Don't confuse drive and passion. Drive pushes you forward. It's a duty, an obligation. Passion pulls you. It's the sense of connection you feel when the work you do expresses who you are. Only passion will get you through the tough times.
Integrity is my stock in trade.
The most dangerous risk of all - the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.
The risk of working with people you don't respect; the risk of working for a company whose values are incosistent with your own; the risk of compromising what's important; the risk of doing something that fails to express-or even contradicts--who you are. And then there is the most dangerous risk of all--the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet that you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.
Rather than working to the exclusion of everything else in order to flood our bank accounts in the hope that we can eventually buy back what we have missed along the way, we need to live life fully now with a sense of its fragility.
Work hard, work passionately, but apply your most precious asset—time—to what is most meaningful to you.
Passion and drive are not the same at all. Passion pulls you toward something you cannot resist. Drive pushes you toward something you feel compelled or obligated to do. If you know nothing about yourself, you can't tell the difference. Once you gain a modicum of self-knowledge, you can express your passion. . . . . It's not about jumping through someone else's hoops. That's drive.
Johnny Tillotson
Jeff Cunningham
Abderrahmane Sissako
Mary Kay Ash
Tom Thibodeau
Molly Ivins
Konrad Zuse
Tim Hetherington
Poul Hartling
Tanya Wexler
Rainis
Ellie Krieger
