Is it true that being just passionate is not enough?

Just being passionate is never enough for anything. You can have all the passion in the world, but if you take no action, nothing will change. Even with passion and action, luck can play a huge factor.

Even with passion, action, and luck, things can STILL not go right (though I guess theoretically enough luck means everything will go right no matter what you do).

All in all this is a pretty bad question IMO because there's little to no context, and basically what I just stated above was like a platitude/life-fact that everyone knows probably.

Yes. You should make sure the pig enjoys it too.

But seriously.. this question, on HN?!