Top 15 Stanford Commencement Speech Quotes
#1. He who is conversant with the supernal powers will not worship these inferior deities of the wind, waves, tide, and sunshine. Butwe would not disparage the importance of such calculations as we have described. They are truths in physics because they are true in ethics.
Henry David Thoreau
#2. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.
[Stanford University commencement speech, 2005]
Steve Jobs
#3. The history of horror movies goes back a long way ... of people trying to convincingly be terrified when looking at a piece of tape on the side of the camera box. I have a whole new respect for it.
Josh Hamilton
#4. One of my favorite first sentences of a
book is from Rebecca, Last night I dreamt
I went to Manderley again.
Daphne Du Maurier
#5. Probably the sexiest woman I know is my mother.
Shia Labeouf
#7. Continuity is how you build a physique,
Frank Zane
#8. Knowledge is learning something from every observation; wisdom is learning to use that knowledge with love.
Debasish Mridha
#10. Once you've been touched by the land, the wind never blows so cold again, because your love files the edges off it.
W.P. Kinsella
#11. That strain again! It had a dying fall:
O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound
That breathes upon a bank of violets,
Stealing and giving odour! Enough; no more:
'Tis not so sweet as it was before.
William Shakespeare
#12. What we pay attention to expands. What we pay attention to we become.
Brenda Shoshanna
#13. With access to everything, we can dabble without really knowing. I am not bemoaning a diminishing awareness of references, but it's easier than ever to be divorced from both provenance and predecessors, to essentially be a cultural tease. The
Carrie Brownstein
#15. My body is on fire and he is the oxygen keeping it going.
Taylor Thompson
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