Quotes About Passion

I always knew I'd be in music in some sort of capacity. I didn't know if I'd be successful at it, but I knew I'd be doing something in it. Maybe get a job in a record store. Maybe even play in a band. I never got into this to be a star.

Besides his physique, his defining characteristic was that he owned more than 100 pairs of tights and nearly 100 pairs of boots and would color match them to the sports team in whatever city he wrestled in.

Love for him compels us to live for him.

You taught us to … Love passionately, Forgive completely, Pray fervently, Work happily, Worship reverently, Serve sacrificially, Eat healthily, Laugh heartily, Live fully.

I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live. -Martin Luther King

Do you remember why you started playing?" "Why does anybody play? ... Are you a musician?" "Yes. ... Yes, I am." ... "Then you know why I play." ... "Because your spirit has to sing. Every musician's heart bears a song from the Creator, and he spends his life trying to duplicate it as an act of worship.

Do you want to have sex? I think we should have sex. CASUAL sex.

The qualities of an exceptional cook are akin to those of a successful tightrope walker: an abiding passion for the task, courage to go out on a limb and an impeccable sense of balance.

The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love.

Our understanding of the world around us is constantly being redefined and expanded, and so therefore, it is wiser to be passionate about seeking for truth than knowing it.

True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living.

I can't believe how fast 20 years went by. I mean, this is crazy ... To be standing here, standing on the court with my teammates behind me, and appreciate this journey that we've been along... I grew up a die-hard--I mean it--a die-hard Laker fan. Die-hard. I mean, I knew everything about every player that had played here. So, to be drafted, and then traded to this organization, and to spend 20 years here, I mean, you can't write something better than this.

Enthusiasm is the energy and force that builds literal momentum of the human soul and mind.

Genius is always accompanied by enthusiasm.

The secret of life is to find out what one really wants.

Writers never retire. They just keep on writing, long after everyone else has stopped reading.

Whether it's horses or whatever it is you do, it doesn't become an art until your soul goes into what you do.

When you first get started, you're the only one with a vision. When you become creative and use your imagination, pretty soon the things you imagined, you can get done. If you got a taste of it, if you got a taste of what I'm talking about, you'd rather do that than eat. You couldn't get enough of it. You'll hunger for it the rest of your life.

The minute you choose to do what you really want to do, it's a different kind of life.

The journey of individuation is in this sense a continuous coming home to ourselves that gives us the ongoing courage to face the suffering involved in allowing our buried talents to emerge, and to realize the innate wisdom within us—that can only be forged by the fires of feelings and passion that bring our soul to an inner glow.

Nize baby, et op all de screenplay.

Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.

Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.

Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train.