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T h e F r i n g e B e n e f i t s o f F a i l u r e,a n d t h e I m p o r t a n c e o f I m a g i n a t i o n H a r v a r d U n i v e r s i t y C o m m e n c e m e n t A d d r e s s J.K.R o w l i n g T e r c e n t e n a r y T h e a t r e,J u n e5,2008 失败的好处和想象力的重要性哈佛大学毕业典礼J.K.罗琳2008年6月5日President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers,members of the faculty, proud parents, and, above all, graduates,福斯特主席，哈佛公司和监察委员会的各位成员，各位老师、家长、全体毕业生们：The first thing I would like to say is "thank you." Not only has Harvard given me an extraordinary honour, but the weeks of fear and nausea I’ve endured at the thought of giving this commencement address have made me lose weight. A win-win situation! Now all I have to do is take deep breaths, squint at the red banners and convince myself that I am at the world’s largest Gryffindors' reunion.首先请允许我说一声谢谢。
《哈利·波特》作者J·K·罗琳励志演讲稿全文jk罗琳名言篇一jk罗琳名言1、此刻已经不是抱怨父母引导自我走错方向的时候了，如今的你们已经足够大来决定自我前进的路程，职责要靠自我承担。
2、为什么我说失败是有好处的？正因失败将那些非本质的东西剥离了，我不再伪装自我，我找到了真正的我。
我将所有的精力都投入到我最重要的也是唯一的工作中去DD写小说。
如果我此前在其他方面成功过，那么，我也许永远不会下这样的决心。
我自由了，正因我最大的恐惧已成为现实，而我依然活着，有一个可爱的女儿，还有一台旧打字机和一个大大的梦想。
我性命中的最低点也是我重建生活的坚实基础。
”她告诫年轻人：面临挫折时，永远不好放下期望。
3、失败给了我内心的安宁，这种安宁是顺利透过测验考试获得不了的。
失败让我认识自我，这些是没法从其他地方学到的。
4、从挫折中获得的知识越充满智慧越有力，你在以后的生存中则越安全。
除非遭受磨难，你们不会真正认识自我，也没法知道你们之间关联有多铁。
这些知识才是真正的礼物，他们比我以前获得的任何资格证书更为珍重，正因这些是我经历过痛苦后才获得的。
5、贫穷会引起恐惧压力，有时候甚至是沮丧。
这意味着留意眼卑微和很多艰难困苦。
透过自我的发奋摆脱贫穷确实是件很值得自豪的事情，但只有傻瓜才对贫穷本身夸夸其谈。
6、冷漠与忽视往往比明白的厌恶造成更多伤害。
7、贫穷会引起恐惧压力，有时候甚至是沮丧。
这意味着留意眼卑微和很多艰难困苦。
透过自我的发奋摆脱贫穷确实是件很值得自豪的事情，但只有傻瓜才对贫穷本身夸夸其谈。
8、决定咱们生命的，不是咱们的潜质，而是咱们的选取。
9、此刻已经不是抱怨父母引导自我走错方向的时候了，如今的'你们已经足够大来决定自我前进的路程，职责要靠自我承担。
10、咱们不需要魔法来改变世界，咱们已经在咱们的内心拥有了足够的力量：那就是把世界想象成更好的力量。
11、失败给了我内心的安宁，这种安宁是顺利透过测验考试获得不了的。
JK罗琳在哈佛毕业典礼的演讲《哈利.波特》的作者罗琳于6月5日参加了哈佛大学2008年的毕业典礼，被授予荣誉学位，并作为特邀嘉宾做了标题为《The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination》（失败的额外收益与想象力的重要性）的演讲。
以下，是译言的翻译。
标题：《失败的额外收益与想象力的重要性》（原文）作者：J.K.罗琳浮士德主席，哈佛公司和监察委员会的各位成员，大学的员工，自豪的父母，以及所有的毕业生们：首先我想说的是“谢谢你们”。
这不仅因为哈佛给了我非比寻常的荣誉，而且为了这几个礼拜以来，由于想到这次毕业典礼演说而产生的恐惧与恶心让我减肥成功。
这真是一个双赢的局面！现在我需要做的就是一次深呼吸，眯着眼看着红色的横幅，然后欺骗自己，让自己相信正在参加世界上受到最好教育群体的哈立波特大会。
做毕业典礼演说是一个重大的责任，我的思绪回到了自己的那次毕业典礼。
那天的演讲者是一位英国的杰出哲学家Baroness Marry Warnock. 对她演讲的回忆对我写这篇演讲稿帮助巨大，因为我发现她说的话我居然一个字都没有记住。
这个发现让我释然，使我得以继续写完演讲稿，我不用再担心，那种想成为"gay wizard"（harry porter中的魔法大师）的眩晕的愉悦，可能会误导你们放弃在商业、法律、政治领域的大好前途。
你们看，如果你们在若干年后能记住“gay wizard”这个笑话，我就比Barkoness Mary Warnock有进步了。
所以，设定一个可以实现的目标是个人进步的第一步。
实际上，我已经绞尽脑汁、费劲心思去想今天我应该讲什么好。
我问自己：我希望在自己毕业那天已经知道的是什么，而又有哪些重要的教训是我从那天开始到现在的21年间学会的。
我想到了两个答案。
在今天这个愉快的日子，我们聚在一起庆祝你们学习上的成功时，我决定和你们谈谈失败的收益。
jk罗琳的演讲稿在逆境中发现更好的自己福斯特主席，哈佛公司和监察委员会的各位成员，各位老师、家长、全体毕业生们：首先请允许我说一声谢谢。
哈佛不仅给了我无上的荣誉，连日来为这个演讲经受的恐惧和紧张，更令我减肥成功。
这真是一个双赢的局面。
现在我要做的就是深呼吸几下，眯着眼睛看看前面的大红横幅，安慰自己正在世界上最大的格兰芬多聚会上。
发表毕业演说是一个巨大的责任，至少在我回忆自己当年的毕业典礼前是这么认为的。
那天做演讲的是英国著名的哲学家Baroness Mary Warnock，对她演讲的回忆，对我写今天的演讲稿，产生了极大的帮助，因为我不记得她说过的任何一句话了。
这个发现让我释然，让我不再担心我可能会无意中影响你放弃在商业，法律或政治上的大好前途，转而醉心于成为一个快乐的魔法师（gay有快乐和同性恋的意思）你们看，如果在若干年后你们还记得"快乐的魔法师“这个笑话，那就证明我已经超越了Baroness Mary Warnock。
建立可实现的目标这是提高自我的第一步。
实际上，我为今天应该和大家谈些什么绞尽了脑汁。
我问自己什么是我希望早在毕业典礼上就该了解的，而从那时起到现在的21年间，我又得到了什么重要的启示。
我想到了两个答案。
在这美好的一天，当我们一起庆祝你们取得学业成就的时刻，我希望告诉你们失败有什么样的益处；在你们即将迈向"现实生活"的道路之际，我还要褒扬想象力的重要性。
这些似乎是不切实际或自相矛盾的选择，但请先容我讲完。
回顾21岁刚刚毕业时的自己，对于今天42岁的我来说，是一个稍微不太舒服的经历。
可以说，我人生的前一部分，一直挣扎在自己的雄心和身边的人对我的期望之间。
我一直深信，自己唯一想做的事情，就是写小说。
不过，我的父母，他们都来自贫穷的背景，没有任何一人上过大学，坚持认为我过度的想象力是一个令人惊讶的个人怪癖，根本不足以让我支付按揭，或者取得足够的养老金。
我现在明白反讽就像用卡通铁砧去打击你，但.他们希望我去拿个职业学位，而我想去攻读英国文学。
J.K.罗琳：不要害怕失败2008年哈佛大学毕业典礼致辞J.K.罗琳：英国作家著有《哈利〃波特》系列福特斯校长，哈佛集团的各位成员，监管理事会的各位理事，各位老师，各位自豪的家长，以及最重要的各位毕业生同学：我想说的第一句话，就是“谢谢”。
不仅因为哈佛给了我这样非同一般的荣誉，还因为为了构思今天的演讲，我忍受了几个星期的担惊受怕、茶饭不思的生活，使得我体重减轻。
这真可谓“双赢”啊！现在，我唯一要做的就是深呼吸，偷偷看一眼四周飘扬的红色旗帜，让自己相信真的来到了世界上最大的“格兰芬多”聚会。
在毕业典礼上发表演讲，是一项巨大的责任，令我倍感压力。
直到我回忆起了自己的毕业典礼，才稍稍放松。
那一次的演讲嘉宾是杰出的英国哲学家玛丽〃沃诺克。
回想她的演讲，极大地帮助我写作自己的演讲稿，因为我发现一点也不记得她的任何一句话了。
这个发现让我如释重负，不再害怕自己在不经意间就对你们产生影响，让你们放弃在商业、法律、政治方面的大好前途，去追求成为一个快乐巫师的那种令人眩晕的愉悦。
你们明白吗？如果多年以后，你们只记得我讲的这个“快乐巫师”的笑话，我就已经超过玛丽〃沃诺克了。
可以实现的目标，是自己改进的第一步。
实际上，我真的是绞尽脑汁，思索今天自己到底应该讲什么。
我问自己，当年我毕业的时候，希望知道哪些事情；以及21年后的今天，我又从人生中得到哪些重要的经验教训。
我得到了两个回答。
这个美妙的日子，我们聚集一堂，庆祝你们在学业上的成功，但是我决定跟你们说说失败的好处，以及当你们站在所谓“真实世界”的门槛之上的时候，我要颂扬想象力的重要性。
这样的主题可能看上去有点异想天开和自相矛盾，但是请听下去，对于一个42岁的妇女来说，回想自己21岁毕业时的情景，是一种稍稍令人不安的经历。
回到21年之前，我正遭受煎熬，不知道在自己内心的追求与父母对我的期望之间，应该如何平衡。
当时，我确信自己一生中唯一想做的事情，就是去写小说。
但是，我的父母出生贫寒，没有受过大学教育。
罗琳哈佛大学毕业典礼上的演讲稿：燃烧激情，追逐梦想模式尊敬的哈佛大学校长、各位教授和高材生：我很荣幸能够在今天的毕业典礼上，与大家分享我的人生经历和心得，以及我对于未来的展望。
作为一名成功的小说家和企业家，我相信我的历和故事能够激发你们内心的热情，追逐自己的梦想，创造更美好的未来。
成为一名小说家是我童年时的梦想。
我喜欢阅读、写作和想象。
然而，在我年轻时并没有人认为写作是一个成功的职业，只有教授、医生或者律师才能够获得社会的认可和尊重。
此，我选择了一个比较传统的路子，成为一名语言学家和教师，这也成为我写作和创业的铺垫。
然而人生道路上的起起伏伏让我发现，只有追求自己的内心激情和热爱，才能够真正地实现自己的梦想和价值。
2007年，我曾经在哈佛大学就我的人生经历和梦想发表了一次演讲，那时候我还不知道，我的一部小说《哈利波特》将彻底改变我的人生和世界。
《哈利波特》这部小说不仅成功地打破了英国和全球出版的记录，也掀起了一股全球性的魔法热潮。
我相信这部小说的成功离不开我内心的激情和对于幻想和魔法的热爱，以及我对于写作和语言的敏锐和执着。
同时，这部小说也彰显了我对于真理和正义的渴望，以及对于人性的理解和呼唤。
成功背后，也有其它的困难和挑战。
例如，我的小说曾经被一些教育家和宗教人士批评为鼓吹魔法与邪恶，挑战了传统的道德和价值观。
我深信，艺术和文化是超越国界、文化和宗教的共同语言，具有解锁人类本质和生命意义的力量。
因此，我继续坚持我的内心激情和使命，写下了我对于魔法和魔法世界的更加深入和丰富的理解和探索。
同时，我的激情和热爱也驱使我进入了商业领域。
创办和经营曾经的网站Pottermore和出版公司Wizarding World，让我实现了我的另一个梦想和愿景——将更多的人带入到我的魔法世界中来，探索、游戏和学习。
同时，这个商业模式也让我成为一个兼具文化和商业价值的企业家，探索了艺术与商业、创意与实益的融合和平衡。
我的成功并不是单方面的，其中，包括了我的团队和合作伙伴们的努力和贡献。
JK罗琳哈佛毕业演讲——不要害怕失败（最终版）第一篇：JK罗琳哈佛毕业演讲——不要害怕失败（最终版）And yet I also learned more about human goodness at Amnesty International than I had ever known before.同时在这里我也了解到更多关于人类的善良，比我以前想象的要多很多。
Amnesty mobilises thousands of people who have never been tortured or imprisoned for their beliefs to act on behalf of those who have.The power of human empathy, leading to collective action, saves lives, and frees prisoners.Ordinary people, whose personal well-being and security are assured, join together in huge numbers to save people they do not know, and will never meet.My small participation in that process was one of the most humbling andWhat is more, those who choose not to empathise may enable real monsters.For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude with it, through our own apathy.更甚的是，那些选择不去同情的人，可能会激活真正的怪兽。
