Quotes About Passion

I really like doing good work and working with good people - that's the thing that drives me.

Acting is one industry that is very difficult to plan for. I'd like to continue to do good work.

I always want to do good work and enjoy doing it.

I am waiting for some good work to come my way - whether it's TV or films... As long as it catches my interest, I will take it.

I'm ready to do good work in good films.

If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That's what I've done.

My writing has always been more out of the need to write a movie rather than me being a good writer.

I never wanted to be a celebrity writer. I wanted to be a good writer. I'm still trying to be a good writer. That's what gets me out of bed in the morning.

Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.

Music is the heart of life. She speaks love; without it, there is no possible good and with it everything is beautiful.

I love you sometimes foolishly and at these moments I do not understand that I could not, would not, and should not be so absorbing a thought for you as you are for me...

For a whole fortnight my mind and my fingers have been working around me like two lost souls. Homer, the Bible, Plato, Locke, Byron, Hugo, Lamertine, Chateaubriand, Beethoven, Bach, Hummel, Mozart, Weber are all around me. I study them, meditate on them, devour them with fury; besides this, I practise four to five hours a day of exercises (thirds, sixths, octaves, tremolos, repetition of notes, cadenzas, etc.). Ah! provided I don't go mad you will find me an artist!

I am in the world only for the purpose of composing.

For long years I felt torn between the greatest grief and the greatest love. . . . Whenever I attempted to sing of love, it turned to pain. And again, when I tried to sing of pain, it turned to love. Thus were love and pain divided in me.

Laura n'a jamais dissimulé ni différé le moindre de ses sentiments. Si Laura aime quelqu'un, elle l'embrasse, si Laura boit, elle est ivre, et elle le dit, si elle s'emmerde, elle quitte la table au milieu du repas, en disant qu'elle s'emmerde, et si elle veut tuer quelqu'un, elle le tue. Et elle le tue elle-même, et elle dit pourquoi!

The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's hunger meet.

Vocation is the place where our deep gladness meets the world's deep need.

The place to which God calls you is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.

By and large a good rule for finding out is this: the kind of work God usually calls you to is the kind of work a) that you need most to do and b) the world most needs to have done. If you really get a kick out of your work, you've presumably met requirement a), but if your work is writing TV deodorant commercials, the chances are you've missed requirement b).

The place God calls us to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.

Vocation is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.

words spoken in deep love or deep hate set things in motion within the human heart that can never be reversed.

To find our calling is to find the intersection between our own deep gladness and the world's deep hunger.

Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.