"We don't get a chance to do..." - Quote by Steve Jobs
We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life.
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“It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.”
“Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do.”
“So [Polaroid's Dr. Edwin] Land, at 75, went off to spend the remainder of his life doing pure science, trying to crack the code of color vision. The man is a national treasure. I don't understand why people like that can't be held up as models: This is the most incredible thing to be - not an astronaut, not a football player - but this.”
More on Excellence
“Do what you do so well - and so uniquely - that people can't resist telling others about you”
“You could be the world's best garbage man, the world's best model; it don't matter what you do if you're the best.”
“In every one of us there are two ruling and directing principles, whose guidance we follow wherever they may lead; the one being an innate desire of pleasure; the other, an acquired judgment which aspires after excellence.”
More on Life
“The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.”
“If you don't love where you are right now, you won't love where you are going. Here is what I know: People who are passionate about what they do every day and love where they are in life are the fortunate ones. They have discovered their purpose. They are the difference makers who fully understand the gift of adding value, and yes, they can't help but love where they are going on their journey.”
“I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.”