Quotes About Passion

You should never start a company with the goal of getting rich. Your goal should be making something you believe in and making a company that will last.

The older I get, the more I see how much motivations matter. The Zune was crappy because the people at Microsoft don't really love music or art the way we do. We won because we personally love music.

It is in the body that we exist and work out our salvation. It is in the body that we see and take delight in the beauties of God's created universe, and in the body that we ourselves bear the marks of Christ's passion.

Here, sex is removed from anything real, anything threatening. The parody of sex exhibited in the floor show is intended as an exorcism of the real thing and the passions it implies. Passion is to be made harmless here, turned into something hygienic, sterile, acceptable. Anyone foolish enough to do something genuine, anything worth getting blackmailed over, deserves only what he gets. Reno's

power becomes a slave to passion so easily, and to an unacknowledged passion easiest of all.

Perfection lies in intensity, and what is most intense cannot be endured long.

Art, art of any kind, shows that folks are trying.

You long for a windfall that will let you quit and pursue your great hobby

That is why it is often such a relief when the talk turns from "general topics" to a man's own hobby. It is like turning from the landscape in the parlor to the ploughed field outdoors. It is a return to the three dimensional world, after a sojourn in the painter's portrayal of his own emotional response to his own inattentive memory of what he imagines he ought to have seen.

The most persistent hate is that which doth degenerate from love.

Why did Baudelaire — why does anyone — write poetry, in the teeth of all the evidence that one wants you to do so? No one wants you to write it and having written it in spite of them, no one wants to read it. Above all, no one wants to pay for it. For better or worse, a poem has a hard time turning into a commodity.

Wenn es tatsächlich das Orm war, das diese Bücher so besonders machte, dann war ich süchtig nach diesem Stoff, süchtig nach jeder von ihm gesättigten Zeile. Essen? Nebensache. Waschen? Zeitverschwendung. Nur Lesen, Lesen, Lesen war wichtig.

There are worse things in life than dragons. Falling in love, for instance.

Love makes you blind to your own survival. And if it doesn't then it's not love at all.

Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does.

Most of us are searching-consciously or unconsciously- for a degree of internal balance and harmony between ourselves and the outside world, and if we happen to become aware-like Stravinsky- of a volcano within us, we will compensate by urging restraint. By that same token, someone who bore a glacier within them might urge passionate abandon. The danger is, as Bergman points out, that a glacial personality in need of passionate abandon may read Stravinsky and apply restraint instead.

As I've gone through life, I've found that your chances for happiness are increased if you wind up doing something that is a reflection of what you loved most when you were somewhere between nine and eleven years old

You are actually doing creative work, and you may find what you really want rather than what you thought you wanted.

To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.

One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.

Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening.

Hatreds are the cinders of affection.

La pasión no es negociable.

Con el amor pasional no basta. Se necesita un amor que además de murciélagos en el estómago, sea justo, ético y digno, porque el amor sentimental -per se- no conlleva estas virtudes.