Passion for your work is not something you identify in advance and follow; it is cultivated over time.

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• Making art is a job you turn up to whether or not you feel inspired, and the work only arrives for people who are already at the desk. NCNick Cave29 Jun 2021
• You should consciously cultivate your taste in the work done in your field. PGPaul Graham1 Jul 2023
• Early-stage companies often lose their expressive, artful work as they grow into enterprises, and if you can keep it, you should. NFNev Flynn15 Sept 2026
• Solving your community's problems, not just doing your passion for pay, is the path to a profitable business. AKArvid Kahl30 Jan 2026
• A work does not have to be unlike everything before it to be worth making; what makes it new is that this particular person made it. TCTed Chiang31 Aug 2024

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