motivation
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He wishes the graduates ample pain and suffering, because greatness is built on character and character is formed by hardship.
Jensen Huang, Stanford GSB interview, 2024
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to the rest of you. the non believers, the under achievers, the tweet and deleters. you guys make me sick to my stomach fam. honestly if you guys wanna look in my eyes you guys wanna do something? that's what i thought.
Drake, Kick stream, Dec 2023
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i'm really self-conscious about my music. even if i do a good job, i always wonder how i could have done it better. i rarely celebrate anything. and for anyone watching this that's wondering how this happened, that's really the answer: being so unsure how you're getting it done that you just keep going in the hopes of figuring out the formula. just feeling so lucky and blessed that the fear of losing it keeps you up at night.
Drake, Billboard Music Awards, Artist of the Decade speech, May 2021
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Awards are an opinion-based sport, not a factual one. If people with regular jobs show up in the rain and snow and pay for tickets to your shows, you don't need the trophy. You already won.
Drake, Grammy Awards, Best Rap Song acceptance speech, Feb 2019
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People do their best work when they have the freedom to fail and try again.
Mark Zuckerberg, Harvard commencement address, May 2017
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my mom said to me, you'll go to sleep tonight. you'll wake up and it'll still bother you. then you'll go to sleep again and you'll wake up and it'll bother you a little less. and then on the third day, you'll wake up and someone else will have done something stupid enough that everyone will forget.
Drake, Beats 1 interview with Zane Lowe, Apr 2016
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On quitting: he says he doesn't ever give up, and it would take being dead or completely incapacitated to stop.
Elon Musk, 60 Minutes, Mar 2014
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If something is important enough, you should try even if the most likely outcome is failure.
Elon Musk, 60 Minutes, Mar 2014
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Calls himself a creative genius and refuses to downplay it.
Kanye West, BBC Radio 1 interview with Zane Lowe, Sep 2013
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You only see how the pieces fit by looking backward, so trust your gut and keep going before it makes sense.
Steve Jobs, Stanford commencement address, Jun 2005
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Your time is limited. Don't live by other people's opinions, and have the courage to follow your own heart and intuition.
Steve Jobs, Stanford commencement address, Jun 2005
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Focus doesn't mean saying yes to the thing you're focused on. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas.
Steve Jobs, WWDC developer Q&A, May 1997
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The world was built by people no smarter than you. Once you realize you can change it and build things other people use, you never see life the same way again.
Steve Jobs, Santa Clara Valley Historical Association interview, 1994
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In a world changing this fast, the only strategy guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.
Mark Zuckerberg, Y Combinator Startup School
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If nothing you try is failing, you aren't innovating enough, so failure has to stay an option.
Elon Musk
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Work as hard as you can in your 20s, because it pays off over the long run.
Sam Altman
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On why he left OpenAI to build Anthropic.
Dario Amodei
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Success has never been the end goal.
Drake, AOL PopEater interview
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His reaction to getting kicked out of Columbia.
Roy Lee
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On his doubters.
Kanye West