The only way to do great work is to love what you do

‘You’ve got to find what you love,’ Jobs says

This is a prepared text of the Commencement address delivered by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, on June 12, 2005.

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I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That’s it. No big deal. Just three stories.

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The first story is about connecting the dots.

I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?

It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: “We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?” They said: “Of course.” My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents’ savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn’t see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn’t interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.

It wasn’t all romantic. I didn’t have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends’ rooms, I returned Coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn’t have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and sans serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can’t capture, and I found it fascinating.

None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But 10 years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it’s likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backward 10 years later.

Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

My second story is about love and loss.

I really didn’t know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down — that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.

I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the world’s first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple’s current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.

I’m pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn’t been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.

My third story is about death.

When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn’t even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor’s code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you’d have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.

I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I’m fine now.

This was the closest I’ve been to facing death, and I hope it’s the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because 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. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960s, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors and Polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: It was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: “Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.” It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

6 Reasons Why Doing What You Love Is The Only Way To Do Great Work

This article was last updated on December 29, 2015

–June 12, 2005 Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Address

So why doing what you love is the only way to do great work..

Reason #1: Happiness

According to Positive Psychology books like The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor, Learned Optimism and Flourish by Martin Seligman, and Happier by Tal-Ben Shahar, rates of depression, anxiety, and stress are on the rise across the United States and around the world.

The United States has grown more and more materially wealthy for decades. But surprisingly, all of that material wealth didn’t buy us any more happiness. A person who is genuinely fulfilled by work and life has become the exception from the ordinary.

One of the main causes behind our epidemic of depression is the fact that the majority of people are not participating in jobs that excite them, fulfill them, or speak to their souls. They majority of people are simply not doing what they love for a living—quite the opposite actually. According to a 2014 Gallup survey, approximately sixty-nine percent of American employees are disengaged at work.

That’s why my first reason why doing what you love is the only way to do great work is to the opportunity to experience what so many people are lacking these days: consistent genuine happiness on a daily basis.

Doing what you love—whether it’s for a living or as a hobby—is a lifestyle that brings genuine happiness into your life seven days out of your week. Doing what you love will make you consistently happier than you ever could feel at a job that you drag yourself to for money or advancement. Deciding to do what you love as your chosen craft is going to fill you up with a sort of excitement, passion, and joy that the majority of people in our society don’t have access to.

That alone is reason enough to go after your passion.

Reason #2: You Can’t Give One Hundred Percent Of Yourself To A Job That You Don’t Love

Dragging yourself to a job that you don’t feel a strong gravitation toward or passion for puts a damper on your happiness, contentment, and enthusiasm for life. And it also puts a drain on your motivation, work ethic, effort, drive, and performance.

Because no matter how motivated by money, status, and advancement you are, you can’t give one hundred percent of your time, effort, motivation, dedication, and work ethic to a job or career that you don’t love. You just can’t give one hundred percent of yourself to a career that you don’t feel a strong excitement, passion, or gravitation for. It’s not possible.

Don’t get me wrong. It is possible to create a very bright and successful career for yourself by motivating yourself with money, status, advancement. But no matter how far you get, you’ll never be at one hundred percent unless you’re working a craft that you love. To be able to completely and totally devote one hundred percent of yourself to something, you have to be doing what you love.

Because you can’t give your all to a job that isn’t your passion. And if you’re not giving one hundred percent of yourself to your craft, you’ll never live up to your true potential for success.

Reason #3: Doing What You Love Breeds Greatness

If you’ve read Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell, then you’re aware of the concept that it takes an average of ten thousand hours to reach a super-successful level of achievement and greatness. Super-success requires a colossal amount of hard work.

When you look at the most successful people in our society—Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Oprah Winfrey, Will Smith, Jay-z—the grand majority of them often demonstrate a strong passion, love, or excitement for who they are and what they do. Our society’s most successful are almost always involved in careers that they love because passion is the only fuel that can push you through those endless days, nights, weekends, weeks, months, and years of hard work necessary to reach the top.

If you want to be super-successful, you have to figure out what it is that you love and go after it. Because connecting with your passion is the most powerful fuel you can use to climb that ladder of success.

And when you actually do connect with a craft that you love, you are going work harder than ever before, accomplish more than you ever would otherwise, and feel happy the whole way through.

Reason #4: Doing What You Love Makes The Journey Towards Success Your Reward

So often in our society, we get accustomed to thinking of money, advancement, and fame as our rewards for success and high achievement. But when you commit yourself to a career or a craft that you feel a strong passion for, those rewards that go along with success—the money, status, and fame—become less important to you.

