奥普拉哈佛毕业典礼演讲稿

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奥普拉哈佛毕业典礼演讲：人生唯一目标就是做真实的自己 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. 温弗瑞演讲中4条最励志的语录谈失败的好处

there is no such thing as failure. failure is just life trying to move us in another

direction.

世间并不存在“失败”，那不过是生活想让我们换个方向走走罢了。 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

从错误中吸取教训，因为你的每一次经历、尤其是你犯下的错误，都将帮助你、推动你更好

地做自己。

2. on her own biggest personal failure. 谈自身最大的失败

我突然想到某首古老赞美诗中的一句话：“困难只是暂时的”，我遇到的麻烦同样会有结

束的一天。然后我想，我会将这一页翻过去，我会好起来的。谈职业生涯所做访谈的共同性 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? 我发现，我所有的访谈有一个共同性，那就是人人都希望自己被认可、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?我的采访对象都想知道：“我的表现ok吗？你听到我看到我吗？我说的话对你有价值

吗？”

4. on the key to success and happiness. 谈成功和快乐的关键

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.如果你只认准一个目标，那你就能获得真正的成功和快乐。人生确实只有一个目标，那

就是：最大程度地、最真实地展现自己。 “不要问自己世界需要什么，问问是什么让你精神抖擞地活着，然后就去做，因为世界

所需要的就是一个个朝气蓬勃的人。”篇二：奥普拉哈佛毕业典礼演讲奥普拉哈佛毕业典礼演讲：人生唯一目标就是做真实的自己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. hey 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：奥普拉2013年哈佛大学毕业演讲(英文

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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. hey 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 thepessimism 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 enormousopportunity 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 toodisappointed, 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(转载自：www.xiaocaOfaNWen.com 小草范文网:奥普拉哈佛毕业典礼演讲稿) 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. 福斯特主席，哈佛公司和监察委员会的各位成员，各位老师、家长、全体毕业生们： banners and convince myself that i am at the world’s largest gryffindors reunion.

首先请允许我说一声谢谢。哈佛不仅给了我无上的荣誉，连日来为这个演讲经受的恐惧和紧

张，更令我减肥成功。这真是一个双赢的局面。现在我要做的就是深呼吸几下，眯着眼睛看

看前面的大红横幅，安慰自己正在世界上最大的魔法学院聚会上。发表毕业演说是一个巨大的责任，至少在我回忆自己当年的毕业典礼前是这么认为的。

那天做演讲的是英国著名的哲学家baroness mary warnock，对她演讲的回忆，对我写今天

的演讲稿，产生了极大的帮助，因为我不记得她说过的任何一句话了。这个发现让我释然，

让我不再担心我可能会无意中影响你放弃在商业，法律或政治上的大好前途，转而醉心于成

为一个快乐的魔法师。

你们看，如果在若干年后你们还记得“快乐的魔法师”这个笑话，那就证明我已经超越

了baroness mary warnock。建立可实现的目标——这是提高自我的第一步。 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 whatimportant lessons i have learned in the 21 years that has expired between that

day and this.

实际上，我为今天应该和大家谈些什么绞尽了脑汁。我问自己什么是我希望早在毕业典

礼上就该了解的，而从那时起到现在的21年间，我又得到了什么重要的启示。我想到了两个答案。在这美好的一天，当我们一起庆祝你们取得学业成就的时刻，我希

望告诉你们失败有什么样的益处；在你们即将迈向“现实生活”的道路之际，我还要褒扬想

象力的重要性。

these may seem quixotic or paradoxical choices, but bear with me. 这些似乎是不切实际或自相矛盾的选择，但请先容我讲完。looking back at the 21-year-old that i was at graduation, is a slightly 回顾21岁刚刚毕业时的自己，对于今天42岁的我来说，是一个稍微不太舒服的经历。

可以说，我人生的前一部分，一直挣扎在自己的雄心和身边的人对我的期望之间。 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 could never pay a mortgage, or

secure a pension.

我一直深信，自己唯一想做的事情，就是写小说。不过，我的父母，他们都来自贫穷的

背景，没有任何一人上过大学，坚持认为我过度的想象力是一个令人惊讶的个人怪癖，根本

不足以让我支付按揭，或者取得足够的养老金。 i know the irony strikes like with the force of a cartoon anvil now, but? 我现在明白反讽就像用卡通铁砧去打击你，但...他们希望我去拿个职业学位，而我想去攻读英国文学。最后，达成了一个双方都不甚满

意的妥协：我改学现代语言。可是等到父母一走开，我立刻放弃了德语而报名学习古典文学。

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. 我不记得将这事告诉了父母，他们可能是在我毕业典礼那一天才发现的。我想，在全世

界的所有专业中，他们也许认为，不会有比研究希腊神话更没用的专业了，根本无法换来一

间独立宽敞的卫生间。 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 ennoblingexperience.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.我想澄清一下：我不会因为父母的观点，而责怪他们。埋怨父母给你指错方向是有一个

时间段的。当你成长到可以控制自我方向的时候，你就要自己承担责任了。尤其是，我不会

因为父母希望我不要过穷日子，而责怪他们。他们一直很贫穷，我后来也一度很穷，所以我

很理解他们。贫穷并不是一种高贵的经历，它带来恐惧、压力、有时还有绝望，它意味着许

许多多的羞辱和艰辛。靠自己的努力摆脱贫穷，确实可以引以自豪，但贫穷本身只有对傻瓜

而言才是浪漫的。

what i feared most for myself at your age was not poverty, but failure. 我在你们这个年龄，最害怕的不是贫穷，而是失败。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. 我在您们这么大时，明显缺乏在大学学习的动力，我花了太久时间在咖啡吧写故事，而

在课堂的时间却很少。我有一个通过考试的诀窍，并且数年间一直让我在大学生活和同龄人

中不落人后。

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 uuffled privilege and contentment. 我不想愚蠢地假设，因为你们年轻、有天份，并且受过良好的教育，就从来没有遇到困

难或心碎的时刻。拥有才华和智慧，从来不会使人对命运的反复无常有免疫（直译）；我也不

会假设大家坐在这里冷静地满足于自身的优越感。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 persons idea of success, so high have you already flown

academically.

相反，你们是哈佛毕业生的这个事实，意味着你们并不很了解失败。你们也许极其渴望

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