JK罗琳哈佛毕业典礼英语演讲稿：激励人心Ladies and gentlemen,It is an absolute honor for me to be standing before you today, on the esteemed grounds of Harvard University - a world-renowned institution that has produced some of the greatest minds in history. As a writer, I must say that I never imagined I would be delivering a speech on this platform, which is why I am very grateful to have this opportunity to talk to you all today.My journey to this moment has been a long one, but it has been filled with valuable lessons that have shaped me into the person I am today. As some of you may know, I came from humble beginnings, and it is safe to say that success was not handed to me on a silver platter. I had to work hard, persevere, and believe in myself even when others did not. And let me tell you, that mindset has carried me far - much farther than I ever imagined possible.But enough about me - I am here today to talk to you about something much bigger than myself. I want to talk about you. I want to talk about the bright minds that are sittingbefore me - the people who will go on to change the world in unimaginable ways. Because, let's face it, that's what Harvard is all about, right? It's about providing a space for some of the greatest thinkers in the world to come together and use their talents for the greater good.But here's the thing - the road to success is never easy. And I know some of you may feel a sense of pressure or uncertainty about what the future holds. Believe me, I understand that feeling all too well. But the truth is, every single person who has ever achieved anything great has had to face obstacles and overcome them to get where they are today. And that's where I want to offer some words of encouragement.First and foremost, never underestimate the power of hard work. Yes, I know it sounds clich茅, but hear me out. Success is not about luck or chances - it's about putting in theeffort and the time to make things happen. And when I say effort, I am not just referring to putting in long hours or sacrificing sleep. I am talking about being consistent, being disciplined, and being willing to learn from your mistakes. Because trust me, you will make mistakes - but it's how you bounce back from them that matters most.Secondly, always stay true to your principles. In thisday and age, it's all too easy to be swayed by the opinionsof others or to succumb to societal pressures. But let metell you, that is not a path to success. Success comes from being authentic, from listening to your heart, and fromstaying true to the values that define who you are. And Iknow that sounds simplistic, but in a world where everythingis changing at lightning speed, it is those principles thatwill anchor you and keep you grounded.Finally, never stop dreaming. Never give up on the things that you are passionate about, no matter how far-fetched they might seem at the time. Because the truth is, sometimes the most brilliant ideas come from the most unlikely places.Think about it - if I had told you twenty years ago that a story about a boy wizard would become a global phenomenon,you might have thought I was crazy. But by daring to dream, I was able to bring my vision to life - and who knows, youmight just be the next person to do the same.In conclusion, I want to leave you with one final thought. Right now, the world may seem like a daunting and uncertain place. But I truly believe that the people sitting before me are the ones who will change that. You are the future leaders,the innovators, and the thinkers who will shape the world for generations to come. And I have every faith that you willrise to that challenge, that you will work hard, stay true to your principles, and most importantly - never stop dreaming.Thank you, Harvard, for inviting me to speak today, and good luck to all of you on your journeys ahead.。
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[精华版]JK罗琳Rolling的2008演讲稿（中英文对照）JK罗琳2008哈佛毕业典礼演讲President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers,members of the faculty, proud parents, and, above all, graduates,福斯特主席，哈佛公司和监察委员会的各位成员，各位老师、家长、全体毕业生们:The first thing I would like to say is 'thank you.' Not only has Harvard given me an extraordinary honour, but the weeks of fear and nausea I’ve end ured at the thought of giving this commencement address have made me lose weight. A win-win situation! Now all I have to do is take deep breaths, squint at the red banners and convince myself that I am at the world’s largest Gryffindors' reunion.首先请允许我说一声谢谢。
哈佛不仅给了我无上的荣誉，连日来为这个演讲经受的恐惧和紧张，更令我减肥成功。
这真是一个双赢的局面。
现在我要做的就是深呼吸几下，眯着眼睛看看前面的大红横幅，安慰自己正在世界上最大的格兰芬多(格兰芬多是小哈利所在的魔法学院的名字)聚会上。
Delivering a commencement address is a great responsibility; or so I thought until I cast my mind back to my own graduation. The commencement speaker that day was the distinguished British philosopher Baroness Mary Warnock. Reflecting on her speech has helped me enormously in writing this one, because it turns out that I can't remember a single word she said. This liberating discovery enables me to proceed without any fear thatI might inadvertently influence you to abandon promising careers in business, law or politics for the giddy delights of becoming a gay wizard.发表毕业演说是一个巨大的责任，至少在我回忆自己当年的毕业典礼前是这么认为的。
jk罗琳在哈佛毕业典礼演讲（中英文）jk罗琳在哈佛毕业典礼演讲（中英文）的人类的邪恶加诸于同胞的证据，这样的罪恶仅仅是为了获得或者维持权力。
我开始做恶梦，彻头彻尾的恶梦，梦到那些我看到、听到和读到的事情。
然而，在国际特赦组织里我还了解了很多关于人类的好的一面，有些是我从不知道的。
Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced. They can think themselves into other people s minds, imagine themselves into other people s places.Of course, this is a power, like my brand of fictional magic, that is morally neutral. One might use such an ability to manipulate, or control, just as much as to understand or sympathise.And many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain fortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are. They can refuse to hear screams or to peer inside cages; they can close their minds and hearts to any suffering that does not touch them personally; they can refuse to know.I might be tempted to envy people who can live that way, except that I do not think they have any fewer nightmares than I do. Choosing to live in narrow spaces can lead to a form of mental agoraphobia, and that brings its own terrors. I think the wilfullyunimaginative see more monsters. They are often moreafraid.What is more, those who choose not to empathise may enable real monsters. For without ever mitting an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude with it, through our own apathy.际特赦组织调动了几千人，他们从未因自己的信念而被折磨或监禁，他们代表那些饱受折磨的人并为之行事。
J·K·罗琳经典语录1、Itdoesnotdotodwellondreamsandforgettolive.不要依赖梦想而忘记生活。
2、沉湎于虚幻的梦想而忘记现实的生活，这是毫无益处的，千万记住。
——J·K·罗琳《哈利·波特》3、Itisthequalityofone’sconvictionsthatdeterminessuccess,notthenumberoffollowers.决定一个人是否成功的是其信仰的质量，而不是信徒的数量。
4、生活就像故事一样：不在乎长短，而在于质量，这才是最重要的。
——J·K·罗琳《在哈佛大学演讲》5、反抗你的敌人需要过人的勇气，而在朋友面前坚持自己的立场需要更大的勇气。
——J·K·罗琳《哈利·波特》6、表现真正的自我，是我们自己的选择，这比我们的能力更重要。
——J·K·罗琳《哈利·波特》7、Itisourchoicesthatshowwhatwetrulyare,farmorethanourabilities.我们的选择远比我们的能力更能表明我们是怎样的人。
——J·K·罗琳《哈利波特与密室》8、Ifyouwanttoknowwhataman'slike,takeagoodlookathowhetreatshisinferiors,nothisequals.如果你想了解一个人的为人，就要留意他是如何对待他的下级的，而不能光看他如何对待与他地位相等的人。
——J·K·罗琳《哈利·波特与火焰杯》9、接着，斯内普跪在小天狼星的旧卧室里。
他读着莉莉写的那封旧信，泪水从鹰钩鼻的鼻尖流淌下来。
信的第二页只有几句话：会和盖勒特·格林德沃交朋友。
我个人认为，她脑子有点糊涂了！无限爱意莉莉——J·K·罗琳《哈利·波特与死亡圣器》10、他似乎永远也不明白，人性是多面的，每一张平凡的脸孔背后可能都隐藏着一片郁郁生长、独一无二的原野。
哈利．波特老妈在哈佛毕业典礼上的演讲作者：王灿海来源：《课外阅读》2008年第18期《哈利·波特》的作者J.K.罗琳于6月5日参加了哈佛大学2008年的毕业典礼，被授予荣誉学位，并作为特邀嘉宾做了题为“失败的额外收益与想象力的重要性”的演讲——首先我想说的是“谢谢你们”。
这不仅因为哈佛给了我非比寻常的荣誉，而且为了这几个星期以来，由于想到这次毕业典礼演说而产生的恐惧让我减肥成功。
这真是一个双赢的局面!现在我需要做的就是二次深呼吸，眯着眼看着红色的横幅，然后欺骗自己，让自己相信正在参加世界上受到最好教育的群体的哈利·波特大会。
实际上，我已经绞尽脑汁、费劲心思去想今天我应该讲什么好。
我问自己：我希望在自己毕业那天已经知道的是什么，而又有哪些重要的教训是我从那天开始到现在的21年间学会的?于是我决定，在今天这个愉快的日子，我们聚在一起庆祝你们学习上的成功时，我来和你们谈谈失败的收益。
对于我这个42岁的人来说，回头看自己21岁毕业时的情景，并不是一件舒服的事。
我的前半生，一直在自己内心的追求与父母对我的要求之间进行抗争。
我曾确信我自己唯一想做的事是写小说。
但是我的父母都来自贫穷的家庭，都没有上过大学，他们认为我的异常活跃的想象力只是滑稽的个人怪癖，并不能用来付抵押房产，或者确保得到退休金。
他们希望我再去读个专业学位，而我想去攻读英国文学。
最后，达成了一个双方都不甚满意的妥协：我改学外语。
可是等到父母一走开，我立刻报名学习古典文学。
我想说明，我并没有因为他们的观点而抱怨他们。
他们希望我能摆脱贫穷。
对于他们认为贫穷并不高尚的观点我坚决同意。
贫穷会引起恐惧、压力、沮丧。
通过自己的努力摆脱贫穷确实是件很值得自豪的事。
但我在你们这个年龄的时候，最害怕的不是贫穷：而是失败。
尽管我明显缺乏在大学学习的动力，我花了很多时间在咖啡吧写故事，很少去听课，但是我知道通过考试的技巧。
这也是好多年来评价我以及我同龄人是否成功的标准。
失败的附加值和想象力的重要性——JK罗琳在哈佛的演讲福斯特校长，校理事会和校务监督委员会的成员们，各位老师，各位骄傲的父母们，还有最重要的，毕业生们：首先我要说谢谢，不只是因为哈佛给了我莫大的荣誉，也是因为这几个礼拜一直思考怎么做这个毕业演讲带来的焦虑和担忧让我成功地减了肥。
真是喜上加喜！现在我只需要做几个深呼吸，偷偷看着那面红色的旗子，然后骗自己说我正在一个受过世界最优秀的教育的哈利波特们的大会上。
做一个毕业演讲的责任很大。
但是当我回忆了一下我毕业的时候听到的毕业演讲以后，我改变了我的想法。
那天来做演讲的人是英国著名的哲学家baroness mary warnock 。
回忆她的演讲真的对我写这个稿子帮助很大，因为我发现我连一个字都不记得了。
这个发现让我大大地松了一口气，我不再担心有的人会因为我演讲而放弃他们很有前途的经济、法律或者是政治方面的工作，而为了放纵的快乐成为一名同性恋巫师。
你们看，就算你们以后回忆起我的演讲时只能记得这个“同性恋巫师”的笑话，我仍然会觉得自己比baroness mary warnock成功。
取得个人成功的第一步——给自己一个可以达到的目标。
实际上，为了想出合适的话题，我把自己弄得心力交瘁。
我问过我自己：“我希望我毕业的时候知道什么？”在这毕业之后的二十一年里，我又学到了那些宝贵的知识呢？我有两个答案。
在这个美好的日子里，在我们欢聚在一起庆祝你们取得的学术上的成就的时候，我决定要告诉你们失败的好处。
同时，因为你们已经站在了“现实”的门槛上，我打算赞美一下想象力的至关重要性。
这两个选择看起来奇怪而又相互矛盾，但请耐心地听我说完。
回头看刚毕业的21岁的我，让今天已经42岁的我感到一些不舒服。
21岁，我的生命到现在为止的前一半的时候，我努力地试图在自己的野心和家人的期望之间取得一个平衡。
我一直坚定地相信，我唯一想做的事情，就是写作。
但是我的父母，出生于贫寒家庭，从未上过大学，他们把我过于活跃的想象力看作一种只属于个人的怪癖，既不能用来偿还抵押贷款，又不能用来领福利救济。
jk罗琳名言名句JK罗琳是著名的英国作家，她因创作了《哈利·波特》系列而享誉全球。
在这一系列的作品中，她创造了一个魔法世界，并通过哈利·波特的冒险故事给读者们带来了无尽的惊喜和感动。
不仅如此，在她的作品中还蕴含了许多经典的名言和名句，这些句子不仅让我们享受阅读的乐趣，更深刻地启迪和引导着我们的人生。
下面，我将向大家分享一些JK罗琳的名言名句以及它们所蕴含的深意。
1. "It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."这句话出自《哈利·波特与密室》。
这句话告诉我们，一个人的选择决定了他的本质，比他的能力更重要。
我们可以通过自己的选择展现出真正的自己。
2. "The truth is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with caution."这句话同样出自《哈利·波特与密室》。
这是一句对真相的描述，说明真相既美丽又可怕，因此我们需要以谨慎的态度对待它。
有时候，真相可能会给我们带来困惑和痛苦，但只有面对真相，我们才能成长和进步。
3. "We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already."这句话出自JK罗琳的毕业演讲。
她告诉我们，我们不需要魔法来改变世界，我们已经拥有了内在的力量。
这句话鼓励我们相信自己的潜力，意味着每个人都有能力创造自己想要的生活，实现自己的梦想，我们只需要相信自己，并努力去追求。
4. "It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."这句名言同样出自《哈利·波特与密室》，它再次强调了“选择”的重要性。
罗琳的名言名句1.JK罗琳的名言是什么1.冷漠与忽视往往比明白的厌恶造成更多伤害。
2. 现在已经不是抱怨父母引导自己走错方向的时候了，如今的你们已经足够大来决定自己前进的路程，责任要靠自己承担。
3. 贫穷会引起恐惧、压力，有时候甚至是沮丧。
这意味着小心眼、卑微和很多艰难困苦。
通过自己的努力摆脱贫穷确实是件很值得自豪的事情，但只有傻瓜才对贫穷本身夸夸其谈。
4. 失败给了我内心的安宁，这种安宁是顺利通过测验考试获得不了的。
失败让我认识自己，这些是没法从其他地方学到的。
5. 从挫折中获得的知识越充满智慧、越有力，你在以后的生存中则越安全。
除非遭受磨难，你们不会真正认识自己，也没法知道你们之间关系有多铁。
这些知识才是真正的礼物，他们比我曾经获得的任何资格证书更为珍贵，因为这些是我经历过痛苦后才获得的。
6. 我们不需要魔法来改变世界，我们已经在我们的内心拥有了足够的力量：那就是把世界想象成更好的力量。
2.乔安妮·凯瑟琳·罗琳的名言警句“为什么我说失败是有好处的？因为失败将那些非本质的东西剥离了，我不再伪装自己，我找到了真正的我。
我将所有的精力都投入到我最重要的也是唯一的工作中去――写小说。
如果我此前在其他方面成功过，那么，我也许永远不会下这样的决心。
我自由了，因为我最大的恐惧已成为现实，而我依然活着，有一个可爱的女儿，还有一台旧打字机和一个大大的梦想。
我生命中的最低点也是我重建生活的坚实基础。
”她告诫年轻人：面临挫折时，永远不要放弃希望。
狮子座的J-K-罗琳具有丰富的想象力和超强的行动力。
“我们不需要改变世界的魔法，我们自己体内就有这样的力量。
我们一直在梦想，让这个世界变得更美好”。
不怕失败，持之以恒，每个人都有创造奇迹的机会。
这就是J-K-罗琳给我们的最大启示。
3.罗琳演讲中的句子的成分分析 They choose to remain comfortably wnever troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are. 为动词ing短语，做主语（They）的补足语。
J·K·罗琳经典语录J·K·罗琳经典语录1、It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.不要依赖梦想而忘记生活。
2、沉湎于虚幻的梦想而忘记现实的生活，这是毫无益处的，千万记住。
——J·K·罗琳《哈利·波特》3、It is the quality of one’s convictions that determines success, not the number of followers.决定一个人是否成功的是其信仰的质量，而不是信徒的数量。
4、生活就像故事一样：不在乎长短，而在于质量，这才是最重要的。
——J·K·罗琳《在哈佛大学演讲》5、反抗你的敌人需要过人的勇气，而在朋友面前坚持自己的立场需要更大的勇气。
——J·K·罗琳《哈利·波特》6、表现真正的自我，是我们自己的选择，这比我们的能力更重要。
——J·K·罗琳《哈利·波特》7、It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.我们的选择远比我们的能力更能表明我们是怎样的人。
——J·K·罗琳《哈利波特与密室》8、If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.如果你想了解一个人的为人，就要留意他是如何对待他的下级的，而不能光看他如何对待与他地位相等的人。
——J·K·罗琳《哈利·波特与火焰杯》9、接着，斯内普跪在小天狼星的旧卧室里。
从失败中吸取教训，让想象力张开翅膀－－罗琳在哈佛大学毕业典礼上的演讲[来源：新东方作者： J. K. Rowling 编译：朱敏琦]你们可能不会经历像我那么大的溃败，但生活中的失败是不可避免的。
生活永远都一帆风顺是不可能的，除非你活得谨小慎微，那就好比根本没有活过——要是那样的话，你照样失败。
实际上，我绞尽脑汁、挖空心思去想今天我该对你们说些什么。
我问自己，我希望在自己毕业时学到些什么，还有毕业后至今的21年里我又吸取了哪些重要的教训。
我想到了两个答案。
在今天这个美好的日子，我们欢聚一堂，庆祝你们学业有成，我想和你们谈谈失败的好处。
你们将要步入有时候所谓的“现实生活”，所以我还想强调一下想象力的重要性。
这两个答案似乎天马行空、不切实际，还有些自相矛盾，但是请听我慢慢道来。
对于我这样一个已经42岁的人来说，回想自己21岁毕业时的情景，是一件不怎么舒服的事情。
21年前，我在个人的追求与亲人的期望之间，艰难地谋求平衡。
我当时确信我惟一想做的事情就是写小说。
但是，我的父母出身贫寒，都没有上过大学。
