。這是一個令人印象深刻的敲門磚，在未來的日子里那的確是顆有力的子彈：成為律師、議員、老板、科學家、物理學家，諾貝爾獎普利策獎獲得者或者晚間脫口秀主持人。然而來自生活的挑戰(zhàn)并不是做個履歷簡單地告訴大家你想做什么，而是你想成為什么樣的人。

第四篇：奧普拉(OPRAH)在斯坦福2008年畢業(yè)典禮上的演講中文

奧普拉(oprah)在斯坦福2008年畢業(yè)典禮上的演講

奧普拉·溫弗瑞：

美國著名的脫口秀主持人。其主持和制作的節(jié)目《奧普拉脫口秀》（the oprah winfrey show，又譯作《奧普拉·溫芙瑞秀》、《奧普拉秀》、《歐普拉·溫芙瑞秀》、《歐普拉秀》等），是美國歷史上收視率最高的脫口秀節(jié)目。同時，它也是美國歷史上播映時間最長的日間電視脫口秀節(jié)目。從1986年12月8日至今，這個節(jié)目已經(jīng)走過了20多個年頭，播放了多達3000多集。北京時間2009年11月20日，據(jù)國外媒體報道，在播出了23年之后，《奧普拉脫口秀》將于2011年9月9日結(jié)束。thank you, president hennessy, and to the trustees and the faculty, to all of the parents and grandparents, to you, the stanford graduates.thank you for letting me share this amazing day with you.hennessy校長，全體教員，家長，還有斯坦福的畢業(yè)生門，非常感謝你們。感謝你們讓我和你們分享這美好的一天。我決定透漏一個小秘密給大家來作為這次演講的開始。這個秘密就是kirby bumpus，斯坦福2008年的畢業(yè)生，是我的義女。所以當hennessy校長讓我來做演講時，我受寵若驚，因為自從kirby來這上學以來，這是我第一次被允許到斯坦福來。正如你們知道的那樣kirby是一個非常聰明的女孩。她說，她希望大家通過她自己的努力了解她，而不是她認識誰。因此她從來不希望每一個第一次見到她的人知道她認識我。當她和她媽媽第一次來到斯坦福參加開學典禮時，我聽說每個人都十分熱情。他們說：“我的天啊，那是gayle king”。因為很多人都知道gayle king是我最好的朋友。

有些人走到kirby面前，對kirby說：“我的天啊，那是gayle king嗎？”kirby說：“嗯，她是我媽媽。”然后人們說：“我的天啊，難道說，你認識oprah winfrey?！眐irby說：“有點吧?！?/p>

i said, sort of? you sort of know me? well, i have photographic proof.i have pictures which i can e-mail to you all of kirby riding horsey with me on all fours.so, i more than sort-of know kirby bumpus.and im so happy to be here, just happy that i finally, after four years, get to see her room.theres really nowhere else id rather be, because im so proud of kirby, who graduates today with two degrees, one in human bio and the other in psychology.love you, kirby cakes!thats how well i know her.i can call her cakes.我說：“有一點。你有一點認識我”。我還有照片為證。我可以把kirby 和我騎馬時的照片e-mail給你們。因此我不僅僅只是有點認識kirby bumpus。我非常高興來到這里，因為四年來我第一次來到她的寢室。我為kirby感到自豪，因為她獲得了人類生物學和心理學的雙學位。這就是我多么的了解她。我可以叫她cakes。and so proud of her mother and father, who helped her get through this time, and her brother, will.i really had nothing to do with her graduating from stanford, but every time anybodys asked me in the past couple of weeks what i was doing, i would say, im getting ready to go to stanford.我為她的父母感到驕傲，她的父母給了她很大幫助，還有她的哥哥will。我對kirby大學四年真的沒有什么幫助。但是在過去的幾周里，每當人們問我在做什么時，我都會說：“我正準備去斯坦福” i just love saying stanford.because the truth is, i know i would have never gotten my degree at all, cause i didnt go to stanford.i went to tennessee state university.but i never would have gotten my diploma at all, because i was supposed to graduate back in 1975, but i was short one credit.and i figured, im just going to forget it, cause, you know, im not going to march with my class.because by that point, i was already on television.id been in television since i was 19 and a sophomore.granted, i was the only television anchor person that had an 11 oclock curfew doing the 10 oclock news.我就是喜歡這樣說stanford（用一種奇怪的語調(diào)）。因為這是真的，我知道根本不會拿到我的學位，因為我沒有去斯坦福念書。我去了tennessee 州立大學。但是我本來不會拿到我的畢業(yè)證，因為我本應該在1975年畢業(yè)，但是我少了一個學分。我認為我還是會忘了這件事。你們知道，我不會比得上我的同班同學。因為我已經(jīng)上了電視。我在19歲還是大學二年級的時候就已經(jīng)上了電視。我是唯一一個電視節(jié)目主持人，雖然有11點的宵禁，卻做著10點鐘的新聞。seriously, my dad was like, well, that news is over at 10:30.be home by 11.but that didnt matter to me, because i was earning a living.i was on my way.so, i thought, im going to let this college thing go and i only had one credit short.but, my father, from that time on and for years after, was always on my case, because i did not graduate.hed say, oprah gail—thats my middle name—i dont know what youre gonna do without that degree.and id say, but, dad, i have my own television show.嚴肅地說，我爸爸告訴我，“好吧，新聞10：30結(jié)束。11點之前到家?！钡沁@對我并不重要，因為我已經(jīng)自食其力了。我在走我自己的路。所以我想，我不能讓關(guān)于我大學的那件事就這么過去，我還少一個學分。但是我的父親從那時起卻成了問題。由于我沒有畢業(yè)，他總是說：“oprah gail（我的中間名字），我不知道沒有學位你能做些什么?！比缓笪艺f：“但是，爸爸，我已經(jīng)有我自己的電視節(jié)目啦?！? and hed say, well, i still dont know what youre going to do without that degree.and id say, but, dad, now im a talk show host.hed say, i dont know how youre going to get another job without that degree.他說：“好吧，但是我還是不知道沒有那個學位你能干什么?！蔽艺f：“但是，爸爸，現(xiàn)在我已經(jīng)是脫口秀的主持人了”。他還是說：“我不知道沒有那個學位你怎么去找其他的工作?！?/p>

