Words matter. These are the best Passion Quotes from famous people such as Andrea Jung, Luis Suarez, Luciano Pavarotti, Matthew Underwood, Michael Morpurgo, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Since I’m a mother and a wife, I have to have passion or the frustration would win out. But I love managing people. The product is second to managing the people. And marketing to consumers is so challenging because it is evolving constantly.
On the field, sometimes passion overwhelms you, and you do things you regret afterward.
The music itself could never take the place of my own passion in life.
Life is full of confusion. Confusion of love, passion, and romance. Confusion of family and friends. Confusion with life itself. What path we take, what turns we make. How we roll our dice.
Perhaps it is partly that we need to love books ourselves as parents, grandparents and teachers in order to pass on that passion for stories to our children. It’s not about testing and reading schemes, but about loving stories and passing on that passion to our children.
The road to success is not easy to navigate, but with hard work, drive and passion, it’s possible to achieve the American dream.
If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
I have big dreams, but if God would’ve told me that I had to sing in a local bar in Barcelona, and that that would be my life, that would be my life, I would’ve done it with the same passion.
If there is something that’s your passion when you’re young, do it. Let everything else take care of itself.
I sort of feel sorry for the next man who gets me. I may just kill him with passion. He’d better be strong and have a good heart!
In AirAsia, we consider ourselves basically a dream factory. We deliberately decided that we wanted a company where people can pursue their passion, and we wanted to make use of all the talent that we have in-house.
In the earliest days, this was a project I worked on with great passion because I wanted to solve the Defense Department’s problem: it did not want proprietary networking and it didn’t want to be confined to a single network technology.
It’s amazing to be able to play the sport that I grew up loving so much and that I have a strong passion for. I’m just having a ball. There’s a lot of pressure that comes with being in the spotlight and being a superstar and a role model, but I’m enjoying it.
Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper.
I’m involved with a baroque opera company here in Italy. I write some of their booklet material, comments on operas. I also write for some baroque opera festivals because this music is my real passion.
IBM’s long-standing mantra is ‘Think.’ What has always made IBM a fascinating and compelling place for me, is the passion of the company, and its people, to apply technology and scientific thinking to major societal issues.
Focus on something that you have a passion for and hone that skill; it will make you feel confident about your ability.
I don’t believe there’s a cap on creativity and passion.
I think the key to passion, to zeal, is gratitude. Or to put it another way, the fuel to motivate is gratitude, and gratitude comes by just backing up a little and realizing how much you’ve sinned against God.
From my earliest days I had a passion for science.
I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
I’ve always found the secret is to stay fit and treat sport as a profession. I chose sport as a passion.
I think my story relates. When I started out, all I had was my passion and grit.
It’s all magic to me. Country to punk rock, all of it. Chopin to Kurt Cobain. But it always all comes back to punk for me, because that was the last time, punk rock or grunge rock, was the last time that passion ruled the airwaves.
Hrithik Roshan is excellent – he is miles ahead of everybody in passion and dedication.
Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class.
A play is a passion.
The ‘Tron’ fans have a real passion. They know their stuff and what works and why it works. It is more than a movie: it is a philosophy.
Once you win a National Championship, how do you do that again? How do you get the passion to do that again? We won it again right away, the next year. A lot of it had to do with the fact that I didn’t give myself an opportunity to enjoy the first one.
Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.
I consider myself a progressive. I have a passion for people who work. To me, this is about forward looking versus backward looking. Ideological gradations are the wrong way to look at it.
Jenny McCarthy has used her celebrity and sex appeal to attract attention to autism. And while no one questions McCarthy’s determination and passion, many scientists have debunked her anti-vaccine message and her claims that a gluten-free diet can provide a cure.
When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.
If biking is your passion, set aside time to enjoy a good ride.
Travelling has always been my passion and also an integral part of my profession, lovingly known as Bollywood.
I love ‘Fire On The Floor.’ It’s just smouldering. I think it’s gonna be a fantastic piece to perform live. It’s filled with passion. It’s about when someone you know is so bad for you, but you can’t help it.
Some prescient American collectors, including Vicki and Kent Logan and Mera and Donald Rubell, began collecting Chinese art before 2000 with a genuine passion, but as the auction prices exploded everyone was beating a path to the galleries and artist studios in China. It became the ‘China thing.’
Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you’re passionate about something, then you’re more willing to take risks.
Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.
My passion is about motivating as many families as possible to learn about vegetables and healthy eating together.
Losing my father at a tender age was hard, and I felt it more so while growing up when I needed a father to talk to. Especially while pursuing an acting career where I would have loved his guidance and advice, since it was his passion as well.
What’s powerful about a love scene is not seeing the act. It’s seeing the passion, the need, the desire, the caring, the fear.
Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
But I think Steve’s main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He’s a perfectionist. Good enough isn’t good enough. And also his creative spirit. You know he really, really wants to do something great.
Success comes to those who dedicate everything to their passion in life. To be successful, it is also very important to be humble and never let fame or money travel to your head.
I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.
Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief – everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.
To be a great motorbike racer, the most important thing is passion for the bike.
I think having a strong female figure in my mom as an in-house role model was huge and really motivated me to continue to pursue my passion and my dreams.
Whatever you do, do with determination. You have one life to live; do your work with passion and give your best. Whether you want to be a chef, doctor, actor, or a mother, be passionate to get the best result.
Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
There’s nothing particularly physical that I find attractive in a man. It’s men with a passion for something that I find attractive.
If you win a championship, you win it doing many of the same things you had to do when we won championships. You have to be unselfish. You have to work very hard. You have to be resilient. You have to have a passion for what you do.
My passion for the game comes from the city of Marseille itself. Unfortunately I can’t go back there as much I want to because I play a lot here and abroad.
I think that passion and love and pain are all bearable, and they go to make love beautiful.
One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action – the ability to pass directly from thought to action.
This is a learning in the business life that first of all you need to have commitment, dedication and passion for what you are doing.
Hustle like you broke and keep that passion.
The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.
Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.
Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
I think entrepreneurship is combining a passion with the tenacity to problem-solve and the fearlessness to fail.
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
What we reliably find is that people’s perseverance scores are actually higher than their passion scores, and I think it really does get to the fact that working hard is hard, but maybe finding your passion is even more difficult.
When people are living from passion, they tend to be fulfilled, happy, healthy, and love everyone around them.
This battle for ‘common-sense’ gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, ‘gun control’ legislation. Good news – if you’re a crook.
Maybe the bike is more dangerous, but the passion for the car for me is second to the bike.
I’m grateful for every chance I get to do something I love and have a passion for.
Everybody who’s a physician, who makes vaccines, who wants to find the cure for cancer. Everybody who wants to do any medical good for humankind got the passion for that before he or she was 10.
Don’t let that hunger for the unknown go away. That curiosity is so important, so you should maintain that passion for what you do.
Songs go through cycles for me. And sometimes I lose my passion for some of them.
My girlfriend Siri is a food blogger, and we both love to entertain and eat. This is what happens when you’re in your thirties: what was once a passion and real appetite for nightlife in New York City manifests itself into other things, like entertaining at home.
We believe that we’ll get what we want if we continue to be BTS and know what to do as artists and performers with passion.
I’d rather be a face for happiness and doing things that you have a passion for, rather than faking it and pretending like I’m this face of women’s basketball, when I can’t stand the sport at all.
My only passion is music.
Remember, it isn’t the dreamers who have good lives – it’s the doers. Remember also what I call the three Ps of success: passion, planning, and perseverance.
Live with passion!
I admire bull riders for their passion and the uniqueness each one of them has.
A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.
I’m inspired by playwrights, novelists, poets: The value of language has been a lifelong passion of mine. I enjoy it. I’m good at it.
I don’t think you can say yes to every opportunity and work the weekends and work the overnight shift unless you’re really passionate about your job. So I encourage everyone to find their passion and go for it.
Food is a passion for me, especially Italian cuisine. I prefer to have somebody cook for me, but I can do some very nice pasta dishes.
I love the notion of a dude sitting there with an untuned guitar tapping his foot and just singing his passion out; that’s what got me into music in the first place.
I no longer think you can live without passion.
So, when the discussion about not using the term feminist came up at a conference workshop, I couldn’t believe it. The more I listened, the more I felt the need to express my passion about my identity as a feminist.
