Quotes About Passion

When I was in college, I was debating to try my hand at show business, or to become a professor. I just thought of the risk of not going into show business and always wondering if I would've had a chance. Because that's where my real heart was.

When your hobbies get in the way of your work - that's OK but when your hobbies get in the way of themselves... well.

You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.

I wrote a thousand songs a day.

Passion requires focused direction, and that direction must come from three other areas: your purpose, your talents, and your needs.

Hard work is painful when life is devoid of purpose. But when you live for something greater than yourself and the gratification of your own ego, then hard work becomes a labor of love.

When you live for a strong purpose, then hard work isn't an option. It's a necessity.

Passion and purpose go hand in hand. When you discover your purpose, you will normally find it's something you're tremendously passionate about.

Cold allowed precision, heat threw caution aside and plunged in rampantly. Cold was the process of deliberation and planning, heat the result of unbridled passion. Passion was fine, but only when controlled and channeled properly.

To do anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.

To give anything less than your best is to give away the gift.

To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the Gift.

I believe you have inside you a core genius… some one thing that you love to do, and do so well, that you hardly feel like doing anything else. It's effortless for you and a whole lot of fun. And if you could make money doing it, you'd make it your lifetime's work. Successful people believe this, too. That's why they put their core genius first. They focus on it—and delegate everything else to other people on their team.

There is always the temptation in life to diddle around making itsy-bitsy friends and meals and journeys for years on end. It is all so self-conscious, so apparently moral…. I won't have it. The world is wilder than that in all directions, more dangerous … more extravagant and bright. We are making hay when we should be making whoopee; we are raising tomatoes when we should be raising Cain, or Lazarus.

Jeffrey Meyers' Modigliani: A Life,

A passion in life, is a passion for life.

Favored Nations is a long-term commitment. Our hope is that those who are passionate about real musicianship will want to hear and own most of our albums. We will set out to attain the same direct relationship with our customers that we have with our artists.

What did grown men see in the rattle of sticks, the slashing of steel over ice and hockey sweaters worn way beyond funk?

It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.

My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.

If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it's within your reach. And it'll be worth every minute you spend alone at night, thinking and thinking about what it is you want to design or build. It'll be worth it, I promise.

You should try fighting for what you believe in sometime, Jack. Not for a company, or a nation, or for anyone else.

Art is edited truth . . . Art is skill in the service of passion. —STEPHEN SONDHEIM

I don't hold that everybody has to love fashion. Some people like gardening.