i am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. i never graduated from college. truth be told, this is the closest i've ever gotten to a college graduation.
today i want to tell you three stories from my life. that's it. no big deal. just three stories.
the first story is about connecting the dots.
i dropped out of reed college after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before i really quit. so why did i drop out?
it started before i was born. my biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. she felt very strongly that i should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. except that when i popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. so my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "we have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" they said: "of course." my biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. she refused to sign the final adoption papers. she only relented a few months later when my parents promised that i would someday go to college.
and 17 years later i did go to college. but i naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. after six months, i couldn't see the value in it. i had no idea what i wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. and here i was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. so i decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out ok. it was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions i ever made. the minute i dropped out i could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.
it wasn't all romantic. i didn't have a dorm room, so i slept on the floor in friends' rooms, i returned coke bottles for the 5 deposits to buy food with, and i would walk the 7 miles across town every sunday night to get one good meal a week at the hare krishna temple. i loved it. and much of what i stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. let me give you one example: reed college at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. because i had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, i decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. i learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. it was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and i found it fascinating.
none of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. but ten years later, when we were designing the first macintosh computer, it all came back to me. and we designed it all into the mac. it was the first computer with beautiful typography. if i had never dropped in on that single course in college, the mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. and since windows just copied the mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. if i had never dropped out, i would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when i was in college. but it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.
again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. so you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. you have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. this approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
my second story is about love and loss.
i was lucky – i found what i loved to do early in life. woz and i started apple in my parents garage when i was 20. we worked hard, and in 10 years apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. we had just released our finest creation - the macintosh - a year earlier, and i had just turned 30. and then i got fired. how can you get fired from a company you started?
well, as apple grew we hired someone who i thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. but then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. when we did, our board of directors sided with him. so at 30 i was out. and very publicly out. what had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.
i really didn't know what to do for a few months. i felt that i had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that i had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. i met with david packard and bob noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. i was a very public failure, and i even thought about running away from the valley. but something slowly began to dawn on me – i still loved what i did. the turn of events at apple had not changed that one bit. i had been rejected, but i was still in love. and so i decided to start over.
i didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. the heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. it freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
during the next five years, i started a company named next, another company named pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife.
pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, toy story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. in a remarkable turn of events, apple bought next, i retuned to apple, and the technology we developed at next is at the heart of apple's current renaissance. and laurene and i have a wonderful family together.
i'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if i hadn't been fired from apple. it was awful tasting medicine, but i guess the patient needed it.
sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. don't lose faith. i'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that i loved what i did.
各位領導、各位來賓、老師、同學們：
下午好!
炎炎六月，百花爭豔、雲雀歡唱，滾滾而來的熱浪激盪著我們的心潮。今天，我們歡聚一堂，心絮飛揚，無限欣喜的迎來了08屆畢業生典禮。我謹代表育才歐美外語學校向蒞臨08屆畢業典禮的各位領導、各位來賓至以熱烈的歡迎和衷心的感謝!向08屆全體老師至以誠摯的謝意!向即將離別母校的08屆全體同學表示熱烈的祝賀!
日月如梭趕少年。三年的歲月在歷史的長河中稍縱即逝，但時間卻不會使記憶風化。還記得激昂賽場上的頑強拼搏，盡顯英姿颯爽;還記得楊柳婆娑下的開卷吟誦，靜享細雨和風;還記得砥礪前行的學子宣言，響徹育才歐美一方晴空的錚錚誓言;還記得震撼心靈的課間操上，整齊劃一邁向輝煌人生的鏗鏘腳步;還記得悠悠彩虹谷裡，我們酣暢淋漓，飽覽紅色沂蒙;還記得溫馨的公寓裡，我們促膝談心，濃濃的師生情;還記得淨潔的餐廳裡，管理規範，美味佳餚音樂聲聲;還記得連廊上那激人奮進的標語，天行健，君子以自強不息;還記得三年來，我們形影相隨，風雨兼程„„
今天，又有近一千餘名學生畢業了，三年的靜心苦讀，今天品嚐果實的芳香;三年的奮發進取，今天迎來時間的檢驗;三年的攜手並進，今天分享成功的喜悅。我想我此刻的心情和在座的同學們一樣，縱然有著歡聚一堂的興奮和喜悅，也有著掩飾不住的留戀和傷感。回首過去難忘、激情的三年國中生活，我的心中洋溢著深情。你們有過成功的歡樂，也有過失敗的沮喪，你們得到過老師和家長的讚揚，也受到過一些老師嚴厲的批評，但是這一切都成了過去。在同學們即將離開母校，踏上各自新的征程的時候，我希望大家不要忘記父母在你們身上花的心血;別淡忘了學校和老師對你們的期望;別淡忘了刻骨銘心的同窗友情;別虛度了光彩絢麗的青春年華;別放棄了曾經擁有的理想信念;用生命和心靈演繹自己新的精彩。你們今後將要進入一個新的學習和生活環境，到那裡後，一旦偶有成功，但切記不可得意自滿，要記住：“順風順水的船很難靠岸，沒有剎車只有油門的車無法行駛。”倘若遇到困境，你也不必氣餒、絕望。有道是：山重水複疑無路，柳暗花明又一村，不經歷風雨怎麼見彩虹。學校和老師們，期望你們成才，關注著你們的點滴進步，永遠為你們的進步而高興，在幾年十幾年、幾十年以後，我們希望在茫茫人海中能將你們重新辯認出來，無論你已經在某方面赫赫有名，或者在自己的崗位上默默無聞，你依然是我們育才歐美的人!
