Do everything you need to do to keep the passion alive and never forget that it is a privilege to do what you love.
Interpretation
Pursuing your passion is a privilege that requires effort to maintain.
This quote emphasizes the importance of actively nurturing one's passion and recognizing the honor that comes with being able to engage in work that you love. It serves as a reminder that while challenges may arise, the joy of pursuing what you are passionate about is a valuable opportunity that should not be taken for granted.
In practice
In a motivational speech to students about choosing careers.
When kids want a picture or autograph, you reflect later on and realize you did something good. Then you see them come back five years later, they're all grown up, have their own lives and they tell you how much you inspired them. You're like, 'Whoa.'
Joy is sometimes a blessing, but it is often a conquest. Our magic moment help us to change and sends us off in search of our dreams. Yes, we are going to suffer, we will have difficult times, and we will experience many disappointments β but all of this is transitory it leaves no permanent mark. And one day we will look back with pride and faith at the journey we have taken.
She knows where she's going, and what she has to do. She could, after all, find her way to Route 95 South blindfolded. She could do it in the dark, in fair weather or foul; she can do it even when it seems she will run out of gas. It doesn't matter what people tell you. It doesn't matter what they might say. Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.
The starting point of all achievement is desire.
When I step onto the court, I'm ready to play. If you're going up against me, you'd better be ready. If you're not going to compete, I will dominate you.
One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
If we really want something done, it is best to do it ourselves.
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