Stanford Speech Quotes & Sayings

In a now famous commencement speech at Stanford University, Steve Jobs urged the graduating class to "stay hungry. Stay foolish." Never let go of your appetite to go after new ideas, new experiences, and new adventures. Compete with yourself, not with others. Judge yourself on what is your personal best and you'll accomplish more than you could ever have imagined. Life stops for no one, so keep moving. Stay awake and stay alive. — Sophia Amoruso

After all, the work isn't the point; the piece is. — Donald Judd

The social institution of marriage is first and foremost a covenant relationship in which a man and a woman pledge themselves to each other for a lifetime partnership. In the biblical account of creation, God's expressed — Gary Chapman

Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry. — Eugenio Montale

And those whom once my song had cheered and gladdened,
If still they live, rove through the world now saddened. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

There are many kinds of powers in the world - military power, power of the written word, intellectual power. We've tried and failed to bring peace with these kind of powers. The greatest power is the power of love. — Mata Amritanandamayi

I had a scholarship to Stanford because I won three California Speech tournaments. Before I started Stanford, I told my mother I wanted to take a bus into Hollywood and see if I could get an agent. — Stan Freberg

Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.
[Stanford University commencement speech, 2005] — Steve Jobs

As an undergraduate at Stanford, I started 'The Stanford Review,' which ended up being very engaged in the hot debates of the time: campus speech codes, questions about diversity on campus, all sorts of debates like that. — Peter Thiel

There are never words for the strongest of our feelings. There is just the pain that we cannot share. Pain we must all feel alone. — James Frey

When I wrote the song, I had the sea near Bombay in mind. We stayed at a hotel by the sea, and the fishermen come up at five in the morning and they were all chanting. And we went on the beach and we got chased by a mad dog - big as a donkey. — Ray Davies