To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.
Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization.
I just went up to my mom one day and said, ‘I wanna be on TV. I wanna be a superstar!’ Since I know this is my passion, and I feel like God chose this career for me, I just knew I was ready to do it.
Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.
Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot.
My passion is definitely to be behind the plate for as long as I can.
If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.
Christian, learn from Christ how you ought to love Christ. Learn a love that is tender, wise, strong; love with tenderness, not passion, wisdom, not foolishness, and strength, lest you become weary and turn away from the love of the Lord.
My previous experiences taught me my true passion was working with the players. I love the business. I love sports. I love everything about the team aspect. But I have this deep appreciation for the players and their perspective.
I’m actually really good at vacuuming, and I don’t even mind it so much. I hate dusting with a passion, and I am not a fan of tidying up, but vacuuming I can do. And mopping floors: I’m not bad at that, either.
All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification.
Dance is my life and I am happy to keep my passion alive.
My passion lies with whatever I’m doing at the time… I only see what is front of me.
I find the public passion for justice quite boring and artificial.
My parents were, had a marriage of passion, and the passion was about their religious beliefs. They were both immigrant families that – well, my father’s family came as Puritans to Massachusetts.
There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?
Whatever you want to follow as your passion, it’s about having the right mental attitude, having the right focus, following your dream and never wavering from it.
Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It’s about impact, influence and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire team-mates and customers.
Gospel music to me has always been a balm for the soul. It has been able to usher in the spirit, usher in worship, true worship and praise, healing. I find the music to be very good at healing and the passion, you know, which is a testimony being told in song.
The future will belong to those who have passion and are willing to work hard to make our country better.
Work hard! In the end, passion and hard work beats out natural talent.
We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
Building takes passion and energy. Maintenance is awful. It’s nothing but fatigue. Once you reach the top, maintaining that beast is awful.
A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.
Freedom begins with what we teach our children. That is why Jews became a people whose passion is education, whose heroes are teachers and whose citadels are schools.
Fashion and music are two great artistic forms that can be molded by the youth culture – our taste and our passion for evolving things in our limited time on earth allows us to look at things with fresh eyes.
I’ve always lived my gymnastics career with a lot of passion and a lot of purpose.
When you find your passion, it’s great. You go up a mountain with partners, and you have a wonderful opportunity to connect and achieve a goal together. You are not trying to be better than other humans. You are supporting each other.
I believe in tradition and innovation, authenticity and passion.
I was naive. Before ‘Larrikins,’ I thought passion, hard work, and a skill set will mean that anything you want to do will get done. I don’t think that anymore.
A studio recording is perfection, but emotion and passion come only when you turn on the machine and go for the groove. If you do that with no mistakes, it sounds beautiful.
Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos.
Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.
Our lack of forgiveness makes us hate, and our lack of compassion makes us hard-hearted. Pride in our hearts makes us resentful and keeps our memory in a constant whirlwind of passion and self-pity.
I’ve always wanted to be a good dancer. It used to be my passion.
Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
I’m an actress. It’s my passion. It’s – I’ve always lived for acting.
Love is something that is genuine, delicate and involves care, passion and attention, and is entirely different to gifts, balls, jewels and circumstance.
Football will always be my foremost passion.
I don’t ever see myself retiring totally from music, because I have a genuine love and passion for it.
Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.
Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.
It is only your passion which takes you forward. So it is my gyaan to all budding singers that keep faith in your passion and prepare yourself, because you will get that opportunity sooner or later, and if you can prove yourself, people will line up for you.
There’s so much importance in honoring your everyday hero. It doesn’t take money. It doesn’t take connections. What matters is that people get involved. Whether your passion is gun control or food or whatever it may be, everybody needs to stop being so self-absorbed.
The force of passion is balanced by the force of interest.
I hate horror movies, with a passion.
Architecture remains a passion and a subject I’m very interested in. I learned a great deal from studying it and working in it.
I’m married. I have three children. I have a mortgage to pay. The plumbing breaks and the yard needs trimming. However, what my wife and children need most from me is my passion for them.
When you’re making pictures out of heartfelt passion, it hurts when someone calls them a calculated business move.
My daughter is my passion and my life.
The strongest passion is fear.
There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
I’ve always been a person that has said what’s on my mind and stand behind it with a lot of heart and passion.
My passion for giving is no different than yours. I give because it’s in my heart to give. I give because I was taught to give at a very early age. This is how I developed my passion for giving.
A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
To work a vineyard, you need a lot of guts to do that. To go out there and work all year, you almost feel that these people talk to the grapes. Wine is a lifestyle, and you can talk about it for ages. It’s a passion, but it’s not something I can do on a daily basis.
Sometime haters would say or misunderstand how lucky I am to doing what I’m doing, to be healthy and play my sport and passion.
The best partnerships aren’t dependent on a mere common goal but on a shared path of equality, desire, and no small amount of passion.
What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.
I have a big passion for flowers and nature.
As a coach, the greatest passion you can have is for improving players.
Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.
If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.
And I was desolate and sick of an old passion.
Fashion is a dream. It’s difficult, and there are many aspects of fashion that are very difficult, but if you love it like I do, because I really have a passion, now, for fashion, it’s not easy, but nothing is easy in life.
We have met our passion to be ambition to grow our market share significantly in North America. Motorola helps address two other priority markets for us – the acquisition has enabled us to become the No. 1 foreign vendor in Japan. It also gives us an increased market share with China Mobile in China.
I think space, architectural space, is my thing. It’s not about facade, elevation, making image, making money. My passion is creating space.
Food is a passion. Food is love.
Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.
You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.
My genuine passion for dance was born watching Ballet Rambert perform Christopher Bruce’s harrowing ‘Ghost Dances.’
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
My philosophy of leadership is to surround myself with good people who have ability, judgment and knowledge, but above all, a passion for service.
Those who love so hard, we question if our passion can ever truly be reciprocated.
His passion has aroused the best and the beast in man. And the beast waited for him in the kitchen.
Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.
Frank Sinatra. Hey, Frank, I saw you in ‘The Pride and Passion,’ and I want to tell you the cannon was wonderful!
We must act out passion before we can feel it.
Well, I think the golden rule I can think of is the fact that you must follow your passion and do something that’s close to your heart. And I think that that’s very important, well, to be successful and to be happy.
In fact, in more cases than not, when we are rational, we’re actually unhappy. Emotion is good; passion is good. Being into what we’re into, provided that it’s a healthy pursuit, it’s a good thing.
I was a litigation lawyer, working in downtown Toronto. I was successful, yet I was very unfulfilled. I had the sense that I really wasn’t living according to my values, and I didn’t have the passion or sense of mission I was looking for.
Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion.
I have a lot of that in my own life – passion, vigour, and what comes coupled with that.
I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.
I’ve tried to live my life in a way that respects the beliefs of my mother and father. Everyone has blessings, gifts, passion, and drive.
Nature’s my muse and it’s been my passion.
There isn’t as much passion and outrage in today’s newspapers. That may be because of a corporate decision, but they’ve lost their personality.
But as coaches, we need to get a little more fire and passion and be more demanding that our guys get the job done. I think players will respond to that, and we’ll see.
I’m not here to change the world, but I do think while you’re here you should have a bit of passion about life.
The passion for art is, as for believers, very religious. It unites people, its message is of common humanity. Art has become my religion – others pray in church. It’s a banality, but you don’t possess art, it possesses you. It’s like falling in love.
I grew up dancing, so that was always my first dream. But I also have a passion for acting. I would love to step inside of a character and be somebody that I’m not, because I feel like it just gives me an outlet to express myself without being me.
I’m proud of Lord of the Rings. I think it’s a once in a lifetime role, and a once in a lifetime film. It was made with so much care and passion and meticulous detail and everybody was so behind it.
A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
You shouldn’t even be writing this story if you haven’t heard me play live. You can’t write with the passion you receive until you see a Dick Dale concert.
I think a lot of times it’s not money that’s the primary motivation factor; it’s the passion for your job and the professional and personal satisfaction that you get out of doing what you do that motivates you.
The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.
