Love your work. If you always put your heart into everything you do, you really can’t lose. If your heart is in it, you’ll probably succeed, and if it isn’t in it, you probably won’t succeed. But the reason you can’t lose is that whether you wind up making a lot of money or not, you will have had a wonderful time, and no one will ever be able to take that away from you.

Alan Alda (b. 1936) American actor [b. Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo]

Commencement Speech, Connecticut College (1980)

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