Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
Blaise PascalAs 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.
Jerry SeinfeldOnce I get on a puzzle, I can’t get off.
Richard P. FeynmanShakespeare – 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.
Maya AngelouWe 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.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinWe should play free football, defend lively with a passion, and have the best understanding in offence.
Jurgen KloppI love making movies, but there’s nothing like performing live.
Dwayne JohnsonI write for the same reason I breathe – because if I didn’t, I would die.
Isaac AsimovIf my films don’t show a profit, I know I’m doing something right.
Woody AllenIn 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.‘
J. ColeWhen you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.
Paulo CoelhoThe law is reason, free from passion.
AristotleNobody 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?
EminemStand-up comedy is mine: it’s my entity; it’s my brand; I own it. I do it when I want to do it.
Kevin HartLike 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.‘
Bill GatesPeople should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.
Elon MuskAdmiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.
Bertrand RussellGetting 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.
Taylor SwiftSo many people think of me as a character on TV, but first and foremost, my passion is teaching dance and creating employable, working dancers.
Abby Lee MillerI think that by staying true to myself and making music from my heart, the blessings come.
Bad BunnyOne of the things that I have admired about India is the spiritualism of the people.
Stephen CoveyAs 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.
BonoThe 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.
Steve JobsI didn’t have nothin‘ going for me… school, home… until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.
EminemIt 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.
AuroraIf you wish to be a writer, write.
EpictetusThe 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.
Ludwig van BeethovenGreat is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.
Marcus Tullius CiceroIt’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.
Margaret ThatcherI 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.
Lana Del ReyI wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.
Kurt CobainI 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.
Conor McGregorThe only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
Eleanor RooseveltBasketball 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.
LeBron JamesHe has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
Winston ChurchillWe 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.
Maya AngelouI’m super serious about music. That’s, like, the only thing I’m serious about.
Kevin GatesLove 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.
Vincent Van GoghPassion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.
Che GuevaraAnd I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else.
Jimmy BuffettThe wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
Ralph Waldo EmersonMen admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThere are many things I do where the centre of it is… It’s almost more my humanitarian work than art.
Angelina JolieSure, 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.
Matthew McConaugheyI 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.
Hunter S. ThompsonRap was my drug.
EminemThe true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.
Che GuevaraStarting your own business isn’t just a job – it’s a way of life.
Richard BransonI had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.
Samuel JohnsonMany 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.
Bertrand RussellThere is nothing I love as much as a good fight.
Franklin D. RooseveltI like the fact that Melbourne always seems to support their chefs and promote them in ways I find really admirable.
Anthony BourdainI need drama in my life to keep making music.
EminemI’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.
Kevin GatesI 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.
Angelina JolieIf I go to Italy, I will certainly request to meet with Pope Francis, whom I admire very much.
Jimmy CarterWe must act out passion before we can feel it.
Jean-Paul SartreIf you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
Khalil GibranI think, generally, I just cannot really envision life without writing and producing records and singing.
David BowieArt 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.
David Bowie