A fortune from a fortune cookie

Posted: July 22nd, 2006 | Author: | Filed under: Ideas, Leadership, Nonprofit, Work Life | 2 Comments »

I got this from Eric’s Chinese Restaurant:

Reasonable people endure; passionate people live.

How appropriate.

I just interviewed 8 candidates back-to-back for our Incubator Program Assistant and E1 Program Assistant positions through Public Allies (an Americorps program), and I swear… if you don’t have passion, you need not apply. Passion is so important when you’re applying for a job and for when you’re actually working in the job.

I don’t know how people can live life without being passionate about what they are doing. It would eat away at the very core of me if I were to do that.


2 Comments on “A fortune from a fortune cookie”

  1. 1 dave said at 1:52 pm on July 22nd, 2006:

    YES…I absolutely LOVE that quote! I hope you–and the good folks at Eric’s–don’t mind if I steal it. :)

  2. 2 dave said at 1:56 pm on July 22nd, 2006:

    YES…I absolutely LOVE that quote! I hope you–and the good folks at Eric’s–don’t mind if I steal it. :)


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