Listen to that inner voice. It's always a good move to listen to that inner voice... if it doesn't lead to a crime.
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Lisa Kudrow
Vassar College Commencement 2010, 2010
For the most important decisions in your life, 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
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
Your heart knows the answers to these questions. It is whispering to you right now. Listen to it and follow it. It will always be your best guide in life.
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John Mackey
Bentley College Commencement 2008, 2008
In life, you make the small decisions with your head and the big decisions with your heart.
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Omid Kordestani
San Jose State University Commencement 2007, 2007
Find what you love, and do it. If you don't love what you're doing, you're dead.
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Frank McCourt
Syracuse University Commencement 2007, 2007
There is no such thing as failure. What other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God's way of pointing you in a new direction.
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Oprah Winfrey
Howard University Commencement 2007, 2007
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
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Steve Jobs
Stanford University Commencement, 2005
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.
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Steve Jobs
Stanford University Commencement, 2005
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.
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Steve Jobs
Stanford University Commencement, 2005