在1987年，tennessee州立大學邀請我回去做他們的畢業(yè)典禮演講。在那時，我已經(jīng)有了自己的電視節(jié)目，并加入了國家聯(lián)合會。我制作了一部電影，并被奧斯卡提名，而且成立了我自己的公司harpo?？晌腋嬖V他們，我不能去演講除非我得到那一個學分，因為我爸爸總是說沒了那學位我將一事無成。so, i finished my coursework, i turned in my final paper and i got the degree.and my dad was very proud.and i know that, if anything happens, that one credit will be my salvation.因此，我完成了我的課程，上交了我的畢業(yè)論文，然后拿到了學位。我的爸爸非常的驕傲。從此我知道，無論什么事發(fā)生，那一個學分是我的救世主 but i also know why my dad was insisting on that diploma, because, as b.b.king put it, the beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take that away from you.and learning is really in the broadest sense what i want to talk about today, because your education, of course, isnt ending here.in many ways, its only just begun.但是我知道為什么我爸爸總是堅持讓我獲得文憑，因為，正如b.b.king所說：“關(guān)于學習的美好在于別人不會把知識從你身上拿走”學習正是我今天想說的，因為你們的教育并沒有在這里結(jié)束。在很多情況下，這才是剛剛開使。roadblocks.and sometimes as full-blown crises.and the secret ive learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons, lessons from the grandest university of all, that is, the universe itself.這個世界將會教會你們很多。我認為這個世界，這個地球，就像一個學校和我們?nèi)松慕淌摇Ｓ袝r這些課程會是彎路和障礙。有時會充滿危機。我所學的應付這一切的秘密就是去勇于面對，正如我們面對大學課程一樣。enrich your spirit.and, trust me, i know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth.the more you spend it, the more you gain.這就是我們一直努力在做的，去做我們自己。我堅信你們會從每一件做過的事上學到經(jīng)驗，這樣你們就會取得進步。這樣你們豐富了心靈。相信我，內(nèi)在的智慧比外在的財富更加珍貴。你越是使用它，你就得到更多。so, today, i just want to share a few lessons—meaning three—that ive learned in my journey so far.and arent you glad? dont you hate it when somebody says, im going to share a few, and its 10 lessons later? and, youre like, listen, this is my graduation.this is not about you.so, its only going to be three.今天我想和大家分享我人生的三個經(jīng)驗。你們難道不覺得高興嗎？你們是否會反感，當有人對你說：“我想分享一些”但事實上卻是10個經(jīng)驗。你們肯定在想：“聽著，這是我的畢業(yè)典禮，不是你的”。因此這里只有三個經(jīng)驗我想和大家分享。the three lessons that have had the greatest impact on my life have to do with feelings, with failure and with finding happiness.這三個經(jīng)驗對我的人生產(chǎn)生了很大影響，它們是關(guān)于感情，失敗和追求幸福。

當我離開大學一年后，在baltimore我得到了一個共同主持6點新聞的機會。在那時媒體界的最大目標就是獲得更大的市場，而baltimore是一個比nashville大得多的市場，因此在22歲時得到這個機會對我來說非常重要。它那時對我來說它仿佛是世界上最重要的事。and i was so proud, because i was finally going to have my chance to be like barbara walters, which is who i had been trying to emulate since the start of my tv career.so, i was 22 years old, making $22,000 a year.and its where i met my best friend, gayle, who was an intern at the same tv station.and once we became friends, wed say, ohmigod, i cant believe it!youre making $22,000 and youre only 22.imagine when youre 40 and youre making $40,000!我非常自豪，因為我終于有機會去效法barbara walters。而她正是我從業(yè)以來一直效法的對象。那時我22歲，每年掙22,000美元。我遇到了在電視臺做實習生的gayle，我們立刻成了好朋友。我們說：“我的天啊，真難以置信。你在22歲時掙每年能掙22,000美元。想象一下吧，當你40歲時你每年就會掙40,000美元”篇二：奧普拉在斯坦福大學2008年畢業(yè)典禮上的演講

奧普拉在斯坦福大學2008年畢業(yè)典禮上的演講 feelings, failure and finding happiness 感覺、失敗及尋找幸福

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三個經(jīng)驗：

第一個經(jīng)驗，跟隨你的心靈

第二個經(jīng)驗，從困難中學習

第三個經(jīng)驗，幸福：幫助別人 thank you, president hennessy, and to the trustees and the faculty, to all of the parents and grandparents, to you, the stanford graduates.thank you for letting me share this amazing day with you.hennessy校長，全體教員，家長，還有斯坦福的畢業(yè)生門，非常感謝你們。感謝你們讓我 和你們分享這美好的一天。

我決定透漏一個小秘密給大家來作為這次演講的開始。這個秘密就是kirby bumpus，斯坦 福2008 年的畢業(yè)生，是我的義女。所以當hennessy校長讓我來做演講時，我受寵若驚，因

為自從kirby來這上學以來，這是我第一次被允許到斯坦福來。正如你們知道的那樣kirby是一個非常聰明的女孩。她說，她希望大家通過她自己的努力了 解她，而不是她認識誰。因此她從來不希望每一個第一次見到她的人知道她認識我。當她 和她媽媽第一次來到斯坦福參加開學典禮時，我聽說每個人都十分熱情。他們說：“我的天 啊，那是gayle king”。因為很多人都知道gayle king是我最好的朋友。有些人走到kirby面前，對kirby說：“我的天啊，那是gayle king嗎？”kirby說：“嗯，她

