104. What is your favorite quotation and why? (Princeton)

"People judge you by your performance, so focus on the outcome. Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected." - Steve Jobs


This quote was said by Steve Jobs which makes a lot of people think, wow. What I understood through this saying was that you have to get past all the crap and realize that the outcome is what is mainly important. In the real world people will not care about the second person but rather the first. If for example you don’t do well but you say you worked really hard, it doesn’t matter. You have to meet the standards and achieve what you can and go that extra mile to actually reach your so called outcome. I feel that the first sentence in this quote gives me the idea that at the end of the day my grades are what matter rather than me saying that “I could have done better.” Rather I should do better than making such a useless remark. The rest of the sentence makes me feel good because it wants to make me stand out. You feel like you want to actually achieve something and prove everyone who is putting you down wrong. Steve Jobs says this with a lot of experience and knowledge. He clearly showed that he went through a lot just to achieve what he did. Taking this whole quote you get the picture that you have to work hard to achieve anything and while you are at it there will be up’s and down’s which you will face, but at the end of the day people will look up at you and say that what you did was worth it, and that you are something people look up to.  Steve Jobs said this quote to give people an insight of what life is actually about. When he says , “ Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected” he is clearly saying that people may hate, or be ignorant of you, but you can still achieve what you have set out to do.

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