Quotes About Passion

I wasn't a smart kid and I still don't think I'm too smart when it comes to book smart, but I was very good with what I knew and with my craft and I think that was my calling in life. But even today I never went to college.

You can teach someone with basic smarts to be smarter; you can't teach cultural fit or personality. But you also want someone who has a passion to win; someone that is all in.

Honestly, my smartest business decision was to never do anything that I didn't love doing.

Some of the smartest people I know are metal fans.

Ever since I was little, I've always liked to smash things.

It is fun to smash guitars.

I wanted to learn how to play guitar so I could smash it up and burn it. I was only a little kid, so that was my incentive.

Respect to the Smashing Pumpkin the Black Key and the King of the Leon. They all have the real heart and work to make the people happy.

My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.

You can't be, like, smashing guitars against Marshall stacks all the time. As a matter of fact, after a while, it just looks like posing - it never really gets down to any message or any real expression.

My brother was a drummer, and he was always, like, smashing the kit around when I was a kid, and my dad was, like, one of them old musicians, and he played in, like, loads of different bands in the '70s and '80s. Him and my brother were kind of like my main inspirations.

I learned how to play guitar by playing along to Jane's Addiction records and Smashing Pumpkins records, things you can totally hear if you listen to my guitar.

I never wanted to leave the Smashing Pumpkins. That was never the plan.

My favourite smell is horses. In fact, most of the time, I do smell like horses.

I like watercolours. I like acrylic paint... a little bit. I like house paint. I like oil-based paint, and I love oil paint. I love the smell of turpentine and I like that world of oil paint very, very, very much.

Hobbies take place in the cellar and smell of airplane glue.

I danced six hours a day. My cross to bear is that my children have no interest in ballet. I think they could smell how much I wanted to put their hair in a bun.

I think passion in a physical way goes hand in hand with taste and smell.

I'm just a huge fan of smells, first of all. I have a bit of an obsession with smells.

You just have to be authentic. You can't fake a smile. You have to do what you actually enjoy.

We all say we enjoy playing rugby, but most guys don't really show it - and some guys I don't think actually enjoy it. So every time I arrive in the morning, I've always got a smile on my face. Once I lose that enjoyment, I will stop playing.

I just sing the stuff that makes me smile, makes me feel like I didn't sell myself out.

Because football is an emotional game, it's full of feeling, and that's why we try to train with a smile on our face. At the same time, we work very hard, but it's a fine line, and you've got to try and get that balance right if you can.

I hated the ballet, but I liked performing. I did 20 shows, and I couldn't get the smile off my face.