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【一】:英语演讲稿：小学生毕业典礼讲话
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优尼全能英语：英语演讲稿：小学生毕业典礼讲
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Distinguished leadership, teachers, Dear students:
Good afternoon!
Today is a special day, but also a day worth commemorating. Because today we are about to take the pearl of the primary school, the alma mater of left us to start our brand new secondary school life, and enter a new phase of the study.
We also remember the significance of Pearl primary school badge. It was the cradle of a very large, which loaded with countless as long as the Mirs a grown up and will be flying in the sky far away, but they will not forget the cradle of the ex-rearing. We like it a only with hopes, dreams and Thanksgiving, flying out of small beads. We will make joint efforts in various parts of the world, for our faith, to live up to the expectations of the teachers work hard!www.shanpow.com_英语作文毕业演讲稿。
Six years of primary school is always so fast time flies, is the small beads Let us both happy and meaningful life. At the same time, we must also thank you for our hard-working gardener ---- selfless teachers every day and work hard for us, let us present here have each student expressed his gratitude to them and respect!
Bid farewell to his primary school, we work together hand in hand! To repay the hard cultivation of small beads and in secondary schools it up!
尊敬的领导、老师、亲爱的同学们：
下午好！
今天，是一个特殊的日子，也是一个值得我们纪念的日子。因为今天我们即将踏出珠光小学的校门，离开我们的母校，开始我们全新的中学生活，进入一个全新的学习阶段。
我们还记得珠光小学校徽的意义。那是一个很大的摇篮，里面装载着无数只大鹏鸟，只要大鹏一长大，就会飞向远处的天空，但它们不会忘记摇篮的养育之恩。我们就好比那一只只大鹏鸟，带着希望、梦想与感恩，飞出珠小。我们会在世界各地共同努力，为我们的信念，为不辜负老师们的期望而努力奋斗！
小学六年的时光过得总是那么快，是珠小让我们过得既快活又有意义。在此同时，我们还必须感谢辛勤的园丁----各位无私奉献的老师们，每天都在为我们而操劳，让我们在座的每一位同学都向他们表示感谢和敬意！
告别小学学习生涯后，我们携手一起努力！为报答珠小的辛勤栽培而在中学里努力吧！
【二】:英语作文演讲稿
[2011·江西卷] 假设你是星光中学的李华，将参加主题为“Let's Ride Bicycles”的英语演讲比赛。请撰写一份演讲稿，主要内容包括：
1．目前汽车带来的空气污染和交通堵塞等问题；
2．骑自行车的益处，如节能环保、有利健康等。
参考词汇：低碳生活(lowcarbon life)；节能(energy saving)
注意：1.词数：120词左右；
2．演讲稿开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
Good morning, everyone，www.shanpow.com_英语作文毕业演讲稿。
I am Li Hua from Xingguang Middle School. The topic of my speech is “Let's Ride Bicycles.” __________________________________________________
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Thank you！
【精彩美文】
As is known to all，with the improvement of people's living standards，cars have become a popular means of transport，bringing great convenience to our life. However，they have also caused some problems such as air pollution and traffic jams.
How can we solve the problems then？As far as I'm concerned，riding bicycles is a good solution. For one thing，bicycles don't need any petrol and they are energysaving. For another，bicycles are environmentally friendly because they won't give off waste gas. What's more，riding bicycles is a good way for us to exercise and it is beneficial to our health.
Therefore，let's take the responsibility to build up a lowcarbon city by riding bicycles. Come on and join us!
【全品点睛】
①行文逻辑：自我介绍→汽车带来的问题→骑自行车的益处→发出倡议。较好地使用了连接和过渡成分，如连接词汇：however, as far as I'm concerned，what's more等以及过渡句：How can we solve the problems then.
