Thursday, July 3, 2008

A speech to remember by J. K. Rowling

The author of Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling received an honorary doctor of letters degree and gave a speech at Harvard's 357th Commencement. Take time to read the transcript or watch the video.

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The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination

JKR's Commencement speech at Harvard (Part 1 of 2)



JKR's Commencement speech at Harvard (Part 2 of 2)



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Too long a speech for your liking? Then read some of the quotes extracted from the speech, by Olgy Gary.

2 comments:

Olgy Gary said...

Thank you for linking back to my original post. Isn't that speech by J.K. Rowling awesome? I just re-read the quotes I'd taken off of it and posted to my blog and they're priceless.

Nancy Poh said...

You need a good job with the quotes, OG. Yes, the quotes priceless. So are friends who share things like that with you.