It's not whether your attitude is good or bad, but does it define your direction? People usually fall short because they're a degree or two off in attitude, and over time and distance, that can put you in a place far away from where you would like to be.
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Jim Steen
Kenyon College Commencement 2011, 2011
Whatever you end up doing in this life, make sure above all that it's interesting. Because most likely you're going to spend a third of the rest of your life working for a living. And if what you do bores you, that means you're going to spend a third of the rest of your life being bored.
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Terry Teachout
Rollins College Hamilton Holt School Commencement 2011, 2011
Remember that you must make the driving force in your life, love.
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Dr. Mehmet Oz
West Chester University Commencement 2011, 2011
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.
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David Cote
University of New Hampshire Commencement 2011, 2011
Life will happen to you, whether you try to guide it or not, so you might as well try to influence the outcome. You have to know what you want and you have to be willing to go after it.
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David Cote
University of New Hampshire Commencement 2011, 2011
The purpose in life is not to find yourself. It's to lose yourself.
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David Brooks
Rice University Commencement 2011, 2011
Happiness is love. Full stop. The surest way to measure whether a person is happy, healthy and well is to ask: How deeply is that person enmeshed in deep passionate commitments?
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David Brooks
Rice University Commencement 2011, 2011
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.
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David Brooks
Rice University Commencement 2011, 2011
Bring your own vision to your work and look for ways you can give something to the world. Inspire people. Make a difference.
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Tom Brinck
Art Institute of California Commencement 2011, 2011
The essence of leadership, when all is said and done, is the personal assumption of the moral duty to be proactive in building our future.
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Sergio Marchionne
University of Toledo Commencement 2011, 2011
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.
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Steve Ballmer
University of Southern California Commencement, 2011, 2011
Thankfully, dreams can change. If we'd all stuck with our first dream, the world would be overrun with cowboys and princesses.
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Stephen Colbert
Northwestern University Commencement, 2011, 2011