“有志者，事竟成;苦心人，天不負”。同學們，當今社會，形勢喜人，形勢更催人，競爭激烈，大浪淘沙。在今後的求學、求知道路上，你們將在競爭中生活，在競爭中突破，在競爭中創造，在競爭中成功。競爭需要理想，競爭需要自信。只要執著堅定，那道路的盡頭，必定是輪金色的太陽。在激烈的競爭、甚至殘酷面前，大家要以健康的心理，平衡的心態去面對一切，堅實基礎，厚積薄發，凝聚意志，增強實力，努力書寫人生新的輝煌篇章，詮釋自身價值。相信大家同樣取得成功!揮手告別昨天，師生情、同窗誼難以釋懷;昂首邁步明天，未來夢、強國心熠熠生輝。
“走進育才歐美就是育才歐美的主人，走出育才歐美代表育才歐美形象”，“今天我以育才歐美為榮，明天育才歐美以我為榮”，同學們，學校期盼著你們在新的學習、求知道路上取得好成績!你們已經有了騰飛的翅膀，遠航的風帆。我真的很羨慕你們!你們青春年少，才華橫溢，志存高遠，胸懷祖國!
祝願畢業班的每一位同學健康成長，個個成才，大展鴻圖，馳騁人生!
謝謝大家!
你可曾受傷，在別離的空檔，孤單的話沒有她捧場?
你可曾受傷，五月的雨後開始流浪，任那些思念的人天各一方?
把別離的笙簫帶上，一個人踏浪遠航，只留下簇簇月季的濃香。
將寂寞的深夜珍藏，開啟窗，一座蛙聲喧囂的荷塘。
有一份情叫愛，不要輕易理睬，謹慎每一次表白。
有一個人是她，一輩子的牽掛，遺忘後記憶留下。
那些無言的傷，如流水般惆悵，不帶走一絲彷徨。
相信愛的力量，從未無息消亡，往殤盡頭是希望。
五月的那場雨，一下再下，你可曾想起了她?
芳菲未盡，別離的話一打又一打，卻等來一個複雜的初夏。
放棄愛的掙扎，只把幸福的回憶留下，一個人或兩個人行走天涯。
合歡樹下，笑著留影你我他，多少年後家常拉?
帶著夢出發，幾經拼搏，終成一朵朵奇葩!
六月的晚風還在路上，每一顆種子都已開花，那些香在每一塊陣地飄灑。
尊敬的老師，親愛的同學們：
大家好!
我是六年級四班的___。今天，我們在這裡隆重集會，舉行我校20__屆六年級學生的畢業典禮。在這個特殊的時刻，我謹代表在校生向全體畢業生致以親切的問候和熱烈的祝賀!祝賀你們順利地完成了國小六年的學習任務，祝賀你們即將從一個新起點開始人生的新徵程!
在此，我也要代表全體畢業生，向為你們的成長傾注了無數心血的老師們表示深深的敬意!正是他們的言傳身教、辛勤耕耘、無私奉獻，才使我們共同迎來了這個充滿喜悅的豐收季節。
杳然回首，那些在國小裡的日子，已經化為一張張多姿多彩的照片，一首首歡樂美妙的詩歌。幾度風雨，幾度春秋，我們從一個個無知的幼童成長為一名有道德、有文化、有理想的少年，六年光陰，轉瞬即逝，無聲無息，無影無蹤。直到現在，來國小的第一天報到，我都還記憶猶新，寬敞的教室，老師溫暖的笑臉，輕鬆的氛圍，我就是在那樣美好的環境下，度過了六年的漫長時光。是黃埔國小——我們的母校，您如一庭坐落在亂世之上的花圃，用清新的。空氣、芬芳的泥土哺育了我們——一朵朵燦爛鮮豔的祖國之花;是您，用堅強的手臂和軀幹，為我們擋下了所有的風風雨雨，為我們留下了一片鳥語花香的陰涼;是您教會了我們“君子和而不同”，是您教會了我們“親和典雅篤行”!
一切的一切，黃埔所給予我們的，書聲、笑聲、歌聲、掌聲，今天，都也將成為永遠的回憶，在我們的腦海中渺渺迴盪;而我們為學校，也留下了珍貴的寶藏——成長。
忘不了，校園的一草一木，一磚一瓦，忘不了，充滿陽光的教學樓;忘不了，飯堂裡調皮同窗打翻忘了飯盒，慌忙害羞的樣子;忘不了，小小的升旗臺、飄揚著的校徽，你追我趕的操場。
十年樹木，百年樹人;插柳之恩，終身難忘。過去的那段日子，我們不能忘懷。但我們得到得更多的，是精神上的財富。我們也許幼稚過，也許無知過，也許懵懂過。是從國小，我們開始懂得了如何禮貌待人、真誠待人，開始懂得如何面對各種困難與挫折，也開始懂得享受生活，學會感恩。老師教於我們的淳淳教導，我們時時縈繞耳畔;老師給予我們的鼓勵與力量，我們永遠銘記於心;老師為我們付出的汗水，我們更是無以為報!