When you devote yourself to a craft that you love, you start to embrace the process of getting closer to your goals, closer to greatness, closer to your visions, and closer to your dreams. Rather than the destination, your journey towards success becomes your greatest reward.

When you commit yourself to doing what you love, you are going to embrace the process of figuring out what your weaknesses are, overcoming setbacks, polishing your talents, and growing yourself spiritually. When you embrace that journey towards success, everyday will feel like one more fulfilling step towards living your destiny.

And all of the aspects of going to work that used to aggravate you—like working long hours, failure, or making sacrifices for your career—won’t be able to faze you anymore. Because what you do for a living is going to feed your happiness, speak to your soul, and fit in with your true character.

When you embrace the journey towards success as your reward, you will step into a type of consistent happiness, motivation, work ethic, and success that you could never experience otherwise.

Reason #5: Pursuing Your Passion Makes Life Exciting

Most people spend their entire lives without truly living. We drag ourselves to jobs that we don’t love—jobs that don’t feed our happiness or speak to our souls. We sacrifice doing what we truly want to do—what we know deep down we are capable of—to make ends meet or earn advancement in the world.

And as a result, we lose touch with that childlike excitement that filled our lives as children. We lose that feeling of aliveness that gave us so much joy during our childhood. And many people become discontent, bitter, or regretful as we move into the later years of our lives without ever knowing what it feels like to follow our passions.

Very rarely do you see an adult in today’s world that still has that feeling of pure excitement—excitement to go to work, excitement be alive, and excitement to be a part of the world—that children have.

Pursuing your passion is super-important. It’s the only way to do great work because it brings that childlike excitement—that you lost touch with a long time ago—back into your life.

When you commit yourself to a career that you feel a strong passion for, you’re going to feel a type of excitement that you probably lost touch with back in middle school, high school, or college—excitement to be alive, excitement to be who you are, and excitement to wake up everyday and head to work.

Regaining that childlike excitement makes doing what you love worth of all of the sacrifices of giving up a mainstream career to follow your heart.

Reason #6: Life Is Short

Life is short. The human lifespan isn’t very long. On average we only get the opportunity to live about seventy or eighty years on this earth before passing on—and that’s if we’re lucky. So my last—and maybe the most important—reason why doing what you love is the only way to do great work is the fact that life is short.

Whether life after death exists or not, we will only get one opportunity to make the most of who we are and what we came into the world with. We only get one opportunity to truly live, to figure out what it is that we love, follow our passions, and offer our gifts to the world.

You might think that seventy years is a lot of time to think your choices over. But if you’re not careful, you might let your entire life slip by without ever striking out to follow your passion.

A personal development writer named Bronnie Ware recently published a book titled The Top Five Regrets Of The Dying about her experiences working in palliative care with the terminally ill. The number one regret that Bronnie discovered amongst her patients was: “I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.”

Doing what you love is super-important because it’s your opportunity to avoid reaching the end of your life—like Bronnie’s patients did—and realizing that you regret not being true to yourself. It’s your opportunity to avoid realizing that you wish you followed your dreams at a moment when you no longer have any time left.

Life is short. We only ever get one opportunity to truly live. So don’t let your life slip by without trusting your heart and following your passion.

Figure out what it is that you love and go after it.

Because doing what you love is the best way to make sure that when you reach the end of your time here on earth, you’ll be looking back with pride, peace, happiness, and a sense of accomplishment at the life that you built for yourself.

So have you figured out your passion? And have you started working towards your dreams? Please share your thoughts with us in the comments below.

Знаменитая речь Стива Джобса в Стенфорде (12.06.2005)

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Русский перевод:
«Для меня большая честь быть с вами сегодня на вручении дипломов одного из самых лучших университетов мира. Я не оканчивал институтов. Сегодня я хочу рассказать вам три истории из моей жизни. И все. Ничего грандиозного. Просто три истории.
Первая история — о соединении точек. Я бросил Reed College после первых шести месяцев обучения, но оставался там в качестве «гостя» еще около 18 месяцев, пока наконец не ушел. Почему же я бросил учебу?

In English:
This is a prepared text of the Commencement address delivered by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, on June 12, 2005.

I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That’s it. No big deal. Just three stories.

The first story is about connecting the dots.

I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?

It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: «We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?» They said: «Of course.» My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents’ savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn’t see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn’t interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.

It wasn’t all romantic. I didn’t have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends’ rooms, I returned Coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn’t have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and sans serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can’t capture, and I found it fascinating.

None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But 10 years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it’s likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backward 10 years later.

Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

My second story is about love and loss.

I really didn’t know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down — that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.

