4/28/2011 - Never sell your soul

My fellow job seekers: I am honored to be among the first to congratulate you on completing your years at North Carolina A&T. But all of you should know: as Mother's Day gifts go, this one is going to be tough to beat in the years ahead.

The purpose of a commencement speaker is to dispense wisdom. But the older I get, the more I realize that the most important wisdom I've learned in life has come from my mother and my father. Before we go any further,air jordan 6 let's hear it one more time for your mothers and mother figures, fathers and father figures, family, and friends in the audience today.

When I first received the invitation to speak here, I was the CEO of an $80 billion Fortune 11 company with 145,000 employees in 178 countries around the world. I held that job for nearly six years. It was also a company that hired its fair share of graduates from North Carolina A&T. You could always tell who they were. For some reason, they were the ones that had stickers on their desks that read, "Beat the Eagles." But as you may have heard,mens prada shoes I don't have that job anymore.

After the news of my departure broke, I called the school, and asked: do you still want me to come and be your commencement speaker? Chancellor Renick put my fears to rest. He said, "Carly, if anything, you probably have more in common with these students now than you did before." And he's right.

After all, I've been working on my resume. I've been lining up my references. I bought a new interview suit. If there are any recruiters here, I'll be free around 11. I want to thank you for having me anyway. This is the first public appearance I've made since I left HP. I wanted very much to be here because this school has always been set apart by something that I've believed very deeply; something that takes me back to the earliest memories I have in life.

One day at church,cheap mbt shoes my mother gave me a small coaster with a saying on it. During my entire childhood, I kept this saying in front of me on a small desk in my room. In fact, I can still show you that coaster today. It says: "What you are is God's gift to you. What you make of yourself is your gift to God." Those words have had a huge impact on me to this day. What this school and I believe in very deeply is that when we think about our lives, we shouldn't be limited by other people's stereotypes or bigotry. Instead, we should be motivated by our own sense of possibility.

We should be motivated by our own sense of accomplishment. We should be motivated by what we believe we can become. Jesse Jackson has taught us; Ronald McNair taught us; the Greensboro Four taught us; prada loafers that the people who focus on possibilities achieve much more in life than people who focus on limitations. The question for all of you today is: how will you define what you make of yourself?

To me, what you make of yourself is actually two questions. There's the "you" that people see on the outside. And that's how most people will judge you, because it's all they can see what you become in life, whether you were made President of this, or CEO of that, the visible you. But then, there's the invisible you, the "you" on the inside. That's the person that only you and God can see.

For 25 years, mbt kisumu 2 when people have asked me for career advice, what I always tell them is don't give up what you have inside. Never sell your soul. Because no one can ever pay you back. What I mean by not selling your soul is don't be someone you're not, don't be less than you are, don't give up what you believe, because whatever the consequences that may seem scary or bad -- whatever the consequences of staying true to yourself are -- they are much better than the consequences of selling your soul. You have been tested mightily in your life to get to this moment. And all of you know much better than I do: from the moment you leave this campus, jordan 4 21 you will be tested.

You will be tested because you won't fit some people's pre-conceived notions or stereotypes of what you're supposed to be, of who you're supposed to be. People will have stereotypes of what you can or can't do, of what you will or won't do, of what you should or shouldn't do. But they only have power over you if you let them have power over you. They can only have control if you let them have control, if you give up what's inside.

4/28/2011 - The length of a season

I went to walk that path. Some naughty autumn wind, blowing my cheeks also upset my hair. I gave it a smile, it some shy, and then pushed into the sunset in front of me. Finally there is the temperature like some, I also Xinxin Ran tired and relaxed mind, and I thank the wind blowing a little cool with the temperature, we silently on the TV in, understand each other's language. I laughed, womens jordan and the wind laughed.

It said that this is a length of the season, I need it slowly goods. Behind in our area, there is seat is not high hill. In this way, the hill on the right and proper to relieve fatigue became my world. Small roadside hill, and some crops, the people of the city where nostalgia for his left so little space. Thus, a small lime paved street, the more some carrots, sweet potatoes and the like, prada shoes for men although some nondescript, but this reminds me of childhood easy. Childhood, the general sense, is easy, especially in the era of innocence.

