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"Again, 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.
You have to trust in something; your gut, destiny, karma, whatever...
because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well-worn path, and that will make all the difference."
Steve Jobs Stanford commencement speech 2005 [timecode 4:53-5:18]
Other quotes from the same speech-
"As with all matters of the heart, don't settle."
"Remembering that you are going to die; which 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."
"Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of someone else's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drowned out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your own heart and intuition; they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."
"Again, 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.
You have to trust in something; your gut, destiny, karma, whatever...
because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well-worn path, and that will make all the difference."
Steve Jobs Stanford commencement speech 2005 [timecode 4:53-5:18]
Other quotes from the same speech-
"As with all matters of the heart, don't settle."
"Remembering that you are going to die; which 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."
"Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of someone else's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drowned out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your own heart and intuition; they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."
Comments
These quotes remind me of your comments about being 'available to surprises' which goes along with the slogan 'Let Go and Let God'.
Thanks.