Quotes About Passion

I think the fun of following the movie box office and stocks is very similar to the fun of sports - all three combine passion and unpredictability.

Passion and true passion is actually very unpredictable. It heads in unexpected directions because it's constantly seeking out new challenges. But what's really interesting is that passion ultimately is necessary for sustained extreme performance improvement.

There are no limits to what I would do to make my classes exciting, interesting, unpredictable.

What I've discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and you need something bold, something savage, unpredictable, passionate. You can't really run a two-hour opera round some muted murmuring.

I let the song come to me. Then that thing comes to you, and you just know what that thing is. Music isn't like a 9-to-5 job. You never know. It's just the most unpredictable thing.

My thing is whatever comes at me, I'm there. But DJ-ing and music is my passion... I'm going to be unpredictable.

I don't develop anything. I don't practice, I don't rehearse. I just go out there, and it's just amazing and unpredictable and spontaneous every single time. It's the most cultivating incredible performance that you can go and see live for the amount of money that you can see it for.

Love fills your heart and breaks your heart; it's so unpredictable, you don't know where it's going to come from.

You can't go into the cage and not love it, and you can't go in there unprepared. You have to prepare.

I'm unqualified to do anything other than music.

I'm not good at many things. But I really like songwriting, and I get a good reaction from it. There's not much that I do that causes a good reaction, so it feels like if I want to have good things happen, then I should do the things I'm good at. I mean, in all seriousness, I left school at 15. I'm unqualified to do anything else.

I have never done any other job. I have sung in bands since I was 15. I left school completely unqualified. I have no other training.

I love music with a violence and a fury that feels unqualified.

Starbucks is in my blood. It is such a part of me that letting it unravel simply was not an option.

My parents lived, breathed, ate and slept theatre. Emotions were right on the surface. Growing up, the unreal had as much importance as the real.

We all want to experience that in our lives - a moment when we're two feet off the ground - and making movies gives you that opportunity. It comes and it goes so fast that it's unreal, but it does happen.

Kobe's dedication to the game is unreal. And I mean that in the truest sense... it was literally unbelievable.

I really enjoy working. I really enjoy telling stories. I really enjoy acting. The idea that I would have a baby and stop doing that was unrealistic to me.

I didn't know what my passion was until I discovered the dramatic arts in junior high and high school and I realized, 'Oh, I like this. This is something I feel like I'm good at.' But, the idea of moving to Hollywood and becoming an actor was really unrealistic.

I always knew I wanted to act but I was really afraid to desire something that seemed so unrealistic and a long shot. I was a kid memorizing entire movies and TV episodes but I didn't take it seriously until I was about 19. Then I moved to New York and took it head on.

At about age 25 I had a bit of a quarter-life crisis and expected to be at a certain place by then, which was unrealistic to some extent. I used to have a lot of passion for interior design but I somehow lost it along the way, and so fashion was what I thought to be a new beginning, but in the end it just solidified the love I have for design.

Honestly, I never dreamed of being a writer; it felt too unrealistic to even dream about.

We are trying to make football so pure and sterile it becomes unrealistic.

Be unreasonable, follow your passion.