Maria Popova is the writer and creator of BrainPickings.org, and one of my favorites.
Note there is also a full transcript of her talk here
Cynicism is a poverty of curiosity and imagination and ambition.
Your role as a creator of culture will be to help people discern what matters in the world and why by steering them away from the meaningless and toward the meaningful. Choose to lift people up, not to lower them down — because it is a choice, always, and because in doing so you lift yourself up.
You will enter a world where, whatever career you may choose or make for yourself — because never forget that there are jobs you can get and jobs you can invent — you will often face the choice of construction and destruction, of building up or tearing down.
Entrepreneurship for me has been a journey of self discovery.