This caught my eye while catching up with old Silk posts. Interesting speech, but this particular bit sounded weird:
"One of the many things I learned at the end of that Classics corridor down which I ventured at the age of 18, in search of something I could not then define, was this, written by the Greek author Plutarch: What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality." To the best of my knowledge, this was a quote by Otto Rank. A quick google threw up this webpage in the first few hits: http://www.cybernation.com/victory/quotations/subjects/quotes_achievement.html This is a collection of inspiring quotes about achievement (which I guess one who look up when addressing a group of Harvard graduates) and includes this section: ---- ... ~ Phaedrus ~ The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune. ~ Plutarch ~ What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. ~ Otto Rank ~ The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone. ... ---- You see how, if you just read this section, it looks like the "outer reality" quote is Plutarch's? Well, the attribution is actually below the quote! Oops! Too bad she made up the story about going to the Classics corridor in search of something she could not define and finding this quote. She must have taken a wrong turn and ended up in the existential psychotherapy corridor instead! :D Venky, the Second. On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 7:56 PM, Danese Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pucdJHjZaqs > > If you'd like to listen to it. > > Danese > > p.s. This received really strange coverage on NPR yesterday. Interviews > with Harvard grads who were disappointed with the speech because JK isn't a > "world leader". Listening to the speech I think she's giving pretty good > advice here. The radio piece was basically about how unrealistic, snobby > and spoiled Harvard grads are. > > On Jun 8, 2008, at 5:47 AM, Bharat Shetty wrote: > >> Via a friend. Strong fundas here and there. >> >> http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2008/06.05/99-rowlingspeech.html >> >> -- Bharat Shetty | http://freeshell.in/~codo -- One hundred thousand lemmings can't be wrong.
