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17 Responses to “JK Rowling Speaks at Harvard Commencement”
“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all — in which case, you fail by default.”
“Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathise with humans whose experiences we have never shared.”
Wow. Amazing women, British we are.
She is wise.
gotta do this as a memorized speech for my final, in effective speech class, hopefully im prepared by tuesday
“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all — in which case, you fail by default.”
<3
thumbs up if you come here for a school exercise
atta girl
JK Rowling = Beautiful, witty, simply flawfree human being.
“Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathise with humans whose experiences we have never shared.”
Remarkable inspiration u r an angel from
Heaven jo
@pwicko
err Umm ……JK Rowling. Get it?
@Hugo411 err name any author who is/was worth a billion
Great words. On another note, has Harvard ever had a Fiction author give a
commencement speech who was worth Less than 1 billion?
Even watching this I feel inspirited and appeased by the choices I made and will make.
So inspiring
How beautiful a lesson is that?
How beautiful as lesson is that?