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.
