The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.

There is spontaneity to my work.

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.

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

To do anything to a high level, it has to be total obsession.

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

If I didn’t have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.

An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.

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

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

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 would get out of school and go straight to my computer to create beats.

If you do things, whether it’s acting or music or painting, do it without fear – that’s my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there’s nothing to lose.

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don’t just want to possess it, it will find you.

Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?

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.

Let 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.

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.

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.

I wanted very much to learn to draw, for a reason that I kept to myself: I wanted to convey an emotion I have about the beauty of the world.

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

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

A lot of people can’t stand touring but to me it’s like breathing. I do it because I’m driven to do it.

I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.

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.

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.

What I cry out for, like every being, with my whole life and all my earthly passion, is something very different from an equal to cherish: it is a God to adore.

It’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.

I play piano and ukulele, and I taught myself those things just because I wanted to play them.

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.

I’ve always been very one-sided about science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all my effort on it.

Strong emotions such as passion and bliss are indications that you’re connected to Spirit, or ‚inspired,‘ if you will. When you’re inspired, you activate dormant forces, and the abundance you seek in any form comes streaming into your life.

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.

I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

To me, it’s OK to have differences. But we don’t have to be mad about it. You know? And I think that’s where sometimes we get so passionate that we – you know, it turns into anger.

Don’t be a writer; it’s a terrible way to live your life. There’s nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don’t expect anything from anybody.

An artist or a creative person of any kind goes about their work because it’s their path, it’s what excites them, it’s what aligns their soul with who they truly are, who they showed up to be.

The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.

If one has fear, there can be no initiative in the creative sense of the word. To have initiative in this sense is to do something original – to do it spontaneously, naturally, without being guided, forced, controlled. It is to do something which you love to do.

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

I’ve always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to make it more about the work.

I am a professional sportswriter, among other things, and I take the games seriously. It is only one of my many powerful addictions, and I don’t mind admitting any of them.

It’s very fun to be the hunter of the sounds. The hunter of the right energy. And it’s not really about if every sound is correct; it’s more the energy – if it hits you in some way, it doesn’t really matter to me if it’s not perfect. I’m still very excited while hunting for songs.

I 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.

Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them up with great passion. That is because human beings need stories.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

There’s an ecstatic side to writing. It’s like jazz. It just has a life.

I don’t know what acting is, but I enjoy it.

What keeps me motivated is love and passion.

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.‘

My focus is my art, and that’s what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I’ve turned down many things that I just didn’t believe in.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work.

It’s important to love in hip hop.

In my early teens, I knew I wanted to do television production. I loved cameras, editing and producing, anything that had to do with television production. My friend had a production studio across town, and we’d go over there at night and shoot and edit. I produced my father’s televised service for 17 years.

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.

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

I don’t control my writing – it controls me.