dare to compete. dare to care. dare to dream. dare to love. practice the art of making possible. and no matter what happens, even if you hear shouts behind, keep going.
it is such an honor and pleasure for me to be back at yale, especially on the occasion of the 300th anniversary. i have had so many memories of my time here, and as nick was speaking i thought about how i ended up at yale law school. and it tells a little bit about how much progress we’ve made.
what i think most about when i think of yale is not just the politically charged atmosphere and not even just the superb legal education that i received. it was at yale that i began work that has been at the core of what i have cared about ever since. i began working with new haven legal services representing children. and i studied child development, abuse and neglect at the yale new haven hospital and the child study center. i was lucky enough to receive a civil rights internship with marian wright edelman at the children’s defense fund, where i went to work after i graduated. those experiences fueled in me a passion to work for the benefit of children, particularly the most vulnerable.
now, looking back, there is no way that i could have predicted what path my life would have taken. i didn’t sit around the law school, saying, well, you know, i think i’ll graduate and then i’ll go to work at the children’s defense fund, and then the impeachment inquiry, and nixon retired or resigns, i’ll go to arkansas. i didn’t think like that. i was taking each day at a time.
but, i’ve been very fortunate because i’ve always had an idea in my mind about what i thought was important and what gave my life meaning and purpose. a set of values and beliefs that have helped me navigate the shoals, the sometimes very treacherous sea, to illuminate my own true desires, despite that others say about what l should care about and believe in. a passion to succeed at what l thought was important and children have always provided that lone star, that guiding light. because l have that absolute conviction that every child, especially in this, the most blessed of nations that has ever existed on the face of earth, that every child deserves the opportunity to live up to his or her god-given potential.
but you know that belief and conviction-it may make for a personal mission statement, but standing alone, not translated into action, it means very little to anyone else, particularly to those for whom you have those concerns.
when i was thinking about running for the united states senate-which was such an enormous decision to make, one i never could have dreamed that i would have been making when i was here on campus-i visited a school in new york city and i met a young woman, who was a star athlete.
i was there because of billy jean king promoting an hbo special about women in sports called “dare to compete.” it was about title ix and how we finally, thanks to government action, provided opportunities to girls and women in sports.
and although i played not very well at intramural sports, i have always been a strong supporter of women in sports. and i was introduced by this young woman, and as i went to shake her hand she obviously had been reading the newspapers about people saying i should or shouldn’t run for the senate. and i was congratulating her on the speech she had just made and she held onto my hand and she said, “dare to compete, mrs. clinton. dare to compete.”
i took that to heart because it is hard to compete sometimes, especially in public ways, when your failures are there for everyone to see and you don’t know what is going to happen from one day to the next. and yet so much of life, whether we like to accept it or not, is competing with ourselves to be the best we can be, being involved in classes or professions or just life, where we know we are competing with others.
i took her advice and i did compete because i chose to do so. and the biggest choices that you’ll face in your life will be yours alone to make. 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 competition that is too often characterized by what is driving america today. i mean the small voice inside you that says to you, you can do it, you can take this risk, you can take this next step.
and it doesn’t mean that once having made that choice you will always succeed. in fact, you won’t. there are setbacks and you will experience difficult disappointments. you will be slowed down and sometimes the breath will just be knocked out of you. but if you carry with you the values and beliefs that you can make a difference in your own life, first and foremost, and then in the lives of others. you can get back up, you can keep going.
but it is also important, as i have found, not to take yourself too seriously, because after all, every one of us here today, none of us is deserving of full credit. i think every day of the blessings my birth gave me without any doing of my own. i chose neither my family nor my country, but they as much as anything i’ve ever done, determined my course.
you compare my or your circumstances with those of the majority of people who’ve ever lived or who are living right now, they too often are born knowing too well what their futures will be. they lack the freedom to choose their life’s path. they’re imprisoned by circumstances of poverty and ignorance, bigotry, disease, hunger, oppression and war.
so, dare to compete, yes, but maybe even more difficult, dare to care. dare to care about people who need our help to succeed and fulfill their own lives. there are so many out there and sometimes all it takes is the simplest of gestures or helping hands and many of you understand that already. i know that the numbers of graduates in the last 20 years have worked in community organizations, have tutored, have committed themselves to religious activities.
