Quotes About Passion

Girls who kiss boys, girls who date them, girls who call them on the phone... that's all they do. There are other things I want to do.

Life is not tried it is merely survived when you're standing outside the fire

We ain't got time for a goddamn poetry recital. An' your juices feel like rain on the inferno? What the fuck is that, is that from the letter you wrote to penthouse?

What I want now is what I've always wanted.

Music doesn't have a bedtime,

Faster, the wind presses against my face as I run, faster, I feel my heart beating wildly and I bark twice to tell him, to tell everyone in the world, to say faster! I bark twice so he knows, so he remembers. What I want now is what I've always wanted. One more lap, Denny! One more lap! Faster!

I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.

That's the Teacher Gene at work, giving its bearer an extra sense. It's a little frightening. Maybe that's how people decide to become teachers. They have that extra sense, and once they have it, and know that they have it, they don't have any choice except to become a teacher.

You know how teachers are. If they get you to take out a book they love too, they're yours for life.

When we're in the thrall of a healthy passion, we experience a magical melding of effort and enjoyment. Formidable obstacles become intriguing puzzles, and minor wins, badges of accomplishment. We are most alive when we're doing something that enchants us. Sadly, for most people, that something isn't found at work.

These higher-order capabilities are the products of passion, of a commitment to something that inspires us, something outside ourselves that needs and deserves the best of who we are. Initiative, creativity, and valor can't be commanded. They are gifts. Every employee gets to decide, "Do I bring these gifts to work today, or not?" and as the Gallup data suggests, the answer is usually "no" and, sometimes, "hell, no.

I believe that the best candidate for an essential "something" in democratic socialism is the ethical passion for social justice and radical democratic community. This ethical impulse retains the original socialist idea in multiple forms, playing out in struggles for freedom, equality, recognition, and democratic commonwealth, conceiving democracy in terms of the character of relationships in a society, not mere voting rights.

Live each day to the fullest!

If a man is to have a fault, it should be a passionate one, like insatiable curiosity. It would be a pity to be damned for something paltry.

Find a job you love and make a difference.

7. Be willing to do whatever it takes to get the job done. If your job doesn't excite you enough to follow this principle, resign and find a job you love enough to do what it takes.

You must be single-minded. Drive for the one thing on which you have decided." —General George S. Patton

Passion for something leads to disproportionate time practicing or working at it. That time spent eventually translates to skill, and when skill improves, results improve. Better results generally lead to more enjoyment, and more passion and more time is invested. It can be a virtuous cycle all the way to extraordinary results.

The reason we shouldn't pursue balance is that the magic never happens in the middle; magic happens at the extremes.

purpose-driven priority.

It's important for you to accept this instead of fighting it. Oscar-winning filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola warns us that "anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos." In other words, get used to it and get over it.

This is the story line for extraordinary success stories. Passion for something leads to disproportionate time practicing or working at it. That time spent eventually translates to skill, and when skill improves, results improve. Better results generally lead to more enjoyment, and more passion and more time is invested. It can be a virtuous cycle all the way to extraordinary results.

giving the best you have to become the best you can be at your most important work.

Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it." —George Halas