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.'
Are you going to let the obstacles in your life be stumbling blocks or stepping stones? Choose the positive. You are the master of your attitude.
We become what we think about all day long. The qustion is, "What do you think about?"
You fail, and then what? Life goes on. It's only when you risk failure that you discover things.
It is a wonderful tribute to the game or to the dottiness of the people who play it that for some people somewhere there is no such thing as an insurmountable obstacle, an unplayable course, the wrong time of the day or year.
The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working. One is tempted to stop and listen to it. The only thing is to turn away and go on working. Work. There is nothing else.
Do each day all that can be done that day. You don't need to overwork or to rush blindly into your work trying to do the greatest possible number of things in the shortest possible time. Don't try to do tomorrow's or next week's work today. It's not the number of things you do, but the quality, the efficiency of each separate action that count. To achieve this "habit of success," you need only to focus on the most important tasks and succeed in each small task of each day.
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