Education Quote by Anthony J. D'Angelo

Self-help aphorisms often die by overpromising. D'Angelo's line survives because it makes a smaller, sneakier claim: growth isn't a milestone you reach by willpower; it's a side effect you engineer by turning learning into desire.

The first sentence does the real work. "Develop" treats passion as a skill, not a personality trait. That's a quiet rebuke to the modern myth of the naturally curious genius - the kid who "just loves books" while the rest of us scroll. D'Angelo implies you can train your attention the way you train a muscle, and that the reward isn't merely information but momentum. Passion, here, isn't romantic; it's a practical technology for defeating stagnation.

The second sentence slips in a conditional promise: "If you do..". It's not motivational fog; it's a bargain. Buy into the habit of learning and you get an identity that doesn't collapse when circumstances do. "Never cease" is deliberately absolute, but notice what it's attached to: "grow", not "win". Growth is positioned as the one kind of success that can't be taken away by a layoff, a bad season, or changing tastes. It's also an implicit critique of credential culture. Degrees end; curiosity doesn't.

Context matters: as an author in the motivational/business-adjacent lane, D'Angelo is writing against the anxiety of falling behind. The subtext is comfort with teeth: the world will keep shifting, but you can keep shifting with it - provided you learn to want the learning.