I think that in the cultural imagination, motherhood has a primacy that fatherhood just doesn’t; and that’s not to say that there aren’t many fathers who are active and engaged and for whom that is their life’s passion. But somehow, in the imagination, there’s something different about maternity.
When you have balance in your life, work becomes an entirely different experience. There is a passion that moves you to a whole new level of fulfillment and gratitude, and that’s when you can do your best… for yourself and for others.
I was planning, I told everybody, to take him on the road with me. At the very least I fully expected to keep up my hectic pace, and my passion as a war correspondent.
The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure.
It’s hard to tell with these Internet startups if they’re really interested in building companies or if they’re just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don’t really want to build a company, they won’t luck into it. That’s because it’s so hard that if you don’t have a passion, you’ll give up.
Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.
You can do anything as long as you have the passion, the drive, the focus, and the support.
Probably fishing is my first passion.
Man is only great when he acts from passion.
I have a passion for music, and I enjoy the process of expressing myself within the parameters of a pop song, and I don’t do it to seek anybody’s approval, necessarily. Obviously, you go on stage, and you enjoy it when people respond to a particular song, but the overall concept of playing music I do for myself.
I realized that my truest passion was for helping people change through faith in a higher power. That meant, for me, belonging to the church. Using my abilities to bring Christian doctrine to a postmodern world.
What we do is nothing like the portrayal of badminton as a gentle game played in a church hall. Badminton can be fun and relaxing, but as professionals, this sport is our heart and soul and passion, and our games are fast and aggressive.
For me acting is passion, emotion, and creating the character and the whole world around the character. We enjoy all that. Sleeping on time, eating healthy, you are what your lifestyle is.
I read Freud because I find him an excellent writer… a writer of police thrillers that can be followed with great passion.
A sure sign of a soul-based workplace is excitement, enthusiasm, real passion; not manufactured passion, but real involvement. And there’s very little fear.
I never had a hobby in my whole life until I wag 35. Then I discovered motorcycles, and they’ve now become almost a passion.
These are the sort of things that push you on in music – the curiosity, a passion for new ideas.
I’m not a racist, that’s what so insane about this, and yet it’s said, it comes through, it fires out of me, and even now in the passion that’s here as I confront myself.
Any passion to collect has some meaning behind it.
It was a lot of fun being a child actress. It suited me. I don’t think it suits everybody, but I was in it because I had a passion, not because my parents wanted me to make money. If other kids want to do it, and they really like acting, go for it.
Passion is very important to me. If you stop enjoying things, you’ve got to look at it, because it can lead to all kinds of depressing scenarios.
Obviously, being a diehard Mets fan, my passion is a given, but I also love playing baseball. I hadn’t been able to participate since high school, when the game became a little too fast for me.
There is something so mean and unmanly in the arts of dissimulation and falsehood that I am surprised they can be used by anyone in so noble, so generous a passion as virtuous love.
Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
I will box with passion and devotion.
There’s nothing like Cameron Indoor Stadium where the kids are right on top of you and the Cameron Crazies are going nuts. Rupp Arena with the Big Blue Nation and the passion of their fans is special.
Passion and standing up for things can help create a sense of unity. But you still have to act a certain way.
When the technique doesn’t arrive at the best level, arrive with your heart, with head, with enthusiasm, with passion, with work.
If you have a passion for something, never be discouraged by anyone.
I still have a passion for the music, which is such a beautiful thing. I still wake up in the middle of the night out of a dream and have a melody in my head, and run to my piano.
Anyone who works on a quilt, who devotes her time, energy, creativity, and passion to that art, learns to value the work of her hands. And as any quilter will tell you, a quilter’s quilting friends are some of the dearest, most generous, and most supportive people she knows.
What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popular music, even with all of its energy and life, cannot even begin to touch?
Father’s ideals became part of me and still are today. His reserve, deeply rooted liberal views, his provocative humour, his passion for work and love of risk are also mine.
I have a tremendous passion for fitness, I love challenges and I am a very driven guy.
Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
Personally, I’d like to become a person who never loses her passion and always has a dream to follow.
What is the deepest passion for me and for us is the historic investment in the middle class and in – as I say often because I was that guy growing up – the dreams of those who look up who want to get into the middle class. That I feel the strongest about.
There are two types of people in the world: people who are passionate about things, and people who’ve had their passion punched, beaten, or whatever out of them.
There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.
It was during the gap between 12th class and college, that I realized my passion for music, although I did have a keen ear for it all along and also wanted to be a musician.
My life is based on pain, passion, and purpose.
I think Margaret Thatcher was a superstar in this country, and I think we all felt we needed a superstar to play her, somebody of huge intelligence, passion, and power and warmth.
My passion stems from seeking world peace and finding how we can live together creatively rather than violently.
I have yet to meet anyone quite so stubborn as myself and animated by this overpowering passion that leaves me no time for thought or anything else. I have, in fact, no interest in life outside racing cars.
I’m in awe of the universe, but I don’t necessarily believe there’s an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.
I was born in Hoboken. I am an American. Photography is my passion. The search for Truth my obsession.
Dance music is my love, is my passion, is my life. I live for my fans and take my art very seriously.
That’s one thing that’s a passion for me: teaching.
Until very recently men and women inhabited very separate spheres. There was always interconnection, passion, love. But men and women didn’t hang out at the end of the day and chat about what their day was like at the office.
It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
If you don’t love what you do, you won’t do it with much conviction or passion.
The most abundant resources that we possess amongst the 1.5 million nonprofits in the United States are passion and knowledge, yet our most scarce resource is collaboration.
I had no idea that I was ever getting into music. I did not prepare for a music career, and here I’ve found, out of pure luck, that I did have, not only a talent and an ear, but a passion for music. And I have it to this day.
I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
I do like the thrill of risk-taking, but it’s always carefully calculated. I have done many high risk undertakings, but I have always measured the stakes. Not feeding the fear nor the doubt. But I also believe that you need to fuel passion in whatever you do. This is what I am trying to teach my children today.
My desire, my passion, was to help moms with practical encouragement.
Whatever you’re fighting for, you go with full passion and love.
Sometimes the rewards of risk don’t leave us wrecked. Sometimes we find our passion, our purpose, courage, connection, and comfort. Every good thing in our lives is a direct result of risk.
Animals in general have always been my passion, project, crusade – whatever you want to call it! The ocean is such a huge, beautiful thing that I feel like we all take for granted.
I’ve trained my whole life to be a winner and if I know two things it’s that to be the best takes passion and persistence.
Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector’s passion borders on the chaos of memories.
Go out into the world with your passion and love for what you do, and just never give up.
I can appreciate anybody’s passion for anything.
As a working-class boy, golf was never really on my radar, and when I was growing up, Irish football was my sporting passion.
The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them – and for my daughters, too.
Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows – and china.
Passion is the thing that won’t let you sleep at night because you want to get up in the morning and go do your thing.
I bring a lot of energy and passion to what I do. Plus, I’ve had some weird feats of superhuman strength!
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
When I see young people interested in music. I always look out for that passion in their eyes. You never know where that might lead.
Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.
Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents’ passion for music, especially from my grandfather Tommy, who was a great drummer. It’s no coincidence that I play the drums best, but I am also good with the guitar and the piano.
Along with my teammates, we have a lot more great things to achieve, and we will continue to help PSG grow as a big club internationally. The support of all those that love this club will help us go beyond our own limits and defend our colours with passion and determination.
Ironically I think this is what sparked my interest in and passion for the NOAH, which is capable of creating all these old weird and wonderful sounds.
Nothing jazzes me up like football. I’ve acquired more passion of the years, not less. Not to love it wouldn’t make sense.
Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class.
Die to everything of yesterday so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigor and passion.
Passion is something that’s hard to discover purely through introspection. You have to have experiences – you have to learn real-time and through experiences what makes you tick.
Indeed in the full flush of journalistic passion and conviction I once told an interviewer that of course I would never get married. And I most definitely would never have children.
Cooking is about passion, so it may look slightly temperamental in a way that it’s too assertive to the naked eye.
Well, if you look at the whole story, I mean there’s only Jews and Romans in the story. I mean I just wanted to flesh that character out and make that a drama about the people around Christ when he was going through this passion.
My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you’ve got to be a filmmaker.
Our passion is our strength.
