Quotes About Passion

Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Only give me the chance to do my very best!

You're obviously capable of achieving a lot, but ability can never take the place of desire. Don't be tempted to do something just because you can. That's what got you off course in the first place.

Scanners can't choose one direction. It's like telling a parent to choose one child to feed. It's just not possible. A parent knows she has to feed all her children. And a Scanner must find a way to follow every path that interests her.

You can earn a living doing anything. (Whether or not you want to is another matter.) But it's not time to think about money yet. Finding what you love – by listening for those Happiness Levels inside you – needs all your attention. For now, pretend you're rich and don't need to earn any money at all. When your dream starts to show itself, you'll see just how many ways there are to do it, both for money and for love.

What you're really supposed to be doing is whatever makes your heart sing.

Doing what you love isn't a priviledge; it's an obligation.

Find out what you love. Do it because you love it. Stick with it. Start now.

Every time you worry that you could get trapped in some kind of work you don't care about, you're dealing with the problem of meaningfulness. I guarantee that in the back of your mind is the thought that somehow you have to make a contribution to something, be acknowledged, do something that matters--or you're just fooling around.

You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.

This feeling is the cause of every Scanner's unexpected ending. The dread of being locked away from their main source of energy and joy—learning, discovering, sleuthing, creating—makes Scanners pull back from every job or project, no matter how hard they try to stay.

How would it feel to forget about finding your big passion and enjoy the delightful fact that you can learn anything you like and your life will be filled with variety and excitement?

You might find the perfect combination of all your interests and have a very enjoyable career. Or you might discover that what you really love is learning itself.

A scholar is someone who sticks to things. A poet is someone who uses whatever sticks to him.

People who aren't interested in anything are people who can't stop protecting their enthusiasm.

When your intentions are deep and compelling, and your commitment strong and inflexible, you're more

Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work ... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.

In my opinion, moderation is a vastly overrated virtue, particularly when applied to work

Elizabeth studied the blurry tabloid photo, which showed her cousin Mary Stuart leaving a Paris disco at dawn, drunkenly clinging to the arm of a French tennis pro. The message was very clear. Put passion first and you end up neither loved nor respected.

Life is too short to be so circumspect.

Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as "the most flagrant of all passions.

If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us!" lamented Samuel Coleridge. "But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern which shines only on the waves behind us." The image is beautiful but

Everything interested him and everything excited him.

To plunge into passionate dispute over the trivialities of so-called honor is a queerer but not uncommon gambit of men who have just come from putting their lives at stake in serious combat,

Inventive rhetoric is characteristic of true believers.