Quotes About Passion

Alan MacDonald

4 million volts course like lovers through her body. Eerie rays eliminate from bulbous cathodes to caress her skin penetrating deep. Also somewhat like lovers, actually. Chemicals so secret they don't even have names and bubbles and spurts in her vein.

Love your rage, not your cage.

I have a love-hate relationship with white silk.

That's how it is with me. I keep burning. I am the burning man.

Most kids grow up wanting to work with animals. There's a good reason for that. The alternative is to work with humans.

Later, in the early teens, I used to ride my bike every Saturday morning to the nearest airport, ten miles away, push airplanes in and out of the hangars, and clean up the hangars.

Whether you are an astronomer or a life scientist, geophysicist, or a pilot, you've got to be there because you believe you are good in your field, and you can contribute, not because you are going to get a lot of fame or whatever when you get back.

This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

The humorist George Ade once said, 'Don't pity the martyrs, they love the work.

My message to anyone who's afraid that they can't write music when they're happy is 'Just trust the passion.' The passion can write a lot of things.

Music will always be a part of my life. I love music and I don't care how many units I sell.

Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it.

My three addictions of choice are food, love and work.

I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing.

My dad, Donald, was a vet and had a practice in Yorkshire. Cats and dogs were his bread and butter, but his greatest love was large animals.

Life is too brief and too rich to tiptoe through half-heartedly, rather than galloping at it with whooping excitement and ambition.

Start small, do what you do with enthusiasm and do it very well. Stick to that and growth will come.

There lives and there leaps in me A love of the lowly things of earth, And a passion to be free. To pitch my tent with no prosy plan, To range and to change at will, To mock at the mastership of man, To seek Adventure's thrill, Carefree to be, as a bird that sings, To go my own sweet way. Robert Service

Ikigai is the overlap of what you want to do, what you ought to do, and what you have to do.

A day working hard on a project I care about is a day well spent. Find something you love. Do it well. Do it a lot.

Madness, yes . . . but heartfelt madness.

I don't think there is anyone I've ever met who has been more passionate about music than me, but rock 'n' roll has never been about just music. It is music, attitude, personality, persona, myth, legend.

Creative instinct is personal.