passion quotes

I’m not a writer who teaches. I’m a teacher who writes.

I do things I love doing. Sometimes that is maybe going out to have a drink with friends, going out partying or whatever.

Writing’s just as natural to me as getting up and cooking breakfast.

See, ‚A Time to Kill‘ was the one I got famous off of. Big ka-boom, over one weekend. After that, I did films that I really wanted to do.

I always have been an activist for things that were just authentically a part of my life, that I felt connected to.

Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!

My songs are like my children – I expect them to support me when I’m old.

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.

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.

I’m never gonna step away from stand-up. I can’t. That’s what got me where I am, and that’s also my muse. That’s how I stay level-headed. That’s what keeps me going.

I love being on stage, I love being able to tell a story, I love the fact that the audience listens and laughs at it. It makes me happy, and it’s what I live for.

In my heart, I am always a Raider.

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.

I love tango, and I used to dance when I was young.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

I’m gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell ‚em out of the trunk of my car. I’m that kind of musician and singer.

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.

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 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.

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

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.

I guess you could say it’s always been my destiny to be a performer.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

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

Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.

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.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

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.

Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I’m fully behind.

I mean, what would I be doing if I couldn’t write? But that fortunately hasn’t proved to be the case and I can read any day. I still read a lot, and I can write any day, but much more slowly and fewer words.

When you’re around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it’s not strange, it’s just Gaga.

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

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

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

The 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.‘

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.

It’s in my blood to be around people while I was training.

I just am committed wholeheartedly to theatre with no intermission.

It’s important to love in hip hop.

I wanted to write.

The important thing is to be in love with something.

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.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I’ll never be hands-on on anything except software.

I love story songs because I’ve always loved books.

Good governance with good intentions is the hallmark of our government. Implementation with integrity is our core passion.

Alternative R&B is in my soul. It’s not going anywhere.

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.

I really love the culture of hip-hop.

I just want to keep writing music.

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.

Becoming a writer is not a ‚career decision‘ like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don’t choose it so much as get chosen, and once you accept the fact that you’re not fit for anything else, you have to be prepared to walk a long, hard road for the rest of your days.

I like being a writer.

My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.

Fighting football, not serenity football – that is what I like.

I want to go and go, and then drop dead in the middle of something I’m loving to do. And if that doesn’t happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I’ll have my high heels on.

I 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.

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.

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know.