Quotes About Passion

Interest is never enough. If it doesn't haunt you, you'll never write it well. What haunts and obsesses you may, with luck and labour, interest your readers. What merely interests you is sure to bore them. (from Workbook)

Boredom is the laboratory where new enthusiasms prepare themselves,

Two Arts degrees does not a life make.

Legendary innovators like Franklin, Snow, and Darwin all possess some common intellectual qualities—a certain quickness of mind, unbounded curiosity—but they also share one other defining attribute. They have a lot of hobbies.

Fulfillment—the Third Ingredient Essential to Producing Passion. Fulfillment is the third ingredient necessary to produce a passion. The good news is that you don't have to do anything extra to develop this ingredient. It happens automatically as you complete each step toward your dream. Each time you complete a task, step, or goal, you think to yourself, "Wow! I did it! I'm that much

If we are hunting the highest version of ourselves, then we need to turn work into play and not the other way round. Unless we invert this equation, much of our capacity for intrinsic motivation starts to shut down. We lose touch with our passion and become less than what we could be and that feeling never really goes away.

The great civil rights leader Howard Thurman once said, "Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive. Because what the world needs most is more people who have come alive.

This is what the self-help books don't tell you. Fully alive and deeply committed is a risky business. Once you strip away the platitudes, a life of passion and purpose will always cost, as T. S. Eliot reminds us, "Not less than everything.

project undertaken or a product built not solely to fulfill some constructive goal, but with some wild pleasure taken in mere involvement, was called a "hack.

Burrell Smith, the designer of the Macintosh computer, said it as well as anyone in one of the sessions at the first Hacker Conference: "Hackers can do almost anything and be a hacker. You can be a hacker carpenter. It's not necessarily high tech. I think it has to do with craftsmanship and caring about what you're doing.

Hackers can do almost anything and be a hacker. You can be a hacker carpenter. It's not necessarily high tech. I think it has to do with craftsmanship and caring about what you're doing.

For what is genius, I ask you, but the capacity to be obsessed? ...We have all been geniuses, you and I; but sooner or later it is beaten out of us, the glory faded, and by the age of seven most of us are nothing but wretched little adults.

PAUL GAUGUIN, 1891 (Illustration credit 34.1)

The fire in the belly is essential, otherwise you become Michael Buble - famous and meaningless.

We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.

Of any activity you do, ask yourself: If I were the last person on earth, would I still do it?

Nero wanted only to be an actor; Commodus, to be a gladiator; and young Antoninus Ã¢â'¬Â¦ to be Venus!

It all starts with the script: it's not worth taking myself away from my family if I don't have something I'm really passionate about.

I get that same queasy, nervous, thrilling feeling every time I go to work. That's never worn off since I was 12 years-old with my dad's 8-millimeter movie camera.

I'm not really interested in making money.

Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to and I see another movie I want to make.

I don't dream at night, I dream all day. I dream for a living.

Grundy HATE Nazis! Grundy hate EVERYONE!

Rock n' roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests brotherhood, family, friendship and community.