②词汇短语：运用了较高难度的词汇。如：a popular means of，such as，for one thing…for another，give off, beneficial，take the responsibility，build up等。
③句式句法：运用了多样化的句式和句法结构。如：非限制性定语从句：As is known to all；现在分词短语作伴随状语：…bringing great convenience to our life；原因状语从句：…because they won't give off waste gas；祈使句：let's take…/Come on and join us！
【三】:毕业演讲稿英语作文3篇
无论在学习还是工作中,我们都会接触或用到各类英语演讲,小到课堂作业和工作汇报,大到会议发言和职位竞选。那么如何才能打造一篇精彩的英语演讲稿呢?下面学习啦小编整理了毕业演讲稿英语作文3篇，供你参考。
毕业演讲稿英语作文篇1
first of all, we must cultivate students interest in english study. let students in learning to find joy in joy in the interest of interest, found in the determination of decision and perseverance, namely train drivers + + to + perserve = interest. of course started to learn english, dont be too hard. guiding students from the simple, funny, funny began to enable students to find suitable for their interest in learning. and they decide to "light" surveys. and allow students to go wrong, dont pursue every word is correct. ,
secondly, the students have interest, help them to plan. watch english materials and listen to english radio, looking for learning environment, life is much, learn english and have much broader, take every chance to exposure to english. in class, students try to speak in english, usually between classmates exchange, encourage students to use english, dont be afraid of making mistakes the wrong. to establish weekly learning new words in the target, the vocabulary, records recorded all sorts of new words and phrases. because learning english must have vocabulary as the foundation, will play a protracted war, remembering words to guerrilla warfare. can make them more "to" surveys.
learning english as friends, in different occasions contact might remember, not isolated words and remember its neighbors. it is necessary to guide students to read, this of learning english is very important to have more understanding of western culture and western learning habit, master of language background is also an important way of learning. then two chinese ppc to achieve. we finally achieved the goal ", two surveys to two chinese to spending."
finally, let students enjoy happiness in suffering, more study is interesting, from passive to active, change from me to learn to learn.
毕业演讲稿英语作文篇2
ello, everyone. It is a great honor for me to be here to express my feelings.
My friends, it is time for us to say goodbye. However, I will forget the golden days of junior high school. They are forever locked in my memories! In the past three years, I am grateful that I could study with you.
First of all, I’d like to thank all my teachers. It’s you that let me konw how to be a good person. From you, I know that as a good student, we should not only study hard, but also mean well and help each other. Then, I’d like show my appreciation to all my friends. I am grateful that I could study with you. Being together with you, I can totally be myself. I do not need to hide anything from you. When I am sad, you are always on my side to cheer me up.
We will soon become senior high school students. We must go forward, to a different world, we are no longer the children, who only want to play fun with each other. We grow up from now on! It is a long journey, but let us begin!
毕业演讲稿英语作文篇3
Faculty, family, friends, and fellow graduates, good evening.
I am honored to address you tonight. On behalf of the graduating masters and doctoral students of Washington University's School of Engineering and Applied Science, I would like to thank all the parents, spouses, families, and friends who encouraged and supported us as we worked towards our graduate degrees. I would especially like to thank my own family, eight members of which are in the audience today. I would also like to thank all of the department secretaries and other engineering school staff members who always seemed to be there when confused graduate students needed help. And finally I would like to thank the Washington University faculty members who served as our instructors, mentors, and friends.
As I think back on the seven-and-a-half years I spent at Washington University, my mind is filled with memories, happy, sad, frustrating, and even humorous.
Tonight I would like to share with you some of the memories that I take with me as I leave Washington University.
I take with me the memory of my office on the fourth floor of Lopata Hall - the room at the end of the hallway that was too hot in summer, too cold in winter, and always too far away from the women's restroom. The window was my office's best feature. Were it not for the physics building across the way, it would have afforded me a clear view of the arch. But instead I got a view of the roof of the physics building. I also had a view of one corner of the roof of Urbauer Hall, which seemed to be a favorite perch for various species of birds who alternately won perching rights for several weeks at a time. And I had a nice view of the physics courtyard, noteworthy as a good place for watching people run their dogs. It's amazing how fascinating these views became the longer I worked on my dissertation. But my favorite view was of a nearby oak tree. From my fourth-floor vantage point I had a rather intimate view of the tree and the various birds and squirrels that inhabit it. Occasionally a bird would land on my window sill, which usually had the effect of startling both of us.
