

“Do what you love but do what it takes to do what you love.”
― Refined: Turning Pain into Purpose
― Refined: Turning Pain into Purpose

“You can wonder forever how many teeth a horse has - or you can find a horse, open its mouth, and count its teeth.”
― Refuse to Choose!: Use All of Your Interests, Passions, and Hobbies to Create the Life and Career of Your Dreams
― Refuse to Choose!: Use All of Your Interests, Passions, and Hobbies to Create the Life and Career of Your Dreams

“I became, in other words, more like Holmes than the man himself: brilliant, driven to a point of obsession, careless of myself, mindless of others, but without the passion and the deep-down, inbred love for the good in humanity that was the basis of his entire career. He loved the humanity that could not understand or fully accept him; I, in the midst of the same human race, became a thinking machine.”
― The Beekeeper's Apprentice
― The Beekeeper's Apprentice

“Doing what you love isn't a priviledge; it's an obligation.”
― Refuse to Choose!: Use All of Your Interests, Passions, and Hobbies to Create the Life and Career of Your Dreams
― Refuse to Choose!: Use All of Your Interests, Passions, and Hobbies to Create the Life and Career of Your Dreams

“Passion comes after you put in the hard work to become excellent at something valuable, not before. In other words, what you do for a living is much less important than how you do it.”
― So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love
― So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love
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