他们认为，我的想象力过于丰富，是一种怪癖，根本不能用来挣养老金或还房贷。
他们希望我读个职业学位，而我想攻读英国文学。
最后，我们达成了一个现在看来双方都不甚满意的妥协：我改学现代语言学。
可是，我没过多久就扔掉了德语，恣意徜徉在古典文学的长廊中。
我不记得是否告诉父母自己改学了古典文学，他们可能是在我毕业那天才发现的。
在这个星球上所有的学科中，我想他们很难说出一门比希腊神话学更没用的课程了，它根本无法让你成为公司高管和享用独立的卫生间。
这里我要顺便申明，虽然想法不同，但我并不责怪父母。
你们不能一直责怪父母给你指错了路；当你达到了可以自己掌舵的年龄，你就要承担起责任。
而且，我的父母只是希望我不要过穷日子，这无可厚非。
他们自己很穷，我后来也很穷，所以我很理解他们，贫穷不是什么好事情。
贫穷带来恐惧、压力，有时还让人抑郁，贫穷意味着许许多多的羞辱和艰辛。
President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty, proud parents, and, above all, graduates.The first thing I would like to say is “thank you”. Not only has Harvard given me an extraordinary honor, but the weeks of fear and nausea I‟ve experienced at the thought of giving this commencement address have made me lose weight. A win-win situation! Now all I have to do is take deep breaths, squint at the red banners and fool myself into believing I am at the world‟s best-educated Harry Potter convention.Delivering a commencement address is a great responsibility; or so I thought until I cast my mind back to my own graduation. The commencement speaker that day was the distinguished British philosopher Baroness Mary Warnock. Reflecting on her speech has helped me enormously in writing this one, because it turns out that I can‟t remember a single word she said. This liberating discovery enables me to proceed without any fear that I might inadvertently influence you to abandon promising careers in business, law or politics for the giddy delights of becoming a gay wizard.You see? If all you remember in years to come is the …gay wizard‟ joke, I‟ve still come out ahead of Baroness Mary Warnock. Achievable goals: the first step towards personal improvement.Actually, I have wracked my mind and heart for what I ought to say to you today. I have asked myself what I wish I had known at my own graduation, and what important lessons I have learned in the 21 years that has expired between that day and this.I have come up with two answers. On this wonderful day when we are gathered together to celebrate your academic success, I have decided to talk to you about the benefits of failure. And as you stand on the threshold o f what is sometimes called …real life‟, I want to extol the crucial importance of imagination.These might seem quixotic or paradoxical choices, but please bear with me.Looking back at the 21-year-old that I was at graduation, is a slightly uncomfortable experience for the 42-year-old that she has become. Half my lifetime ago, I was striking an uneasy balance between the ambition I had for myself, and what those closest to me expected of me.I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do, ever, was to write novels. However, my parents, both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing personal quirk that could never pay a mortgage, or secure a pension.They had hoped that I would take a vocational degree; I wanted to study English Literature. A compromise was reached that in retrospect satisfied nobody, and I went up to study Modern Languages. Hardly had my parents‟ car rounded the corner at the end of the road than I ditched German and scuttled off down the Classics corridor.I cannot remember telling my parents that I was studying Classics; they might well have found outfor the first time on graduation day. Of all subjects on this planet, I think they would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology when it came to securing the keys to an executive bathroom.I would like to make it clear, in parenthesis, that I do not blame my parents for their point of view. There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you. What is more, I cannot criticise my parents for hoping that I would never experience poverty. They had been poor themselves, and I have since been poor, and I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.What I feared most for myself at your age was not poverty, but failure.At your age, in spite of a distinct lack of motivation at university, where I had spent far too long in the coffee bar writing stories, and far too little time at lectures, I had a knack for passing examinations, and that, for years, had been the measure of success in my life and that of my peers.I am not dull enough to suppose that because you are young, gifted and well-educated, you have never known hardship or heartbreak. Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the Fates, and I do not for a moment suppose that everyone here has enjoyed an existence of unruffled privilege and contentment.However, the fact that you are graduating from Harvard suggests that you are not very well-acquainted with failure. You might be driven by a fear of failure quite as much as a desire for success. Indeed, your conception of failure might not be too far from the average person‟s idea of success, so high have you already flown academically.Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it. So I think it fair to say that by any conventional measure, a mere seven years after my graduation day, I had failed on an epic scale. An exceptionally short-lived marriage had imploded, and I was jobless, a lone parent, and as poor as it is possible to be in modern Britain, without being homeless. The fears my parents had had for me, and that I had had for myself, had both come to pass, and by every usual standard, I was the biggest failure I knew.Now, I am not going to stand here and tell you that failure is fun. That period of my life was a dark one, and I had no idea that there was going to be what the press has since represented as a kind of fairy tale resolution. I had no idea how far the tunnel extended, and for a long time, any light at the end of it was a hope rather than a reality.So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena I believed Itruly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had already been realised, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.You might never fail on the scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default.Failure gave me an inner security that I had never attained by passing examinations. Failure taught me things about myself that I could have learned no other way. I discovered that I had a strong will, and more discipline than I had suspected; I also found out that I had friends whose value was truly above rubies.The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive. You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity. Such knowledge is a true gift, for all that it is painfully won, and it has been worth more to me than any qualification I ever earned.Given a time machine or a Time Turner, I would tell my 21-year-old self that personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two. Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyone‟s total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.You might think that I chose my second theme, the importance of imagination, because of the part it played in rebuilding my life, but that is not wholly so. Though I will defend the value of bedtime stories to my last gasp, I have learned to value imagination in a much broader sense. Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathise with humans whose experiences we have never shared.One of the greatest formative experiences of my life preceded Harry Potter, though it informed much of what I subsequently wrote in those books. This revelation came in the form of one of my earliest day jobs. Though I was sloping off to write stories during my lunch hours, I paid the rent in my early 20s by working in the research department a t Amnesty International‟s headquarters in London.There in my little office I read hastily scribbled letters smuggled out of totalitarian regimes by men and women who were risking imprisonment to inform the outside world of what was happening to them. I saw photographs of those who had disappeared without trace, sent to Amnesty by their desperate families and friends. I read the testimony of torture victims and saw pictures of their injuries. I opened handwritten, eye-witness accounts of summary trials and executions, of kidnappings and rapes.Many of my co-workers were ex-political prisoners, people who had been displaced from their homes, or fled into exile, because they had the temerity to think independently of their government.Visitors to our office included those who had come to give information, or to try and find out what had happened to those they had been forced to leave behind.I shall never forget the African torture victim, a young man no older than I was at the time, who had become mentally ill after all he had endured in his homeland. He trembled uncontrollably as he spoke into a video camera about the brutality inflicted upon him. He was a foot taller than I was, and seemed as fragile as a child. I was given the job of escorting him to the Underground Station afterwards, and this man whose life had been shattered by cruelty took my hand with exquisite courtesy, and wished me future happiness.And as long as I live I shall remember walking along an empty corridor and suddenly hearing, from behind a closed door, a scream of pain and horror such as I have never heard since. The door opened, and the researcher poked out her head and told me to run and make a hot drink for the young man sitting with her. She had just given him the news that in retaliation for his own outspokenness against his country‟s regime, his mother had been seized and executed.Every day of my working week in my early 20s I was reminded how incredibly fortunate I was, to live in a country with a democratically elected government, where legal representation and a public trial were the rights of everyone.Every day, I saw more evidence about the evils humankind will inflict on their fellow humans, to gain or maintain power. I began to have nightmares, literal nightmares, about some of the things I saw, heard and read.And yet I also learned more about human goodness at Amnesty International than I had ever known before.Amnesty mobilises thousands of people who have never been tortured or imprisoned for their beliefs to act on behalf of those who have. The power of human empathy, leading to collective action, saves lives, and frees prisoners. Ordinary people, whose personal well-being and security are assured, join together in huge numbers to save people they do not know, and will never meet. My small participation in that process was one of the most humbling and inspiring experiences of my life.Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced. They can think themselves in to other people‟s minds, imagine themselves into other people‟s places.Of course, this is a power, like my brand of fictional magic, that is morally neutral. One might use such an ability to manipulate, or control, just as much as to understand or sympathise.And many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are. They can refuse to hear screams or to peer inside cages; they can close their minds and hearts to any suffering that does not touch them personally; they can refuse to know.I might be tempted to envy people who can live that way, except that I do not think they have any fewer nightmares than I do. Choosing to live in narrow spaces can lead to a form of mental agoraphobia, and that brings its own terrors. I think the wilfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid.What is more, those who choose not to empathize may enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude with it, through our own apathy.