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.‘

Rap was my drug.

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they’re gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

If you have passion, there is no need for excuses because your enthusiasm will trump any negative reasoning you might come up with. Enthusiasm makes excuses a nonissue.

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.

I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world.

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

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.

Music helps me tell my story. That’s where I can really be heard. But there’s so much focus on the things that aren’t music.

I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

Yes, we’ve still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.

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.

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.

Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

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.

If you’re a surfer, you just want to surf. You don’t know if anyone’s going to see you, and you don’t really care if they see you. You just live for that feeling.

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

If 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.

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

All I have to say is basically if performing, singing, acting, and dancing is what you want to do, then you just have to do it – no matter where it is.

I just am committed wholeheartedly to theatre with no intermission.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

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

Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

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.

When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it’s as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.

I do my job like I breathe.

Those 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.

The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.

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

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

I miss the early days; I do. I was so lucky. I basically had it to myself, learning about these chimpanzees. Nobody knew anything about them. Discovering their different personalities, different life histories. I was lucky.

I love football and the intensity of football in Liverpool, this is what is very good for me.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

If I am a cup maker, I’m interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.

I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry – writing at writing.

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.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

I’m one of the luckiest people on earth.

I am the center of attention in my job every single day; the thought of a wedding to me is exhausting. Why would I put myself through that?

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

Red 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.

I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it’d take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn’t want to retreat.

Many people have an intense feeling about what they’re best at. Too often, they’re driven away from it by other people.

I feel lucky that I can have people laugh solidly for a whole hour by just saying what I think and getting paid for it.

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I’d do is join a union.

An artist needn’t be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

I love performing, you know, because, like I say, I’m a ham for this stuff.

I’ve enjoyed all the parts of my career.

I always felt that if I was going to do a movie, I wanted it to be authentic.

Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly lighted interior sets.