是我媽媽。”然后人們說：“我的天啊，難道說，你認識oprah winfrey。”kirby說：“有點吧?！?/p>

i said, sort of? you sort of know me? well, i have photographic proof.i have pictures which i can e-mail to you all of kirby riding horsey with me on all fours.so, i more than sort-of know kirby bumpus.and im so happy to be here, just happy that i finally, after four years, get to see her room.theres really nowhere else id rather be, because im so proud of kirby, who graduates today with two degrees, one in human bio and the other in psychology.love you, kirby cakes!thats how well i know her.i can call her cakes.我說：“有一點。你有一點認識我”。我還有照片為證。我可以把kirby 和我騎馬時的照片 e-mail給你們。因此我不僅僅只是有點認識kirby bumpus。我非常高興來到這里，因為四年 來我第一次來到她的寢室。我為kirby感到自豪，因為她獲得了人類生物學和心理學的雙學 位。這就是我多么的了解她。我可以叫她cakes。and so proud of her mother and father, who helped her get through this time, and her brother, will.i really had nothing to do with her graduating from stanford, but every time anybodys asked me in the past couple of weeks what i was doing, i would say, im getting ready to go to stanford.我為她的父母感到驕傲，她的父母給了她很大幫助，還有她的哥哥will。我對kirby大學四 年真的沒有什么幫助。但是在過去的幾周里，每當人們問我在做什么時，我都會說：“我正 準備去斯坦?！? i just love saying stanford.because the truth is, i know i would have never gotten my degree at all, cause i didnt go to stanford.i went to tennessee state university.but i never would have gotten my diploma at all, because i was supposed to graduate back in 1975, but i was short one credit.and i figured, im just going to forget it, cause, you know, im not going to march with my class.because by that point, i was already on television.id been in television since i was 19 and a sophomore.granted, i was the only television anchor person that had an 11 oclock curfew doing the 10 oclock news.我就是喜歡這樣說stanford（用一種奇怪的語調(diào)）。因為這是真的，我知道根本不會拿到我 的學位，因為我沒有去斯坦福念書。我去了tennessee 州立大學。但是我本來不會拿到我 的畢業(yè)證，因為我本應該在1975 年畢業(yè)，但是我少了一個學分。我認為我還是會忘了這件 事。你們知道，我不會比得上我的同班同學。因為我已經(jīng)上了電視。我在19 歲還是大學二 年級的時候就已經(jīng)上了電視。我是唯一一個電視節(jié)目主持人，雖然有11 點的宵禁，卻做著 10 點鐘的新聞。seriously, my dad was like, well, that news is over at 10:30.be home by 11.but that didnt matter to me, because i was earning a living.i was on my way.so, i thought, im going to let this college thing go and i only had one credit short.but, my father, from that time on and for years after, was always on my case, because i did not graduate.hed say, oprah gail—thats my middle name—i dont know what youre gonna do without that degree.and id say, but, dad, i have my own television show.嚴肅地說，我爸爸告訴我，“好吧，新聞10：30結(jié)束。11 點之前到家?！钡沁@對我并不重要，因為我已經(jīng)自食其力了。我在走我自己的路。所以我想，我不能讓關(guān)于我大學的那件 事就這么過去，我還少一個學分。但是我的父親從那時起卻成了問題。由于我沒有畢業(yè)，他 總是說：“oprah gail（我的中間名字），我不知道沒有學位你能做些什么。”然后我說：“但是，爸爸，我已經(jīng)有我自己的電視節(jié)目啦?！? and hed say, well, i still dont know what youre going to do without that degree.” and id say, but, dad, now im a talk show host.hed say, i dont know how youre going to get another job without that degree.他說：“好吧，但是我還是不知道沒有那個學位你能干什么?！蔽艺f：“但是，爸爸，現(xiàn)在我已經(jīng)是脫口秀的主持人了”。他還是說：“我不知道沒有那個學位你怎么去找其他的工作?！?/p>

在1987 年，tennessee州立大學邀請我回去做他們的畢業(yè)典禮演講。在那時，我已經(jīng)有了自

己的電視節(jié)目，并加入了國家聯(lián)合會。我制作了一部電影，并被奧斯卡提名，而且成立了 我自己的公司harpo?？晌腋嬖V他們，我不能去演講除非我得到那一個學分，因為我爸爸總 是說沒了那學位我將一事無成。so, i finished my coursework, i turned in my final paper and i got the degree.and my dad was very proud.and i know that, if anything happens, that one credit will be my salvation.but i also know why my dad was insisting on that diploma, because, as b.b.king put it, the beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take that away from you.and learning is really in the broadest sense what i want to talk about today, because your education, of course, isnt ending here.in many ways, its only just begun.但是我知道為什么我爸爸總是堅持讓我獲得文憑，因為，正如b.b.king所說：“關(guān)于學習的美好在于別人不會把知識從你身上拿走”學習正是我今天想說的，因為你們的教育并沒有 在這里結(jié)束。在很多情況下，這才是剛剛開使。the world has so many lessons to teach you.i consider the world, this earth, to be like a school and our life the classrooms.and sometimes here in this planet earth school the lessons often 這個世界將會教會你們很多。我認為這個世界，這個地球，就像一個學校和我們?nèi)松慕淌摇Ｓ袝r這些課程會是彎路和障礙。有時會充滿危機。我所學的應付這一切的秘密就是去勇于面 對，正如我們面對大學課程一樣。我們能夠充滿激情的去生活和自我提高，這就是我們存在的意義。不斷自我提高，去追求人 生的更高境界，去追求更高級別的憐憫和自我提高。

