passion quotes

When everything works best, it’s not because you chose writing but because writing chose you. It’s when you’re mad with it, it’s when it’s stuffed in your ears, your nostrils, under your fingernails. It’s when there’s no hope but that.

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

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

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

You want to do good things, and once you’ve done a couple of good things in a row, you think ‚Well gee, let’s not mess this up.‘ But I am lucky at this point that I have something I really love to do, and it completely holds my attention. I never feel frustrated by it.

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

I had a rough childhood coming up, and I just took all that negative energy and made it very positive for myself to drive me. I’m a very driven person. I have passion that almost scares people, just to be successful and make it no matter what.

People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

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

I love food.

I’ve been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.

There’s not much time to unwind, but you know what, it’s because I love what I do. I look forward to the season. I look forward to playing games. It doesn’t ever feel like work.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

I’ve always been a singer. I never really decided I was gonna be a singer. It just kind of – I just sung a lot.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake.

I always want to create and do things, or draw.

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.

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.

The 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.

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

You can be passionate about anything.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

Man lives for science as well as bread.

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

After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else.

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you’re going to be a second-rate artist.

I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

Not bragging by any means, but I could have done a lot of other stuff as far as working in films go and working in television… I had chances to do that stuff, but I like baseball, I really do.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

I write for the same reason I breathe – because if I didn’t, I would die.

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

I’m really interested in smells. I think I’d like to own a perfumery someday.

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

I would say that jazz is my own language.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

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

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

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

Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I’m not a fetishist but I love to do shoes.

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.

I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.

Because my career is so important, I think I make a lot of – I wouldn’t call them sacrifices, but just concessions for my job. I love what I do, and I want to do it for a long time.

The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.

I know I’m talented, but I wasn’t put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it’s not where it begins and ends.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

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.

We’re just enthusiastic about what we do.

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

‚Harry Potter‘ gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.