【正文】 t and the smarts to go with it39。ve got the diploma, so go out and get the lessons, 39。ve always believed that everything is better when you share it, so before I go, I wanted to share a graduation gift with your seats you39。s A New Earth is my current book club New Earth webcast has been downloaded 30 million times with that Daniel Pink39。m in the right really wanted to give you cars but I just couldn39。08!Thank you第二篇：奧普拉在美國斯坦福大學(xué)畢業(yè)典禮上的演講過去幾周，只要有人問我忙什么?我就說：我準(zhǔn)備去斯坦福大學(xué)演講。其實(shí)，這整個(gè)世界，我們所居住的宇宙，就像個(gè)大教室，等著我們一個(gè)學(xué)分、一個(gè)學(xué)分去學(xué)習(xí)，有時(shí)必須重修、補(bǔ)考，甚至被“當(dāng)?shù)簟?。這跟我今天要談的三件事：感覺、失敗與快樂，息息相關(guān)。到我40歲時(shí)，我很高興當(dāng)時(shí)的美夢并沒成真。先是電視臺要求我改個(gè)名字，改成一個(gè)比較容易記，帶點(diǎn)甜姐兒氣質(zhì)的名字。因此堅(jiān)持不換名字，接著電視主管又說他們不喜歡我的長相。他們把我送進(jìn)美容院，把頭發(fā)燙起來，不消幾天，卷發(fā)全垮下來，怎么梳也不行，我只好全部剃光，重頭來過。雖然我知道記者的職責(zé)，只是記錄報(bào)道。于是我開始在報(bào)道火災(zāi)的同時(shí)，也給災(zāi)民送上毛毯。我一上場，立刻感覺這才是我真正要做的?！案杏X”就像生命中的GpS我要講的第一件事：就是相信你的“感覺”。可是，我們怎么知道是對是錯(cuò)?不要慌，你總是知道的。你的情感會帶領(lǐng)你，竅門是每次做決定先管住你的自我，細(xì)細(xì)問你的心。當(dāng)你不知道該如何做決定時(shí)，靜下來，完全地靜下來，直到你聽見自己內(nèi)心的聲音。今天，個(gè)人成功的路徑不再靠邏輯、規(guī)則、線性思考，而是感情、喜悅、動機(jī)。老實(shí)講，有錢真的不錯(cuò)，我喜歡錢，特別是在買東西的時(shí)候。你不但得有錢，還得讓你的工作有意義，因?yàn)橐饬x能帶給你真正的富足。沒有任何人一生風(fēng)平浪靜接著我要談?wù)勈　７駝t，失敗總是會換一種樣式，繼續(xù)出現(xiàn)在你面前，你得補(bǔ)考，考不過就得再考。我發(fā)現(xiàn)我給她們的，遠(yuǎn)不及她們給我的，那就是樂觀。有首詩寫道：“不要為贏得戰(zhàn)役而活，不要為結(jié)局而活，要為當(dāng)下而活。同時(shí)，詩人也指出：不要只為自己而活。往前行必須有所回饋，生命中最可貴的，就是你能夠回饋。當(dāng)你痛苦，就去幫助痛苦的人。這個(gè)過程，讓你成為團(tuán)體的一份子。這將使你的生命更有價(jià)值，也會讓你感到快樂。第三篇：奧普拉在斯坦福大學(xué)2008年畢業(yè)典禮上的演講奧普拉在斯坦福大學(xué)2008年畢業(yè)典禮上的演講Feelings, Failure and Finding Happiness 感覺、失敗及尋找幸福Thank you, President Hennessy, and to thetrustees and the faculty, to all of the parents and grandparents, to you, the Stanford you for letting me share this amazing day with ，全體教員，家長，還有斯坦福的畢業(yè)生門，非常感謝你們。I need to begin by letting everyone in on a little secret is that Kirby Bumpus, Stanford Class of 39。ve been allowed on campus since Kirby39。這個(gè)秘密就是Kirby Bumpus，斯坦 福2008 年的畢業(yè)生，是我的義女。You see, Kirby39。s first meeting her to know that I know her and she knows , when she first came to Stanford for new student orientation with her mom, I hear that they arrived and everybody was so weling, and somebody came up to Kirby and they said, “Ohmigod, that39。她說，她希望大家通過她自己的努力了 解她，而不是她認(rèn)識誰。當(dāng)她 和她媽媽第一次來到斯坦福參加開學(xué)典禮時(shí)，我聽說每個(gè)人都十分熱情。因?yàn)楹芏嗳硕贾繥ayle King是我最好的朋友。s like, “39?！比缓笕藗冋f：“我的天啊，難道說，你認(rèn)識OprahWinfrey。”I said, “Sort of? You sort of know me?” Well, I have photographic have pictures which I can to you all of Kirby riding horsey with me on all , I more than sortof know Kirby I39。s really nowhere else I39。m so proud of Kirby, who graduates today with two degrees, one in human bio and the other in you, Kirby Cakes!That39。你有一點(diǎn)認(rèn)識我”。我可以把Kirby 和我騎馬時(shí)的照片 給你們。我非常高興來到這里，因?yàn)樗哪?來我第一次來到她的寢室。這就是我多么的了解她。And so proud of her mother and father, who helped her get through this time, and her brother, really had nothing to do with her graduating from Stanford, but every time anybody39。m getting ready to go to Stanford.” 我為她的父母感到驕傲，她的父母給了她很大幫助，還有她的哥哥Will。但是在過去的幾周里，每當(dāng)人們問我在做什么時(shí)，我都會說：“我正 準(zhǔn)備去斯坦?！盜 just love saying “Stanford.” Because the truth is, I know I would have never gotten my degree at all, 39。