I take with me the memory of two young professors who passed away while I was a graduate student. Anne Johnstone, the only female professor from whom I took a course in the engineering school, and Bob Durr, a political science professor and a member of my dissertation committee, both lost brave battles with cancer. I remember them fondly.
I take with me the memory of failing the first exam in one of the first engineering courses I took as an undergraduate. I remember thinking the course was just too hard for me and that I would never be able to pass it. So I went to talk to the professor, ready to drop the class. And he told me not to give up, he told me I could succeed in his class. For reasons that seemed completely ludicrous at the time, he said he had faith in me. And after that my grades in the class slowly improved, and I ended the semester with an A on the final exam. I remember how motivational it was to know that someone believed in me.
I take with me memories of the midwestern friendliness that so surprised me when I arrived in St. Louis 8 years ago. Since moving to New Jersey, I am sad to say, nobody has asked me where I went to high school.
I take with me the memory of the short-lived computer science graduate student social committee lunches. The idea was that groups of CS grad students were supposed to take turns cooking a monthly lunch. But after one grad student prepared a pot of chicken that poisoned almost the entire CS grad student population and one unlucky faculty member in one fell swoop, there wasn't much enthusiasm for having more lunches.
I take with me the memory of a more successful graduate student effort, the establishment of the Association of Graduate Engineering Students, known as AGES. Started by a handful of engineering graduate students because we needed a way to elect representatives to a campus-wide graduate student government, AGES soon grew into an organization that now sponsors a wide variety of activities and has been instrumental in addressing a number of engineering graduate student concerns.
I take with me the memory of an Engineering and Policy department that once had flourishing programs for full-time undergraduate, masters, and doctoral students.
I take with me memories of the 1992 U.S. Presidential debate. Eager to get involved in all the excitement I volunteered to help wherever needed. I remember spending several days in the makeshift debate HQ giving out-of-town reporters directions to the athletic complex. I remember being thrilled to get assigned the job of collecting film from the photographers in the debate hall during the debate. And I remember the disappointment of drawing the shortest straw among the student volunteers and being the one who had to take the film out of the debate hall and down to the dark room five minutes into the debate - with no chance to re-enter the debate hall after I left.
I take with me memories of university holidays which never seemed to apply to graduate students. I remember spending many a fall break and President's Day holiday with my fellow grad students in all day meetings brought to us by the computer science department.
I take with me memories of exams that seemed designed more to test endurance and perseverance than mastery of the subject matter. I managed to escape taking any classes that featured infamous 24-hour-take-home exams, but remember the suffering of my less fortunate colleagues. And what doctoral student could forget the pain and suffering one must endure to survive the qualifying exams?www.shanpow.com_英语作文毕业演讲稿。
I take with me the memory of the seven-minute rule, which always seemed to be an acceptable excuse for being ten minutes late for anything on campus, but which doesn't seem to apply anywhere else I go.
I take with me the memory of Friday afternoon ACM happy hours, known not for kegs of beer, but rather bowls of rainbow sherbet punch. Over the several years that I attended these happy hours they enjoyed varying degrees of popularity, often proportional to the quality and quantity of the accompanying refreshments - but there was always the rainbow sherbert punch.
I take with me memories of purple parking permits, the West Campus shuttle, checking my pendaflex, over-due library books, trying to print from cec, lunches on Delmar, friends who slept in their offices, miniature golf in Lopata Hall, The Greenway Talk, division III basketball, and trying to convince Dean Russel that yet another engineering school rule should be changed.
Finally, I would like to conclude, not with a memory, but with some advice. What would a graduation speech be without a little advice, right? Anyway, this advice comes in the form of a verse delivered to the 1977 graduating class of Lake Forest College by Theodore Seuss Geisel, better known to the world as Dr. Seuss - Here's how it goes:
My uncle ordered popovers
from the restaurant's bill of fare.
