Thanks, James Corden for recommending this. Brilliant Aaron Sorkin!

@lakesnlawns222

5 ай бұрын

Same here. I just came to look for it while still watching the interview with Jay Shetty!!

@warrenbailie

5 ай бұрын

Same here. Just finished the Jay Shetty Podcast. Too bad James is doing his talk show on Sirius and not Apple, or Spotify.

@chowceo

5 ай бұрын

SAME I live in Syracuse and hears James Cordon recommend ❤

@pgbarletta4547

2 ай бұрын

I came for it too!!

This was my sister's commencment, and I was incredibly fortunate to be there in person for this speech. Truly inspiring and thought-provoking. As my mom said on the way out, "this is why you always get a writer to do a big speech."

13:06 "Decisions are made by those who show up!" One of my favorite quotes of all time!

@bedfordnhdonkey

5 жыл бұрын

Benji Timin Vargas Shorts huh? What does that even mean?

@paulstrecher6194

3 жыл бұрын

@@bedfordnhdonkey - It's a line from a West Wing episode, and it means you only get to be part of something, able to have input or an influence on what happens, if you show up and engage in the process. You don't show up, you have no say in what happens, nor any right to complain.

"Decisions are made by those who show up" - also said by Bartlett in the last episode of the first series

Sorry, full of himself? He's one of the best scriptwriters out there. He's sharing the way his education and experience at Syracuse prepared him for life. That's what they do.

this speech is like music to my ears, like how he handles his dialogues.

Amazing, well-written, well-spoken speech. I come to this video a lot since my own commencement speech was so pathetic in comparison. This is the one I want to remember.

@autum8560

7 жыл бұрын

Jessica Tse he's the screenwriter of the social network. period.

He's such a master of words. I'm so proud to go to the university he attended.

wow that was amazing "dont ever forget you're a citizen of this world" great line! Not too long either some of these just drag on and on...

I was there :)

@gasaholic47

10 жыл бұрын

You're very fortunate!

@gasaholic47

5 жыл бұрын

Have you had your moment?

@screenwritingacademy

3 жыл бұрын

and how r u doing now

Best screenwriter I've ever had the pleasure to listen to :)

Wow, this is one of the best commencement speeches I have ever heard.

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Loved this (recommended by James Corden after listening to him on Jey Shetty’s podcast) 👍🏻

Inspiring words from one of the great writers of our time. Thank you.

That's respect and dedication to his daughter.

06:11 "Welcome to the NFL" is a line that Vice President Hoynes says to Josh in S1E4 of The West Wing.

@aniruddho_m

3 жыл бұрын

Sorkinism

@liajoseph7479

3 жыл бұрын

Aniruddho Majumder had the same exact thought

So inspiring. I love how he ties all of his thoughts together into this min

great speech!! really enjoyed it yesterday and had to listen again

Thank you kevin

great speech

Great speech Aaron! Thrilled to hear him talk about taking class with Geri Clark-- she's such a character. And hey! Brewster-Boland got a shout out-- nice.

A speech from a speech scriptwriter. Gorgeous.

Hilarious!!! My senior year was a joke this man's speech confirms it.

Sensational mind

You're too good for schadenfreude This has stuck with me for 7 years and I'm not sure why

He is my hero.

'Decisions are made by those who are show up' (said by CJ at Rock the Vote). And the bit about probable impossibilities is said by Sam when he realises he's going to be running for office in California.

powerful stuff

Sean Parker in Social Network also says, "that's life in the NFL," after Eduardo Saverin finds out how much his share was diluted

oh my God

You should watch it.

18 people changed their minds

Did anybody else catch the West Wing quotes?

This really motivated me, to do something, but I don't know what. I've got an urge for change, and I have for a long time, but I feel I'm too young to accomplish anything...

@anjuliambani5835

6 жыл бұрын

Well, that *was* 5 years ago. You've had plenty of time to fix that and accomplish something And you're no longer too young.

@westlake3737

2 жыл бұрын

Action changes things It’s not enough to know,You must also do.-Bruce Lee

I'm here because I have to study a series of commencement speeches for my final tomorrow.. whatta night.

this was amazing

I would have went to my commencement had someone like this spoke at it.

@timd5301

Жыл бұрын

But maybe you should have GONE to English class? 🤷🏻‍♂️

@rawkus1167 Agree totally, have never understood why people relish bashing him, talk about a humbling speech, bravo Sir!

Wow

This Guy

He has an eleven year old daughter, he has been cocaine free for eleven years.

Can't wait to see his Steve Jobs biopic.

12:48 I understood that aaron sorkin reference

Syracuse Love

HOYAS!!!!!!!!

