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> # I've said it before, and I'll say it again. When you find something at which you have talent, you do that thing (what ever it is) until your fingers bleed or your eyes pop out of your head.

[Stephen King](https://quotesby.net/Stephen-King)\#151

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## About this quote

What does it mean?Commit fully to your talent until it physically exhausts you.In plain termsDo what you are good at until you break.What can you take from it?Work on your talent until you physically give out.

### Where it applies

- career advice
- creative work
- self-improvement

### Putting it to work

- focus on talent
- work hard

### Questions to consider

- How hard should you work?
- Is exhaustion a sign of passion?

### Another view

It promotes harmful levels of overwork and burnout.

## More from Stephen King

1. > You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

[Permalink to quote \#150](https://quotesby.net/Stephen-King/150/ "Permalink to quote 150")
2. > A good idea is like a yo-yo-it may go to the end of its string, but it doesn't die there; it only sleeps. Eventually it rolls back up into your palm.

[Permalink to quote \#152](https://quotesby.net/Stephen-King/152/ "Permalink to quote 152")
3. > The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

[Permalink to quote \#149](https://quotesby.net/Stephen-King/149/ "Permalink to quote 149")

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