Oprah Winfrey， A famous host
Stanford University， June 15th， 2008
Do the one thing you think you cannot do. FaiI at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The onIy peopIe who never tumbIe are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
做一件你认为你做不到的事。收获失败。再试一次。第二次做得更好一些。那些不曾跌倒的人是那些不曾走过钢丝的人。这是你的时刻。拥有它吧。
Oprah Winfrey
背景故事
2008年的斯坦福大学的毕业典礼，奥普拉来了。很多人都知道她是一名着名脱口秀主持人，是个身价过亿的富婆。但很少有人知道，奥普拉大学都未毕业。本篇演讲中，奥普拉讲述了三件事，与她个人经历相关的，可以给大家启示的，与感觉，失败和快乐息息相关的三件事：“感觉”就像生命中的GPS；没有任何人一生风平浪静和很高兴美梦没有成真。奥普拉是怎么克服困难，迈向成功的呢？
名人简介
奥普拉·温弗瑞，美国着名的脱口秀主持人。其主持和制作的节目《奥普拉脱口秀》（The Oprah Winfrey Show， 又译作《奥普拉·温芙瑞秀》、《奥普拉秀》、《欧普拉·温芙瑞秀》、《欧普拉秀》等），是美国历史上收视率最高的脱口秀节目。同时，它也是美国历史上播映时间最长的日间电视脱口秀节目。从1986年12月8日至今，这个节目已经走过了20多个年头，播放了多达3000多集。在播出了23年之后，《奥普拉脱口秀》于2011年9月9日结束。作为一名黑人，更为当今世界上最具影响力的妇女之一，她的成就是多方面的：通过控股哈普娱乐集团的股份，掌握了超过10亿美元的个人财富。
演讲赏析
Feelings， Failure and Finding Happiness
Oprah Winfrey， A famous host
Stanford University， June 15th， 2008
Thank you， President Hennessy， and to the trustees and the faculty， to all of the parents and grandparents， to you， the Stanford graduates. Thank you for letting me share this amazing day with you.
I need to begin by letting everyone in on a little secret. The secret is that Kirby Bumpus， Stanford Class of"08，is my goddaughter. So， I was thrilled when President Hennessy asked me to be your Commencement speaker， because this is the fi rst time I"ve been allowed on campus since Kirby"s been here.
You see， Kirby"s a very smart girl. She wants people to get to know her on her own terms， she says. Not in terms of who she knows. So， she never wants anyone who"s fi rst meeting her to know that I know her and she knows me. So， when she fi rst came to Stanford for new student orientation with her mom， I hear that they arrived and everybody was so welcoming， and somebody came up to Kirby and they said， "Ohmigod， that"s Gayle King！"Because a lot of people know Gayle King as my BFF[best friend forever].
And so somebody comes up to Kirby， and they say， "Ohmigod， is that Gayle King"And Kirby"s like， "Uh-huh. She"s my mom."And so the person says， "Ohmigod， does it mean， like， you know Oprah Winfrey"And Kirby says， "Sort of."
I said， "Sort ofYou sort of know me"Well， I have photographic proof. I have pictures which I can e-mail to you all of Kirby riding horsey with me on all fours. So， I more than sort-of know Kirby Bumpus. And I"m so happy to be here， just happy that I fi nally， after four years， get to see her room. There"s really nowhere else I"d rather be， because I"m so proud of Kirby， who graduates today with two degrees， one in human bio and the other in psychology. Love you， Kirby Cakes！That"s how well I know her. I can call her Cakes.
And so proud of her mother and father， who helped her get through this time， and her brother， Will. I really had nothing to do with her graduating from Stanford， but every time anybody"s asked me in the past couple of weeks what I was doing， I would say， "I"m getting ready to go to Stanford."
I just love saying"Stanford."Because the truth is， I know I would have never gotten my degree at all， because I didn"t go to Stanford. I went to Tennessee State University. But I never would have gotten my diploma at all， because I was supposed to graduate back in 1975，but I was short of one credit. And I fi gured， I"m just going to forget it， because， you know， I"m not going to march with my class. Because by that point， I was already on television. I"d been in television since I was 19 and a sophomore. Granted， I was the only television anchor person that had an 11 o"clock curfew doing the 10 o"clock news.
Seriously， my dad was like， "Well， that news is over at 10：30. Be home by 11."But that didn"t matter to me， because I was earning a living. I was on my way. So， I thought， I"m going to let this college thing go and I only had one credit short. But， my father， from that time on and for years after， was always on my case， because I did not graduate. He"d say， "Oprah Gail"-that"s my middle name-"I don"t know what you"re gonna do without that degree."And I"d say， "But， Dad， I have my own television show."
And he"d say， "Well， I still don"t know what you"re going to do without that degree."And I"d say， "But， Dad， now I"m a talk show host."He"d say， "I don"t know how you"re going to get another job without that degree."
So， in 1987，Tennessee State University invited me back to speak at their commencement. By then， I had my own show， was nationally syndicated. I"d made a movie， had been nominated for an Oscar and founded my company， Harpo. But I told them， I cannot come and give a speech unless I can earn one more credit， because my dad"s still saying I"m not going to get anywhere without that degree.
So， I fi nished my coursework， I turned in my fi nal paper and I got the degree. And my dad was very proud. And I know that， if anything happens， that one credit will be my salvation.
But I also know why my dad was insisting on that diploma， because， as B. B. King 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， isn"t ending here. In many ways， it"s only just begun.
The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world， this Earth， to be like a school and our life the classrooms. And sometimes here in this Planet Earth school the lessons often come dressed up as detours or roadblocks. And sometimes as full-blown crises. And the secret I"ve learned to get ahead is being open to the lessons， lessons from the grandest university of all， that is， the universe itself.
It"s being able to walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve， because that"s really why we"re here， to evolve as human beings. To grow into more of ourselves， always moving to the next level of understanding， the next level of compassion and growth.