I just love bikes. It’s not the safest passion to have, but I guess it’s better than Russian roulette.
Writing is a passion I have never understood, yet a storyteller is all I have ever wanted to be.
I respect people who feel things passionately. I do. But when someone is a judge, that is not what they should bring to the bench. It is not really passion, except in rare instances, that serves the bench well. It is, rather, an ability to understand the law and follow it.
I look at composers and conductors, anybody involved in music or writing or art in general; they got more done as they got older. If I can, I’ll be one of those people because what I do is my passion.
There are a lot of things you can do with a law degree background, but I just didn’t have a passion for it.
Passion is the thing that sustains you in acting. If you’re doing it for fame and money, don’t even bother because it will never happen. The last thing I ever expected was to be paid for this.
As far as I’m concerned, dance is a passion for me. I don’t do homework and go to the sets. I believe in being impromptu. I just go on the sets and start doing whatever comes to my mind.
Traveling is the only passion that doesn’t need to feel shy in front of intellect.
In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry.
The key to success is to be honest, follow your passion and not someone else’s path.
Life is full of challenges, but I always have the Three Ps: Passion, patience and persistence. And the fourth one is pizza.
The qualities of an exceptional cook are akin to those of a successful tightrope walker: an abiding passion for the task, courage to go out on a limb and an impeccable sense of balance.
I’m very glad to have something to be passionate about. I can’t imagine a life without passion.
Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.
As long as I can compete with the 20-somethings out there… I have a burning passion to do what I do. Financially, I don’t need to wrestle anymore. I do it because I enjoy it.
When passion turns to paralysis, when our bodies stop listening to our brains, when a fatal disease sucks our insides out, will we then decide that death may well be an act of kindness?
We can each define ambition and progress for ourselves. The goal is to work toward a world where expectations are not set by the stereotypes that hold us back, but by our personal passion, talents and interests.
I’ve learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there’s no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.
We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposed to rob us of their companionship.
It is not that I lost my biggest passion – it is still racing.
There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.
If you have only one passion in life – football – and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself.
There is no fulfillment in things whatsoever. And I think one of the reasons that depression reigns supreme amongst the rich and famous is some of them thought that maybe those things would bring them happiness. But what, in fact, does is having a cause, having a passion. And that’s really what gives life’s true meaning.
You can take a handful of dollars, a good story, and people with passion and make a movie that will stand up against any $70 million movie.
Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action.
Do whatever interests you the most. Passion breeds success.
My commitment to Atlanta and passion for sports and competition make this acquisition a perfect fit for me.
All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that limited as their capacities were, they were yet able to manufacture them.
Follow your own passion – not your parents’, not your teachers’ – yours.
My passion is music, you know, and music influences culture, influences lifestyle, which leads me to ‘Roc-A-Wear’. I was forced to be an entrepreneur, so that led me to be CEO of ‘Roc-A-Fella’ records, which lead to Def Jam.
My belief is that what comes across on the television is a capture of my enthusiasm and my passion for wildlife.
I’m not interested in passion and love for their own sake – without the struggle of life, they’re just fluff.
I was lucky enough at a young age to find out what I had a passion for, but whatever you’ve got a curiosity for, just give it a shot.
The travel impulse is mental and physical curiosity. It’s a passion. And I can’t understand people who don’t want to travel.
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
It’s not a matter of becoming a superstar. Fame and money aren’t the purpose of all this. No actor’s going to say, ‘I don’t want to be famous.’ But the main purpose for doing what I’m doing is the passion in the work.
He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.
I love snowboarding, but I would never want to do it competitively or at a professional level. Snowboarding is a spawn of skating, and skating is my passion.
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
Love what you do. There’s always going to be someone else who’s smarter than you, but there’s no substitute for passion. People who are passionate always work the hardest, and that sets them apart.
Love, in the eyes of the world, is either a carnal appetite or a vague fancy, which possession extinguishes or absence destroys. That is why it is commonly said, with a strange abuse of words, that passion does not endure.
The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in which the poet or romance writer ought to be free to do the very best that he can.
Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.
We have this culture valued at Uber, which we call the champions’ mind-set. And champions’ mind-set isn’t always about winning. It’s about putting everything you have on the field, every ounce of passion and energy you have. And if you get knocked down, overcoming adversity.
I also had a tremendous passion for art and read a lot.
I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my parents told my brother Parenthesis and me that we should use any God-given talent we had.
Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
Ray Lewis, I’ve grown up watching Ray Lewis. Just watching his intensity, his passion for the game, his love for the game, his work ethic. Everything in a linebacker that you want to be is in Ray Lewis, from leadership qualities, all that.
I think economics is about passion. Economic progress, whether it is a two-person coffee shop or whether it is Netscape, is about people with brave ideas. Because it is brave to mortgage the house, when you’ve got two kids, to start a coffee shop.
You should know that you need talent, passion, and luck to be a singer.
I could go right now and work for a non-profit organization, but I have a passion for sports, and I love to write and speak.
The law is reason, free from passion.
When you’ve learned to love yourself, you get all the things that come with that. Friends, passion, success.
My years living and working abroad have instilled in me a passion for fine food, wine, theme parties, and enjoying life to the fullest.
I am a man with a lot of passion.
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.
When I was young, we didn’t have indie games. We had ‘garage developers’ or similar terms, who were just small teams making games out of passion.
We might think we are very different from Pakistan but we are not; we are the same people, with the same capacity for warmth and passion and intolerance and violence.
You just have to have heart, passion, determination and self-belief.
The fans are so supportive. It’s amazing when you work on something for so long and find that your fans match your passion – and in many cases exceed it. That’s really gratifying.
Maybe if Graziano make another work or another sport I wouldn’t have had this passion to be a rider.
I think the support of the other team at AOL and everybody’s really shared passion and belief about this and – saying that some day everybody was going to be on line.
It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It’s also a very clear path to happiness.
He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
Patience is passion tamed.
Reading about Queen Victoria has been a passion of mine since, as a child, I came across Laurence Housman’s play ‘Happy and Glorious,’ with its Ernest Shepard illustrations.
We should play free football, defend lively with a passion, and have the best understanding in offence.
Anything can be changed. Anything can be fixed. Things that are broken can be fixed. And you don’t have to be some billionaire or millionaire to do it. You just have to be a person with a vision and the passion to do it, and be willing to fight for it every day.
Grit is that ‘extra something’ that separates the most successful people from the rest. It’s the passion, perseverance, and stamina that we must channel in order to stick with our dreams until they become a reality.
We all need to look into the dark side of our nature – that’s where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we’re busy denying.
What matters about people is their magnetic leadership, their aptitude for helping those following in their footsteps, and their passion – how they choose to package that is their prerogative.
We were married for almost 45 years. We fought all the time, it wasn’t a great love or anything, it wasn’t a great, all-consuming passion. She was just there. A lot of people were startled because we didn’t seem devoted but we were.
Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.
Logic is no answer to passion.
Every actor and actress is possessed of the absorbing passion to create something distinctive and unique.
When there is money, there is also greed. Everyone wants to talk to you when there is money. Only if you have the passion for it, you must become a philanthropist, else it’ll become a headache.
When we talk about having a life of significance and meaning, it’s not about fame or money or resources. It’s about people and lives and hearts. That’s my biggest passion in life.
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
I was a bit of a show-off in school and loved playing dress-up, and my passion for it just grew as I got older.
India is such an attack on your senses and is unrivalled for the passion surrounding cricket.
Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.
I love people that work with passion and love. When you make choices that way, there’s reverberations, consequences. That’s what I’m interested in, that echo, that ripple of choice.
People always say, ‘Oh, I’d love to work with my sibling,’ or ‘My God, I could never work with my sibling.’ It was just a natural process for us. We started collaborating on our first films and it evolved. We have a passion for film that we shared as we were growing up.
No doubt Western civilization has in the past been full of wars and revolutions, and the national elements in our culture, even when they were ignored, always provided an unconscious driving force of passion and aggressive self-assertion.
I think it’s so important for young readers to find a book or series that ignites their passion for reading, especially boys, whose interest in reading wanes as they grow older.
Criticism starts – it has to start – with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems.
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
I’ve been kind of lucky. I’ve always just kind of followed whatever my passion was, and that seems to have led me to better places than if I had followed some career trajectory, which I wouldn’t even know how to start.
