Career

You get to make your own luck. Eighty percent of success in your career will come from just showing up. The world is run by those who show up — not those who wait to be asked.

It's your curiosity and enthusiasm that will get you noticed and make your life interesting — not your grade point average.

Whatever you choose to do, do it with a childlike passion.

Get out of your comfort zone — better yet, get comfortable about being out of your comfort zone. Get yourself into the arena. Be a participant and not a spectator.

Hard work does not always pay off. If you're working on the wrong thing, it doesn't matter how hard you work, nothing will ever come of it. Hard work is important — just make sure you're working on the right thing.

You don't need to panic if you don't yet know what you want to do with your life. But you probably want to throw yourselves into circumstances where the summons will come.

Life is too short to let the world we experience be restricted by our own limited vision.

There will be many doors along your path, and behind each of those doors will be things that can change you and your lives. But you will recognize them only if you have embraced a philosophy of appreciating everything that happens to you.

Passion is the thing that you find in your life that you can care about, that you can cling to, that you can invest yourself in, heart, body, and soul.

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.

There's usually somebody else who can do your job, but there's nobody else who can be a loving child or a devoted parent.

Intuition is critical in virtually everything you do, but without relentless preparation and execution, it is meaningless.