you have been there trying to serve because you have believed both that it was the right thing to do and because it gave something back to you. you have dared to care.
well, dare to care to fight for equal justice for all, for equal pay for women, against hate crimes and bigotry. dare to care about public schools without qualified teachers or adequate resources. dare to care about protecting our environment. dare to care about the 10 million children in our country who lack health insurance. dare to care about the one and a half million children who have a parent in jail. the seven million people who suffer from hiv/aids. and thank you for caring enough to demand that our nation do more to help those that are suffering throughout this world with hiv/aids, to prevent this pandemic from spreading even further.
and i’ll also add, dare enough to care about our political process. you know, as i go and speak with students i’m impressed so much, not only in formal settings, on campuses, but with my daughter and her friends, about how much you care, about how willing you are to volunteer and serve. you may have missed the last wave of the dot.com revolution, but you’ve understood that the dot.community revolution is there for you every single day. and you’ve been willing to be part of remarking lives in our community.
and yet, there is a real resistance, a turning away from the political process. i hope that some of you will be public servants and will even run for office yourself, not to win a position to make and impression on your friends at your 20th reunion, but because you understand how important it is for each of us as citizens to make a commitment to our democracy.
your generation, the first one born after the social upheavals of the 60’s and 70’s, in the midst of the technological advances of the 80’s and 90’s, are inheriting an economy, a society and a government that has yet to understand fully, or even come to grips with, our rapidly changing world.
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, multiple channels, multiple websites and multiple lifestyles. you’ve grown up choosing among alternatives that were either not imagined, created or available to people in prior generations.
you’ve been invested with far more personal power to customize your life, to make more free choices about how to live than was ever thought possible. and i think as i look at all the surveys and research that is done, your choices reflect not only freedom, but personal responsibility.
the social indicators, not the headlines, the social indicators tell a positive story: drug use and cheating and arrests being down, been pregnancy and suicides, drunk driving deaths being down. community service and religious involvement being up. but if you look at the area of voting among 18 to 29 year olds, the numbers tell a far more troubling tale. many of you i know believe that service and community volunteerism is a better way of solving the issues facing our country than political engagement, because you believe-choose one of the following multiples or choose them all-government either can’t understand or won’t make the right choices because of political pressures, inefficiency, incompetence or big money influence.
well, i admit there is enough truth in that critique to justify feeling disconnected and alienated. but at bottom, that’s a personal cop-out and a national peril. political conditions maximize the conditions for individual opportunity and responsibility as well as community. americorps and the peace corps exist because of political decisions. our air, water, land and food will be clean and safe because of political choices. our ability to cure disease or log onto the internet have been advanced because of politically determined investments. ethnic cleansing in kosovo ended because of political leadership. your parents and grandparents traveled here by means of government built and subsidized transportation systems. many used gi bills or government loans, as i did, to attend college.
now, i could, as you might guess, go on and on, but the point is to remind us all that government is us and each generation has to stake its claim. and, as stakeholders, you will have to decide whether or not to make the choice to participate. it is hard and it is, bringing change in a democracy, particularly now. there’s so much about our modern times that conspire to lower our sights, to weaken our vision-as individuals and communities and even nations.
it is not the vast conspiracy you may have heard about; rather it’s a silent conspiracy of cynicism and indifference and alienation that we see every day, in our popular culture and in our prodigious consumerism.
but as many have said before and as vaclav havel has said to memorably, “it cannot suffice just to invent new machines, new regulations and new institutions. it is necessary to understand differently and more perfectly the true purpose of our existence on this earth and of our deeds.” and i think we are called on to reject, in this time of blessings that we enjoy, those who will tear us apart and tear us down and instead to liberate our god-given spirit, by being willing to dare to dream of a better world.
during my campaign, when times were tough and days were long i used to think about the example of harriet tubman, a heroic new yorker, a 19th century moses, who risked her life to bring hundreds of slaves to freedom. she would say to those who she gathered up in the south where she kept going back year after year from the safety of auburn, new york, that no matter what happens, they had to keep going. if they heard shouts behind them, they had to keep going. if they heard gunfire or dogs, they had to keep going to freedom. well, those aren’t the risks we face. it is more the silence and apathy and indifference that dogs our heels.
thirty-two years ago, i spoke at my own graduation from wellesley, where i did call on my fellow classmates to reject the notion of limitations on our ability to effect change and instead to embrace the idea that the goal of education should be human liberation and the freedom to practice with all the skill of our being the art of making possible.
