Quotes About Passion

I was focused on either being a social worker or physiotherapist. That was the direction I was going until I met a girl who wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to be close to the girl, so I followed her into an audition.

I knew I'm a hard worker and always wanted to be great at this game.

I was in Nicaragua with the Sandinistas. I've argued for Leonard Peltier, Mumia Abu-Jamal, the United Farm Workers. I've been a radical for a long time. I guess it's too bad. I'd be more marketable as a right-wing redneck. But I got into this to tell the truth as I saw it.

True idealists are rare; they are the dedicated workers, who would, if need be, die at the stake.

It's either join the workforce or become a professional athlete, and I'd rather be a pro athlete.

Grit, in a word, is stamina. But it's not just stamina in your effort. It's also stamina in your direction, stamina in your interests. If you are working on different things but all of them very hard, you're not really going to get anywhere. You'll never become an expert.

In a perfect world, I would be a painter. I love working with my hands. I don't get to do it as much as I like, but I am finding a way to make more time as life goes on because it's a really great outlet for me to express myself.

I don't very much distinguish when I'm working. I do what I like to do: the time changes and my activity changes.

People want to start their own business or become financially independent. But you don't end up a successful entrepreneur unless you find a way to love the risk, the uncertainty, the repeated failures, and working insane hours on something you have no idea whether will be successful or not.

Inside, I've got a real purist desire and dream about the music. I like the idea of being able to carve out a kind of magical, colourful, artistic, inspirational life. And the reality just turns out to be quite different, working with the business to bring this thing you have created into the world.

There's no pleasure in working if you don't do the things you want to do.

Working, for me, is like a gift.

Work begets work. Just work. If you work, people will find out about you and want to work with you if you're good. So work anywhere you can. That's why I've changed my mind about these theatres where people work for free or have to pay money. I think it's kind of terrible that they feel they have to, but you know what? They're working.

I only live in my music, and I have scarcely begun one thing when I start on another. As I am now working, I am often engaged on three or four things at the same time.

I don't use any techniques; I'm not trained to be an actor. I just enjoy working in films.

'Aashiq' is a romantic film, even though my character is a rather aggressive guy. You could even call it an intense romance. And working with Indra Kumar has been an excellent experience. He is a great director.

I am so lucky to be working in a field that you never grow tired of.

When you go see a good DJ, you'll know it, man - you'll know it in your bones. Between the guy who's phoning it in and the guy who's obsessively working it to give you the best show of his life.

I don't do something I won't enjoy just for the money. I do it for the fun, for the joy of working.

It is when I am working that the real me comes out - that is when I am the most real and honest.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

Sitting in a rocker never appealed to me. Golf or fishing isn't as much fun as working.

There'd be days when I wouldn't eat at all because I'd be in the basement working all day.

I don't see much difference between living and working. I think living is a part of my work. People often say, 'How can you work so much?' I don't think about it as work. I think of it as a way to live.