名人励志英语演讲 第11期:我们必须强大(1)

My fellow citizens: 同胞们： At this last presidential inauguration of the 20th century, let us lift our eyes toward the challenges that await us in the next century. It is our great good fortune that time and chance have put us not only at the e

名人励志英语演讲 第113期:选择塑造人生(5)

I told my wife MacKenzie that I wanted to quit my job and go do this crazy thing that probably wouldn't work since most startups don't, and I wasn't sure what would happen after that. MacKenzie, also a Princeton grad and sitting here in the second ro

名人励志英语演讲 第106期:当梦想来临时抓住它(7)

In late March 1996, soon after I had moved to Stanford for grad school, my Dad had difficultly breathing and was driven to the hospital. Two months later, he died. I was completely devastated. Many years later, after a startup, after falling in love,

名人励志英语演讲 第107期:当梦想来临时抓住它(8)

My Dad had difficulty breathing his whole life, and the complications of Polio are what took him from us too soon. He would have been very upset that Polio still persists even though we have a vaccine. He would have been equally upset that back in In

名人励志英语演讲 第108期:当梦想来临时抓住它(9)

If my Dad was alive today, the thing I think he would be most happy about is that Lucy and I have a baby in the hopper. I think he would been annoyed that I hadn't gotten my Ph. D yet (thanks, Michigan!). Dad was so full of insights, of excitement ab

名人励志英语演讲 第109期:选择塑造人生(1)

As a kid, I spent my summers with my grandparents on their ranch in Texas. I helped fix windmills, vaccinate cattle, and do other chores. We also watched soap operas every afternoon, especially Days of our Lives. My grandparents belonged to a Caravan

名人励志英语演讲 第110期:选择塑造人生(2)

At that age, I'd take any excuse to make estimates and do minor arithmetic. I'd calculate our gas mileage--figure out useless statistics on things like grocery spending. I'd been hearing an ad campaign about smoking. I can't remember the details, but

名人励志英语演讲 第111期:选择塑造人生(3)

While my grandmother was crying, my grandfather, who had been driving in silence, pulled over onto the shoulder of the highway. He got out of the car and came around and opened my door and waited for me to follow. Was I in trouble? My grandfather was

名人励志英语演讲 第112期:选择塑造人生(4)

Your smarts will come in handy because you will travel in a land of marvels. We humans, plodding as we are, will astonish ourselves. We'll invent ways to generate clean energy and a lot of it. Atom by atom, we'll assemble small machines that will ent

名人励志英语演讲 第114期:选择塑造人生(6)

Tomorrow, in a very real sense, your life--the life you author from scratch on your own--begins. 明天，非常现实地说，你们的人生你们从零塑造自己的人生即将开启。 How will you use your gifts? What choices will you make? 你们

名人励志英语演讲 第115期:人类的精神(1)

I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work--a life's work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit, not for glory and least of all for profit, but to create out of the materials of the human spirit something which did not ex

名人励志英语演讲 第116期:人类的精神(2)

Until he does so, he labors under a curse. He writes not of love but of lust, of defeats in which nobody loses anything of value, of victories without hope and, worst of all, without pity or compassion. His grief grieves on no universal bones, leavin

名人励志英语演讲 第117期:致戴安娜(1)

I stand before you today the representative of a family in grief, in a country in mourning before a world in shock. 今天，我作为一个悲恸的家属代表，站在你们面前，站在一个受到震惊的世界面前，站在一个举国哀悼的

名人励志英语演讲 第118期:致戴安娜(2)

We have all despaired at our loss over the past week and only the strength of the message you gave us through your years of giving has afforded us the strength to move forward. 一个星期以来，我们全家都生活在痛失亲人的绝望中，惟

名人励志英语演讲 第119期:致戴安娜(3)

Diana explained to me once that it was her innermost feeling of suffering that made it possible for her to connect with her constituency of the rejected. And here we come to another truth about her. For all the status, the glamour, the applause, Dian

名人励志英语演讲 第120期:致戴安娜(4)

These were days I will always treasure. It was as if we had been transported back to our childhood when we spent such an enormous amount of time together the two youngest in the family. Fundamentally she had not changed at all from the big sister who

名人励志英语演讲 第122期:追随你的幸福 倾听你的心声(1)

Members of the Class of 2006, friends, faculty, parents, members of the Taliban: Thank you very much. What? What? Oh, come on. Come on. What are you going to do, bury me up to my head in the sand? Something, come on. Hey, I've been there. I've been t

名人励志英语演讲 第123期:追随你的幸福 倾听你的心声(2)

I was actually very excited to meet many of you today until I actually did meet you and realized just how young you are all and how old it makes me feel. Tre Borden informed me that actually most of you were born the year I graduated from high school

名人励志英语演讲 第124期:追随你的幸福 倾听你的心声(3)

I wasn't really sure what to talk to you about today and I asked Tre and he said, Well, you know Class Day is such an important day, and I'm sure we'd love to hear some of your memories of it. And that calmed me because the truth of the matter is I h

名人励志英语演讲 第125期:追随你的幸福 倾听你的心声(4)

But her advice to me at Yale graduation was Follow your Bliss. I was hoping for something a little more specific, like plastics. What, plastic? You like plastic? All right. In retrospect, follow your bliss was pretty good advice. My mom didn't actual