Finding Your Calling Quotes

Life is short, youth is finite, and opportunities endless. Have you found the intersection of your passion and the potential for world-shaping positive impact? If you don't have a great idea of your own, there are plenty of great teams that need you - unknown startups and established teams in giant companies alike.

The goal was for me to become a civil engineer. But one day I really felt that it was important for me to do what I really loved. I was really good at engineering, but I didn't have a passion for it, so going to work was something I had to do, not something that I really wanted to do.

When I moved to New York at 22, I didn't know what I wanted to do. I took an improv class, and the first scene I did, I felt like 'I want to do this for the rest of my life.' It was the first time I ever felt like that about anything. I tried to make a living off improv.

Allow your passion to become your purpose, and it will one day become your profession.

It comes down to finding something you love to do and then just trying to be great at it

It is unforgiveable to do what one doesn't love especially if one succeeds.

You do what you love, or you get arrested.

Find your passion... then it is no longer work!

When I left school I was meant to do my law degree but I was lucky to fall into something I love.

When I was 26 or 27, I took a year off before I was going to get my Ph.D. in geography and started traveling. And within a month, I said, 'I don't want to be academic. I want to write fiction.' And as soon as I said that - 'I'm going to write fiction' - everything in my life started to make sense.

I'm very much a believer in knowing what it is that you love doing so you can do a great deal of it.