for after all, our fate is to be free. to choose competition over apathy, caring over indifference, vision over myopia, and love over hate.
just as this is a special time in your lives, it is for me as well because my daughter will be graduating in four weeks, graduating also from a wonderful place with a great education and beginning a new life. and as i think about all the parents and grandparents who are out there, i have a sense of what their feeling. their hearts are leaping with joy, but it’s hard to keep tears in check because the presence of our children at a time and place such as this is really a fulfillment of our own american dreams. well, i applaud you and all of your love, commitment and hard work, just as i applaud your daughters and sons for theirs.
and i leave these graduates with the same message i hope to leave with my graduate. dare to compete. dare to care. dare to dream. dare to love. practice the art of making possible. and no matter what happens, even if you hear shouts behind, keep going.
thank you and god bless you all.
ladies and gentlemen, good morning. it’s my great honor to be here and i am very happy to see you all. thank you for being here. what i am going to talk about today is how to speak good english. making
first of all, i’d like to talk about the importance of speaking good english and share my experience in learning english with you. as you know, english has become an international language. wherever you go, english is always commonly used. it is convenient to know the language. at the same time, english may be the most important factor in deciding which countries are leaders in the future. the language of the most advanced management and technology is undoubtedly english. being able to absorb this information is really the key to the new century. in the 21century. we can’t go there and speak our own language because nobody is going to learn it in order to understand us. our asian rival, india, has surged ahead of other developing countries in information technology because of its superior english skills. unlewe are able to master english, we will not be able to get our population to use it and take advantage of the new economy. there is an urgent need to have a workforce which is proficient in the language in view of the information technology onslaught.
second, about learning english, i think laying a strong foundation is the first and most important step. in other words, you should read and speak english every day. memorizing new words and phrases is also helpful. of course, learning english takes some time, so don’t be impatient. remember, rome wasn’t built in a day. and then since english is not our native tongue, we must develop the muscles of your speech organs to produce unfamiliar sounds. when you read, read as loudly as possible, as clearly as possible and as quickly as possible. tongue muscles’ training is of importance in learning any foreign language.
third, if you want to speak good english, please don’t care how poorly well you speak, only care about catching the chances to speak. you must enjoy losing face, just forget about your face. the more you speak, the better your english will become. the more mistakes you make, the more progreyou will make. you must enjoy speaking poor english, because speaking is the only thing that will lead you towards success. don’t give up. just try your best. every time you move your mouth, your memory will deepen, your muscles will strengthen. you can make it.
i have made a considerable amounts of public english speaking in my life, i am often asked why the crazy english method is better than other methods or if the crazy english method will help all english learners. my answer is, the method will help the english learners because it is a perfect match with the chinese principles of diligence, self-help and determination. mere exposure to english will not enable you to speak english. if you want to drive you have to get in the car and drive, if you want to dance you have to turn on the music and dance, if you want to swim you have to jump in the water and swim. in fact, swimming is the perfect comparison to learning english. you can’t learn to swim by sitting in a room and reading books about swimming skills. in order to be a swimmer you’ve got to conquer you fear, you’ve got to survive and suck in water, yell for help, you’ve got to lose face many times before you can make it. but, to be a good swimmer you’ve got to practice again and again. to be a great swimmer you have to practice for years until you can harmonize every part of your body and mind.
finally, i want to greet you and encourage you to seize this unique opportunity to conquer english and make lifelong friends from all over our college. as you know, we are human beings ,not animals. we know what we want to do. we know our destiny is in our hands. with hard work and determination, we can do anything we set our mind to do. today, i will accompany you every minute on this unique journey. i want you to open your heart, i want you to be devoted, i want you to be crazy, i want you to forget about your face, i want to open your mouth wildly, i want you conquer your lazineand all the other human weaknesses, i want you to overcome all the obstacles that hold you back.
i want to share your joy and i want to share your struggle, but most important of all, i want to share your glory and victory. we are the future of china, the future of asian, and the future of the world. we desire to win, we must win, we will win, absolutely, definitely, and without any doubt! form a painfully shy boy who felt terrible about himself, who regarded himself as human trash, a born loser, to an internationally recognized english promoter, i made it. so i strongly believe that you will make it too. i have confidence in you.
