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Quotes About Passion

When I work I forget all the rest.
~ Claude Monet
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
~ Napoleon Hill
I work because I enjoy what I'm doing, and the fact that I make money at it - big money - is a fine-and-dandy side fact.
~ Johnny Carson
Nothing is so much fun as business. I do not expect to do anything but work as long as I can stand up.
~ William Wrigley, Jr.
I'm an artist. Artists don't need permission to work. Regardless of whether I'm acting or not, I write. I write when I'm tired in fact, because I believe your most pure thoughts surface.
~ Chadwick Boseman
Find people who think like you and stick with them. Make only music you are passionate about. Work only with people you like and trust. Don't sign anything.
~ Steve Albini
It's surprising how hard we'll work when the work is done just for ourselves.
~ Bill Watterson
Inspiration and work ethic - they ride right next to each other.
~ Jack White
I like a challenge. I need to feel passionate about something. If I'm not passionate about it, I can't stand it. It has to feel real. DJ'ing, touring, charity work - anything.
~ Tiesto
Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.
~ A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Lessons didn't really work out for me, so I went to the old school, listening to records and learning what I wanted to learn.
~ Dimebag Darrell
This really is a merger of equals. I wouldn't have come back to work for anything less than this fantastic opportunity. This lets me combine my two great loves - technology and biscuits.
~ Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
Work like you don't need the money.
~ Joseph Joubert
Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it.
~ Sean Lennon
The more connected you are to the work, the better it is.
~ Jesse Peyronel
It is already a great thing if the main ideas and general outline of a work come without any racking of brains, as the result of that supernatural and inexplicable force we call inspiration.
~ Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Art is rare and sacred and hard work, and there ought to be a wall of fire around it.
~ Anthony Burgess
If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.
~ Katharine Hepburn
In every story I have heard, good teachers share one trait: a strong sense of personal identity infuses their work.
~ Parker J. Palmer
In a sense, as we are creative beings, our lives become our work of art.
~ Julia Cameron
All grand thoughts come from the heart.
~ Luc de Clapiers
Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do.
~ David Hockney
Anyone can achieve something important. Contrary to popular belief, the key is not hard work, but finding the right thing to achieve.
~ Ernie J Zelinski
The way I see it, you can either work for a living or you can fly airplanes. Me, I'd rather fly.
~ Len Morgan