She wears scant makeup and dresses with the sartorial indifference particular to the three populations she inhabits: science geeks, Bay Areans, suburban moms. There's a white scar at her hairline and a vertical crease between her eyebrows. Her hands are wide and knobby, with long, unvarnished nails. Ming's penny-colored hair hangs limp and, in the morning, shower-damp, gathered in a hasty ponytail or left to dry on the rack of her broad shoulders. Her sharp cheekbones bookend her assertive nose and shade her easy smile. At 41 she's extensively freckled, with the oversize ears of an adolescent. Her eyes appear to shift in color from sapphire to silver. The first thing you notice about Vivienne Ming, PhD, is the way she notices you: Her gaze is appraising, curious. Now imagine you get that chance-and you might begin to understand the life, and work, of Vivienne Ming. Imagine knowing you could be so much more if only you had the chance. Imagine people deciding who you are with a glance-and getting it wrong, every time.
#LEND ME YOUR EARS VIVIENNE FULL#
According to journalist William Safire _ who has recently revised his anthology of memorable speeches, " Lend Me Your Ears " _ commencement addresses are the easiest to write they are full of advice, imperatives, and personal anecdotes _ and neither graduates nor their parents usually remember them anyway.Imagine being trapped in a life you don't want, a fate you can't change.President, lend me your ears- too intoxicated by moral clarity. The paramount lesson in Shakespeare's plays is that the world is full of nuances and uncertainties, and that leaders self-destruct when they are too rigid, too sure of themselves or- Mr.The setting couldn't be more appropriate : A few miles ( kilometers ) away is the Roman Forum, where Shakespeare's Mark Anthony pleaded " lend me your ears " to his fellow citizens as he spoke over Julius Caesar's murdered body." Lend me your ears " is a Shakespearean reference, taken from the " Friends, Romans, countrymen " speech in " Julius Caesar " and used at the time as a popular way of asking people to listen."' " Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears " "'is the first line of a speech by Mark Antony in the play " Julius Caesar ", by William Shakespeare.
` Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears '?
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