尊敬的各位評審、各位老師：
大家好！今天，我演講的題目是：當一名人民教師，今生無悔。
人們常說：“教師是人類靈魂的工程師” 、“教師，是太陽底下最光輝的職業” 、“教師就像蠟燭，燃燒自己，照亮別人”、 “師者，所以傳道、授業、解惑也”。
還記得，我小時候很調皮，經常愛捉弄同學，班主任老師不厭其煩、語重心長地教育我，（要我）堅持不懈、永不放棄，使我重新樹立了學習的自信心。從此，我開始尊敬老師，老師在我的心目中占據了神聖的地位。在高三（高中畢業參加）聯考的時候（後），我毅然地報讀了師範專業，也如願以償地考上華南師範學院。在大學校園裡，師生亦師亦友，老師們要求我不僅僅是當一名學生，更要（我）時刻牢記：自己將來就是一名（人民）教師，要（我）以一名優秀教師的身份來約束（要求）自己、規範自己。從心底里，我真心地感謝所有曾經教過我的老師，他們在我人生的每一個階段都給予了（我）深遠的影響，給我樹立了榜樣，把我教育成今天這樣一個正直善良、有責任心、對社會有用的人。
帶著夢想、帶著期待，XX年9月，我終於成為了一名光榮的人民教師。初為人師，我躊躇滿志，對教育、對學生充滿了無限的熱忱，心裡既緊張又興奮，既榮幸又滿足。其實，在畢業前的一個晚上，（我）和宿舍的同學們討論著畢業後的去向，大家都說自己希望到外企去實現自己的價值，這樣才不會“浪費”自己專業的優勢。說實話，我也想過去外面的世界看看，見見大世（場）面。但當我第一天走進教室，面對著一群燦爛的"小太陽"，面對幾十雙渴求知識、純潔的眼睛，聽學生叫我“老師”時，我突然感到“老師”這兩個的份量。我第一次為自己的選擇感到欣喜。這由知識、情感、理想、信念匯成的三尺講台，是多么神聖！我清楚地意識到，我的一舉一動將會影響這些孩子的一生。
每天早晨，我都會看到很多老師早早就來到了學校，開始了一天教學工作的準備；傍晚，當送走了最後一批離校的學生後，依然能看到辦公室里亮著的電燈（光），那是還在伏案疾書（工作）的老師在總結一天的教學後記。學校里，他們自信從容，課堂上，他們神采飛揚，有時，為了工作，他們來不及照顧年邁的父母，來不及輔導年幼的孩子，他們心中裝著的（，）是寫也寫不完的教案，改也改不完的作業。我曾經問過我們的級組長：“你們這樣辛勤地工作，圖的是什麼？”級組長笑了笑說：“年輕人，只要我們在教育崗位上做一天的老師，就要勤勤懇懇、敬業愛崗，對得起我們的學生，對得起我們的選擇（職責）！生命的意義遠不止於功利！”
短短的幾句話，讓我豁然開朗。是啊，他們從不豪言壯語，卻默默奉獻，用真情溫暖了許多人。在他們幾十年的教學生涯中，早已把愛崗敬業的風範無言傳遞，用老教育工作者的勤勉示範年輕的我們，把教書育人的精髓薪火相傳。
歲月匆匆，轉眼間，我即將度過教師生涯的第一個學年。暮然回首，我切身體會到了作為一名教師平凡而煩瑣的生活，體會到了工作的艱辛和巨大的壓力。俗話說得好：不愛崗就會下崗，不敬業就會失業！愛崗敬業說得具體點，就是要做好本職工作，把一點一滴的小事做好，把一分一秒的時間抓牢。
現在，我開始喜歡走在路上，聽孩子們遠遠地叫我“老師好”；我開始喜歡坐在案前，拆開一個個裝滿祝願的信封；我開始喜歡登上講台，看台下幾十雙期待和信任的目光；我開始喜歡拿起粉筆，開啟孩子們的智慧之門……我將會珍惜我的學生，是他們的期盼，給了我激情；是他們的仰慕，給了我信心；是他們的思念，讓我甘守清貧。
全國著名（的）特級教師於漪曾說過：“如果人的生命有一百次，而且每次都可以讓自己選擇職業，那么我將一百次地選擇教師——這個太陽底下最光輝的職業！”（這是）多么感人肺腑的話語！
如今，面對我深愛的孩子們，面對我摯愛的教育事業，我也要深情地說出我的心裡話：“三尺講台，（是）我無悔的選擇；當一名光榮的人民教師，今生無悔！
