Quotes About Passion

The real actor - like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affection or grief has humanized the soul.

I care. I care a lot. I think of "Cosmopolitan" all day, and I run scared. So it's a combination of fright, caring, and anxiety.

Art is a staple, like bread or wine or a warm coat in winter. Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.

God respects me when I work, but loves me when I sing.

We all have music inside us, and can learn how to get it out, one way or another.

An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts.

Beauty is an ecstacy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it.

Let the beauty you love be what you do. There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the earth.

Love is a madness; if thwarted it develops fast.

What is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice.

Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs; Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; Being vex'd a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears: What is it else? a madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet.

One of the worst forms of mental suffering is boredom, not knowing what to do with oneself and one's life. Even if man had no monetary, or any other reward, he would be eager to spend his energy in some meaningful way because he could not stand the boredom which inactivity produces.

Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Nothing is interesting if you're not interested.

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

Getting bored is not allowed.

Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind . . . more deeply. But it does not look as if it did.

A belief which does not spring from a conviction in the emotions is no belief at all.

He that rides his hobby gently must always give way to him that rides his hobby hard.

Nothing of worthy or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a faint heart, and with a lame endeavor.

It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regard to problems about which the thinker is lukewarm.

Sometimes success is due less to ability than zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work body and soul.