我記得我所受到的最大的贊揚就是當我剛剛在芝加1 ??哥開始工作時，我采訪了一個記者。很多年以后我們又見面了。她對我說：“你知道嗎？你一點也沒有變。你變得更為自我了?！? 這就是我們一直努力在做的，去做我們自己。我堅信你們會從每一件做過的事上學到經(jīng)驗，這樣你們就會取得進步。這樣你們豐富了心靈。相信我，內(nèi)在的智慧比外在的財富更加珍貴。你越是使用它，你就得到更多。so, today, i just want to share a few lessons—meaning three—that ive learned in my journey so far.and arent you glad? dont you hate it when somebody says, im going to share a few, and its 10 lessons later? and, youre like, listen, this is my graduation.this is not about you.so, its only going to be three.今天我想和大家分享我人生的三個經(jīng)驗。你們難道不覺得高興嗎？你們是否會反感，當有人 對你說：“我想分享一些”但事實上卻是10 個經(jīng)驗。你們肯定在想：“聽著，這是我的畢業(yè)典禮，不是你的”。因此這里只有三個經(jīng)驗我想和大家分享。the three lessons that have had the greatest impact on my life have to do with feelings, with failure and with finding happiness.這三個經(jīng)驗對我的人生產(chǎn)生了很大影響，它們是關(guān)于感情，失敗和追求幸福。a year after i left college, i was given the opportunity to co-anchor the 6 oclock news in 當我離開大學一年后，在baltimore我得到了一個共同主持6 點新聞的機會。在那時媒體界 的最大目標就是獲得更大的市場，而baltimore 是一個比nashville大得多的市場，因此在 22 歲時得到這個機會對我來說非常重要。它那時對我來說它仿佛是世界上最重要的事。and i was so proud, because i was finally going to have my chance to be like barbara walters, which is who i had been trying to emulate since the start of my tv career.so, i was 22 years old, making $22,000 a year.and its where i met my best friend, gayle, who was an intern at the same tv station.and once we became friends, wed say, ohmigod, i cant believe it!youre making $22,000 and youre only 22.imagine when youre 40 and youre making $40,000!我非常自豪，因為我終于有機會去效法barbara walters。而她正是我從業(yè)以來一直效法的對 象。那時我22 歲，每年掙22,000 美元。我遇到了在電視臺做實習生的gayle，我們立刻成 了好朋友。我們說：“我的天啊，真難以置信。你在22 歲時掙每年能掙22,000 美元。想象 一下吧，當你40 歲時你每年就會掙40,000美元” when i turned 40, i was so glad that didnt happen.當我真的40歲時，我很高興這并沒有成真。so, here i am, 22, making $22,000 a year and, yet, it didnt feel right.it didnt feel right.the first sign, as president hennessy was saying, was when they tried to change my name.the news 這就是我，22 歲時每年掙22,000美元，然而，這種感覺并不好。首先，正如hennessy校長

所說，當他們試圖讓我改名字。那時導演對我說：“沒人會記住oprah這個名字。因此我們 想讓你改名字。我們已經(jīng)為你想了一個大家都會記住和喜歡的名字——suzie。” hi, suzie.very friendly.you cant be angry with suzie.remember suzie.but my name wasnt suzie.and, you know, id grown up not really loving my name, because when youre looking for your little name on the lunch boxes and the license plate tags, youre never going to find oprah.suzie，一個很友善的名字。你不會厭惡suzie。記住suzie吧。但是我的名字不是suzie。你篇三：oprah(奧普拉)在斯坦福2008年畢業(yè)典禮上的演講 這個演講延續(xù)了oprah詼諧幽默的主持風格，將了3個方面的問題：感情，失敗和最求幸福(feelings, failure and finding happiness.)1.feeling: when youre doing the work youre meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what youre getting paid.you want your work to be meaningful.because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.what you really want is to be surrounded by people you trust and treasure and by people who cherish you.thats when youre really rich.2.learn from the failure: id built that school from the outside in, when what really mattered was the inside out.what matters most is whats inside.what matters most is the sense of integrity, of quality and beauty.3.happiness: you have to live for the present.you have to be in the moment.whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.dont live for yourself alone.this is what i know for sure: in order to be truly happy, you must live along with and you have to stand for something larger than yourself.because life is a reciprocal exchange.to move forward you have to give back.and to me, that is the greatest lesson of life.to be happy, you have to give something back.the lesson here is clear, and that is, if youre hurting, you need to help somebody ease their hurt.if youre in pain, help somebody elses pain.and when youre in a mess, you get yourself out of the mess helping somebody out of theirs.not everybody can be famous.but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service篇四：奧普拉2008年在斯坦福大學畢業(yè)典禮的演講

脫口秀女王奧普拉2008年在斯坦福大學畢業(yè)典禮的演講

奧普拉·溫弗瑞：

美國著名的脫口秀主持人。其主持和制作的節(jié)目《奧普拉脫口秀》（the oprah winfrey show，又譯作《奧普拉·溫芙瑞秀》、《奧普拉秀》、《歐普拉·溫芙瑞秀》、《歐普拉秀》等），是美國歷史上收視率最高的脫口秀節(jié)目。同時，它也是美國歷史上播映時間最長的日間電視脫口秀節(jié)目。從1986年12月8日至今，這個節(jié)目已經(jīng)走過了20多個年頭，播放了多達3000多集。北京時間2009年11月20日，據(jù)國外媒體報道，在播出了23年之后，《奧普拉脫口秀》將于2011年9月9日結(jié)束。thank you, president hennessy, and to thetrustees and the faculty, to all of the parents and grandparents, to you, the stanford graduates.thank you for letting me share this amazing day with you.hennessy校長，全體教員，家長，還有斯坦福的畢業(yè)生門，非常感謝你們。感謝你們讓我和你們分享這美好的一天。

我決定透漏一個小秘密給大家來作為這次演講的開始。這個秘密就是kirby bumpus，斯坦福2008年的畢業(yè)生，是我的義女。所以當hennessy校長讓我來做演講時，我受寵若驚，因為自從kirby來這上學以來，這是我第一次被允許到斯坦福來。

正如你們知道的那樣kirby是一個非常聰明的女孩。她說，她希望大家通過她自己的努力了解她，而不是她認識誰。因此她從來不希望每一個第一次見到她的人知道她認識我。當她和她媽媽第一次來到斯坦福參加開學典禮時，我聽說每個人都十分熱情。他們說：“我的天啊，那是gayle king”。因為很多人都知道gayle king是我最好的朋友。

