Quotes About Passion

Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living.

I love cookery programmes.

I've been making arts programmes for almost 50 years, and every day, I can't believe my luck.

I love writing, and I love making arts programmes.

There was something amazingly enticing about programming.

I have always been making art from an early age but for nearly forty years did computer programming to earn a living. I bought a house and put my wife and three children through college. Now that diversion is over so I can finally paint full time.

Whether you're a programming prodigy or the office manager holding it all together, technology empowers small groups of passionate people with an astonishing degree of leverage to make the world a better place.

My heart has always been in programming and marketing.

So many schools are getting rid of music programs and it's really sad because I know that when I started singing and stuff it was something that I always wanted to do and I never believed in myself to be able to do it.

And after I compose my programs, but it is very easy because I look to the music in a very natural way without fuss, and so I look always music, in my home, like books and books and books, choose books and you read the pages, so I do this with music, and I make programs.

I write my programs primarily for myself.

I wrote a lot. I was in programs for drawing when I was a kid.

I think economics is about passion. Economic progress, whether it is a two-person coffee shop or whether it is Netscape, is about people with brave ideas. Because it is brave to mortgage the house, when you've got two kids, to start a coffee shop.

I don't think it was ever a conscious decision to go into musical theatre. It just felt like the natural progression.

I knew that my career in dance would come to an end at some point, and transitioning into a career in fitness was a natural progression.

I don't know if I'm so much fueled by trying to one-up myself so much as passionate about coming up with new and greater challenges. I don't see it as a contest, but as a natural progression.

I can't remember the first song I learned to play on bass, but the first song I learned to play on guitar was 'For Your Love' by the Yardbirds. That kind of was the beginning for me. I thought it was a great song and I loved the open chord progression at the beginning of that song.

I kept going because I just love football. But you get to the point where you're not getting the rewards or seeing any progression and that knocks your enthusiasm. That's why I decided to come to Oxford.

I have all the patience in the world about Sirens. For me it's not a Grateful Dead project, it's a Me project.

All the work that I do, whether or not it ends up being commercially successful or not, feels like the most important thing to me while I'm doing it. I try to take something away from every project, and so they all feel like milestones for one reason or another.

You never undertake a project because you think other people will like it - because that way lies madness - but rather because you believe in it.

If I do a certain number of ads, I have to do a personal project in between, just for my own sanity. I still consider myself a punk-rock kid.

I'm choosy to a fault. You want to hold out for a project that means something. You're the one who's there working fifteen hours a day, and if you don't believe in it, it can feel a whole lot longer.

Just doing a project because it's an opportunity won't create meaning. As an artist, I need something to communicate.