passion quotes

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.

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

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.

I was always interested in choreography – in making people think and feel something.

I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents‘ garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever – was write novels.

Basically, I live to do gigs.

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

I love to take, process and share photos – it fills me up.

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

I like to work.

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.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I’d love that. But I don’t need to be. I just want to be here. That’s it.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

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.

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

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

Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

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 like entertaining people. I really miss it.

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.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

The law is reason, free from passion.

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

To be honest with you, when I got into this I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.