MULTIMEDIA-ENGLISH
Think different (Steve Jobs)
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Video page URL
https://multimedia-english.com/videos/esl/think-different-steve-jobs-3806
Description

Here's to the crazy ones.


The one-minute commercial featured black-and-white footage of 17 iconic 20th century personalities. In order of appearance they were: Albert Einstein, Bob Dylan, Martin Luther King, Jr., Richard Branson, John Lennon (with Yoko Ono), Buckminster Fuller, Thomas Edison, Muhammad Ali, Ted Turner, Maria Callas, Mahatma Gandhi, Amelia Earhart, Alfred Hitchcock, Martha Graham, Jim Henson (with Kermit the Frog), Frank Lloyd Wright and Pablo Picasso. The commercial ends with an image of a young girl opening her closed eyes, as if making a wish.

Transcript

Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify and vilify them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.

Meaning
How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art?

Or sit in silence and hear a song that’s never been written?

They invent. They imagine. They heal. They explore. They create. They inspire. 



Maybe they have to be crazy.