I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the world’s first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple’s current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.

I’m pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn’t been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.

My third story is about death.

When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: «If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.» It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: «If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?» And whenever the answer has been «No» for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn’t even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor’s code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you’d have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.

I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I’m fine now.

This was the closest I’ve been to facing death, and I hope it’s the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because 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. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960s, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors and Polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: It was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: «Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.» It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

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Успех. каждый хочет его, но большинство из нас и понятия не имеет как его добиться. Мы нуждаемся в нем практически везде: в школе или в карьере, в отношениях с партнерами, детьми или друзьями, с нашим ментальным
и физическим здоровьем, с теми, кого мы только начинаем узнавать и, конечно, с собой. Но знаем ли мы истинное значение этого слова? Данная статья развеет ваши сомнения, а, возможно, и поможет определиться с выбором на вашем жизненном пути! Великие цитаты не менее великих людей ждут вас ниже. C’mon!

В чем, по-вашему, заключается success? В деньгах? В получении удовольствия и духовном просвещении? Может быть все дело в душевной гармонии и жизни в моменте? Эй, а как насчет всего этого сразу? Каждый решает для себя сам. Но мы уверены, что бы вы не выбрали, без вдохновения успех достигается гораздо сложнее. Поэтому предлагаем на обозрение сборник лучших цитат о нем, которые должны подтолкнуть вас к нему и открыть новые двери.

Авторы многих из нижепредставленных изречений остаются безизвестными, но хуже от этого они не становятся. Более того, на наш взгляд, именно такие цитаты заслуживают особого внимания. In fact, does it really matter who said it? What matters is the idea. Возможно, именно в этом списке найдется цитата, которая поможет вам найти свой собственный путь к успеху (whatever that’s gonna be) и станет вашим девизом на каждый день.

Английская лексика по теме финансовые вопросы

Топ 20 цитат об успехе на английском

«No one is going to hand me success. I must go out & get it myself. That’s
why I’m here. To dominate. To conquer. Both the world, and myself.» — Unknown
Никто не предоставит мне успех. Я должен пойти и добиться его сам. Вот почему я здесь. Чтобы доминировать и одержать победу. Над этим миром и над собой.

«Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from
now and make a brand new ending.» — Carl Bard
Хотя никто не в силах вернуться назад и начать все заново, каждый может начать сейчас и сделать абсолютно новый финал.

«Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.» — Les Brown
Примите ответственность за свою жизнь. Знайте, что (только) вы можете устроить все для себя, никто другой.

«Kill them with success and bury them with a smile.» — Unknown
Убейте их успехом и похороните их улыбкой.

«Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy, or stupid. Those things are what happen when you don’t have a plan.» — Larry Winget
Никто никогда не планировал становиться бедным, толстым или ленивым. Эти вещи случаются, когда у вас нет плана.

«The only thing that stands between you and your dream is the will to try and the belief that it is actually possible.» — Joel Brown
Единственное, что стоит между вами и вашей мечтой — это воля к попытке и вера в возможность.

«If opportunities don’t knock, build a door.» — Unknown
Если возможности не стучаться к вам, постройте дверь.

«Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.» — Joshua J. Marine
Трудности — это то, что делает жизнь интереснее, а преодоление их делает ее значащей.

«Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.» — Farrah Gray
Стройте свои собственные мечты, или кто-нибудь другой наймет вас строить свои.

«Forget all the reasons it won’t work and believe the one reason that it will.» — Unknown
Забудьте все причины, по которым это не сработает, и поверьте в одну, по которой сработает.

«The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.» — Steve Jobs
Единственный способ делать работу на отлично — любить то, чем занимаетесь. Если вы все еще не нашли (такое дело), продолжайте искать.

«Happiness is a choice.» — Unknown
Счастье — это выбор.

«Life is like photography. You need the negatives to develop.» — Unknown
Жизнь, как фотография — вам нужен негатив для развития.

«I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. It’s because of them I’m
doing it myself.» — Albert Einstein
Я благодарен всем, кто сказал мне «нет». Благодаря им я справляюсь сам.

«We don’t see things the way they are. We see them the way we are.» — Talmud
Мы не видим вещи такими, какими они являются. Мы смотрим на них по-своему.

«The best revenge is massive success.» — Frank Sinatra
Лучшая месть — это грандиозный успех.

«How you do one thing, is how you do everything. Be aware.» — Unknown
Как вы делаете одно дело, так вы делаете и все остальное. Имейте в виду.

«Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Catch the trade
winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.» — Mark Twain
Через 20 лет вы будете больше сожалеть о несделанных вещах, чем о сделанных. Так что откиньте в сторону свои запреты. Поддайтесь ветру. Исследуйте. Мечтайте. Открывайте.

«Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.» — Eleanor Roosevelt
Великие умы обсуждают идеи. Средние — события. Мелкие — людей.

«To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.» — Oscar Wilde
Любовь к себе — это начало романа длинною в жизнь.

Какая цитата понравилась вам больше всего? Hold it! Перед тем как вы ответите, предлагаем взглянуть видео ниже. После просмотра, неудача точно будет обходить вас стороной. Ведь в видео есть 25 кадр, и все посмотревшие просто обречены на успех! It’s a total safe bet! Шутим, конечно. Но вдохновить вас оно точно должно. Кстати, разобрать видео и выполнить задания к нему как всегда можно в нашем Видеопрактикуме. Come one, come all and wintess exercises!

Косвенная речь в английском языке

Об успехе с носителем языка

А знаете ли вы как правильно говорить об успехе с носителями языка? Допустим, вам предоставилась такая возможность — не станете же вы ее упускать? Ведь можно узнать столько нового и полезного! А, может быть, вы даже пересмотрите свои взгляды.

Для того, чтобы диалог получился конструктивным, а вы звучали естественно и уверенно, пользуйтесь следующими выражениями:

Successful people stand out in one way or another.
Успешные люди выделяются тем или иным образом.

People who succeed in the world don’t try to keep up with others. They only focus on competing with themselves.
Преуспевающие люди в этом мире не подстраиваются под остальных. Они только фокусируются на состязаниях с собой.

My friend goes above and beyond to please her clients.
Моя подруга из кожи вон лезет, чтобы угодить своим клиентам. (Well-well-well. )

I always find a way to come out on top.
Я всегда нахожу способ одержать верх.

Как составлять контракты на английском: советы и пример

4 состявляющих успеха

1) Деньги (bacon). Можно ли купить счастье за деньги? Разумеется! Не во всех случаях, конечно. Но, если у вас недостаточно денег, чтобы прокормить свою семью, то кошелек потолще несомненно увеличит ваш уровень счастья. Однако, как только вы удовлетворите свои основные потребности, то деньги становятся (должны становиться) менее значимыми.

2) Занятие и работа (engagement and work). Люди находятся в счастливейшем condition и выдают наилучший результат тогда, когда они активно вовлечены в то, чем занимаются. Вопрос в том, как достичь такого уровня вовлеченности. Ответ прост — люди достигают потокового состояния (flow state), когда занимаются теми вещами, в которых они не только хороши, но и которые кидают им вызов. Для получения удовольствия от работы, нужно заниматься проектами, которые вытянут вас из зоны комфорта. Real talk!

3) Отношения (ship). Качество вашей жизни определяется людьми, которые вас окружают. Негативные люди вредны не только для вас, но и для всего вашего окружения. Окружайте себя позитивными, дружелюбными, поддерживающими и умными сверстниками с чувством юмора и широким мировоззрением из разных слоев общества. Это увеличивает ваши шансы на положительный взгляд на вещи и открывает широкий спектр возможностей.

4) Здоровье (soundness). Работа в напряженные часы может казаться стоящей. Но, когда это достигается ценой здоровья и морального благосостояния, то шансы на успех меркнут. Стресс разрушает каждую частичку вашего тела. Недостаток сна негативно влияет на ваши способности к познанию, может привести к плохой работе и к принятию неверных решений. Сон также тесно связан с вашим ощущением счастья, так что не забывайте о необходимом отдыхе. We’d recommend you to keep an eye on that.

Вы определяете свой собственный успех. И нет ничего плохого в желании работать в угловом кабинете или в получении должности, на которой вы сможете достичь желаемого результата, но помните об этих четырех составляющих, так как они оказывают основное влияние на ваше счастье и успех. Вдохновляйтесь цитатами великих, используйте время с пользой и не забывайте про устойчивость к внешним воздействиям (resilience).

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The Only Way To Do Great Work Is To Love What You Do

The best way to be successful is to love what you do. When you decide on doing something, you must put your whole heart into it.

When we love what we do we will never get tired of it. We won’t let failure ever be part of our goals. We would always aim for excellence and do the best we can every single time. Steve Jobs once said, “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”

Our passion makes us crave for constant improvement. Also, it’s our love for our work that encourages us to keep doing what we do even if we encounter several challenges. We don’t let setbacks stop us from being successful. We use those challenges to become better and improve ourselves.

So find a job that you won’t only enjoy but you will love. Stick to that and continue to challenge yourself each time. Don’t let anything stop you from doing great work. Use your passion to produce excellent works. Don’t quit even if things get tough.

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