t go to went to Tennessee State I never would have gotten my diploma at all, because I was supposed to graduate back in 1975, but I was short one I figured, I39。cause, you know, I39。d been in television since I was 19 and a , I was the only television anchor person that had an 11 o39。clock （用一種奇怪的語調(diào)）。我去了Tennessee 州立大學(xué)。我認(rèn)為我還是會忘了這件 事。因?yàn)槲乙呀?jīng)上了電視。我是唯一一個(gè)電視節(jié)目主持人，雖然有11 點(diǎn)的宵禁，卻做著 10 點(diǎn)鐘的新聞。t matter to me, because I was earning a was on my , I thought, I39。d say, “Oprah Gail”—that39。t know what you39。d say, “But, Dad, I have my own television show.” 嚴(yán)肅地說，我爸爸告訴我，“好吧，新聞10：30結(jié)束?！钡沁@對我并不重要，因?yàn)槲乙呀?jīng)自食其力了。所以我想，我不能讓關(guān)于我大學(xué)的那件 事就這么過去，我還少一個(gè)學(xué)分。由于我沒有畢業(yè)，他 總是說：“Oprah Gail（我的中間名字），我不知道沒有學(xué)位你能做些什么?！盇nd he39。t know what you39。d say, ”But, Dad, now I39。d say, ”I don39。re going to get another job without that degree.“ 他說：“好吧，但是我還是不知道沒有那個(gè)學(xué)位你能干什么。他還是說：“我不知道沒有那個(gè)學(xué)位你怎么去找其他的工作。d made a movie, had been nominated for an Oscar and founded my pany, I told them, I cannot e and give a speech unless I can earn one more credit, because my dad39。m not going to get anywhere without that 年，Tennessee州立大學(xué)邀請我回去做他們的畢業(yè)典禮演講。我制作了一部電影，并被奧斯卡提名，而且成立了 我自己的公司Harpo。So, I finished my coursework, I turned in my final paper and I got the my dad was very I know that, if anything happens, that one credit will be my ，我完成了我的課程，上交了我的畢業(yè)論文，然后拿到了學(xué)位。從此我知道，無論什么事發(fā)生，那一個(gè)學(xué)分是我的救世主But I also know why my dad was insisting on that diploma, because, as put it, ”The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take that away from you.“ And learning is really in the broadest sense what I want to talk about today, because your education, of course, isn39。s only just ，因?yàn)?，：“關(guān)于學(xué)習(xí)的美好在于別人不會把知識從你身上拿走”學(xué)習(xí)正是我今天想說的，因?yàn)槟銈兊慕逃]有 在這里結(jié)束。The world has so many lessons to teach consider the world, this Earth, to be like a school and our life the sometimes here in this Planet Earth school the lessons often e dressed up as detours or sometimes as fullblown the secret I39。我認(rèn)為這個(gè)世界，這個(gè)地球，就像一個(gè)學(xué)校和我們?nèi)松慕淌?。有時(shí)會充滿危機(jī)。It39。cause that39。re here, to evolve as human grow into more of ourselves, always moving to the next level of understanding, the next level of passion and ，這就是我們存在的意義。I think about one of the greatest pliments I39。t 39。很多年以后我們又見面了。你變得更為自我了。re all trying to do, bee more of I believe that there39。s how you enrich your , trust me, I know that inner wisdom is more precious than more you spend it, the more you ，去做我們自己。這樣你們豐富了心靈。你越是使用它，你就得到更多。ve learned in my journey so aren39。t you hate it when somebody says, ”I39。s 10 lessons later? And, you39。s only going to be 。你們肯定在想：“聽著，這是我的畢業(yè)典禮，不是你的”。The three lessons that have had the greatest impact on my life have to do with feelings, with failure and with finding ，它們是關(guān)于感情，失敗和追求幸福。clock news in Baltimore, because the whole goal in the media at the time I was ing up was you try to move to larger Baltimore was a much larger market than , getting the 6 o39。在那時(shí)媒體界 的最大目標(biāo)就是獲得更大的市場，而Baltimore 是一個(gè)比Nashville大得多的市場，因此在 22 歲時(shí)得到這個(gè)機(jī)會對我來說非常重要。And I was so proud, because I was finally going to have my chance to be like Barbara Walters, which is who I had been trying to emulate since the start of my TV , I was 22 years old, making $22,000 a it39。d say, ”O(jiān)hmigod, I can39。re making