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.That is an astonishing statement and yet proven a thousand times every day of our lives. It expresses, in part, our ines capable connection with the outside world, the fact that we touch other people‟s lives simply by existing.But how much more are you, Harvard graduates of 2008, likely to touch other people‟s lives? Your intelligence, your capacity for hard work, the education you have earned and received, give you unique status, and unique responsibilities. Even your nationality sets you apart. The great majority of you belong to the world‟s only remaining superpower. The way you vote, the way you live, the way you protest, the pressure you bring to bear on your government, has an impact way beyond your borders. That is your privilege, and your burden.If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice; if you choose to identify not only with the powerful, but with the powerless; if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of those who do not have your advantages, then it will not only be your proud families who celebrate your existence, but thousands and millions of people whose reality you have helped transform for the better. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.I am nearly finished. I have one last hope for you, which is something that I already had at 21. The friends with whom I sat on graduation day have been my friends for life. They are my children‟s godparents, the people to whom I‟ve been able to turn in times of trouble, friends who have been kind enough not to sue me when I‟ve used their names for Death Eaters. At our graduation we were bound by enormous affection, by our shared experience of a time that could never come again, and, of course, by the knowledge that we held certain photographic evidence that would be exceptionally valuable if any of us ran for Prime Minister.So today, I can wish you nothing better than similar friendships. And tomorrow, I hope that even if you remember not a single word of mine, you remember those of Seneca, another of those old Romans I met when I fled down the Classics corridor, in retreat from career ladders, in search of ancient wisdom:As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.I wish you all very good lives.Thank you very much.福斯特主席、哈佛同仁和监察委员会的各位员工，各位老师，家长、同学们: 首先请允许我说一声谢谢。
2008年jk罗琳哈佛毕业典礼演讲（中英文对照）默认分类 2009-07-17 20:13 阅读1281评论0字号：大中小“2008年6月5日是哈佛大学的毕业典礼，请来的演讲嘉宾是《哈利波特》的作者j.k.罗琳女士。
她的演讲题目是《失败的好处和想象的重要性》（the fringe benefits of failure,and the importance of imaginatio n）。
我读了一遍讲稿，觉得很好，很感染人。
她几乎没有谈到哈里波特，而是说了年轻时的一些经历。
虽然j·k·罗琳现在很有钱，是英国仅次于女皇的最富有的女人，但是她曾经有一段非常艰辛的日子，30岁了，还差点流落街头。
她主要谈的是，自己从这段经历中学到的东西。
”以下是英文文稿和中文翻译：text as delivered follows. copyright of jk rowling, june 2008 president faust, members of the harvard corporation and the board of overseers, members of the faculty, proud parent s, and, above all, graduates. the first thing i would like to say is ?thank you.? not only he world?s largest gryffindor reunion. k. achievable goals: the first step to self improvement. actually, i have wrackedmy mind and heart for what i ought to say to you today. i have asked myself what iwish i had known at my own graduation, and what important lessons i have learned inthe 21 years that have expired between tha t day and this.agination.these may seem quixotic or paradoxical choices, but plea se bear with me.hose closest to me expected of me.i was convinced that the only thing i wanted to do, ever, was to write novels.however, my parents, both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither ofwhom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusingpersonal quirk that would never pay a mortgage, or secure a pension. i know that theirony strikes with the force of a cartoon anvil, now.d off down the classics corridor.i cannot remember telling my parents that i was studying classics; they mightwell have found out for the first time on graduation day. of all the subjects on thisplanet, i think they would have been hard put to name one less useful than greekmythology when it came to securing the keys to an exec utive bathroom.i would like to make it clear, in parenthesis, that i do not blame my parentsfor their point of view. there is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steeringyou in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel,responsibility lies with you. what is more, i cannot criticise my parents for hopingthat i would never experience poverty. they had been poor themselves, and i have sincebeen poor, and i quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. povertyentails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand pettyhumiliations and hardships. climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that isindeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is roma nticised only by fools.what i feared most for myself at your age was not povert y, but failure.at your age, in spite of a distinct lack of motivation at university, where ihad spent far too long in the coffee bar writing stories, and far too little timeat lectures, i had a knack for passing examinations, and that, for years, had beenthe measure of success in my life and that of my peers.i am not dull enough to suppose that because you are young, gifted andwell-educated, you have never known hardship or heartbreak. talent and intelligencenever yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates, and i do not for a momentsuppose that everyone here has enjoyed an existence of unruffled privilege and contentment. however, the fact that you are graduating from harvard suggests that you are notvery well-acquainted with failure. you might be driven by a fear of failure quiteas much as a desire for success. indeed, your conception of failure might not be toofar from the average person?s idea of success, so high have you already flown.every usual standard, i was the biggest failure i knew. now, i am not going tostand here and tell you that failure is fun. that period of my life was a dark one,and i had no idea that there was going to be what the press has since representedas a kind of fairy tale resolution. i had no idea then how far the tunnel extended,and for a long time, any light at the end of it was a hope rather than a reality. so why do i talk about the benefits of failure? simply