@bedfordnhdonkey

5 жыл бұрын

Turner Welborn lol nobody knows anyone who ever went to Georgetown lol. Syracuse all day baby boy

It's a nice piece of motivation for quitting a drug that is twice as dangerous and three orders of magnitude more expensive than aspirin.

A prevalent tendency to disregard the limited mission of this power and duty should, I think, be steadfastly resisted, to the end that the lesson should be constantly enforced that, though the people support the government, the government should not support the people. The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow-citizens in misfortune.

rivalry

They went outside

ROFL LMAO XD I was thinking about the same thing!!

So, what did you think?

How did people get inspired before KZread?

4:36

Aaron, whatever may be the truth…no matter how many things I got wrong, if you’re gonna deny a good deal of dumbness pervading this whole operation, you’re dumb too. But you’re not and they’re and I love you

I love Sorkin, but I kinda wish he'd give attribution when he quotes someone. "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has" is from the brilliant anthropologist Margaret Mead. Sorkin swiped it for The West Wing too. Hey, it's okay to steal but how about giving a little credit where it's due? Easy to do in a commencement speech. Maybe some of these kids will look up Mead and learn more from her.

@todd7878

Жыл бұрын

"Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright." - Aaron Sorkin

wow id hate to be the guy that follows that

Check out Seth McFarlane's it was insane

Wonderful speech. I'm more Boston Legal than West Wing one but he's done some great stuff. The Newsroom struggles a bit but (another but) it's got some gems. Presumably, Georgetown is the college's sporting opponents (?), a bit like Charlton and Millwall in SE London.

can someone explain the georgetown joke at 13:55

@gasaholic47

5 жыл бұрын

Since no one answered you, SU and Georgetown were big rivals when SU was still in the Big East conference, especially in basketball. Their games were legendary. Sorkin was poking fun at that.

Um... a groundbreaking career in television and cinema?

Baz Luhrmann of "Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)" fame wants his speech back.

He essentially recycled his "That's life in the NFL" line in The Social Network here for this speech.

@paulstrecher6194

3 жыл бұрын

Actually used a version of it in the West Wing first. Also an NBA version.

I won't ever be a lazy harp seal again!

By going to expensive colleges to hear commencement speeches?

Well, at least they got their colors right. GO GATORS!! :-D

@bedfordnhdonkey

5 жыл бұрын

IAmTDurden you’re a fucking loser

This has been repeatedly and quite lately demonstrated. Federal aid in such cases encourages the expectation of paternal care on the part of the government and weakens the sturdiness of our national character, while it prevents the indulgence among our people of that kindly sentiment and conduct which strengthens the bonds of a common brotherhood.

IAmTDurden: "the people support the government, the government should not support the people" - seriously? we are all, the world over, abused by government, but we're supposed to support it and not expect to be supported? Nobody in their right mind says the government should take care of me anytime I scrap my knee. But evening the scales a bit in a very unfairly competitive society? That's just plain FAIR.

I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution, and I do not believe that the power and duty of the general government ought to be extended to the relief of individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit.

at 10:22, he unconsciously touches his nose

@anjuliambani5835

6 жыл бұрын

And? Have you never watched yourself on video after you've given a 15 minute speech? You don't even realise that you 'rearrange' yourself. That secretly says more about you, than him as an ex coke addict.

I love Aaron Sorkin. And this is, mostly, a very good speech. But he literally lifted at least three phrases from his own fictional characters and just grafted them into this address. He's often lifted lines from one of his works -- say, "Sports Night" or "The West Wing" and dropped them in another -- say, "The Social Network" or "Studio 60." It makes you want to say to him: "Aaron. Those were great lines. But leave them where they were. You can write new great lines. You're Aaron Sorkin."

@rebeccaoliver7977

2 жыл бұрын

He writes from his heart. The emotions he’s moved by. Using lines again just tells me how deeply they resonate with him.

Cuz you have no ambition. Don't beat yourself up about it.

It be easier to listen to this if it didn't sound like it was recorded on Mars.

Even a cokehead can be an inspiration !

I've tried coke and i'm not addicted

So Sorkin is really just another rich Jew.

hey Wilson, you've got 5 months left. quit wasting your time doing speeches and go hang out with House!

Why so many cliches Sorkin ;(

@anjuliambani5835

6 жыл бұрын

You obviously were not paying attention. He told you several times that he was addressing a group of dumb people. Obviously that's all they were able to handle or understand at that point.

David Foster Wallace's commencement speech is still way better.

The guy was full of himself but atleast he was honest unlike the majority of commencement speakers out there.

@anjuliambani5835

6 жыл бұрын

I'm not sure what you meant by full of himself or why you think his faults are way worse than your own shortcomings. Perhaps it's you who is full of yourself and you're just deflecting. I hope that over the past five years you've grown up, and you've come to realise that the world does not revolve around your opinions.

I was there :)