Quotes About Passion

As Susan Kare, designer of the original Mac interface, said, "You can't really decide to paint a masterpiece. You just have to think hard, work hard, and try to make a painting that you care about. Then, if you're lucky, your work will find an audience for whom it's meaningful.

If you're trying to persuade the tribe at work to switch from one strategy to the other, don't start with the leader of the opposition. Begin instead with the passionate individuals who haven't been embraced by other tribes yet. As you add more and more people like these, your option becomes safer and more powerful—then you'll see the others join you.

You are not your résumé. You are your work.

Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator.

So a leader can help increase the effectiveness of the tribe and its members by • transforming the shared interest into a passionate goal and desire for change; • providing tools to allow members to tighten their communications; and • leveraging the tribe to allow it to grow and gain new members.

the proven truth about creativity: it's the result of desire—the desire to find a new truth, solve an old problem, or serve someone else.

It's important that they developed the habit of identity. When they looked in the mirror, they saw themselves as musicians, as artists, as people who had committed to a journey.

If you need to be authentic to do your best work, you're not a professional, you're a fortunate amateur.

It's easy to get confused in our quest to build something that matters.

Thomas Hawk is the most successful digital photographer in the world. He has taken tens of thousands of pictures, on his way to his goal of taking a million in his lifetime. The

The moment you are willing to sell your time for money is the moment you cease to be the artist you're capable of being.

We need original thinkers, provocateurs, and people who care. We need marketers who can lead, salespeople able to risk making a human connection, passionate change makers willing to be shunned if it is necessary for them to make a point. Every organization needs a linchpin, the one person who can bring it together and make a difference. Some organizations haven't realized this yet, or haven't articulated it, but we need artists.

The passion wasn't in making the money—it was in making a difference, solving a problem, creating a change that would help millions.

Stop settling for what's good enough and start creating art that matters

Like madness is the glory of this life.

Thou wouldst as soon go kindle fire with snow as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

The labor we delight in physics pain.

What showers arise, blown with the windy tempest of my heart

Love is begun by time and time qualifies the spark and fire of it.

The one I love is the son of the one I hate! -Juliet p. 75

would you dare to love me?

Sá»± si mê c?a Ä'àn ông tàn l?i nhanh hÆ¡n nhan s?c Ä'àn bà

It wasn't an itch. It was a sickness. It was poison blazing through him, thinking of her all the time, watching her, touching her, wanting and wanting and wanting until his mind went black.

Something inside his chest unlocked--wildly, slowly, a peculiar sort of melting. He was lost. He was the thorn and the thistle, blown upon her breeze. He felt, strangely enough, staring into her yes, like he was going to weep.