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安倍総理年頭所感 全文

謹んで新年のご挨拶を申し上げます。

昨年末、第96代内閣総理大臣に就任いたしました。新たな年を迎え、この三年あまりで失われてしまった政治への信頼を取り戻し、未来へ向けた新しい国づくりに邁進していく決意を新たにしています。

遅れる復興、長引くデフレ、そして、我が国固有の領土・主権に対する挑戦。我が国は、今、危機的状況に置かれています。

安倍内閣に課せられた使命は、こうした危機を突破し、経済、教育、外交を着実に建て直し、暮らしの安心を取り戻していくことです。

政治への信頼を取り戻すために、実現不可能な空虚な言葉は要りません。何より大切なのは、スピード感と実行力です。

人物重視、能力重視で人材を集め、重厚な布陣を敷きました。組閣時、すべての閣僚に「経済再生」「復興」「危機管理」の三つに全力で取り組むよう指示いたしました。

安倍内閣は、危機突破に向けて、一つ一つ「結果」を出していくことにこだわり続けます。

日本にとって何より喫緊の課題は、デフレと円高からの脱却による経済の再生です。

最初の閣議で、早速、経済再生の司令塔として内閣に「日本経済再生本部」を設置し、早急に緊急経済対策をとりまとめ、補正予算を編成するよう関係閣僚に指示いたしました。

新年早々に「経済財政諮問会議」を再起動し、来年度予算や税制改正の作業も急ピッチで進めてまいります。

大胆な「金融政策」、機動的な「財政政策」、民間投資を喚起する「成長戦略」が経済再生の「三本の矢」です。

頑張った人が報われ、今日よりも明日の生活が良くなると実感できる日本経済を取り戻すために、内閣の総力を挙げて、経済政策を強力に進めてまいります。

忘れてはならないのは、二度目の冬を迎え、未だに仮設住宅などで不自由な生活を送られている被災地の皆さんのことです。

就任最初の訪問地として、私は迷うことなく福島を選びました。未だ故郷に戻れない方々の厳しい状況に正面から向き合い、被災者の心に寄り添っていかなければなりません。

除染や生活再建など課題は山積していますが、これまでは縦割り行政の弊害や現場感覚の欠如によって対応が滞っていると多くの指摘を聞きました。

安倍内閣では、政府内の縦割りを廃するため、東電福島原発事故からの再生を福島再生総括大臣の下に一元化し、被災地の現場でスピーディに決定し、実行できる体制を整えます。

これにより、早期の帰還、復興を実現してまいります。これからまとめる経済対策でも、復旧・復興に思い切って予算を投じ、被災地の復興を加速させます。

昨年は、我が国の領土・領海・領空を巡り、様々な事件がありました。安倍政権では、日米同盟を一層強化するとともに、近隣諸国との関係を立て直し、アジアの成長を取り込みます。

そして、広く世界を俯瞰して、自由、民主主義、基本的人権、法の支配といった基本的な価値に立脚した戦略的な外交を大胆に展開します。

国民の生命・財産と領土・領海・領空を断固として守り抜くため、国境離島の適切な振興・管理、警戒警備の強化なども進めてまいります。

もちろん、大規模災害や重大事故などの危機管理対応に24時間365日体制で万全を期してまいります。

日本の将来を担っていく子どもたちは、国の一番の宝です。我が国の教育を立て直し、世界トップレベルの学力、規範意識、歴史や文化を尊重する態度を取り戻すため、教育の再生を進めます。

「暮らしの不安」を取り除き、安心社会を作り上げることも、安倍内閣の重要課題です。国民の命を守り、競争力を高めるための国土強靭化対策を進めます。

持続可能な社会保障制度を確立するために、自民、公明、民主の「三党合意」に基づき、社会保障・税一体改革を継続します。女性が活躍し、子どもを生み、育てやすい国づくりも、前に進めてまいります。

