You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.
SJ
Steve JobsStanford University commencement address (2005)
About Steve Jobs
Cofounder of Apple and Pixar who reshaped personal computing, phones and animation. (1955-2011)
More from Steve Jobs
- Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.Stanford University commencement address (2005)
- 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.Stanford University commencement address (2005)
- Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.Stanford University commencement address (2005)
- Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.Stanford University commencement address (2005)
- Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.Interview, The New York Times Magazine (2003)
- Creativity is just connecting things.Interview with Gary Wolf, Wired (1996)
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- Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.Lou Holtz
- If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be.Yogi Berra
- Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup.Bruce Lee
- Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.Audrey Hepburn
- You have to look at yourself objectively. Analyze yourself like an instrument. You have to be absolutely frank with yourself. Face your handicaps, don't try to hide them. Instead, develop something else.Audrey Hepburn
- Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.Charlie Chaplin
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