Received this video in Facebook and thought I share. Inspiring speeches indeed from Steve Jobs and Oprah Winfrey.
“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, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”
“…The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything.”
“…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…”
“If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.”
“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.”
“Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.”
“So, lesson one, follow your feelings. If it feels right, move forward. If it doesn’t feel right, don’t do it.”
“So, ask every failure—this is what I do with every failure, every crisis, every difficult time—I say, what is this here to teach me?”
“You have to be in the moment. Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.”
“…be a part of something. Don’t live for yourself alone. This is what I know for sure: In order to be truly happy, you must live along with and you have to stand for something larger than yourself. Because life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward you have to give back. And to me, that is the greatest lesson of life. To be happy, you have to give something back.”
“…when you choose the paradigm of service, looking at life through that paradigm, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift…”
~ Her ramblings
