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Quotes About Passion

I want to be a great actor someday, and I've decided there's no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
~ Al Pacino
If you can't make art, make your life a work of art.
~ Andre Malraux
You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.
~ Anna Quindlen
Acting is what I love to do. I wouldn't trade it for the world. I don't think of it as work. It's really fun for me.
~ Dakota Fanning
I think directing is part play, part work, not just all work, because I think you always have to play. I think that's ultimately why I got into making movies, is because I love to play.
~ Marc Forster
The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
~ Jerry Garcia
I work for enjoyment and satisfaction - not just to earn a living.
~ Louise Hay
In my work, I'm passionate about trying different things and being okay if I mess up. Now I'm trying to bring that into my own life.
~ Rowan Blanchard
As a struggling actor, youre not looking for parts that define you; youre just looking for work.
~ Matt Damon
I'm used to working hard. Theater can be very grueling, and that's all I've ever known. It's what I've done for 20 years, which is crazy.
~ Sutton Foster
Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
~ Maxim Gorky
Work to me has become kind of a hobby. I was a part of something that gave me financial independence and the rent is paid. Now it's just about projects that turn me on.
~ Matt LeBlanc
Designing is my hobby. If I didn't do what I do for a living - at some point when I don't do this for a living - I'll probably just do design work. I love finding really special pieces of furniture.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
Work ... has always been my favorite form of recreation.
~ Anna Howard Shaw
You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.
~ Orison Swett Marden
I get up every morning with a desire to do some creative work. This desire is made of the same stuff as the sexual desire, the desire to make money, or any other desire.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
Most important, for openers, work six hours a day, seven days a week for six years. Then if you like it you can get serious about it.
~ Alex Katz
It's not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It's whether or not our work fulfills us. Being a teacher is meaningful.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
The runner must be a fanatic for hard work and enthusiastic enough to enjoy it.
~ Franz Stampfl
I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.
~ Claude Monet
When I work I do it from my heart. And my heart is that I bring love to the world. When I travel around the world I bring my love. I bring so much love in my heart. I hope you can feel that.
~ Jackie Chan
Bangalore needs a honest, passionate and hard-working MP, and I will be that MP.
~ Nandan Nilekani
Probably one of the reasons I don't work in the mainstream anymore is that I'm only interested in making the stuff I want to make
~ Chris Cunningham
What is right? Simply put, it is any assignment in which the photographer has a significant spiritual stake...spiritually driven work constitutes the core of a photographer's contribution to culture.
~ William Albert Allard