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- What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.
- Melanie Benjamin, Alice I Have Been, 2010
- You can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something: your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well worn path.
- Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2005
- You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.
- Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2005
- Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.
- Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2005
- Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure. These things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
- Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Stanford Commencement Address, 2005
- No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
- Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Stanford Commencement Adress, 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. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
- Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2005
- Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
- When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
- If it doesn't feel right, don't do it. That's the lesson. That lesson alone, will save you a lot of grief. Even doubt means don't.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
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