Quotes About Passion

The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't live boldly enough, that they didn't invest enough heart, didn't love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.

The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't live boldly enough, that they didn't invest enough heart, didn't love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.

The Snow Leopard's Tale is a mystical pilgrimage into that wild country where animal passion and the human heart begin to walk the very same trail. Whether one has been in the business of adventuring, as Thomas McIntyre has, or has enjoyed such adventures from the safety of one's armchair, The Snow Leopard's Tale is a haunting, beautifully written, and thought-provoking tale, as all great parables are.

I remember in high school trying to get home from water-polo practice in time so I could see Happy Days on television when it first came on, because I was so blown away by it. It was just such a cool thing.

There could be no picture making," the film director Orson Welles flatly declared, "without pastrami.

I am Classic Rock Revisited. I revisit it every waking moment of my life because it has the spirit and the attitude and the fire and the middle finger. I am Rosa Parks with a Gibson guitar.

The most distinctive quality of artmaking is the investment of the artist's own humanity in the finished piece.

For those who would make art, the basic proposition is crystal clear: finding the work you are meant to do is the central challenge of artmaking — and making that work is the central challenge of life.

A degree in art doesn't automatically make you an artist any more than lacking a degree precludes you from becoming an artist.

That particular passion which caused me to pursue for years on end a journey that others would scarcely contemplate, that many regarded as an act of folly or arrogance, arose out of my own peculiarity. I saw that it would make me a difficult person to live with, just as I knew that without it I could hardly live with myself.

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Far and away the best price that life has to offer is a chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Far and away, the best prize that life has to offer is a chance to work hard at work worth doing.

I have enough love to last me a lifetime! Thank God I'll never lose my imagination and my passion. That's really what it is. I'm still passionate about what I do.

Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect.

I think it's a thing in France, and I think you see it a little bit in Spain with Atletico: the countries and the cities just absolutely love their football. It's not because they're just marketing geniuses; it's because they've made it simple.

I know Spain football very well, because I've always been interested in it, even after I left Spain.

When you face Spain it's not a normal friendly.

I could be in Spain, spending my time playing bad golf; financially I don't need to play snooker. I play because I love it.

I feel like flamenco is part of this Latin music culture. It's from Spain, but flamenco has always been connected to Latinoamerica.

Spain's beautiful.

I'm sad to have left Spain because in my opinion LaLiga is an exceptional, unique and extraordinary league.

I love Villarreal. They are closer to my heart than any other club in Spain.

I think, as musicians, that's really all we want is to keep working. We want to have a reason to be, and we want to play for as many people in this span of life that we're allowed as we possibly can, and in as many places as we possibly can.