我的演講完畢，謝謝大家。
各位嘉賓好！大家好，我是華策影視的創始人趙依芳。今天這個舞台給我，讓我來分享一下我的人生和創業的一些體會。
人生的過程也很簡單，可能就幾次“duang”就走到了今天，其實因為大家可能都知道我原來是在一個縣城的機關里工作，是92年下海的。那個時間點，其實我有一份很好的工作，也有一個很好的家庭，但是確實有一天突然有個念頭：人生是不是就這樣了？就有半年時間的糾結，應該來創業，應該出來看看世界後面是不是不一樣。
因為如果我在那個地方我可能一輩子就那樣走下去了，今天可能就是退居二線的一個女幹部。那時候已經30多歲了，30多歲從一個縣城隻身一人跑到杭州，然後是住在就我們演播室對面的銀星賓館，一樓是辦公室，樓上是我的住房。
租了幾個房間，但是開始的時候不覺得怎么樣，後來慢慢慢慢時間長了，其實是有一種非常恐懼的不安全感，就是你覺得白天來上班也在這個房間，晚上回去樓梯爬上去也在那個房間，就是特別特別不安全感。所以這個人那個時間點就壓力很大，所以那個時間點差點要跑回去了。
但是人生中最大的意外的“duang”我覺得我應該是我把華策去做上市。XX年以後，國家有支持文化產業，那那個時間點想想，其它的產業都在做上市，那文化產業會不會也是可以去做資本市場、去上市、去想想看？那後來也是在三四個月的一個考察了解這個過程中，也是突然說我們來做一下，做不成沒有關係，做成可能是一個新鮮的事。但是不知道上市以後乾什麼，不知道、真的不知道，就是覺得這是一個新鮮的事，可以使我的事情做的更大一些，或者資金方方面面、品牌啊得到保障。
所以我印象中，上市這個事情可能對我來說是比較重要的，就是平時你要有很多的去積累，去想你的過程、你的人生有意義的或者你喜歡的事情是什麼，但是在決定的時候可能要從你的心出發，從你的感知出發，要做一些一剎那的決定。因為我們現在每年的電視劇的產量是1000集，電影的產量是10部以上，因為我們這種創意產業很重要的是感覺，那我想它這個感覺其實就是一剎那的那種碰撞。比如說當時選陳數《傾城之戀》的時候，因為我們《傾城之戀》又是張愛玲的、又是鄒靜之老師的劇本，包括中央台之內，好多衛視都盯了這個項目，所以演員這塊真的是由你選。
但是當時陳數也不是特別大的牌，在這個戲之前她沒有演過女一號，但是也是你在看很多很多角色的時候，你發現她的那種氣質、那種內秀，就是你跟她溝通，對那個劇本對那個角色的執著和理解，發現她就是白流蘇。
那也是排除很多現在經常要選的那些大咖，那就把陳數給放到這個女一號角色---白流蘇。像陳數她有一場戲，她如果心裡過不去的時候，她會跟導演掰斥，然後又去找編劇，打長途電話去討論這個角色。他表達的內心是什麼、表達的性格是什麼，她會去很認真很認真去做這個事情。
所以讓你體會到你面對這樣演員的時候，你其實心裡是很安慰的。因為你找到了好的演員，所以你拍出來的戲觀眾一定會覺得她不是在演戲。真的，她是用她的內心在跟你說故事、在跟你表達她的情感。但後來出來以後陳數我記得有一次她演話劇，她給我寄了一個請柬，請柬裡邊寫了一段話，她說是你成全了我，所以我成為了白流蘇。所以我就感覺特別親切、特別親切，所以我覺得這個演員很重要的是藝德和勤奮。
那你會不會紅跟人會不會成功是一樣的，那你人的話我覺得每個人你都有你的擅長。比如有些人特別細心；有些人可能動手能力特彆強；有些人就是口才特別好，那你就要把這個發揮到極致，你把你的優勢發揮到極致，你的人生一定會成功。就是你會在各個角度、各個領域、各個層面使你成功，我覺得我是這個體會。
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