Clive Thompson Quotes

I'm probably not as good in the topics that I'm less passionate about than the ones I spend all my time on.

We only take on projects that we're really passionate about.

Focus on something that you have a passion for and hone that skill; it will make you feel confident about your ability.

It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.

If you really want something bad enough, if you're really interested in something enough, you know, you just keep working on it.

I'm sometimes willing to put in vast, even inordinate amounts of time if I find a project that interests me.

I delight sometimes in saying to - as when I'm a teacher, I love saying, 'This is really important, so don't write it down.' To me, what you retain is a very important filter.

I'm a firm believer in only getting involved in things you're passionate about.

Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.

I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous.

I think if people are passionate about something, it could be real estate or biochemistry, and that spark gets turned on in them, everyone's beautiful in that zone.

You can be passionate about anything.

Select a subject that interests you and make an effort to become an expert in that field. I promise you, if you make the effort, and you become an expert, you will have a wonderful career.

I'm a very lazy person by nature. I have to be really engaged, and then I go straight from lazy to obsessive. I couldn't study chemistry, but I could memorize all the books for Dungeons and Dragons. It was ridiculous. The trick is to find what I like to do.

When I'm passionate about something, I just get excited.

I think it's not a big secret that I like to work a lot. I really go out for projects when I find things I'm passionate about.

Passion for what you do is essential to success in any profession. That passion naturally keeps you interested and aware of everything that is going on around you, anything affecting your craft.

The thing that you do obsessively between the ages of 13 and 18 is the thing that you stand the best chance of being world class at.

I believe in doing what I am best at. I don't want to waste my energy in other things; instead, I would put all that in reaching the next level in a craft that I love the most.

I have this problem - I don't have hobbies. Everything that's interesting becomes a vocation.

You always want to be part of something you're so passionate about.

I'm passionate about all the things I do, really.

I am obsessed with people that are obsessed with what they do.

When you're doing something you're truly passionate about, there is no plan B.

We all know a lot about something. We all have a passion about something.