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

名校励志英语演讲 181:一切皆有可能(3)

The roller coaster ride has opened my eyes to many things....about the increasingly complex demands of running a business today, about my own competencies and the need to constantly challenge and renew my own commitment to being a better leader. 犹如

名校励志英语演讲 182:一切皆有可能(4)

I was raised in a traditional Chinese family where achievement was not demanded, but expected. My father, born in Hong Kong, was a successful architect. My mother, born in Shanghai, was the first female chemical engineer in her graduating class at th

名校励志英语演讲 155:跨越物质的藩篱 让世界今非昔比(12)

It's what led two guys in a garage named Hewlett and Packard to form a company that would change the way we live and work, what led scientists in laboratories and novelists in coffee shops to labor in obscurity until they finally succeeded in changin

名校励志英语演讲 163:服务—衡量成功的真正标准(4)

This type of activism and optimism speaks volumes about the students here, the faculty, the stuff, but also the character and history of Merceda town built by laborers and immigrants from all over the world: early settlers who came her as pioneers an

名校励志英语演讲 149:跨越物质的藩篱 让世界今非昔比(6)

But at this critical juncture in our nation's history, at this difficult time, let me suggest that such an approach won't get you where you want to go. It displays a poverty of ambition, that in fact the elevation of appearance over substance, of cel

名校励志英语演讲 141:敢于竞争 勇于关爱(8)

Well, I admit there is enough truth in that critique to justify feeling disconnected and alienated. But at bottom, thats a personal cop-out and a national peril. Political conditions maximize the conditions for individual opportunity and responsibili

名校励志英语演讲 140:敢于竞争 勇于关爱(7)

And so bring your values and experiences and insights into politics. Dare to help make, not just a difference in politics, but create a different politics. Some have called you the generation of choice. You've been raised with multiple choice tests,

名校励志英语演讲 138:敢于竞争 勇于关爱(5)

They lack the freedom to choose their lifes path. Theyre imprisoned by circumstances of poverty and ignorance, bigotry, disease, hunger, oppression and war. 他们没有选择人生道路的自由。他们被贫穷、无知、偏执、疾病、饥饿、

名校励志英语演讲 137:敢于竞争 勇于关爱(4)

I'm sure you'll receive good advice. You're got a great education to go back and reflect about what is right for you, but you eventually will have to choose and I hope that you will dare to compete. And by that I don't mean the kind of cutthroat comp

名校励志英语演讲 128:珍惜现在 把握将来(4)

The world in which you, in time to come, will take the reins, cannot afford a return to 20th century struggles for hegemony. 即将到来的时代是你们掌控的时代，决不能退回到20世纪的霸权争夺中去。 The characteristic of this

名校励志英语演讲 130:珍惜现在 把握将来(6)

A good test of a person is who turns up at their funeral and with what sincerity. Try not to sit the test too early, of course. 考验一个人是否可靠的方法是看他是否参加你的葬礼，在葬礼上是否虔诚。当然不要太早就考验

名校励志英语演讲 129:珍惜现在 把握将来(5)

So to you as individuals, what wisdom, if any, have I learnt? 那么，你们作为个人，又学到了什么样的智慧呢？ First, in fact, keep learning. Always be alive to the possibilities of the next experience, of thinking, doing and being.

名校励志英语演讲 126:珍惜现在 把握将来(2)

Now I know you Yale guys are smart. So what can I tell you that you don't already think you know? 我知道耶鲁学子充满了智慧，所以我能说的有哪些是你们认为自己不知道的呢？ I can tell you something of the world as I see

名校励志英语演讲 120:21世纪的挑战(14)

Today we do not seek to impose our vision on others, but we are convinced that certain rights are universalnot American rights or European rights or rights for developed nations, but the birthrights of people everywhere, now enshrined in the United N

名校励志英语演讲 118:21世纪的挑战(12)

From the windows of the White House, where I live in Washington, D.C., the monument to our first President, George Washington, dominates the skyline. It is a very tall obelisk. But very near this large monument there is a small stone which contains t

名校励志英语演讲 117:21世纪的挑战(11)

In the 21st century, your generation will have a remarkable opportunity to bring together the talents of our scientists, doctors, engineers into a shared quest for progress. Already the breakthroughs we have achieved in our areas of joint cooperation

名校励志英语演讲 115:21世纪的挑战(9)

If the nations of the world do not reduce the gases which are causing global warming, sometime in the next century there is a serious risk of dramatic changes in climate which will change the way we live and the way we work, which could literally bur