有些人走到kirby面前，對kirby說：“我的天啊，那是gayle king嗎？”kirby說：“嗯，她是我媽媽?！比缓笕藗冋f：“我的天啊，難道說，你認識oprah winfrey?！眐irby說：“有點吧?！?/p>

i said, sort of? you sort of know me? well, i have photographic proof.i have pictures which i can e-mail to you all of kirby riding horsey with me on all fours.so, i more than sort-of know kirby bumpus.and im so happy to be here, just happy that i finally, after four years, get to see her room.theres really nowhere else id rather be, because im so proud of kirby, who graduates today with two degrees, one in human bio and the other in psychology.love you, kirby cakes!thats how well i know her.i can call her cakes.我說：“有一點。你有一點認識我”。我還有照片為證。我可以把kirby 和我騎馬時的照片e-mail給你們。因此我不僅僅只是有點認識kirby bumpus。我非常高興來到這里，因為四年來我第一次來到她的寢室。我為kirby感到自豪，因為她獲得了人類生物學和心理學的雙學位。這就是我多么的了解她。我可以叫她cakes。and so proud of her mother and father, who helped her get through this time, and her brother, will.i really had nothing to do with her graduating from stanford, but every time anybodys asked me in the past couple of weeks what i was doing, i would say, im getting ready to go to stanford.我為她的父母感到驕傲，她的父母給了她很大幫助，還有她的哥哥will。我對kirby大學四年真的沒有什么幫助。但是在過去的幾周里，每當人們問我在做什么時，我都會說：“我正準備去斯坦?！? i just love saying stanford.because the truth is, i know i would have never gotten my degree at all, cause i didnt go to stanford.i went to tennessee state university.but i never would have gotten my diploma at all, because i was supposed to graduate back in 1975, but i was short one credit.and i figured, im just going to forget it, cause, you know, im not going to march with my class.because by that point, i was already on television.id been in television since i was 19 and a sophomore.granted, i was the only television anchor person that had an 11 oclock curfew doing the 10 oclock news.我就是喜歡這樣說stanford（用一種奇怪的語調(diào)）。因為這是真的，我知道根本不會拿到我的學位，因為我沒有去斯坦福念書。我去了tennessee 州立大學。但是我本來不會拿到我的畢業(yè)證，因為我本應該在1975年畢業(yè)，但是我少了一個學分。我認為我還是會忘了這件事。你們知道，我不會比得上我的同班同學。因為我已經(jīng)上了電視。我在19歲還是大學二年級的時候就已經(jīng)上了電視。我是唯一一個電視節(jié)目主持人，雖然有11點的宵禁，卻做著10點鐘的新聞。篇五：奧普拉在斯坦福大學2008畢業(yè)典禮上的演講 the stanfords had suffered the worst thing any mom and dad can ever endure, yet they understood that helping others is the way we help ourselves.and this wisdom is increasingly supported by scientific and sociological research.its no longer just woo-woo soft-skills talk.theres actually a helpers high, a spiritual surge you gain from serving others.so, if you want to feel good, you have to go out and do some good.but when you do good, i hope you strive for more than just the good feeling that service provides, because i know this for sure, that doing good actually makes you better.so, whatever field you choose, if you operate from the paradigm of service, i know your life will have more value and you will be happy.i was always happy doing my talk show, but that happiness reached a depth of fulfillment, of joy, that i really cant describe to you or measure when i stopped just being on tv and looking at tv as a job and decided to use television, to use it and not have it use me, to use it as a platform to serve my viewers.that alone changed the trajectory of my success.so, i know this—that whether youre an actor, you offer your talent in the way that most inspires art.if youre an anatomist, you look at your gift as knowledge and service to healing.whether youve been called, as so many of you here today getting doctorates and other degrees, to the professions of business, law, engineering, humanities, science, medicine, if you choose to offer your skills and talent in service, when you choose the paradigm of service, looking at life through that paradigm, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.and i know you havent spent all this time at stanford just to go out and get a job.youve been enriched in countless ways.theres no better way to make your mark on the world and to share that abundance with others.my constant prayer for myself is to be used in service for the greater good.so, let me end with one of my favorite quotes from martin luther king.dr.king said, not everybody can be famous.and i dont know, but everybody today seems to want to be famous.but fame is a trip.people follow you to the bathroom, listen to you pee.its just—try to pee thats the fame trip, so i dont know if you want that.so, dr.king said, not everybody can be famous.but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.those of you who are history scholars may know the rest of that passage.he said, you dont have to have a college degree to serve.you dont have to make your subject and verb agree to serve.you dont have to know about plato or aristotle to serve.you dont have to know einsteins theory of relativity to serve.you dont have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve.you only need a heart full of grace and a soul generated by love.in a few moments, youll all be officially stanfords 08.you have the heart and the smarts to go with it.and its up to you to decide, really, where will you now use those gifts? youve got the diploma, so go out and get the lessons, cause i know great you know, ive always believed that everything is better when you share it, so before i go, i wanted to share a graduation gift with you.underneath your seats youll find two of my favorite books.eckhart tolles a new earth is my current book club selection.our new earth webcast has been downloaded 30 million times with that book.and daniel pinks a whole new mind: why right-brainers will rule the future has reassured me im in the right direction.i really wanted to give you cars but i just couldnt pull that off!congratulations, 08!thank you.thank you.hennessy校長，全體教員，家長，還有斯坦福的畢業(yè)生門，非常感謝你們。感謝你們讓我

和你們分享這美好的一天。

我決定透漏一個小秘密給大家來作為這次演講的開始。這個秘密就是kirby bumpus，斯坦福2008年的畢業(yè)生，是我的義女。所以當hennessy校長讓我來做演講時，我受寵若驚，因

為自從kirby來這上學以來，這是我第一次被允許到斯坦福來。正如你們知道的那樣kirby是一個非常聰明的女孩。她說，她希望大家通過她自己的努力了解她，而不是她認識誰。因此她從來不希望每一個第一次見到她的人知道她認識我。當她和她媽媽第一次來到斯坦福參加開學典禮時，我聽說每個人都十分熱情。他們說：“我的天啊，那是gayle king”。因為很多人都知道gayle king是我最好的朋友。

有些人走到kirby面前，對kirby說：“我的天啊，那是gayle king嗎？”kirby說：“嗯，她是我媽媽?！比缓笕藗冋f：“我的天啊，難道說，你認識oprah winfrey?！眐irby說：“有點吧?！?/p>

