Read this excerpt from We Beat the Street."You’re just plain lazy! You think this is hard? Wait until you’re pulling twenty-four-hour shifts as a resident in a hospital. Wait until you hold someone’s life in your hands and that person is depending on YOU to have the skill and knowledge to save his life.” She whipped back into her lecturing voice. "Strict personal discipline and adherence to rules are absolutely necessary for a doctor’s success!” She glared at him."I’m not lazy,” Rameck replied sullenly. "I’m just not used to all this discipline.”"Get used to it!” Carla snapped back at him. "You’re one of the brightest young men I’ve ever met! Discipline won’t kill you. Carelessness will.”
Read the excerpt from We Beat the Street."Our nation’s health-care system is still a dual system, you know,” Dr. Blackman continued. "African-Americans, other minorities, and all those classified as poor in this country still receive less than adequate treatment in facilities that are far outstripped by hospitals and clinics in wealthier neighborhoods.”
Read this excerpt from Steve Jobs’s commencement speech.But ten years later when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me, and we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography.If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on that calligraphy class and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do.
Read this excerpt from Ray Bradbury’s commencement speech.And then you gather around you the people who do believe in you—your parents and a few friends, if you're lucky. We don't have many friends in this world; but the few that do believe in you—and then you move on into the future. I try to do that.
What is the purpose of Steve Jobs’s commencement speech?
Did you find these answers helpful?