Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

I just know that I’m a fan of all different kinds of genres. You’re supposed to be free doing music, and that’s how I feel.

What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.

It doesn’t matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.

I do some kind of work, whether writing or painting or recording, on a daily basis. And it’s so essential that when I’m involved in the actual process, my so-called ‚real life‘ becomes almost incidental, which becomes worrying.

I don’t know who I would have been if I never watched MotoGP.

I don’t consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.

I’ve been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

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.

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

Playing basketball all my life, I’ve collected a lot of different basketball shoes. It’s pretty much all I wear.

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.

People are already finding ways to make their music and play it in front of people and have a life in music, I guess, and I think that’s pretty much all you can ask.

I can get where some scientists would say comedians are crazy. What you have to understand: A lot of comedians are dealing with a dark passion. A lot of these are guys coming from a tumultuous life, including myself. Some people need outlets, a way to express yourself.

I like the fact that Melbourne always seems to support their chefs and promote them in ways I find really admirable.

I was of the generation where most of the Disney princesses and female characters were not girls that I admired. They just weren’t characters I looked up to and identified with.

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

You just don’t wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.

I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table.

I have been very interested and intrigued and congratulatory toward President Bush and his paintings.

Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11.

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there’s only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

If you saw Queen Elizabeth it would be amazing, she came from another planet. She was so attractive in what she was wearing.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Football is all about fans.

The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.

When it comes down to my brand, We the Best, we’re about the people and whoever is passionate and in love the way I’m in love when it comes down to the headphones I’m promoting.

I am an Addictive Personality, they say, a natural slave to passion – and many Doctors have warned me against it. I am a High-risk Patient.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

I love my job, but it’s more than that: I need it.

We can’t all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.

There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.

I had a rough childhood coming up, and I just took all that negative energy and made it very positive for myself to drive me. I’m a very driven person. I have passion that almost scares people, just to be successful and make it no matter what.

If I go to Italy, I will certainly request to meet with Pope Francis, whom I admire very much.

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

One of the things that I have admired about India is the spiritualism of the people.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Music is really driving my whole life.

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.

I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I’d love that. But I don’t need to be. I just want to be here. That’s it.

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

I admire people who destroy themselves.

The generous Critic fann’d the Poet’s fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

What keeps me motivated is love and passion.

And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else.

I love to take, process and share photos – it fills me up.

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

During my first years in the Sierra, I was ever calling on everybody within reach to admire them, but I found no one half warm enough until Emerson came. I had read his essays, and felt sure that of all men he would best interpret the sayings of these noble mountains and trees. Nor was my faith weakened when I met him in Yosemite.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

The companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world so do something you like.

I always tell audiences when I talk about writing: Writing isn’t something I do; writing is something that I am. I am writing – it’s just an expression of me.

On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever – was write novels.

I’ve never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves – it’s just a question of finding the subject.