And when they were served,
he regarded them
with a penetrating stare . . .
Then he spoke great Words of Wisdom
as he sat there on that chair:
"To eat these things,"
said my uncle,
"you must excercise great care.
You may swallow down what's solid . . .
BUT . . .
you must spit out the air!"
And . . .
as you partake of the world's bill of fare,
that's darned good advice to follow.
Do a lot of spitting out the hot air.
And be careful what you swallow.
Thank you.
【四】:初中毕业感言英语作文
一句话，似乎真的到了该说再见的时候了。下面是小编整理的感言初中英语毕业感言，欢迎参阅。
初中毕业感言英语作文1
the university for four years have zoomed past, flipping through the photos is like looking at his step by step the process of growing up.
when i was a freshman just entered what they don't understand, though little school with new the scholarship, but in the fierce competition in the english department, and i became overwhelmed the statistical, even once so love english became my burden. no superiority in every day, i only slept little sleep, and full time to study. that lonely, uncertainty day may be every college student will experience, in short, university persevered through recall or faint bitter. may i is a very necessary to depend on the confidence to advance, next semester freshman i attended the party school training, and 31 (in a grade of the english speech contest, i got a second prize of confidence came back gradually, in counselor and friends of the support and encouragement, i truly be blended in university life.
second-year university in which i do students teaching assistant, although the secretariat on duty are just do something every time the trivial things, but from which i really learned a lot. let me first learned to humble, and this is from the sainted loved by students, the teacher learned professor. always felt they were on the platform is very serious, let's look up to the object, but daily what i saw is humorous, peace of them, from them i saw their future should have quality. do learn help of a year and a half is very tired, every time i have a big test quizzes, work with the end i will immediately rushed to study lounges. looking back now will laugh at yourself childish, learning this is a process of accumulation, must speak the efficiency, not in time out of the pile. at that time every day happy very full, can do a connection between students and teaching link makes me proud. office of the teachers are very, very good, no work when i go to read urged the self-study, together we eat lunch box, the dinner together to work overtime, together chat, once i have acute gastroenteritis, two teachers have inquired about my dorm room number to come to see me, this all the intravenous drip i will never forget a kindness in heart.
education university of practice is inside another important thing. i and a group of outstanding students went to high school, our group leader huanggang is a capable the senior party member and various kinds of questions are all dealing with very well, the practice that day is the happiest day of university inside one of the early, not only because of a division of joy, but because can in such a collective life and lucky. huanggang teachers and we also has a great relationship with, they give us the myth is also proved in huanggang effort and sweat request. in the future i will also a teacher, i also hope you can be a good teacher loved by students.
初中毕业感言英语作文2
i will be graduating from middle school in the coming days. i have a lot of feelings that i want to express. first, i want to thank all the teachers. you have been working hard to teach us. i would also like to thank my classmates. you have been offering great help to me.
i am so happy today. this will be an end to my middle school life, and soon we will begin the new life in high school. dear teachers, dear classmates, i will always remember you.
thank you all.
i would like to thank you for all the help you gave me during this past semester. you were alway so patient when i asked you questions. you listened to them carefully and explained everything so thoroughly. you showed me different ways to practice and remember new words and usage. i felt so encouraged and became more comfortable in speaking english. you made the excercise so interesting that i was always very eager to participate and practice. my english has improved so much. how could i thank you enough?! i cannot wait to take your class next semester and keep working on my english.
sincerely yours,
初中毕业感言英语作文3
ow to Make Full Use of Our Spare Time Nowadays , we students have much more free time than before. But quite a number of students in our class don’t seem to know how to use the time properly . They spend most of the time watching TV , playing computer games or chatting online . I don’t think it’s good for their study and health . However , how to make full use of our spare time ? There are many things we can do . For example, we can set up and join different kinds of interest groups , take part in some good social activities . If we have time , we should help our parents do some homework . Let’s make full use of our free time and make our life rich and coulorful. My Favorite Singer My favorite singer is Zhangliangying whose English name is Jane.She was born in Chengdu. She has a wonderful voice.To support her family ,she sang English songs in public. In 2005 ,she became a super girl and famous from then on. Her beauiful voice has deeply touched the hearts of many people in China and overseas. I not only like her music and her beauty , but also her attitude towards music and life .I like Because I am A Girl best of all her songs. I love her very much. I want to be a singer like her when I grow up.
