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.
