Quotes About Passion

Every time I was cast in a role, the director put a gun in my hand, so I figured I'd better learn how to use one. Then I found out I really liked it.

First of all, what happens is, when you're good at something, you spend a lot of time with it. People identify you with that sport, so it becomes part of your identity.

Going on stage and doing ballet, for the first time, was even more verification of, "This is what I'm meant to do. This is what I'm going to do. I'm going to make it somehow."

I haven't stopped playing. If you play all the time, then your chops are up and you tend to grow.

Long, flat expanses of professionalism bother me. I'd rather have a band that could explode at any time.

I run to be known as the greatest runner, the greatest of all time. I could not eat or sleep for a week after I lost in the (1992) Olympics. I have to win or die.

If biking is your passion, set aside time to enjoy a good ride.

In art one is concerned with the condition of the spirit for three quarters of the time; one must therefore care for oneself if he wishes to make something great and lasting.

I was a dreamer. When I was on stage I didn't have to think about whether I could pay the rent. I was just having a great time.

Having the savvy to know what you want to say, how you want to say it, and what music you want to say it over comes with time spent and wisdom gained in a music career.

I think it's time for me to get out, because at the moment I'm only thinking about fishing 21 hours a day, and they're the waking moments. And even when I close my eyes I'm thinking about it.

Whatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being - musician, poet, director, author, lecturer or anything else.

I used to have to save my allowances to buy a quart of rubber to make a mask, and it's how I spent all my free time.

Fifty per cent of rock is having a good time.

Even now, I want to keep my amateur spirit, to spend my time, to be in the sport with all my heart.

I don't want to spend all my time working as an activist. I don't get satisfaction out of it. I'd rather be doing something else. I'm a musician.

I feel like you only have so much time to make stuff. I'm definitely aware of that. I'm also excited about it.

I dedicated all the time I had to it. The 10 hour workout was just what I put in the magazine at the time, but for me it was every waking moment.

I liked to read but, being a dancer, I didn't have a lot of time to read.

Ive been playing swing chords for a long time.

It's time to discuss what it's going to take to get you beneath me"-GC

I play the living hell out of my guitars daily, and as sure as the sun rises in the east, killer licks, ideas, grooves, patterns and songs erupt every time.

Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didn't have much time for anything else.

My first gig, I was about 17 or 18. But I'd been singing a long time. I got a guitar when I was 8, and started trying to write songs as a teenager.