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

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

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.

Commitment is an act, not a word.

It seemed like a very small possibility for me to become an artist. I didn’t have the need to be on the stage; I didn’t feel the need to be heard. I just needed to write.

If I could, I would not do anything else. I’d just be in the studio for my whole life. I would never go to parties, events, and red carpets. I would rather just be in the studio for the whole time. I don’t even care. Nobody has to know what I look like. I just want to make music.

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.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

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

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.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

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.

I’m first and foremost a writer. I followed my personal legend, my childhood dream of becoming a writer, but I can’t say why I’m one.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

I’m in awe of the universe, but I don’t necessarily believe there’s an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.

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

Just like every person who works for Dortmund is a fan of the club, it was the same at Mainz. When I was a player there, we had 800 supporters on rainy Saturday afternoons, and if we died, no one would notice or come to our funeral. But we loved the club, and we have this same feeling at Dortmund.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Well done is better than well said.

I just was never into performing. It’s just hard work. It’s hard work.

The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman’s heart.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

Love is only one of many passions.

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.

I feel like people can relate to me because we all go through wins and roadblocks and passion and pain, and it’s a vibe.

Nothing is stopping me from doing what I love to do.

I always thought about working in England because of the kind of football, the intensity of football. Liverpool was first choice.

I cook, I create, I’m incredibly excited by what I do, I’ve still got a lot to achieve.

Our faith is released as we say, pray and do the Word.

There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.

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

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

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

I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.

I have an immense amount of respect for acting. I’ve always loved movies and was always fascinated by movie-making. But to become an actor, I wanted to commit myself.

I want to use my position of leadership to help move along at a faster pace what I believe and know the Obama administration wants to do around the urgency of climate change.

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.

I always loved advertising. If I hadn’t been in fashion, I’d have been in advertising.

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.

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.

In England, football is a big thing to talk about, but Liverpool, it’s a special place. You feel it when you make your first step.

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

It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can’t do anything with that except do it.

I believe in a passion for inclusion.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

I’m in awe of the universe, but I don’t necessarily believe there’s an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance.

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.‘

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.

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.

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

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you’ll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

I’m super serious about music. That’s, like, the only thing I’m serious about.

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.

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