Music is a passion of mine, so I also want to continue along that path, creating with my friends.
You have to strike while the iron is hot. You have to take downtime to see friends and family, but my passion is acting: pursuing those scary, challenging characters and working with passionate people.
You can only have one first born child. You may love all your children deeply and with passion, but there is something unique about the first born.
When you have a healthy body and mind that’s when you can follow your purpose and passion.
The future may be made up of many factors but where it truly lies is in the hearts and minds of men. Your dedication should not be confined for your own gain, but unleashes your passion for our beloved country as well as for the integrity and humanity of mankind.
Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.
Social entrepreneurs are people who have amazing passion to do good.
I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry.
Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
Follow your passion.
With Whitney she has such a unique sound and powerful instrument that she made those songs her own. She might as well have written them because she brought such a power and passion to them that were very unique. She has a great gift.
One thing I am quite passionate about is the absence of dark-skinned women in the media, so I have a passion to show dark-skinned women as beautiful, as vulnerable, as people who can be sexually desired and loving people, because it is never really seen on TV.
Passion helps you in protecting the community, and public service will follow it. That has been my career. It is the passion that drives me to do what I do every day.
In the First World War, there was the sudden passion of nationalism, and the killing took place because of these emotions. But the Soviet case is different, because you had systematic murder, like the Holocaust.
I am full of fire and passion. I am not ready yet for great concentration and passion.
Business is about people. It’s about passion. It’s about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.
Successful entrepreneurs develop products that inspire their passion. They have to. It’s that passion that gets them through the long, arduous, uncertain and frightening early days of a start-up.
The girls are a complete joy and I love their passion. They argue with me like mad and I love that too.
Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. ‘Cause that’s all that matters in the end.
I find people interesting. People trying hard are interesting. People with a passion are interesting – whether it’s old cars or taxidermy or knitting.
If you feel like there’s something out there that you’re supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it.
I am a guy who likes to do what I am doing with passion, whether it’s a soccer match with friends or golf.
We are never like angels till our passion dies.
Football, for me, is an infinite passion that will always be around.
Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
Follow your passion, be prepared to work hard and sacrifice, and, above all, don’t let anyone limit your dreams.
Yes, I’ve heard of the ‘Mad Men’ comparisons, but I like to think ‘The Hour’ has its own distinctive voice. Although it is set in 1956, I have tried to give it a contemporary edge, and its themes of love, passion, romance, fury, professional jealousy, and personal failure are universal, I think.
Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on. The teacher, in short, can use reading to introduce her pupils to the most varied subjects; and the moment they have been thus started, they can go on to any limit guided by the single passion for reading.
As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values.
After I went through two years of not winning an event, what kept me going was winning one more major. Once I won that last U.S. Open, I spent the next six months trying to figure out what was next. Slowly my passion for the sport just vanished. I had nothing left to prove.
Quantum physics is a bit of a passion of mine. It’s extraordinary. There’s a branch of mathematics that is based on lunacy, and that’s wonderful.
The passion for destruction is also a creative passion.
You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness.
The passion for money is never fickle.
I say this to women all the time: If you’ve got the passion, you believe in making change, and you’ve got an issue or policy or something that you want to do, believe in it. Have confidence in yourself. You can do it.
On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
Vision is a romantic thing. We have got into ‘talent identification’. I am much more interested in passion – finding people who are really excited about doing something.
Just having hope ain’t going to cut it. You’ve got to have hope, passion and skills.
Since I was kid, what’s drawn me to racing is the feeling inside of me, the passion I have for the sport, the feeling I have while competing and doing what I do in a car, on a bike, whatever it’s been.
My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery – always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What’s this passion for?
Infinitely more important than sharing one’s material wealth is sharing the wealth of ourselves – our time and energy, our passion and commitment, and, above all, our love.
Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
When I started, I didn’t think I would become a great player. It was my passion; I had interest. My parents supported me. In that way, I continued.
Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
I want other kids to see the joy in reading and literacy and how, if you read about things, they become so much closer, and if you’re willing to put in the effort and time and passion, you can really understand them.
Storytelling is my true passion.
Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it.
I love doing YouTube. That’s where my heart is, and so it makes me sad when I can’t put a good, fun, energetic video out, because that’s what I love to do – and that’s my passion. And that’s who I am.
My brother took me to my first football match when I was five, and I quickly acquired a passion for it: once you’ve walked into a football ground, you know there’s nothing comparable to it.
Football is a passion that she holds dear to her heart. She’s really going for her dream and there are obstacles in the way, but deep down she knows what she wants, and she pursues that.
My passion is my family and the world of fashion.
For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still.
My own life is wonderful, but if I had to live the life of someone else, I’d gladly choose that of Julia Child or Dr. Seuss: two outrageously original people, each of whom fashioned an idiosyncratic wisdom, passion for life, and sense of humor into an art form that anyone and everyone could savor.
I realised music was my calling, and I am one of those who’s strongly bound by an infectious enthusiasm and passion.
My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.
It is very much the theme of our President, President Thabo Mbeki, whose passion is for Africa to work together, and for Africans to get up and do things for us. We are trying as women to do things for ourselves.
The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.
It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.
Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.
Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred.
We try to put on a show that people can be proud of whether you are in Tuscaloosa, Baton Rouge, Austin, Tallahassee or Columbus, Ohio or wherever you are. We try to be symbolic of where you happen to be that Saturday. You tune into it, you see the energy, passion and love we have for the sport.
I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought.
If you have this passion for music, you don’t stop doing it – it chooses you and doesn’t release you.
I’m certainly not surprised by the passion of the youth for our myths. Mythology is almost a part of an Indian’s DNA.
Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.
I think that passion is the secret ingredient that drives hard work and excellence. My passion is to serve the public: to be in the arena of public policy, to have the opportunity to solve problems for our country, to be in a position where I can make a difference.
I’ve always had a passion for acting, without really realising that that’s what I should be doing.
I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project.
Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate.
The doom of a nation can be averted only by a storm of flowing passion, but only those who are passionate themselves can arouse passion in others.
I grew up seeing my parents perform and sing, and I just always wanted to be singing, too. Music has always been my deepest passion and what I felt most connected to.
India is a musical country, so it would appear obvious to use our collective passion for music to promote a book.
I lived my whole life in the kitchen. Not only that, but it’s the passion, it’s the love for cooking and food. It’s dictated my entire life – every aspect of it.
Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.
Meat has become a passion for me.
Culture is simply a shared way of doing something with passion.
It only takes one person to mobilize a community and inspire change. Even if you don’t feel like you have it in you, it’s in you. You have to believe in yourself. People will see your vision and passion and follow you.
I live for football, and my real passion is just to go out there and express myself and show everybody what I’m capable of doing. It’s what I’ve always known since I was a kid.
My passion is creating lucrative opportunities around the world and online.
The energy I bring, the passion I bring, it’s infectious. You can ask anybody on that Oklahoma staff. That’s what I bring to the table.
I am an actress and acting is my passion… period!
We don’t do things we aren’t good at by nature. I wouldn’t play basketball because I’m only 5′ 1″. Find what you enjoy – whether it’s racing, flying a helicopter, being a doctor, or stitching clothes together. Once you’ve done that, you have the passion you need.
I want to carry on in the music business and in television because it’s basically a hobby and a passion that I actually get paid for.
I suppose books are my real passion in life.
Acting is a passion, but I have been taking time off to direct once in a while because it helps me reinvent myself.
I envy people with dreams and passions, but I don’t think that way. I still don’t have a ‘bliss’ to follow. For people like me – I suspect that’s most people – holding out for a ‘dream’ or a ‘passion’ is paralyzing. I just like having work I enjoy that feels meaningful. That’s hard enough… but it’s enough.
I didn’t see my character, Core, as a cannibal but as somebody who is extremely passionate and who doesn’t have any conscience. She takes her passion to its complete extreme.
Work? I never worked a day in my life. I always loved what I was doing, had a passion for it.
Without vision, even the most focused passion is a battery without a device.
I used to be married to a woman who pursued every spiritual trend with tremendous passion and dragged me along. I don’t believe in anything. I’d seen mediums and readers.
Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.
