4. About Those Big Dreams
Last but not least, I would say you should have big dreams, full dreams, not half dreams. You know, it’s very simple. You can’t put a large box in a small box. Well, you cannot put a full life in a small dream box.
– Elias Zerhouni
Commencement Address at MIT, 2004
It is very common … to tell graduates: dream and dream big. I say do more than that. When you dream you are in an unconscious state. It ends. You wake up. It’s not real. You need to create a vision. This takes determination, and a plan that takes your dream to a destination.
– Roger Goodell
Commencement Address at UMass Lowell, 2010
You must continue to dream the wild dream that you dreamed when you were young.
– Mike Tomlin
Commencement Address at Saint Vincent College, 2008
I know that luck has a way of happening to people who shoot high, who never sell themselves short.
– Terry Teachout
Commencement Address at Hamilton Holt School, 2011
Last but not least, I would say you should have big dreams, full dreams, not half dreams. You know, it’s very simple. You can’t put a large box in a small box. Well, you cannot put a full life in a small dream box.