我說：“有一點。你有一點認識我”。我還有照片為證。我可以把kirby 和我騎馬時的照片e-mail給你們。因此我不僅僅只是有點認識kirby bumpus。我非常高興來到這里，因為四年來我第一次來到她的寢室。我為kirby感到自豪，因為她獲得了人類生物學和心理學的雙學

位。這就是我多么的了解她。我可以叫她cakes。

我為她的父母感到驕傲，她的父母給了她很大幫助，還有她的哥哥will。我對kirby大學四年真的沒有什么幫助。但是在過去的幾周里，每當人們問我在做什么時，我都會說：“我正

準備去斯坦?！?/p>

我就是喜歡這樣說stanford（用一種奇怪的語調(diào)）。因為這是真的，我知道根本不會拿到我的學位，因為我沒有去斯坦福念書。我去了tennessee 州立大學。但是我本來不會拿到我的畢業(yè)證，因為我本應該在1975年畢業(yè)，但是我少了一個學分。我認為我還是會忘了這件事。你們知道，我不會比得上我的同班同學。因為我已經(jīng)上了電視。我在19歲還是大學二年級的時候就已經(jīng)上了電視。我是唯一一個電視節(jié)目主持人，雖然有11點的宵禁，卻做著10 點鐘的新聞。

嚴肅地說，我爸爸告訴我，“好吧，新聞10：30結(jié)束。11點之前到家?！钡沁@對我并不重要，因為我已經(jīng)自食其力了。我在走我自己的路。所以我想，我不能讓關(guān)于我大學的那件事就這么過去，我還少一個學分。但是我的父親從那時起卻成了問題。由于我沒有畢業(yè)，他總是說：“oprah gail（我的中間名字），我不知道沒有學位你能做些什么。”然后我說：“但是，爸爸，我已經(jīng)有我自己的電視節(jié)目啦?！?/p>

他說：“好吧，但是我還是不知道沒有那個學位你能干什么?！蔽艺f：“但是，爸爸，現(xiàn)在我已經(jīng)是脫口秀的主持人了”。他還是說：“我不知道沒有那個學位你怎么去找其他的工作?！?/p>

在1987年，tennessee州立大學邀請我回去做他們的畢業(yè)典禮演講。在那時，我已經(jīng)有了自己的電視節(jié)目，并加入了國家聯(lián)合會。我制作了一部電影，并被奧斯卡提名，而且成立了我自己的公司harpo?？晌腋嬖V他們，我不能去演講除非我得到那一個學分，因為我爸爸總是

說沒了那學位我將一事無成。因此，我完成了我的課程，上交了我的畢業(yè)論文，然后拿到了學位。我的爸爸非常的驕傲。

從此我知道，無論什么事發(fā)生，那一個學分是我的救世主

但是我知道為什么我爸爸總是堅持讓我獲得文憑，因為，正如b.b.king所說：“關(guān)于學習的美好在于別人不會把知識從你身上拿走”學習正是我今天想說的，因為你們的教育并沒有在這里結(jié)束。在很多情況下，這才是剛剛開使。這個世界將會教會你們很多。我認為這個世界，這個地球，就像一個學校和我們?nèi)松慕淌?。有時這些課程會是彎路和障礙。有時會充滿危機。我所學的應付這一切的秘密就是去勇于面對，正如我們面對大學課程一樣。我們能夠充滿激情的去生活和自我提高，這就是我們存在的意義。不斷自我提高，去追求人

生的更高境界，去追求更高級別的憐憫和自我提高。

我記得我所受到的最大的贊揚就是當我剛剛在芝加哥開始工作時，我采訪了一個記者。很多年以后我們又見面了。她對我說：“你知道嗎？你一點也沒有變。你變得更為自我了?！?/p>

這就是我們一直努力在做的，去做我們自己。我堅信你們會從每一件做過的事上學到經(jīng)驗，這樣你們就會取得進步。這樣你們豐富了心靈。相信我，內(nèi)在的智慧比外在的財富更加珍貴。

你越是使用它，你就得到更多。

今天我想和大家分享我人生的三個經(jīng)驗。你們難道不覺得高興嗎？你們是否會反感，當有人對你說：“我想分享一些”但事實上卻是10個經(jīng)驗。你們肯定在想：“聽著，這是我的畢業(yè)典

禮，不是你的”。因此這里只有三個經(jīng)驗我想和大家分享。這三個經(jīng)驗對我的人生產(chǎn)生了很大影響，它們是關(guān)于感情，失敗和追求幸福。

當我離開大學一年后，在baltimore我得到了一個共同主持6點新聞的機會。在那時媒體界的最大目標就是獲得更大的市場，而baltimore是一個比nashville大得多的市場，因此在22歲時得到這個機會對我來說非常重要。它那時對我來說它仿佛是世界上最重要的事。

我非常自豪，因為我終于有機會去效法barbara walters。而她正是我從業(yè)以來一直效法的對象。那時我22歲，每年掙22,000美元。我遇到了在電視臺做實習生的gayle，我們立刻成了好朋友。我們說：“我的天啊，真難以置信。你在22歲時掙每年能掙22,000美元。想象

一下吧，當你40歲時你每年就會掙40,000美元”

當我真的40歲時，我很高興這并沒有成真。

這就是我，22歲時每年掙22,000美元，然而，這種感覺并不好。首先，正如hennessy校長所說，當他們試圖讓我改名字。那時導演對我說：“沒人會記住oprah這個名字。因此我們

想讓你改名字。我們已經(jīng)為你想了一個大家都會記住和喜歡的名字——suzie?！? suzie，一個很友善的名字。你不會厭惡suzie。記住suzie吧。但是我的名字不是suzie。你們可以看到，自小我就不怎么喜歡我的名字。因為當你在午餐箱和牌號尋找你的名字時，你 永遠也不會找oprah。

我從小就不怎么喜歡我的名字，但是當我被告知去改名字時，我想，好吧，那時我的名字，但是suzie真的適合我嗎？因此我想，它并不適合我。我不會改我的名字。我也不介意人們

