Stanford University Quotes - Page 2

• You have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.

  Steve Jobs

  Success, Trust, Karma

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Later, at Stanford University, I thought I'd become a lawyer or businessman, but my father came to me and said he thought there was a big future in the fine-wine business.

  Robert Mondavi

  Father, Wine, Lawyer

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• Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Graduation

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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  Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me.

  Steve Jobs

  Men, Best Job, Design Work

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.57, Prabhat Prakashan

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• The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.

  Steve Jobs

  Motivational, Business, Work

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• I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what's next.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Change, Success

  "Core Values: Apple Founder Steve Jobs". Interview with Brian Williams, www.nbclearn.com. May 25, 2006.

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• Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

  Steve Jobs

  Graduation, Heart, Others Opinions

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Death, Best Job

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Death is the destination we all share, no one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life.

  Steve Jobs

  Death, Best Job, Heaven

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• You've got to find what you love.

  Steve Jobs

  Work You Love, Best Job, Connecting The Dots

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Don't settle, as with all matters of the heart you'll know when you find it

  Steve Jobs

  Change, Work, Life Changing

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Death is very likely the single best invention of life.

  Steve Jobs

  Change, Graduation, Death

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

  Steve Jobs

  Wish, Graduates, Hungry

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

  Steve Jobs

  Life, Fear, Failure

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help make the big choices in life. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

  Steve Jobs

  Thinking, Best Job, Choices

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

  Steve Jobs

  Change, Graduation, Death

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there.

  Steve Jobs

  Death, Suicide, Best Job

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me ... Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Attitude, Yoga

  The Wall Street Journa, Summer 1993.

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• When I was studying at Chicago and at Stanford University, where many many cases of two people observing the same event have a different take on what happened.

  Harold Evans

  Two, People, Events

  "Harold Evans Sees Bright Future for Print-on-Demand Newspapers". Interview by Mark Glaser, mediashift.org. October 29, 2009.

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• Stanford University is so startlingly paradisial, so fragrant and sunny, it's as if you could eat from the trees and live happily forever.

  Ken Auletta

  Tree, Forever, Sunny

  " Get Rich U: There are no walls between Stanford and Silicon Valley. Should there be?" by Ken Auletta, www.newyorker.com. April 30, 2012.

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• Madaming is the sort of thing that happens to you - like getting a battlefield commission or becoming the dean of women at Stanford University.

  Sally Stanford

  Becoming, Dean, Happens

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• I was 21 and had spent the last few years in Stanford University Engineering School at California. Many people advised me to take up a nice, cushy job rather than face the challenges of running a hydrogenated oil business. Looking back, I am glad I decided to take charge instead. Essentially leadership begins from within. It is a small voice that tells you where to go when you feel lost. If you believe in that voice, you believe in yourself.

  Azim Premji

  Inspirational, Running, Jobs

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• The columnist like myself or people at Stanford University don't wake up in the morning and see their job outsourced. Yet we promote free markets. But we're not sensitive to what that does to other people who don't have our privilege.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Morning, Jobs, People

  Source: www.npr.org

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