My father would tell anyone who would listen that this dentist thing he was doing was not his passion; cinematography was.
Once something is a passion, the motivation is there.
Acting is my passion, and Chelsea FC is my hobby.
That is why, as soon as I felt a real attraction for my first passion which was the motorcycle, and in spite of the danger it could represent, they encouraged me.
Passion is what gets you through the hardest times that might otherwise make strong men weak, or make you give up.
Find your passion, set a goal, go to work, evaluate, reassess, and repeat.
The name Shatner is Austrian and partly Germanic, and there’s Germanic reticence and silence perhaps, but there is passion underneath.
The passion of the Italian or the Italian-American population is endless for food and lore and everything about it.
I play really hard. I put my body on the line every damn practice. Every day in the games. That’s my passion. That’s how I give to the game.
I think there’s a passion for God like never before.
I’ve always said, ‘I didn’t have a Plan B in life.’ I was in pursuit of my dream from the very beginning. It’s all about desire and passion. At all costs.
When the Japanese occupied Korea in the early 20th century, they brought their passion for baseball with them, and the game swiftly surpassed basketball and soccer as the nation’s pre-eminent sport.
We are ne’er like angels till our passion dies.
You need great passion, because everything you do with great pleasure, you do well.
I love mo’bikes and riding them is my passion.
It’s that one thing that you’re passionate about, that you end up developing tunnel vision for and everything else tends to fall by the wayside. Passion is appealing and universal.
Sports should not become routine. It should be about passion.
Hospitality and cooking are my passion, and I love nothing more than seeing someone’s face when they taste an unforgettable bite.
My passion for innovation and my interest in the ‘business of science’ has seen Biocon commercialize many innovative platforms and products.
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.
With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time’s malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!
I don’t have a formula to pass on. I always did it my own way. Even today, I hold my independence close. It’s what’s most precious to me. Passion. Risk. Tenacity. Consistency. This is my professional history.
Music is a passion of mine. I’m always listening, always learning.
If I have a reason to do something, and I have enough passion, I generally succeed.
I deliberately wrote a poem in my last book where I was suggesting that there are other passions as great as or more important than the passion of sex.
The great changes in civilisation and society have been wrought by deeply held beliefs and passion rather than by a process of rational deduction.
The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.
Surfing for me is more than my lifestyle; it’s my passion, my love, and it’s a part of me.
Today my passion is still black and white. Today if I have an array of cameras in front of me the one I would reach for that I would feel most comfortable with would be a 4 X 5 View camera. I was once working in a sort of soft light situation.
It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.
We humans are not born alone; joining and being active in a club whose members share your passion for ideas and get your jokes is one of the great joys of life.
There is something about New Orleans that embodies passion; I’ve never seen that before. There’s something tangible about the essence of the city. You can taste and smell it.
Men mark the passion of Christ, and print it on their heart somewhat to follow it. It was the most voluntary passion that ever was suffered, and the most painful. It was most voluntary, and so most meritorious.
I started making some proper decisions, getting things in order. It’s kind of like cleaning up your house. I was looking for direction for what God wanted me to do – and that’s when I got a call about The Passion.
Swimming is my passion and something that I love.
I like a movie that brings out many discussions. From my experience, every time I have done movies, they create this kind of situation. Like ‘Irreversible,’ ‘The Passion of the Christ,’ ‘Malena’; it’s so interesting. I like to explore the dark side of humanity. That’s why I’m an actor.
I love tennis with a passion. I challenged Boris Becker to a match once and he said he was up for it but he never called back. I bet I could make him run around.
As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something that’s never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish.
Passion is all but soft, it’s not tender, it’s violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.
My passion is doing movies, so as long as I keep doing that I will be happy.
My inspiration is always love and history, and my passion to a fault is craftsmanship and responsibility. Those are the simplest things. It goes beyond jewelry. It’s every part of my life.
Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art – or almost the only stuff.
It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.
If you are a young person who is wanting to develop a passion, you cannot expect anyone else to tell you what that passion would be.
Compassion, not passion, keeps a marriage together.
Finding ballet gave me passion for the first time in my life. I was always very shy and just wanted to fit in; I never daydreamed about what I wanted to be when I grew up. But dancing gave me a connection to my personality that made me grow.
But music raises a lot of issues. Music is something that matters to people a lot, and they put a lot of passion into it. And I think when you have an area like that, you’re gonna find a lot of issues coming up.
Hire for passion and intensity; there is training for everything else.
If it is something that you are interested in, and it is your passion, then tell your friends, because help is the best thing. If you stay confident, it will happen.
If I had not passed through trial – through passion, one could say – through these years so painful and so rich, I don’t believe I could take on my life and my career as I do today.
The artists who stand out to me have a passion for what they do. There are a lot of people who can sing. It’s just like when you go to church and people are singing because it sounds good, not because it feels good. There’s a difference.
This is my first visit to Africa, a region where President Bush has voiced a deep passion for fostering and encouraging economic development, investment and trade.
Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.
I always felt there was some kind of nobility centered in my desire and passion for what I do.
Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.
There was a lot of passion with Klopp, I felt that most in the dressing room before games. He always had a big smile. He hugged every player. I loved his attitude – he was never nervous. He gave us confidence.
Passion is a quality I admire in a woman.
I consider myself very fortunate. I mean, I think there’s that old saying, ‘Where there’s a will, there’s a way,’ and I just have such a passion for jazz music and playing the piano that I just find a way to make it work, so to speak. Fortunately, I have so far.
Show your bluebell passion with every step you take. Infuse your corporeal mind, body and spirit with atomic sense of urgency, purpose and apple juice.
I think that the consciousness of passion makes you act very differently.
The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penetrated and found response in depths of his own sensuous nature that had never yet been reached.
I don’t have a passion for politics, but I do have a passion for truth and justice.
I’m great at a deathbed. I’ve never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I’ve given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.
Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram.
I was a student of law as my grandmother wanted me to be a lawyer. But my passion has always been movies.
Lord sanctify us. Oh! That Thy spirit might come and saturate every faculty, subdue every passion, and use every power of our nature for obedience to God.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.
To be successful in anything, you have to have a passion for it, and that leads to being enthusiastic and demanding. I didn’t have it for history. So I wouldn’t have been a good teacher in that area. But I had it for basketball. And that’s what coaching is at every level: it’s about teaching.
There is nothing so beautiful as the free forest. To catch a fish when you are hungry, cut the boughs of a tree, make a fire to roast it, and eat it in the open air, is the greatest of all luxuries. I would not stay a week pent up in cities if it were not for my passion for art.
I got my dog back, in African-American language, your dog means your passion, your fire.
Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.
My passion for fashion originated in my mother’s closet. She was a woman who loved fashion. She enjoyed dressing up a lot, and she had a closet that was like her sacred room that belonged only to her. She wouldn’t let us go in and play there very often.
It is hard to know how many people do, but given that the people are so docile towards the rulers, nowadays, very few Americans show the passion for freedom that our forefathers had.
If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.
There’s a passion about this because people take it very close to their hearts and they have grown up with James Bond – and so have I. But I was being criticized before I had presented anything, so it was name calling.
It’s the youth movement we have. A lot of young guys with a lot of passion. It brings the fun back to the game.
You can have a passion for something, but you still have to pay the bills.
No matter what you do, you should enjoy it. You should really find passion in it.
I’m of the opinion that as a DJ you must always play what you love and ignore what’s ‘trendy’ because true passion always eclipses what’s fashionable. Quality is always fashionable.
My mom passed on her obsession of all things antique or vintage. I love to go thrift store shopping or explore any sort of garage sale. Treasure hunting is a family passion.
It may be that that we can sing what we often cannot say, whether it be from shyness, fear, lack of the right words or the passion or dramatic gift to express them. More souls have rallied to more causes by the strains of music than by straining rhetoric.
Man’s love is of man’s life a part; it is a woman’s whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
I pretty much only drink water, Tazo passion tea, or coffee with half and half, and it’s an ongoing joke in the office that I never have less than three glasses of water and some form of tea or coffee in front of me.
Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.
Kolkata is a musical city. What I like about people here is the lack of diplomacy. Some of the best Indian classical musicians belong to this place. Kolkatans do not go by fashion, but by passion.
Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.
