Quotes About Passion

It all went to hell when attacking what we hate became more important than defending what we love.

Falling in love is like jumping off a really tall building. Your brain tells you it is not a good idea, but your heart tells you, you can fly.

This time . . . It's personal.

I wanted to be a professional drummer.

I just want to be a professional. I couldn't live without acting.

You can decide at 17 that you want to be a professional player. In Argentina, they start very young. They go to school in the morning and then do polo in the afternoon.

I wasn't really interested in girls. Only football. I was just enjoying football all the time. There was a five-a-side next to the flat, and I used to play there all the time. It was all about football. I wanted to be a professional. That was my goal. I didn't want to be anything other than a footballer.

It is important to be passionate, but it is also important to combine the heart and the head. I have made mistakes in both my private and professional lives.

I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.

If there was no fame involved and very minimal money - which is the case for most actors - I'd still be doing it. If I wasn't good enough to be a professional, I'd be an amateur actor.

Well, first of all, they're all about the music and all I care about in my professional career is the music.

For a long time, I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up. I was desperate to find something that fit me and I just decided that if I could organically make a professional living out of the things that interested me, then I would be a happy person.

I'm not a professional; I lack even basic knowledge about writing music.

I had a fantastic career. I loved being a professional athlete.

As a child I wanted to be a professional athlete or lawyer.

I think that becoming a successful rock band is a little like becoming a professional athlete. Nobody plans on it.

Not everyone wants to go to school. Some guys might be blessed with being 6'10 and running and jumping better than anybody, so they want to be a professional athlete. There's nothing wrong with that.

My dream was always to be a professional athlete.

Being a Diva, you're a professional athlete and then you get to entertain. It's the best of every aspect, all in one. That's why I fell in love with it.

I always wanted to be a professional athlete and really did not necessarily care which sport.

I am so blessed that all I've done in my professional life, since I was 17-18, is play music and somehow make a dollar here and there.

My professional life shouldn't be an influence on whether I spend time at home. My career is my whole life's blood. It's my calling.

Steppenwolf has always been at the center of everything in my professional life.

I never believed - or knew for sure - if I would be able to make a professional life in music. But it turned out that way.