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There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
Love what you do. Get good at it. Competence is a rare commodity in this day and age. And let the chips fall where they may.
Don't be deceived by life's outcomes. Life's outcomes, while not entirely random, have a huge amount of luck baked into them.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Study hard; and you might grow up to be President. But let's face it: Even then, you'll never make as much money as your dog.
I am a Punjabi at heart, but I've been born & brought up in Mumbai and even did my schooling & graduation from Mumbai itself.
Opportunities? They are all around us ... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.
Develop your own compass, and trust it. Take risks, dare to fail, remember the first person through the wall always gets hurt.
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
For the most important decisions in your life, trust your intuition, and then work with everything you have, to prove it right.
You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream.
After my graduation from Sydenham College with a degree in Commerce, I was spotted by late Sunil Dutt, my idol, to act in films.
Life is an improvisation. You have no idea what's going to happen next and you are mostly just making things up as you go along.
Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
The unfortunate, yet truly exciting thing about your life, is that there is no core curriculum. The entire place is an elective.
It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.
I did my graduation in hospitality in Jaipur. When I was working, I started getting offers in modeling and did a few South films.
When I came to Chennai from Coimbatore after my graduation, looking for acting chances, it was for dubbing that I was first tried.
Be clear about what you want to accomplish, and whether the circumstances surrounding you are actively helping you toward the goal.
I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.
When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927, I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn't realize it would take so long.
After graduation, I took a job with Manufacturers Hanover Trust in software development. I don't think I was there more than a month.
I disagree with a lot of those changes, however at the end of the day - I go down to recruit graduation at least once or twice a year.
The government sets targets for increased four-year high school graduation rates as part of its agenda for improving Americans' health.
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
I believe in the principle that I can make a difference in this world. It may be ever so small, but it will count for the greater good.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
I just listened to that inner voice. By the way, it's always a good move to listen to that inner voice... if it doesn't lead to a crime
When I was your age, we didn't have the Internet in our pants. We didn't even have the Internet not in our pants. That's how bad it was.
If you're willing to stand for what you believe in ... you won't need advice from me, because you will be able to handle whatever comes.
I went to Legoland in Denmark when I was five, I think, but I went to Germany when I was 17 to have a little adventure after graduation.
The key is not to worry about being successful, but to instead to work toward being significant - and the success will naturally follow.
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
The great thing about taking big chances when you're younger is you have less to lose, and you don't know as much. So you take big swings.
To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals.
According to me, your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving. Hurry up. Speed it along. Start right now.
I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
We cannot lead a choiceless life. Every day, every moment, every second, there is a choice. If it were not so, we would not be individuals.
My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education, and then if you want to pursue acting, go to graduate school.
They couldn't sign me until after I graduated, but right after graduation day, I had nine different organizations there wanting to sign me.
I had a chance to win $2 million, a week after high school graduation, and if I turned pro, the sponsor was going to financially support me.
This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.
Go to it. Be bold. Be true. Be kind. Rotate your tires. Don't drink so much. There aren't going to be enough liver transplants to go around.
There's no there. That elusive 'there' with the job, the beach house, the dream, it's not out there. There is here. It's in you... right now.
When you start off, you have to deal with the problems of failure. You need to be thickskinned, to learn that not every project will survive.
Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.