My devotion stemmed from my mom’s love of horses. I have been riding since I could walk, and the fact that my mom knew everything about horses really helped my passion grow.
My mother’s passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer’s daughter, was to shape my entire life.
I was actually going for the pre-medicine track and studying for my MCATs and then I decided to follow my passion, which was music. So I moved to India after college to re-immerse myself in Indian music.
Being a middle-class family back in the 1970s meant we only had one TV… and it wasn’t in your room… so when I was 8 years old, I began developing a passion for reading history, and it’s never stopped.
He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.
Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man’s wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
I have a passion for design. Be it a line of clothes or taking a gut decision with unique pieces of furniture, one should always be willing to experiment.
If you can find something that you’re really passionate about, whether you’re a man or a woman comes a lot less into play. Passion is a gender-neutralizing force.
Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.
I’m a proud New Zealander, and I represent Paralympics New Zealand. I love what I do, and I do it because I love it. The passion is unbelievable in every race I do. I have the ambition to change things outside the pool, too.
Music has always been my passion for as long as I can remember.
Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It’s also the dangerous part and it’s an ugly emotion that hurts.
I do on the field what I know how to do, the same way and with the same passion as always. I give my best, but I have to take things day by day.
When I started to write ‘Hannah’s Child,’ I realized that this had to be a book of passion, to have a certain kind of vulnerability. I think that people respond to that.
I have been a teacher myself all my life. I have an intense passion to share with people. Our only salvation is in knowledge, in learning.
Pursuing your passion is fulfilling and leads to financial freedom.
Ambition has developed into a passion which drives women, as well as men, to great works – and small deeds. Formerly competitors in the race for men, they are now competing in the race for social tasks and distinctions.
Fear is the passion of slaves.
Comic books are a big passion of mine.
To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion.
Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser’s passion, not the thief s.
A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
I have always been intrigued by other cultures, and traveling to foreign lands has always been a part of my personal passion for learning about our world.
Really, I’ll go anywhere at any time to continue working in theater – it’s a passion that I’m thankful I still have. It keeps me creative and on my toes and meeting great people. I can’t imagine a better way of working than on a play.
What keeps me motivated is love and passion.
I have so many things that I want to do with my life. I just don’t see myself being a fighter forever. Boxing is my love and passion. It also opens up and sets up other things in my life as well.
Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That’s what’s important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.
Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it.
I never wanted to be an actor. It was something I found a passion for; it wasn’t there immediately.
Music is a big passion of mine, and to be able to do it on the side of acting would be amazing.
Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
Walt Whitman defended the sacredness of love, the purity of passion – the passion that builds every home and fills the world with art and song.
But my passion is racing cars. It’s what I like to do in my off time.
Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of opinion regarding rights.
When people protest and are upset with a movie, it becomes a big hit. They hated Passion of The Christ, it worked out pretty well for the box office. So let’s get that going.
But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion.
Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one’s death.
Passion is what gives meaning to our lives. It’s what allows us to achieve success beyond our wildest imagination. Try to find a career path that you have a passion for.
I think I have a passion for playing the game. I love to play, and I want to play at a high level. You have to do the right things in order to continue at that level.
Why is there such passion for any sort of gossipy, provocative sensual stuff? It sells!
I continue to have a special pride and passion for AOL, and I strongly believe that AOL – once the leading Internet company in the world – can return to its past greatness.
Motorcycle riding has been a passion of mine since my 20th birthday, and as a proud member of the American Motorcyclist Association and the Harley Owners Group, I can attest that responsible riding has many unique recreational benefits for millions of Americans.
The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.
Someone like Russell Crowe is questioned for his passion for music, and whatever he does, music is just in his heart and soul. All he wants to do is music.
I’m an actor first and foremost; it’s my first love and passion.
Cricket is my passion; it is my first love. So I will not act in my movies, as they will just be a side business for me.
I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public.
During the session of the Supreme Court, in the village of -, about three weeks ago, when a number of people were collected in the principal street of the village, I observed a young man riding up and down the street, as I supposed, in a violent passion.
I don’t think of myself as a role model. I do try to live in a compassionate, considerate and positive way. The only advice I can offer is to find what you love to do, find the joy in it, and express yourself through your passion.
Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists.
Live with passion!
Portland in particular is a cheap enough place to live that you can still develop your passion – painting, writing, music. People seem less status-conscious. Even wealthy people buy second-hand clothes and look a little bit homeless.
True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and is attracted by qualities alone. It is wise and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding.
No matter what your passion is, you really can find it within the Army. The opportunities really are endless and the sky is not the limit.
President-elect Bush spoke in a forceful and candid manner that it is his passion that all children should have access to a first class education.
Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
I danced for 15 years of my life. Which was my love and my passion.
I feel that when you are passionate about what you do, money will follow. If money becomes the primary factor, passion goes down the drain.
Be unreasonable, follow your passion.
I didn’t tell my kids, ‘You have to play viola, and you have to play piano.’ They chose these things on their own, and I don’t think we have to give kids every choice, but we do have to give them some choice because that autonomy is crucial for fostering passion.
There is an animal instinct force in humans that creates passion. When you love sometimes you cross a border.
Horses will never be my career. It’s just a big passion of mine, and one that will always be there in the background, but football is my main passion and everyone knows that.
I imagine my children are going to save me from my vanity and be my passion and fill whatever fears I have of the amazing time I’m having right now being gone.
The shiny red color of the soles has no function other than to identify to the public that they are mine. I selected the color because it is engaging, flirtatious, memorable, and the color of passion.
But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion.
I was asked by a group to write a song on the theme of brotherhood. This was before women’s liberation, when brotherhood meant men and women both, so I wrote the song. Since I had always been very fond of the Passion Chorale, I wrote words to that great piece.
I’m very grateful I went to school to study law, particularly tax law, which really is interesting to me and very useful to me now with my position. Music, however, will always be my number one passion; I like how it connects everyone.
Anyone can like their job… To love your job is not enough, you must give your passion to your job.
This was Shakespeare’s form; who walked in every path of human life, felt every passion; and to all mankind doth now, will ever, that experience yield which his own genius only could acquire.
Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.
Acting will always be my first passion, it’s what I live to do and I hope to be lucky enough to do it the rest of my life.
I’ve always had an affinity and a passion for cars and that whole car culture.
I’m involved with projects that strike up a passion with me, that stir up completion inside of me. People come at me and go, ‘My job makes me feel alive.’ OK, well, good for you. My job doesn’t make me feel ‘alive,’ my job makes me feel alive!
Strong emotions such as passion and bliss are indications that you’re connected to Spirit, or ‘inspired,’ if you will. When you’re inspired, you activate dormant forces, and the abundance you seek in any form comes streaming into your life.
When you have a passion for something then you tend not only to be better at it, but you work harder at it too.
Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.
At some point in your life, you’ll find yourself in a similar position: Surrounded by people who are smarter, faster, who have more experience and more money – and you’ll just have to find a way. And you’ll have to do it with passion.
I’ve known Jan, probably, very well for, well, for over a decade. And the passion that Jan just showed the viewers in that particular piece is very real.
I had the benefit of parents who believed deeply in my ability. And they were teenagers when they had me – they were teenagers when they got married – but they instilled in me that you can do anything and that brains were most important, that passion was important, and drive.
My greatest passion is my personal life.
People in independent film have a passion; they’re not in it for the money.
In Colombia, we have a lot of passion.
Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you or your family does not understand it, then that’s their problem. But if you do have a passion, an honest passion, just do it.
You can’t teach passion. You can teach everything else.
The art market was very different before the mid-1980s: then, art was all about passion, whereas now it’s become a commodity.
I grew a strong passion for music. The more I did the music thing it’s like I saw myself going far with it. I believed in myself.
Men will shop, but they only shop when they need something. Women shop with passion and because it’s enjoyable, and for some, it’s even entertainment. All you have to do is step into a mall and see how many stores are geared towards men and how many are geared towards women, and you’ll get the picture.
The studio does projects all over the world, and in each place, we focus on trying to make a project specific to that place. We take a different perspective everywhere we work – our passion is public projects, wherever they are.
Anything is possible as long as you have the passion.
Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.