because failure meant astripping away of the inessential. i stopped pretending to myself that i was anythingother than what i was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only workthat mattered to me. had i really succeeded at anything else, i might never have foundthe determination to succeed in the one arena i believed i truly belonged. i was setfree, because my greatest fear had been realised, and i was still alive, and i stillhad a daughter whom i adored, and i had an old typewriter and a big idea. and so rockbottom became the solid foundation on which i rebuilt my life. you might never fail on the scale i did, but some failure in life is inevitable.it is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiouslythat you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.failure gave me an inner security that i had never attained by passing examinations.failure taught me things about myself that i could have learned no other way. idiscovered that i had a strong will, and more discipline than i had suspected; i also foundout that i had friends whose value was truly above the price of rubies. the knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means thatyou are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive. you will never truly knowyourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested byadversity. such knowledge is a true gift, for all that it is painfully won, and ithas been worth more than any qualification i ever earned.th humans whose experiences we have never shared. one of the greatest formativeexperiences of my life preceded harry potter, though it informed much of what isubsequently wrote in those books. this revelation came in the form of one of myearliest day jobs. though i was sloping off to write stories during my lunch hours,i paid the rent in my early 20s by working at the african research department at amn esty international?s headquarters in london. there in my little office i read hastily scribbled letters smuggled out oftotalitarian regimes by men and women who were risking imprisonment to inform theoutside world of what was happening to them. i saw photographs of those who haddisappeared without trace, sent to amnesty by their desperate families and friends.i read the testimony of torture victims篇二：jk罗琳 - 2008哈佛大学毕业典礼上的演讲(jk罗琳 - 2008哈佛大学毕业典礼上的演讲（视频+中英对照文稿）the fringe benefits of failure, and the importance of imagination j.k. rowling copyright june 2008 as prepared for delivery president faust, members of the harvard corporation and the board of overseers,members of the faculty, proud parents, and, above all, graduates, actually, i have wracked my mind and heart for what i ought to say to you today.i have asked myself what i wish i had known at my own graduation, and what importantlessons i have learned in the 21 years that has expired between that day and this. these might seem quixotic or paradoxical choices, but please bear with me.i was convinced that the only thing i wanted to do, ever, was to write novels.however, my parents, both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither ofwhom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusingpersonal quirk that could never pay a mortgage, or secure a pension.i cannot remember telling my parents that i was studying classics; they mightwell have found out for the first time on graduation day. of all subjects on thisplanet, i think they would have been hard put to name one less useful than greekmythology when it came to securing the keys to an executive bathroom.i would like to make it clear, in parenthesis, that i do not blame my parentsfor their point of view. there is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steeringyou in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel,responsibility lies with you. what is more, i cannot criticise my parents for hopingthat i would never experience poverty. they had been poor themselves, and i have sincebeen poor, and i quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. povertyentails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand pettyhumiliations and hardships. climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that isindeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised onlyby fools. what i feared most for myself at your age was not poverty, but failure. at your age, in spite of a distinct lack of motivation at university, where ihad spent far too long in the coffee bar writing stories, and far too little timeat lectures, i had a knack for passing examinations, and that, for years, had beenthe measure of success in my life and that of my peers.i am not dull enough to suppose that because you are young, gifted andwell-educated, you have never known hardship or heartbreak. talent and intelligencenever yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates, and i do not for a momentsuppose that everyone here has enjoyed an existence of unruffled privilege andcontentment. however, the fact that you are graduating from harvard suggests that you are notvery well-acquainted with failure. you might be driven by a fear of failure quiteas much as a desire for success. indeed, your conception of failure might not be toofar from the average persons idea of success, so high have you already flownacademically. now, i am not going to stand here and tell you that failure is fun. that periodof my life was a dark one, and i had no idea that there was going to be what the presshas since represented as a kind of fairy tale resolution. i had no idea how far thetunnel extended, and for a long time, any light at the end of it was a hope ratherthan a reality. so why do i talk about the benefits of failure? simply because failure meant astripping away of the inessential. i stopped pretending to myself that i was anythingother than what i was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only workthat mattered to me. had i really succeeded at anything