Quotes About Passion

Work at something you enjoy and that's worthy of your time and talent.

My father didn't think running was sensible. He told me running is just wasting time.

Every person is born with a talent, and happiness depends on discovering that talent in time.

To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art.

I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling.

I fight to take a good photograph every single time.

If the choice is between buying another building or a Pollock, I'd go for the Pollock every time.

I've been lucky enough to have had the luxury of being able to make the picture I've wanted to make each time on my own terms and without compromise.

I just wanted to get back to playing attacking football after my time in Italy. It was a little difficult at first but the atmosphere and the fans were just fantastic.

I don't listen to music for fun. I ain't got enough time for fun! I'm always busy writing my own music. I don't try to compete or see what other people are doing.

We still spend more time chasing funds than we do in the studio in creative work.

When I perform Strauss, it is as if the music fits me like a glove. My voice seems to lie in a happy area in this music, which is lyrical and passionate at the same time.

And at the same time, I had my very first concert at the age of 16. I hadn't heard a symphony orchestra before, and I was so deeply impressed I said I have to be a conductor.

But I loved the theatre and I was just doing theatre 24/7 and kept dropping courses because I didn't have the time and the chancellor thought that wasn't a good idea after awhile.

I don't make demos. I don't have the interest or the energy or the time.

Really try to find a job where it's fun to get up and get out the door, no matter what time.

I think people ought to do what they feel useful at the time. If I do things because I ought to do them, I switch off.

I can never leave a bookstore without buying a book. I read four or five at a time.

My career came together very quickly. I only trained for four years before I became a professional, so I didn't have a lot of time to sit back and be inspired before I took my first ballet class.

Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody and words, it's pleasure, but you don't get wiped out.

I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time.

With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

It's time to start really writing some stuff, and I really wanted to write some stuff in the vein of the original Misfits, and this was really the first step in that direction.

If you were starving and had all the time in the world, would you stop eating the greatest slice of cake on earth halfway through? Then why would you quit on your dreams?