Therefore, often walking in this small way, it is easy to knock down some of the warmth of things. Today, I had no time to manage their feelings. I am only willing to subject myself to this world, listen to their whisper in the content of those colors. Radish is very green, get some green crystal. So is the color, I looked for comfort. Radish is also friendly Baile Bai head at me, I know,cheap nike air jordans it made me listen to it in the voice of this season jointing it. Some things at the moment my mind would be pouring out. I walked over and said to it, you look so beautiful. It shook their green leaves of some complacent.

Sweet potatoes seem unwilling to hear my praise of radish, just put my feet out into the vines. I Nianzhao it ping ping ze ze vine, and some moving. I know it, although I do not see on the outside look like sweet potatoes, but it is lofty in the ground, I can not ignore. I said to it, although I know they have it in the ground flowed long enough. It laughed, some Huazhiluanchan, cheap supra and even leaves it out with the follow fluctuations.

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Admittedly, in so many yellow, the occasional one or two of white, really become a decoration, this time, thou it is not poetic immune to it, who let their grass base hit yet! Leaves it, is a bit generous. They know they will enjoy the lavish this season, it was unhurried off. Those that fell, and some calm, despite how people trampling, still stays on, silent ride. Because they know, "turn into Chunni more Hu Hua" is a great honor it, not to mention, there are a large number of people want to then grabbed the tail of time would not let go, they are happy to slowly drift and allow people to slow yellowing of the leaves in the slow time of the hasty forced to adapt to it.

Yeah a big mind. I listened to them on after the words, to pay tribute to them, and they called no one, whether it is praise is derogatory. It made me greatly Guamu a lot. Cha is called, is the lark. They do not know how many intimate Retroflex Suffixation, get together a bunch of lark, do not merely a concert so simple.

However, their noisy they are not upset, but for this evening, Xia color adds unlimited vitality. Is not very uniform rhythm. However, it also said the lark's head and head,nike air trainers and now it is a large collection of the day, the day a home run, more noisy twice it should be. Clouds to retreat to, the sky is gorgeous out there.

The wind that it was painted it. I laughed, the wind, after all, who sets his mind to know where the best sight of sunset, so to appropriately accomplished them. I said, there are too many beautiful, my camera is broken, can not be photographed. Winds smiled cheerfully and said, you have engraved in their hearts, and why take pictures? Is it that some can be shaped by the United States, and some United States does, they can only rely on the opportunity. This autumn evening, I then casually walk through the little tree-lined road. I listened to their vivid language, watching their faces wanton publicity, feel the temperature of their love for each other. I have some sway the drunk. Who says only the intoxicating liquor to it!

This is indeed a season of a length, I and their dialogue, vivid harvest season!

4/20/2011 - Friends, is a special kind of warmth

Will go to study in the light of God, think of a another friend, think of the common experience of many things, remember the words once said, that will immediately surround you gently. In such a night, so you fascinated by, nike air jordans let you happy, make you worth more happy.

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We can lose a lot, but not the loss of a friend. Friends is not a permanent friends only a passing life, but because the edge off so that the origin of life were beautiful together. If not, what future relations? At least, can not forget that friends and through the years with friends.

4/20/2011 - The Road to Happiness

It is a commonplace among moralists that you cannot get happiness by pursuing it. This is only true if you pursue it unwisely. Gamblers at Monte Carlo are pursuing money, and most of them lose it instead.Supra High Tops but there are other ways of pursuing money which often succeed. So it is with happiness.

If you pursue it by means of drink, you are forgetting the hang-over. Epicurus pursued it by living only in congenial society and eating only dry bread, supplemented by a little cheese on feast days. His method proved successful in his case, but he was a valetudinarian ,supra shoes and most people would need something more vigorous. For most people, the pursuit of happiness, unless supplemented in various ways, is too abstract and theoretical to be adequate as a personal rule of life. But I think that whatever personal rule of life you may choose it should not, except in rare and heroic cases, mbt shoes uk be incompatible with happiness.

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If you have a cat it will enjoy life if it has food and warmth and opportunities for an occasional night on the tiles. Your needs are more complex than those of your cat, but they still have their basis in instinct. In civilized societies, especially in English-speaking societies,coach bags this is too apt to be forgotten. People propose to themselves some one paramount objective, and restrain all impulses that do not minister to it. A businessman may be so anxious to grow rich that to this end he sacrifices health and private affections. When at last he has become rich, no pleasure remains to him except harrying other people by exhortations to imitate his noble example.

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