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

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

As a comedian, I found this thing, this profession, that suits my mind and life force. To drop it to do something else? I just don’t get that.

Once I get on a puzzle, I can’t get off.

Shakespeare – I was very influenced – still am – by Shakespeare. I couldn’t believe that a white man in the 16th century could so know my heart.

We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.

We should play free football, defend lively with a passion, and have the best understanding in offence.

I love making movies, but there’s nothing like performing live.

I write for the same reason I breathe – because if I didn’t, I would die.

If my films don’t show a profit, I know I’m doing something right.

In hip-hop, there’s not a lot of love. There’s not a lot of love being spread. It’s always like ‚I’m stuntin‘ on you raps, or I’m better than you raps.‘ It’s not a lot of ‚Yo man, I idolize you raps.‘

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.

The law is reason, free from passion.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn’t much. But the things that I’m really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I’m not successful, what do I have?

Stand-up comedy is mine: it’s my entity; it’s my brand; I own it. I do it when I want to do it.

Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it ‚tap-dancing to work.‘

People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.

Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don’t know why this one is different, but it is. You don’t know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can’t stop thinking about it.

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 that by staying true to myself and making music from my heart, the blessings come.

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

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

The design of the Mac wasn’t what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it’s all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.

I didn’t have nothin‘ going for me… school, home… until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

It seemed like a very small possibility for me to become an artist. I didn’t have the need to be on the stage; I didn’t feel the need to be heard. I just needed to write.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

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.

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

It’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

I didn’t live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don’t know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.

I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.

I am in the fighting game. I don’t care about anything else. I don’t watch the news, I don’t care about politics, I don’t care about other sports. I don’t care about anything I don’t need to care about. This is my sport: it is my life. I study it; I think about it all the time. Nothing else matters.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

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.

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

I’m super serious about music. That’s, like, the only thing I’m serious about.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.

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

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

There are many things I do where the centre of it is… It’s almost more my humanitarian work than art.

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 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.

Rap was my drug.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

Starting your own business isn’t just a job – it’s a way of life.

I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.

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

I need drama in my life to keep making music.

I’ve had mixtapes that have been better than albums I’ve heard from other artists. I take my time; I put my heart into it.

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.

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

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

I think, generally, I just cannot really envision life without writing and producing records and singing.

Art was, seriously, the only thing I’d ever wanted to own. It has always been for me a stable nourishment. I use it. It can change the way that I feel in the mornings.