David Halberstam Quotes

If you can't get excited about living life, then what are you doing?

Passion is what adds so much value to life. And if you think about the things that you do, there's so much juice potential for them if you do it.

Life is all about energy and passion and living it.

Live with passion!

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

We all have those things that even in the midst of stress and disarray, they energize us and give us renewed strength and purpose. These are our passions.

Without something I'm really excited about... I'd be really lost.

What inspires you, what excites you when you wake up in the morning?

I've got passion, and for people who don't, I make them see how trite their lives are.

When you're doing what you love, it's not exhausting at all, actually. It's completely empowering and exhilarating.

The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies.

That never stops. That's what drives you: the joy and excitement of doing what you love.

I've only done what I've really wanted to burn up energy on. If you can't wake up in the morning and look forward to what you're going to do in the evening - and twice on a Wednesday and a Saturday - then it's not worth doing.

I learned that you have to fall in love with what you are doing and then you will enjoy it.

Life's too short to be spending all your waking hours doing something you're not excited about. And when people are that excited, you can see it in the work.

Your passion is that one thing you can't stop thinking about, that thing you wake up thinking about in the morning, go to sleep thinking about at night, that thing that you would do for free!

The question you should be asking isn't, "What do I want?" or "What are my goals?" but "What would excite me?

Getting up in the morning and having work you love is what makes life different for people. If you get into a position where you don't love what you're doing, get off it.

When a person applies enthusiasm to his job, the job will itself become alive with exciting new possibilities.

My best advice: Fall in love with what you do for a living.

Do something that you love. Whatever you're going to do is going to be tough enough. Find something that gets you so excited that the sun can't come up early enough in the morning because you want to go do your thing.

Enthusiasm gives life to what is invisible; and interest to what has no immediate action on our comfort in this world.

If you are stimulated by what you do, you never get tired

The one piece of advice I can give you is, do what turns you on. Do something that if you had all the money in the world, you’d still be doing it. You’ve got to have a reason to jump out of bed in the morning.