【五】:毕业典礼演讲稿英文3篇
对于学生来说,英语演讲是提高其英语综合运用能力的一个重要的手段。而英语演讲稿的撰写对于英语演讲的成败起着至关重要的作用。下面学习啦小编整理了毕业典礼演讲稿英文3篇，供你参考。
毕业典礼演讲稿英文篇1
Graduates of Yale University, I apologize if you have endured this type of prologue before, but I want you to do something for me. Please, take a ood look around you. Look at the classmate on your left. Look at the classmate on your right. Now, consider this: five years from now, 10 years from now, even 30 years from now, odds are the person on your left is going to be a loser. The person on your right, meanwhile, will also be a loser. And you, in the middle? What can you expect? Loser. Loserhood. Loser Cum Laude.
"In fact, as I look out before me today, I don't see a thousand hopes for a bright tomorrow. I don't see a thousand future leaders in a thousand industries. I see a thousand losers.
"You're upset. That's understandable. After all, how can I, Lawrence 'Larry' Ellison, college dropout, have the audacity to spout such heresy to the graduating class of one of the nation's most prestigious institutions? I'll tell you why. Because I, Lawrence "Larry" Ellison, second richest man on the planet, am a college dropout, and you are not.
"Because Bill Gates, richest man on the planet -- for now, anyway -- is a college dropout, and you are not.
"Because Paul Allen, the third richest man on the planet, dropped out of college, and you did not.
"And for good measure, because Michael Dell, No. 9 on the list and moving up fast, is a college dropout, and you, yet again, are not.
"Hmm . . . you're very upset. That's understandable. So let me stroke your egos for a moment by pointing out, quite sincerely, that your diplomas were not attained in vain. Most of you, I imagine, have spent four to five years here, and in many ways what you've learned and endured will serve you well in the years ahead. You've established good work habits. You've established a network of people that will help you down the road. And you've established what will be lifelong relationships with the word 'therapy.' All that of is good. For in truth, you will need that network. You will need those strong work habits. You will need that therapy.
"You will need them because you didn't drop out, and so you will never be among the richest people in the world. Oh sure, you may, perhaps, work your way up to No. 10 or No. 11, like Steve Ballmer. But then, I don't have to tell you who he really works for, do I? And for the record, he dropped out of grad school. Bit of a late bloomer.
"Finally, I realize that many of you, and hopefully by now most of you, are wondering, 'Is there anything I can do? Is there any hope for me at all?' Actually, no. It's too late. You've absorbed too much, think you know too much. You're not 19 anymore. You have a built-in cap, and I'm not referring to the mortar boards on your heads.
"Hmm... you're really very upset. That's understandable. So perhaps this would be a good time to bring up the silver lining. Not for you, Class of '00. You are a write-off, so I'll let you slink off to your pathetic $200,000-a-year jobs, where your checks will be signed by former classmates who dropped out two years ago.
"Instead, I want to give hope to any underclassmen here today. I say to you, and I can't stress this enough: leave. Pack your things and your ideas and don't come back. Drop out. Start up.
"For I can tell you that a cap and gown will keep you down just as surely as these security guards dragging me off this stage are keeping me down . . ."
(At this point The Oracle CEO was ushered off stage.)