By harnessing our teammates’ unique skills and passion for giving, our professional networks and partnerships, and our financial resources, we will inspire the dreamers and doers of tomorrow and drive positive, lasting change in our communities across the globe.
When I was in college, I wanted to study film. My first passion was to be a cinematographer. So maybe there’s something innate in my music where it partners well with images.
You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.
The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for a totalitarian society to create anything with passion and imagination.
I have lived with passion and in a hurry, trying to accomplish too many things. I never had time to think about my beliefs until my 28-year-old daughter Paula fell ill. She was in a coma for a year, and I took care of her at home until she died in my arms in December of 1992.
Passion must be concealed in a society where cold reserve and indifference are the signs of good breeding.
It’s passion; if I’m not passionate about something I’m not going to do it.
Whatever you go into, you have to go in there to be the best. There’s no formulas. It’s all about passion and honesty and hard work. It might look glamorous, but it takes a lot of hard work. The blessing with the arts is that you can do it forever.
Follow your passion. The rest will attend to itself. If I can do it, anybody can do it. It’s possible. And it’s your turn. So go for it. It’s never too late to become what you always wanted to be in the first place.
People’s passion and dedication can conquer anything.
I only want to make music because I have a passion for it.
Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
If you have passion, there is no need for excuses because your enthusiasm will trump any negative reasoning you might come up with. Enthusiasm makes excuses a nonissue.
Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what’s in a name?
You just have to find that thing that’s special about you that distinguishes you from all the others, and through true talent, hard work, and passion, anything can happen.
Let’s face it: professing a deep interest in movies, the absolutely dominant global art form of the last century, is at this point like professing an interest in air. Passion is nice. Erudition is admirable. But it’s like that moment when good manners cross over into meaningless etiquette.
Crimes of Passion, which is one of the best films I’ve done, will live strongly in my resume, even though it didn’t do well.
I think anyone who has a passion for what they love to do, and who pursue it, is inspirational for me.
I have to face life with a newly found passion. I must rediscover the irresistible will to learn, to live and to love.
We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about what we want, we have to be very strong about our passion and if it’s not right for you, you shouldn’t do it just because you’re advised by so-called geniuses.
Dance is my passion.
I know my ambition and my passion and to know how I want to grow up with Arsenal.
Without passion you don’t have energy, with out energy you have nothing.
So many people think of me as a character on TV, but first and foremost, my passion is teaching dance and creating employable, working dancers.
I think it’s just really important for youth today to have a passion and pursue something seriously.
To be the best CEO you can be, you have to be passionate about the business you’re running. And I have true passion for the financial markets and the financial industry.
I guess passion keeps me going.
I do like to work with young directors because it’s such a difficult business that I think after directors have been around a while sometimes, not always, but sometimes their passion gets siphoned off because they get hurt.
The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.
The only burning passion I’m sure I have, is the passion for sex.
Any guy that’s not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don’t want to know.
When you work on a passion project, there’s always the chance that you’ll get your heart broken.
I was never in this for the money. It’s all about the passion for the music.
Money is not a driving force for me when it comes to my passion: that is, dramas and films.
Passion is momentary; love is enduring.
Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.
My passion is creating and marketing. That’s what I’m really, really good at, and that’s what I find the most stimulating for my brain to work on, so that’s what I really, really want to do as opposed to product creation.
I didn’t want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling – more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.
I started playing piano age six. I was also singing in the choir, so my mum put me into music school. I went to study there for seven years, but it was not my passion. I quit because I wanted to study marketing. But I can still play piano.
I shall strive not to be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe.
The passion and spontaneity in music is all gone.
I can’t work on something if I don’t believe in it. I love music, and I am inspired to work harder and spend more energy. I feel lucky that I was born with this passion.
Like anything, you don’t force kids to cook. It just becomes part of life – have them be around it, keep them informed – talk about it. I try to relay my passion for it in these ways. The second you try to force anything on your own kid, they rebel.
My debut album, ‘Forget the World,’ is all about not listening to the negativity around you and to continue to do what you love, no matter what people think. I love what I do. Dance music is my passion, my life. There is no greater feeling than being one with my fans, partying to the music we love.
For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business.
If you love your work, you’ll be out there every day trying to do it the best you possibly can, and pretty soon everybody around will catch the passion from you – like a fever.
Good governance with good intentions is the hallmark of our government. Implementation with integrity is our core passion.
The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.
I don’t have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there.
There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
You either have the charisma, the knowledge, the passion, the intelligence – or you don’t.
My passion has always been books and literature, and teaching.
It’s okay to take that reservoir of passion that you have and let it flow into whatever you love. Experiment, question, replicate, be critical, be nerdy, be yourself.
My strength would be my honesty and my passion towards my work.
I want to feel passion, I want to feel pain. I want to weep at the sound of your name. Come make me laugh, come make me cry… just make me feel alive.
Think big; think disruptive. Execute with full passion.
Every film for every actor is a make-or-break film. I believe every film has the power to break you or make you. So, an actor will treat every film like his last film. That’s the way we need to work, and that’s the way you can drum up that passion needed to do good work.
Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.
Music was my passion, and I started out as a singer. It’s just natural to me to keep pursuing my music career.
If you’re doing something new you’ve got to have a vision. You’ve got to have a perspective. You’ve got to have some north star you’re aiming for, and you just believe somehow you’ll get there, which kind of gets to the passion point.
We aim to express the passion of our members in something actionable that we can all in fact do.
For me, work is both a hobby and a passion. And sometimes an obsession.
We decide based on how people look; we decide based on how people sound; we decide based on how people are dressed. We decide based on their passion.
Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
Time has the same effect on the mind as on the face; the predominant passion and the strongest feature become more conspicuous from the others’ retiring.
And although I like to relax and have fun, my passion is my work.
It’s better for me to go up against someone’s passion with my passion and then clarifying something that he wrote. Then I know how to work around certain things.
Forever, it was just soccer – passion, life, love. Then I got married, and I had to transfer some of my energy. I want to be my best for my country, but I also made a really big promise and choice to be the best in my marriage. That has not always been the easiest thing to manage.
Remember, it isn’t the dreamers who have good lives – it’s the doers. Remember also what I call the three Ps of success: passion, planning, and perseverance.
You have to have passion for what you do, or else it’s difficult when the going gets tough.
It is, perhaps, better to be valued as an object of passion than never to be valued at all.
How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
The mind’s passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
Dance has always been my passion, and I love it.
To work with a director that has emotional commitment and passion toward the characters, and the piece, and the experiences, it only enriches your work.
The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
I had lost a clear sense of the vision and values instilled in me as a child and was no longer driven by any mission or passion. I made the difficult decision to pull back from the noise of my life and reinvent the way I was living and leading.
If I have to make a self-portrait, I would put poetry and rebellion on the list. To be able to walk on a wire, to be able to juggle six hoops, you need focus, another word for tenacity, which is passion.
Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race: by falling into a daily fit of passion, I proved to the governor and his son, who were profuse in their attentions, that I was in earnest.
I think the whole world is dying to hear someone say, ‘I love you.’ I think that if I can leave the legacy of love and passion in the world, then I think I’ve done my job in a world that’s getting colder and colder by the day.
God Almighty is, to be sure, unmoved by passion or appetite, unchanged by affection; but then it is to be added that He neither sees nor hears nor perceives things by any senses like ours; but in a manner infinitely more perfect.
My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.
I began when I was a child, because I was born and grew up in a little village. And many people ride the horses. So, it was a big – it has been a big passion for me.
There weren’t a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn’t have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends.
Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.
I can’t stay friends with anyone who doesn’t have a passion for something; and, generally speaking, artistic people, creative people carry it right into the kitchen, too. They have a zest for life; the excitement of living. All of the great eaters I’ve known are also men of great wit.
You just have to work super hard, and if you have a passion, that’s the most beautiful thing in life, and you just have to bust out and do it, baby!
There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.
As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.
I will know how to hold you just by the look in your eye, I will never forget – not even on the day that I die. This is a promise of my passion for you, smile at me and make it true.
I think about F1 all the time… it’s just my passion.
It is not constantly in my head that I am a champion or a UFC fighter. I forget about that. It is very important to other people, and I am glad to have the support, but fighting is my passion. It is what I like to do.
Western art is built on the biographical passion of one artist for another.
