【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 the terror that he shall tumble, and will ride whither he is bound.”Failure? No!Just Temporary SetbacksDottie Walters If you could e to my office in California to visit with me today, you would see that one side of the room is occupied by a beautiful oldfashioned soda fountain with nine leathercovered ? if that soda fountain could speak, it would tell you a story about the day I almost lost hope and gave was a recession period after World War II and jobs were husband had purchased a small dry cleaning business with borrowed had two darling babies, a tract house, a car and all the usual monthly the bottom fell was no money for the house payments or anything I felt that I had no special talent, no training, no college didn?t think much of I remembered someone in my past who had thought I had a little ability — my high school English had inspired me to take a course in journalism and named me advertising manager and feature editor of the school thought, “Now if I could write a ?shoppers Column? for the small weekly newspaper in our rural town, maybe I could earn that house I had no car and no one to look after my two I took them with me to the newspaper office, pushing them before me in an old brokendown baby stroller with a big pillow tied in the wheel kept ing off, but I hit it back on with the heel of my shoe and kept was determined that my children would not lose their home as I often had as a at the newspaper office, there were no jobs I got an asked if I might buy advertising space at wholesale and sell it at retail as a “shoppers Column.” They newspaper column idea made enough money for the house payment and to buy an old used I hired a high school girl to look after my children from three to five each the clock struck three, I grabbed my advertising samples and flew out of the door to drive to my But on one dark rainy afternoon every advertising prospect I had worked on turned me down when I went to pick up their “Why?” I said they had noticed that Ruben Ahlman, the president of the Chamber of Commerce and the owner of a big drugstore, didn?t advertise with store was the most popular in respected his judgment.“There must be something wrong with your advertising,” they heart four ads would have been enough for the monthly house I thought, I?ll try to speak with one more loves and respects he?ll time I?d tried to approach him in the past, he had refused to see I knew that if he advertised with me, the other merchants in town would follow his As I walked into ?s drugstore, he was there at the prescription smiled my best smile and said, “Everyone respects your opinion, you just look at my work for a moment so that I can tell the other merchants what you think?”Without saying a word he firmly shook his head “no”.Suddenly all of my enthusiasm left made it as far as the beautiful old soda fountain at the front of the drugstore, feeling that I didn?t have the strength to drive didn?t want to sit at the soda fountain without buying something, so I ordered a wondered desperately what to my babies lose their home as I had so many times when I was growing up? Was my English teacher wrong? My eyes filled with soft voice beside me said, “What?s the matter, dear?” I looked up into the sympathetic face of a lovely grayhaired poured out my story to her, ending it with, “But , who everyone respects so much, refuses to look at my work.” 14 “Let me see that Shoppers Column,” she took my marked issue of the newspaper in her hands and carefully read my column all the way she stood up, looked back at the prescription counter and in a manding voice, said, ”Ruben Ahlman, e here!” The lady was !She told Ruben to buy some advertising from mouth turned up in a big she asked me for the names of the four merchants who had turned me went to the phone and called each gave me a hug and told me they were waiting for and Vivian Ahlman became our dear friends, as well as steady advertising learned that Ruben was a darling man who bought from had promised Vivian not to buy any more advertising, and in turning me down he was just trying to keep his word to I had only asked others in town, I might have learned that I should have been talking to from the conversation at the soda fountain was the turning advertising business thrived and grew into four offices, with 285 employees serving 4,000 Later when modernized the old drug store and removed the soda fountain, my husband bought it and installed it in my you were here, we?d sit at the soda fountain ?d pour you a Coke and remind you to never give up, to remember that help is always closer than we I would tell you that if you can?t municate with a key person, search for more another for someone who can municate for , finally, I would offer you the sparkling, refreshing words of Bill Marriott of the Marriott Hotels: “Failure? I?ve never encountered I ever met were temporary setbacks.”第二篇：（范文）上的演講對于我這樣一個已經(jīng)42歲的人來說，回頭看自己21歲大學畢業(yè)時的情景，并不是一件舒服的事情。那時，我一直在自己內(nèi)心的追求與親人對我的要求之間，進行抗爭。我曾確信自己唯一想做的事情是寫小說，但我的父母都來自貧窮的家庭，他們希望我去讀一個能學到專業(yè)技能的學位，而我想去攻讀英國文學。最后，達成了一個雙方都不甚滿意的妥協(xié)：我改學外語?？墒堑雀改敢浑x開，我立刻報名學習古典文學。我忘了自己是怎么把學古典文學的事情告訴父母的了，他們也可能是在我畢業(yè)那天才第一次發(fā)現(xiàn)。在這個星球上的所有科目中，他們很難再發(fā)現(xiàn)一門比希臘文學更沒用的課程了。我想說明，我并沒有因為父母的這些觀點而抱怨他們。他們希望我能擺脫貧窮，因為貧窮會引起恐懼、壓力，有時候甚至是沮喪。這意味著心胸狹窄、卑微低下和很多艱難困苦。通過自己的努力擺脫貧窮，確實是件很值得自豪的事，只有傻瓜才對貧窮本身夸夸其談?？梢哉f，僅僅在我畢業(yè)７年后，我經(jīng)歷了一次巨大的失敗。我突然間結(jié)束了一段短暫的婚姻，失去了工作。作為單身媽媽，而且在這個現(xiàn)代化的英國，除了不是無家可歸，你可以說我要多窮就有多窮。父母對我的擔心以及我對自己的擔心，都成了現(xiàn)實，從任何一個通常的標準來看，這都是我的最大失敗。我不是站在這里和你們說“失敗”很好玩。那么我為什么還要談論失敗的收益呢？那是因為失敗后我找到了自我，我開始把所有的精力都放在我關心的工作上。如果我在其他方面成功過，我可能就不會下決心在自己喜歡的領域獲得成功。我變得從容，因為我已經(jīng)歷過最大的恐懼。而且我還活著，我有一個值得自豪的女兒，一個陳舊的打字機和很不錯的寫作靈感。我在失敗堆積而成的硬石般的基礎上，開始重筑我的人生（此后，《哈利?波特》系列——編者注）。失敗給了我內(nèi)心的安寧，這種安寧是不會從一帆風順的經(jīng)歷中得到的。失敗讓我認識自己，這些無法從其他地方學到。我發(fā)現(xiàn)自己有堅強的意志，而且，自我控制能力比自己想象的還要強，我也發(fā)現(xiàn)自己擁有比紅寶石更珍貴的朋友。除非遭受磨難，你不會真正認識自己，也無法知道你和朋友之間的關系有多鐵。這些才是失敗饋贈給你的真正的禮物。（本文是《哈利?波特》的作者羅琳在哈佛大學XX年畢業(yè)典禮上的演講辭）第三篇：JK羅琳哈佛畢業(yè)演講——不要害怕失敗（最終版）://ares, literal nightmares, about some of the things I saw, heard and ，