I'm firmly of the belief that your youth should be spent pursuing your passion - not just slightly, tremulously, haltingly, but unrelentingly, with a vengeance, to the max and then beyond. So dream laughably big - and then take an absurdly huge risk or two.
Interpretation
Chase your passions fervently during your youth and embrace big dreams and risks.
This quote emphasizes the importance of using one's youth to boldly pursue passions and dreams, rather than approaching them hesitantly. It encourages individuals to dream big and take significant risks, advocating for a life lived fully and without fear of failure, as youth is the ideal time to explore one's ambitions intensely.
In practice
During a graduation speech to inspire young graduates to follow their dreams.
Follow your passion, we’re often told. But how do you find your passion? Let me put it another way: what is it that breaks your heart about the world? It’s there that you begin to find what moves you. If you want to find your passion, surrender to your heartbreak. Your heartbreak points towards a truer north — and it’s the difficult journey towards it that is, in the truest sense, no mere passing idyllic infatuation, but enduring, tempestuous passion.
We all assume that if you're weak and poor, you're never going to win. In fact, the real world is full of examples where the exact opposite happens, where the weak win and the strong screw up.
Don't be afraid of what you want. This is your time. The barriers are down.
More or less, I am always saying, 'Give me more. Let's do what has not been done.'
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.
I believe that things are always going to work out, even if in the beginning it doesn't look like they are working out. I know in the long run they are going to work out, and it's going to be fine.
You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.
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