Focus on what stirs your soul, because it's hard to excel at anything that you don't love. Be fearless. Don't be afraid to go down fighting if you're fighting a righteous battle.
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Susan Rice
Stanford University Commencement 2010, 2010
Trust your intuition and then work with everything you have to prove it right.
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Tim Cook
Auburn University Commencement 2010, 2010
Your necessary fire is not only necessary for you, it is necessary to the world itself.
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Sue Monk Kidd
Scripps College Commencement, 2010, 2010
One of the more powerful outbreaks of happiness and meaning in your life will occur when you pair your passion and the world's need.
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Sue Monk Kidd
Scripps College Commencement, 2010, 2010
Don't ever, ever have a job. Always, always have work.
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John Jacob Scherer
Roanoke College Commencement 2010, 2010
Sometimes it is important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it!
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Larry Page
University of Michigan Commencement 2009, 2009
Do not confuse dreams with wishes. Dreams are where you visualize yourself being successful at what's important to you to accomplish. Dreams build convictions because you work hard to pay the price to make sure that they come true. Wishes are hoping good things will happen to you, but there's no fire in your gut.
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Dolly Parton
University of Tennessee Commencement 2009, 2009
Follow your passion, stay true to yourself. Never follow someone else's path unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path. Then by all means, you should follow that.
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Ellen DeGeneres
Tulane University Commencement 2009, 2009
You shouldn't be afraid to let passion get behind the wheel — you might really love where you end up.
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Jerry Yang
University of Hawaii Commencement 2009, 2009
Pursue your passion, and everything else will fall into place. This is not being romantic. This is the highest order of pragmatism.
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Gabrielle Giffords
Scripps College Commencement 2009, 2009
Find the courage to do things you are not ready to do. Doing something you are not ready to do isn't comfortable. But in pushing through this discomfort you will learn a lot more about yourself.
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Marissa Mayer
Illinois Institute of Technology Commencement 2009, 2009
There is another path to take. It's hard work. You'll be right sometimes, you'll be wrong sometimes. People will doubt you, you'll doubt yourself. But if you are doing something you want and have a passion for, at least you'll have that to guide you.
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Mike Judge
UC San Diego Commencement 2009, 2009