I started out as a poet. I’ve always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.
Alice WalkerDo not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
Henry David ThoreauWhat keeps me motivated is love and passion.
Bad BunnyPuerto Rico’s relationship with music is everything. It’s an island full of talent and if you grow up there, you grow up living and breathing music.
Bad BunnyA lot of people like to do certain things, but they’re not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.
George LucasI loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I mean, unless you were related to somebody there was no way in.
George LucasLet me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamI didn’t want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn’t like it. I always wanted to do other things.
Vivienne WestwoodI love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?
Dave GrohlI write for the same reason I breathe – because if I didn’t, I would die.
Isaac AsimovI loved what I did. I could’ve been secretary of state for ever.
Madeleine AlbrightIf this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.
Lady GagaBetween men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Oscar WildeIf a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little – somebody who is obsessed by Making.
E. E. CummingsVan Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It’s the same with me and writing.
Wayne DyerIt’s hard work making movies. It’s like being a doctor: you work long hours, very hard hours, and it’s emotional, tense work. If you don’t really love it, then it ain’t worth it.
George LucasI was a sociology major. And it had nothing to do necessarily with law, which is ultimately – I went to law school. But what I tried to do was choose something that I was passionate about or something that I cared about.
Michelle ObamaWe’re just enthusiastic about what we do.
Steve JobsThere is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
Nelson MandelaMy songs are like my children – I expect them to support me when I’m old.
Dolly PartonThe only passion that guides me is for the truth… I look at everything from this point of view.
Che GuevaraThere’s something about being in front of a live audience that’s fun. It’s a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you can’t get it anywhere else. And I’ve been doing it since I was 23, so it’s part of my being – it’s part of my fabric as a person.
Steven WrightI 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.
David BowieMy dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.
Jackie ChanI guess, taking away all the theatrics or the costuming and the outer layers of what I do, I’m a writer… I write.
David BowiePassion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.
Che GuevaraI could do one show after another in China for the rest of my life and still die ignorant. There’s a lot of places left to go.
Anthony BourdainThe day I think I’m not enjoying the game and contributing the way I would like to, I’ll hang up my boots.
Sunil ChhetriI’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.
David BowieWe are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.
Thich Nhat HanhI can dance to just about anything.
Bad BunnyOn ‚Grey’s Anatomy‘ I wouldn’t care what I was playing – I would play a corpse, ‚cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.
Taylor SwiftMy purpose is to make exciting music, and I feel like I’ll be doing that for the rest of my life, so there’s no pressure.
The WeekndI don’t profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.
David BowieWriting’s just as natural to me as getting up and cooking breakfast.
Dolly PartonMan is only great when he acts from passion.
Benjamin DisraeliIt was a personal decision for me to stand and say that cricket is all I have in life, there’s nothing I need to do other than cricket. If I want to achieve whatever I thought as a kid, I need to work hard and not let it go to waste.
Virat KohliThere is nothing I love as much as a good fight.
Franklin D. RooseveltJump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.
Coco ChanelThe things that transfixed you as a child, that you found most exciting was not a passing fancy, but a message about what you’re supposed to do.
Robert GreeneI knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn’t think I could do anything else. So I read and read and wrote short stories and dreamed of escape.
Paul AusterThe book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was ‚Crime and Punishment‘. I put the thing down after reading it in a fever over two or three days… I said, ‚If this is what a book can be, then that is what I want to do.‘
Paul AusterWe love things we love what they are.
Robert FrostHobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt.
J. R. R. TolkienTo witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheSo 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 MillerAt the end of the day, we started playing football because we loved it.
Sunil ChhetriI loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I’d written, I don’t want to leave that behind.
J. K. RowlingOur strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our differences on human rights and other issues and provided we use a mix of targeted incentives and sanctions to narrow these differences.
Madeleine AlbrightWWE is a space where I thrived, and I loved, and I still do. I love connecting with an audience; that is the greatest thing about going back to WWE.
Dwayne JohnsonIt’s hard to tell with these Internet startups if they’re really interested in building companies or if they’re just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don’t really want to build a company, they won’t luck into it. That’s because it’s so hard that if you don’t have a passion, you’ll give up.
Steve JobsI’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.
Wayne DyerThose who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.
Richard BransonRed is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.
Taylor SwiftI love making music. That’s what I love to do. So I don’t feel like there’s any need to take a break unless I want to.
RihannaI really love training and being in good shape, and it’s so much a part of my life now, so it never really feels like work to me.
Tom BradyA lot of people can’t stand touring but to me it’s like breathing. I do it because I’m driven to do it.
Bob DylanI’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 would say that jazz is my own language.
Amy WinehouseI should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.
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