Bill Ayers Quotes

It's getting harder to make decisions to just want to do something to work... I'm trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply.

I didn't really get serious about my own writing until I was convinced it was something that I wanted to do, that I wanted to spend that much time alone.

I think of myself as someone who gives everything, and I wake up every day wanting to keep growing.

I am a lifelong student, and anything I do, I'm all in.

I decided to practice alone because it was a challenge for me to see how much I love tennis. And making sure I was not trying just to respond to other people's expectations and that I really wanted it myself. I realized that I just loved tennis, that it was something extraordinary, that I would really want to do that.

My desire is always to play, and that will never change, I've experienced too much and had too much success.

A dream shouldn't be measured by its size or scope, nor by the age or the experience of the dreamer, but rather by the passion, integrity and commitment of that dreamer to follow his or her heart

Sometimes I hear people talk about discipline of self and I think, if you don't have passion, I might discipline myself for a week or two but only passion will hold me steady.

I never thought in a million years that I would do a weekly series.

You know, I do projects that I really care about. I hope I'll stand by that until the day I die!

Do whatever interests you the most. Passion breeds success.

I'm just trying to do things that are interesting for me.

Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.

Commit to what you love - that's important. Believe in yourself and try as much as possible to do everything you do from a place of love. Not labor, but love.

I am not trying my best because it is the Olympics. I try my best always.

Out of my discomforts, which were small enough, grew one thing for which I have all my life been grateful, the formation of fixed habits of work.

You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.

Advancement only comes with habitually doing more than you are asked.

And the reason I came to IBM was I think - I always say at a really early age, I learned you've got to be passionate about what you do. No matter what it is, you put too much, your heart and soul in it, you have to be passionate about it. You make too many sacrifices.

The biggest thing for me is the passion that I've always had for hockey. I remember growing up, no matter what I did in life, my parents always told me to try to do my best at it and be my best. I can say going through different things that that passion is the most important part. It's not skills or talent or any of that stuff.

Now, I've changed my life to make sure I work only on what I love.

We need you. The best version of you. You're here for a reason, and we can't wait to see what that is. Stay in your lane. Run that race.

I've learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there's no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.

Training has been such a huge part of my life and career I hope to keep going with it.

I am a person who feels compelled and then gets immersed.