else, i might never have foundthe determination to succeed in the one arena i believed i truly belonged. i was setfree, because my greatest fear had already been realised, and i was still alive, andi still had a daughter whom i adored, and i had an old typewriter and a big idea.and so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which i rebuilt my life. you might never fail on the scale i did, but some failure in life is inevitable.it is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiouslythat you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default. failure gave me an inner security that i had never attained by passingexaminations. failure taught me things about myself that i could have learned no otherway. i discovered that i had a strong will, and more discipline than i had suspected;i also found out that i had friends whose value was truly above rubies. the knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means thatyou are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive. you will never truly knowyourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested byadversity. such knowledge is a true gift, for all that it is painfully won, and ithas been worth more to me than any qualification i ever earned. you might think that i chose my second theme, the importance of imagination,because of the part it played in rebuilding my life, but that is not wholly so. thoughi will defend the value of bedtime stories to my last gasp, i have learned to value imagination in a muchbroader sense. imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision thatwhich is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. in its arguablymost transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us toempathise with humans whose experiences we have never shared. one of the greatest formative experiences of my life preceded harry potter, thoughit informed much of what i subsequently wrote in those books. this revelation camein the form of one of my earliest day jobs. though i was sloping off to write storiesduring my lunch hours, i paid the rent in my early 20s by working in the researchdepartment at amnesty internationals headquarters in london. there in my little office i read hastily scribbled letters smuggled out oftotalitarian regimes by men and women who were risking imprisonment to inform theoutside world of what was happening to them. i saw photographs of those who haddisappeared without trace, sent to amnesty by their desperate families and friends.i read the testimony of torture victims and saw pictures of their injuries. i openedhandwritten, eye-witness accounts of summary trials and executions, of kidnappingsand rapes. and as long as i live i shall remember walking along an empty corridor and suddenlyhearing, from behind a closed door, a scream of pain and horror such as i have neverheard since. the door opened, and the researcher poked out her head and told me torun and make a hot drink for the young man sitting with her. she had just given himthe news that in retaliation for his own outspokenness against his countrys regime,his mother had been seized and executed. every day of my working week in my early 20s i was reminded how incrediblyfortunate i was, to live in a country with a democratically elected government, wherelegal representation and a public trial were the rights of everyone. every day, i saw more evidence about the evils humankind will inflict on theirfellow humans, to gain or maintain power. i began to have nightmares, literalnightmares, about some of the things i saw, heard and read. and yet i also learned more about human goodness at amnesty international thani had ever known before. amnesty mobilises thousands of people who have never been tortured or imprisonedfor their beliefs to act on behalf of those who have. the power of human empathy,leading to collective action, saves lives, and frees prisoners. ordinary people,whose personal well-being and security are assured, join together in huge numbersto save people they do not know, and will never meet. my small participation in thatprocess was one of the most humbling and inspiring experiences of my life. unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, withouthaving experienced. they can think themselves into other peoples minds, imaginethemselves into other peoples places. of course, this is a power, like my brand of fictional magic, that is morallyneutral. one might use such an ability to manipulate, or control, just as much asto understand or sympathise.i might be tempted to envy people who can live that way, except that i do notthink they have any fewer nightmares than i do. choosing to live in narrow spacescan lead to a form of mental agoraphobia, and that brings its own terrors. i thinkthe wilfully unimaginative see more monsters. they are often more afraid. one of the many things i learned at the end of that classics corridor down whichi 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 outerreality. that is an astonishing statement and yet proven a thousand times every day ofour lives. it expresses, in part, our inescapable connection with the outside world,the fact that we touch other peoples lives simply by existing. but how much more are you, harvard graduates of 2008, likely to touch other peopleslives? your intelligence, your capacity for hard work, the education you have earnedand received, give you unique status, and unique responsibilities. even yournationality sets you apart. the great majority of you belong to the worlds onlyremaining superpower. the way you vote, the way you篇三：jk罗琳 2008哈佛大学毕业典礼上的演讲the fringe benefits of failure, and the importance of imagination j.k. rowlingtercentenarytheatre, june 5, 2008 失败的好处和想象力的重要性哈佛大学毕业典礼j.k. 罗琳2008年6月5日presidentfaust, members of the harvard corporation and the board of overseers, membersofthefaculty, proud parents, and, above all, graduates, 福斯特主席，哈佛公司和监察委员会的各位成员，首先请允许我说一声谢谢。
