Passion
How do you sum up passion? It's your most important personal characteristic and the primary reason for your success in the world.
We turn to some quotes to help touch on it:
He who's not busy being born is busy dying.
— Bob Dylan
Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.
— Ice T, The Ice Opinion, quoted in Reader's Digest, "Quotable Quotes," February 2002
Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
— Harold Whitman
You always have to be bad at something you're passionate about.
— Personal advice from Bill Buxton
Persistence isn't using the same tactics over and over. That's just annoying.
Persistence is having the same goal over and over.
— Seth Godin, March 14, 2008
Landing on your butt twenty thousand times is where great performance comes from.
— Geoff Colvin, from the chapter Where Does the Passion Come From? in his book, Talent Is Overrated.
Follow your passion, and success will follow you.
— Arthur Buddhold