毕业典礼演讲稿英文篇2
you all are leaving your alma mater now. i have no gift to present you all except a piece of advice.
what i would like to advise is that "don’t give up your study." most of the courses you have taken are partly for your certificate. you had no choice but to take them. from now on, you may study on your own. i would advise you to work hard at some special field when you are still young and vigorous. your youth will be gone that will never come back to you again. when you are old, and when your energy are getting poorer, you will not be able to as you wish to. even though you have to study in order to make a living, studies will never live up to you. making a living without studying, you will be shifted out in three or five years. at this time when you hope to make it up, you will say it is too late. perhaps you will say, "after graduation and going into the society, we will meet with an urgent problem, that is, to make a living. for this we have no time to study. even though we hope to study, we have no library nor labs, how can we study further?"
i would like to say that all those who wait to have a library will not study further even though they have one and all these who wait to have a lab will not do experiments even though they have one. when you have a firm resolution and determination to solve a problem, you will naturally economize on food and clothing.
as for time, i should say it’s not a problem. you may know that every day he could do only an hour work, not much more than that because darwin was ill for all his life. you must have read his achievements. every day you spend an hour in reading 10 useful pages, then you will read more than 3650 pages every year. in 30 years you will have read 110,000 pages.
my fellow students, reading 110,000 pages will make you a scholar. but it will take you an hour to read three kinds of small-sized newspapers and it will take you an hour and a half to play four rounds of mahjian pieces. reading small-sized newspapers or playing mahjian pieces, or working hard to be a scholar? it’s up to you all.
henrik ibsen said, "it is your greatest duty to make yourself out."
studying is then as tool as casting. giving up studying will destroy yourself.
i have to say goodbye to you all. your alma mater will open her eyes to see what you will be in 10 years. goodbye!
毕业典礼演讲稿英文篇3
i am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. i never graduated from college. truth be told, this is the closest i've ever gotten to a college graduation.
today i want to tell you three stories from my life. that's it. no big deal. just three stories.
the first story is about connecting the dots.
i dropped out of reed college after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before i really quit. so why did i drop out?
it started before i was born. my biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. she felt very strongly that i should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. except that when i popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. so my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "we have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" they said: "of course." my biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. she refused to sign the final adoption papers. she only relented a few months later when my parents promised that i would someday go to college.
and 17 years later i did go to college. but i naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. after six months, i couldn't see the value in it. i had no idea what i wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. and here i was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. so i decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out ok. it was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions i ever made. the minute i dropped out i could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.
it wasn't all romantic. i didn't have a dorm room, so i slept on the floor in friends' rooms, i returned coke bottles for the 5 deposits to buy food with, and i would walk the 7 miles across town every sunday night to get one good meal a week at the hare krishna temple. i loved it. and much of what i stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. let me give you one example: reed college at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. because i had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, i decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. i learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. it was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and i found it fascinating.
none of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. 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 in on that single course in college, the mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. and since windows just copied the mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. if i had never dropped out, i would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when i was in college. but it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.
again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. so you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. you have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. this approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
my second story is about love and loss.
i was lucky – i found what i loved to do early in life. woz and i started apple in my parents garage when i was 20. we worked hard, and in 10 years apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. we had just released our finest creation - the macintosh - a year earlier, and i had just turned 30. and then i got fired. how can you get fired from a company you started?
well, as apple grew we hired someone who i thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. but then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. when we did, our board of directors sided with him. so at 30 i was out. and very publicly out. what had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.
i really didn't know what to do for a few months. i felt that i had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that i had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. i met with david packard and bob noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. i was a very public failure, and i even thought about running away from the valley. but something slowly began to dawn on me – i still loved what i did. the turn of events at apple had not changed that one bit. i had been rejected, but i was still in love. and so i decided to start over.
i didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. the heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. it freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
during the next five years, i started a company named next, another company named pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife.
pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, toy story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. in a remarkable turn of events, apple bought next, i retuned to apple, and the technology we developed at next is at the heart of apple's current renaissance. and laurene and i have a wonderful family together.
i'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if i hadn't been fired from apple. it was awful tasting medicine, but i guess the patient needed it.
sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. don't lose faith. i'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that i loved what i did.