是否記得住我的名字，這沒什么大不了的。

然后他們還對我說他們不喜歡我的長相。那是在1976年，你的老板可以那么說。但是如果是現(xiàn)在的話，那就是一件很嚴重的事了?？墒悄菚r他們還是說：“我不喜歡你的造型?！蔽腋静幌馼arbara walters。于是他們把我送到沙龍，給我燙了發(fā)。可是幾天后我的頭發(fā)一團糟。我不得不剃光我的頭發(fā)。此時他們更不喜歡我的造型了。因為作為一個光頭黑人坐在攝影機

前，我肯定不漂亮的。

比光頭更令我討厭的是我不得不把播報別人遭受的痛苦作為我的日常工作。我深知我期待去

觀察，我的內(nèi)心告訴我，我應該做些什么了。我需要為他人提供幫助。

正如hennessy校長所說的那樣，我播報了一起火災，然后應當去給受害者拿毯子。由于白

天播報的那些新聞導致我晚上難以入睡。

與此同時我盡量表現(xiàn)的優(yōu)雅一些，使我更像barbara。我認為我可能會成為一個傻傻的barbara。如果我做回我自己，我就會成為一個很棒的oprah。我努力像barbara那樣優(yōu)雅。有時我并不讀我的稿件，因為我的內(nèi)心告訴我這是不自主的。所以我想為大家播報一些我想

要的新聞。

有時，我不會播報像6個人在連環(huán)車禍中受傷這類的新聞。哦，我的天啊。

有時出于內(nèi)心的本能，我不會去播報一些新聞。我還會遇到一些不認識的和念錯的詞。一天當我播新聞時，我把加拿大讀錯了。我想這樣下去學barbara可不大好。我應該做回我自己。

但那是我爸爸卻對我說：“這是你一生的機會。你最好繼續(xù)那份工作?！蔽业睦习逡舱f：“這

是晚間新聞。你是播報員，不是福利工作者。還是做你的本職工作吧。” 我歪曲了這些期待和義務，并感覺很糟。晚上回到家后我會記日記。自從15歲時我就開始記日記了，于是現(xiàn)在我已經(jīng)有了好幾卷日記。我晚上回到家后，我會記錄下我是多么的不幸

和沮喪。然后我消除了焦慮。這就是我如何養(yǎng)成了那個習慣。8個月后我失去了那份工作。他們說我太情緒化了。但因為他們不想違背合約，他們就讓我去baltimore主持一檔脫口秀節(jié)目。從我開始主持那檔節(jié)目的一刻開始，我感覺好像回到了家一樣。我意識到電視不應該僅僅是一個娛樂場，更應該是一個以服務為目的的平臺，以幫助他人更好的生活。當我開始主持節(jié)目的時間侯，就像呼吸一樣。感覺好極啦。這就是我工

作的真正開始。

這就是我學到的經(jīng)驗。當你做的是一份你喜歡的工作時，那感覺棒極了。無論你能掙到多少

錢，你都會有很大收獲。

這是真的。但是你怎么知道你所做的是對的呢？你怎么知道呢？我所知道的就是你的內(nèi)心是你人生的導航系統(tǒng)。當你應該或者不應該改做某事時，你的內(nèi)心會告訴你怎樣去做。關(guān)鍵是去面對你自己，面對你自己的內(nèi)心。我所做過的所有正確選擇都是源自我內(nèi)心的。我所做過

的所有錯誤選擇都是因為沒有聽取來自我內(nèi)心的聲音。如果感覺不好，就不要去做。這就是我的經(jīng)驗。我的朋友，這個經(jīng)驗會幫你避免很多痛苦。甚至懷疑都意味著不要去做。這就是我所學到的。有很多次當你不知道如何去做時，什么也

不要做，直到你知道怎么做為止。當你什么也不要做時，讓你的內(nèi)心作為驅(qū)動力。不僅僅你的個人生活會提高，你在工作中也會獲得競爭力。正如daniel pink在他的暢銷書a whole new mind中所說的那樣，我們進入了一個新時代，一個他稱之為概念時代的時代。人們的內(nèi)心使人與人之間產(chǎn)生隔閡。他說，重要的不僅僅是邏輯上的，線性的，直尺式的思維方式。移情，快樂，目標和內(nèi)部特質(zhì)同樣

也有卓越的價值。

當我們做自己喜歡的事時，當我們?nèi)硇牡耐度氲焦ぷ髦袝r，這些特質(zhì)就會煥發(fā)生機。因此我對你說，忘掉那些快車道吧。如果你真的像飛翔，就把你的力量投入到你的激情當中。

尊重你內(nèi)心的召喚。每一個人都會有的。相信你的心靈，你會成功的。

那么我是如何定義成功的呢？讓我告訴你，錢很美好。我不會告訴你們成功與錢無關(guān)，因為

錢是好東東。我喜歡錢。它能買東西。

第五篇：奧普拉在哈佛大學2013屆畢業(yè)典禮上的演講

奧普拉在哈佛大學2013屆畢業(yè)典禮上的演講

我要分享的想法是：無論你有多么成功，也許你們會不斷追求更高的目標，這就難免會遇到失意之時。我希望屆時各位可以記?。菏郎喜⒉淮嬖谑?，那不過是生活試圖將我們推向另一個方向罷了。

當你身處困境時，看起來是一種失敗。在過去的一年中，我時刻提醒自己牢記這一點。當深陷困境時，感到難過是正常的，給自己一點時間去思考即將失去的一切。關(guān)鍵在于：要從錯誤中汲取教訓，因為所有經(jīng)驗，尤其是你犯下的錯誤，都將幫助你、推動你更好地做自己，確定下一步何去何從。生活的關(guān)鍵在于建立起一個內(nèi)在的道德情感導航儀，為你指明方向。因為從今以后，當你用谷歌搜索自己的時候，搜索結(jié)果中會提到：“哈佛大學2013畢業(yè)生”。在這個充滿競爭的世界，這的確是一張搶眼的名片。

