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.
You're going to fall down, but the world doesn't care how many times you fall down, as long as it's one fewer than the numbers of times you get back up.
One thing hurts me. I keep hearing 'Terry Fox.' I'm not doing the run to become rich or famous... To me, being famous is not the idea of the run. The only important part is that cancer can be beaten.
A good battle plan that you act on today can be better than a perfect one tomorrow.
Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.
I'd lose weight if I was an actress and had to play a role where you're supposed to be 40 lbs lighter, but weight has nothing to do with my career. Even when I was signing a contract, most of the industry knew if anyone ever dared say lose weight to me, they wouldn't be working with me.
Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.
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