Sunday, November 27, 2016

Assignment #6 Steve Jobs’ Talk

Talk script: 
http://news.stanford.edu/2005/06/14/jobs-061505/

Good sentences :

1.Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
2.If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right.
3. All fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. 

Words :

1.pop out 
a way of describing the way you look when you are extremely surprised to see something or someone.
  • EX:When she saw the amount written on the cheque, her eyes nearly popped out of her head.

2.relent
(to act in a less severe way towards someone and allow something that you had refused to allow before)
  • EX: The security guard relented and let them through.

3.curiosity
an eager wish to know or learn about something
  • EX: She decided to call her ex-boyfriend out of curiosity.

4.intuition
an ability to understand or know something immediately based on your feelings rather than facts
  • EX:Often there's no clear evidence one way or the other and you just have to base your judgment on 

5.calligraphy
(the art of producing) beautiful writing, often created with a special pen or brush
  • EX:There's some wonderful calligraphy in these old manuscripts.
Inspirational  thoughts
I think Steve Jobs' lecture at Stanford University is very memorable.Steve Jobs was a special and great person.He had a lot of unique ideas and opinions. We could get and learn many knowledge, and try to do something adventure. We always think that studying is so important and is a thing we must have to do. But in fact, so many things we can’t learn from books, a lot of things we learn from experiences. So we should challenge ourselves! We should overcome that difficult things and solve the problems in a good way. 
I am most impressed by the third story - about death."If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." Everyone always think that we are far away from death, but death doesn't say when it comes. If you can come over every day as the last day, I believe you will have more substantial and more serious every day. And you will follow your mind, to make the best decision. 
Although Steve Jobs had gone from this world forever, but his achievements will always live in our mind. We will remember he, he let the science and technology becomes more advanced, giving us a better life. 

1 comment:

  1. I like your reflection on Jobs' talk. It's true that learning is important, and in addition to books, we often learn from experience.

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