我曾招聘過很多人，而每當我看到哈佛大學這個字眼時，我總是會坐直一些說：“他們在哪？把他們統(tǒng)統(tǒng)帶過來?！闭沁@張搶眼的名片可以成就你們的未來之路。你們可能成為律師、議員、首席執(zhí)行官、科學家、物理學家、諾貝爾獎及普利策獎得主，甚至深夜脫口秀節(jié)目主持人。但生活的挑戰(zhàn)在于創(chuàng)建一份不僅陳述所期望的職位的履歷，而且上面要明確成就怎樣的自我。這份履歷不僅需要表達你想成就一番怎樣的事業(yè)，也要明確動機，除了頭銜與職位，也要有達成目標的緣由。你的使命是什么？你的信仰是什么？你的目標是什么？只有這樣，當你不慎跌倒發(fā)現(xiàn)自深陷困境之時，才能幫助你重振旗鼓。

我是在1994年才認識到這一點的。那年我采訪了一位憑一己之力積攢了1000美元零花錢的小女孩，她將這錢捐出來幫助有需要的人。這個九歲大的小女孩促使我思考，僅憑一個存錢罐與雄心壯志就能做到這樣，那我可以做些什么呢？于是我號召我的觀眾們捐出他們的零錢，在一個月內(nèi)，僅僅是一枚枚零錢硬幣就募到了300萬美金。我們用這筆錢資助每個州的一位學子進入大學的殿堂。我所做的僅僅是號召我的觀眾，“盡己所能，無論地域與地位，如果可能，請貢獻出你們的時間、智慧與財力。無論你在哪里，請為他人送去自己的仁愛之心。”觀眾也用行動表明了一切。我們在12個不同的城鎮(zhèn)建起了55所學校，修繕了300棟被“麗塔”颶風和“卡特里娜”颶風摧毀的民宅。

創(chuàng)辦“天使網(wǎng)絡(luò)”的想法在我心中縈繞已久，也正是“天使網(wǎng)絡(luò)”讓我確定了心中的那個導航儀。我決定不再單一地制作電視節(jié)目，還要關(guān)注節(jié)目的終極理念、采訪對象、行業(yè)發(fā)展和慈善事業(yè)等等。無論我們追求什么，將我們團結(jié)在一起的信念勝過其他一切。作為一個19歲就出現(xiàn)在電視節(jié)目中的孩子，起初我并不明白這個道理，直到1994年才有所醒悟。因此，不要指望能即刻明晰所有的事情，包括自身的志向所在。當我明確一切的時候，我利用電視這種媒介手段讓天使網(wǎng)絡(luò)做的更好，而不是單純成為電視節(jié)目的一部分。

天使網(wǎng)絡(luò)不僅改變那些需要幫助的人，同樣讓幫助別人的人受益。它提醒我們，無論是誰，外表怎樣，心存何種信念，憑借共同的目標與努力，它極有可能并將變得更為強大，這點非常重要。

最近，在比爾莫耶斯訪談節(jié)目中看到的一些事情使我更加明確了這一點。那期節(jié)目的訪談對象是大衛(wèi)與法蘭欣·威勒夫婦。在“桑迪岬”慘案中，他們失去了年僅七歲的兒子本。然而就在他們接受采訪的同時，國會的投票否決了提出加強背景調(diào)查的“槍支安全法”，他們表示絕不會氣餒。法蘭欣說：“心可碎，但精神仍在。我要找到一種新的對話方式來告訴他們什么是愛，而不是盲目與之斗爭?！彪S后他的丈夫補充道：“遇到與你意見不同的人，你不該把他妖魔化甚至誹謗，因為一旦這樣做了，對話也就隨之終止。我們決不允許這樣的事情發(fā)生。問題依然存在，但一定有辦法能夠使光明驅(qū)走黑暗?！?25年來的每一天和不同人溝通，我從中學到的最重要的一課就是：人類經(jīng)驗的共通性。我們大多數(shù)人并不愿意被分類，但是我從所有采訪對象身上發(fā)現(xiàn)一個共同性，那就是人人都希望被認可、被理解。

在我的職業(yè)生涯中曾經(jīng)做過超過35000次訪談，每當攝影機關(guān)掉的時候，所有的受訪者必然會用自己的方式問出這樣一個問題：“我表現(xiàn)得還可以吧？”布什總統(tǒng)這樣說過、奧巴馬總統(tǒng)也曾這樣說過。無論英雄人物還是家庭主婦，受害者抑或是案件中的被告人。甚至碧昂斯也需要得到這樣的認可。訪談結(jié)束后，她把麥克風交給我，對我說：“我表現(xiàn)得還可以吧？”

你們的親友、敵人、陌生人，在每次的相遇與交流時，他們都想知道的是：我表現(xiàn)得還可以嗎？你在聽我說話嗎？你在關(guān)注我嗎？我的話對你有價值嗎？盡管哈佛是facebook誕生之地，我仍希望各位要嘗試跳出來和那些持不同意見的人進行更多的面對面交流。要有勇氣注視著他們的眼睛，傾聽他們的觀點，確保速度、距離以及不足輕重感不會讓我們失去同理心，以及認清我們作為人類的共同點。這種認知對于你們個人乃至整個國家的興盛都是必要的。

“必然會有方法使光明驅(qū)走黑暗，”這出自一位兒子慘遭殺害的父親之口，十二月一個平常的周五他失去了自己的孩子。稱之為靈魂或志氣也好，更高的自我或是智慧也罷，我深知，每個人的內(nèi)心都有一盞明燈，只要你想，它就將照亮你的人性。

你們現(xiàn)在或許對離開舒適的大學生活會有些焦慮，并對于讓社會檢驗自己的哈佛文憑心存猶豫，但無論你們在日后遭遇任何的挑戰(zhàn)、挫折與失意，只要內(nèi)心目標堅定，就能獲得真正的成功與快樂。人生確實只有一個目標，那就是：最大程度地、最真實地展現(xiàn)自己。盡己所能，提升自己與家人以及周圍的人。神學家霍華德瑟曼說得好：“不要問自己世界需要什么，問問是什么讓你充滿活力地活著，然后大步去做，因為世界所需要的就是一個個朝氣蓬勃的人。”

（奧普拉·溫弗瑞系美國著名脫口秀主持人、媒體企業(yè)家）