安倍政権に課せられた使命は、まずは「強い経済」を取り戻していくことです。成長していこうとする気概を失った国に、未来はありません。

矢継ぎ早に政策を実現することで、成長していく。そうした明るい未来を目指し、国民一丸となって、「強い日本」を取り戻していこうではありませんか。

年の初めに、国民の皆様の御理解と御協力を切にお願いするとともに、皆様のご健勝とご多幸をお祈りして、新年のご挨拶とさせていただきます。

平成二十五年一月一日 内閣総理大臣　安倍晋三

天皇陛下 新年のご感想（全文）

　東日本大震災から二度目の冬が巡ってきました。

放射能汚染によりかつて住んでいた地域に戻れない人々や、仮設住宅で厳しい冬を過ごさざるを得ない人々など、

年頭に当たって、被災者のことが、改めて深く案じられます。

今後、震災や津波による被害の経験を十分にいかした防災教育やまちづくりが行われ、

人々の安全な生活が確保される方向に向かうよう願っています。

　日本は、大震災の影響等により、現在厳しい状況に置かれていますが、皆が被災者に心を寄せつつ、互いに支え合って様々な困難を克服していくよう期待しています。

　本年が、我が国の人々、また、世界の人々にとって少しでもより良い年になることを祈ります。

全文 スティーブジョブス伝説のスピーチ＠スタンフォード大学卒業式 3

My third story is about death. When I was 17 I read a quote that went something like "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself, "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "no" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important thing I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life, because almost everything--all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure--these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

About a year ago, I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctors' code for "prepare to die." It means to try and tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next ten years to tell them, in just a few months. It means to make sure that everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.

I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope, the doctor started crying, because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and, thankfully, I am fine now.

This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope it's the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept. No one wants to die, even people who want to go to Heaven don't want to die to get there, and yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent; it clears out the old to make way for the new. right now, the new is you. But someday, not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it's quite true. Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice, heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalogue, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stuart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late Sixties, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and Polaroid cameras. it was sort of like Google in paperback form thirty-five years before Google came along. I was idealistic, overflowing with neat tools and great notions. Stuart and his team put out several issues of the The Whole Earth Catalogue, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-Seventies and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath were the words, "Stay hungry, stay foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. "Stay hungry, stay foolish." And I have always wished that for myself, and now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you. Stay hungry, stay foolish.

Thank you all, very much.

全文 スティーブジョブス伝説のスピーチ＠スタンフォード大学卒業式 2

My second story is about love and loss. I was lucky. I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents' garage when I was twenty. We worked hard and in ten years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4,000 employees. We'd just released our finest creation, the Macintosh, a year earlier, and I'd just turned thirty, and then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew, we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so, things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge, and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our board of directors sided with him, and so at thirty, I was out, and very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating. I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down, that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure and I even thought about running away from the Valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me. I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I'd been rejected but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods in my life. During the next five years I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the world's first computer-animated feature film, "Toy Story," and is now the most successful animation studio in the world.

In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT and I returned to Apple and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance, and Lorene and I have a wonderful family together.

I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful-tasting medicine but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life's going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love, and that is as true for work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work, and the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking, and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it, and like any great relationship it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking. Don't settle.

全文 スティーブジョブス伝説のスピーチ＠スタンフォード大学卒業式

アップル創始者スティーブジョブスのスタンフォード大学卒業式での伝説のスピーチ全文。
"Stay hungry. Stay foolish."　ジョブスが話した３つのストーリー。
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Thank you. I'm honored to be with you today for your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. Truth be told, I never graduated from college and this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation.

Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories. The first story is about connecting the dots.

I dropped out of Reed College after the first six months but then stayed around as a drop-in for another eighteen months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out? It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife, except that when I popped out, they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking, "We've got an unexpected baby boy. Do you want him?" They said, "Of course." My biological mother found out later that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would go to college.

This was the start in my life. And seventeen years later, I did go to college, but I naïvely chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, and no idea of how college was going to help me figure it out, and here I was, spending all the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back, it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out, I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me and begin dropping in on the ones that looked far more interesting.

It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms. I returned Coke bottles for the five-cent deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the seven miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example.

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer was beautifully hand-calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and sans-serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.

None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me, and we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts, and since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them.

If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on that calligraphy class and personals computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do.

Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college, but it was very, very clear looking backwards 10 years later. Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backwards, so you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever--because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well-worn path, and that will make all the difference.