老師，我們也永遠不會忘記您曾經給予我們的深刻的教導，永遠不會忘記您在課堂上精彩的講解，幻想的文學殿堂，神祕的數學王國，生動的英語遊戲，有趣的電腦程式……
再見了，美麗的校園——我們成長的搖籃。
再見了，敬愛的老師——我們心中永遠的太陽。
老師啊，母校啊，請您放心，無論走到哪裡，我們將永遠以母校為榮，牢記您的教誨，不辜負母校對我們的期望，更加努力、刻苦學習，大膽實踐，勇於創新，以優異的成績回報老師，回報母校，回報社會。
我代表六年級所有畢業生再次向我們的老師致以最誠摯的感謝和最崇高的敬禮。
祝願我們的老師永遠健康、年輕。
祝願我們的母校明天更加輝煌!
我的演講完畢，謝謝大家。
尊敬的各位領導、敬愛的老師們、可愛的孩子們：
大家好!
今天，我們懷著無比喜悅的心情，在這裡隆重舉行城關國小xx級學生畢業典禮，我代表全體老師，向在座的400多名同學表示熱烈地祝賀!向辛勤耕耘的班主任、任課教師表示衷心的感謝!咱們敬愛的劉校長、同校長、苗校長等學校領導對我們這一級畢業班尤其重視，連續幾次召開畢業班會議，為我們悉心指導，排憂解難，並對我們的畢業考試和升學考試充滿了信心。在此，孩子們，讓我們用熱烈的掌聲感謝我們的領導!同時，我們全體六年級老師為你們即將跨入中學這個大熔爐裡，將結識到更加優秀的老師，更加親密的同學，接受更好的教育，得到更好的發展而表示熱烈的祝賀!
此時此刻，我想每位同學心裡都會有快樂和悲傷兩種感覺。一方面為自己即將要面對的嶄新生活而高興，另一方面又為我們即將離開與你朝夕相處的老師、同學而悲傷。我們今天的畢業典禮既代表著我們六年國小生活的結束，又標誌著每位同學的一段新的人生經歷的開始。孩子們，六年的國小生活給我們帶來了什麼呢?我想除了知識和能力以外，它給我們帶來的最寶貴的就是一個個美好的回憶。在我寫這篇發言稿時，又回憶起了一幅幅精彩的畫面：早讀時你們專心致志讀書的場景;運動場上你們矯健的身影;奪冠時臉上洋溢的笑容;考場上皺眉凝思的表情，當然還有你們的天真和頑皮……這些畫面是你們離開城小後送給老師們最珍貴的禮物。我們的母校也留給了你們太多，太多：一流完備的教學設施，高素質的教師隊伍，安全可靠的保障體系，為同學們的健康成長保駕護航。這些都緣於我們學校領導的高瞻遠矚，老師們辛勤的付出，忘我的奉獻。正是因為有了這些，我們才得到了全面的發展，收穫了累累的碩果，收穫了濃濃的師生情。
俗話說，“知恩必報”，但是孩子們，你們知道嗎?在座的老師最想得到的回報是什麼嗎?那麼讓我告訴你們，不是金銀財寶，不是綾羅綢緞!僅僅只是大家從心底喊出的一聲“謝謝老師”!來，大家起立，請讓我們一起發自肺腑地道一聲“謝謝您，老師!”
臨別時，我想給大家幾條贈言：一、要樹立長期或短期的目標，要有清醒的頭腦，比學趕幫超，時時刻刻不放鬆自己;二、繼續發揚“刻苦求實”精神，不斷學習，勤於實踐，勇於創新。希望在今後的日子裡，堅持學習，只有不斷的學習才能不斷的提高，才能跟上時代的發展，才能使你以後不管做什麼工作都能得心應手，取得成功和勝利!(演講稿)三、要腳踏實地，從小事做起，從一點一滴做起，克服好高騖遠的不良作風。在前進的道路上難免會遇到各種各樣的困難，希望大家要有充分的思想準備，要有百折不撓、堅韌不拔的意志。四、盡心付出與心存感激，在你力所能及去幫助別人的同時，更不能忘記曾經熱心幫助過你的每一個人!
“感恩的心，感謝有你，伴我一生讓我有勇氣做我自己。”孩子們，我提議，讓我們懷著一顆感恩的心，對我們的母校說一聲，請跟我來，“我幸福在城關國小成長!今天我以城關國小為榮，明天城關國小以我為榮!”
孩子們，在你求學生涯中，你要面臨一次次，一場場小型或大型的考試或比賽，畢業考試的號角聲即將吹響，我們全體老師的心與你們一起跳動。愛拼才會贏!只要我們努力拼搏，就能取得成功。
最後衷心的祝願你們學業成功!人生成功!歡迎大家以後常回家看看。謝謝大家!
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