Quotes About Passion

Man is happy only as he finds work worth doing - and does it well

I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.

The product of the head, heart and hand is a thing to be loved.

I love acting. When I'm acting I feel like I'm on vacation. I'm just having a wonderful time. The nightmare is just getting the work to happen.

I just happen to like the work. I like preparing for a role. I like reading. I like analyzing. I like literature. I like emotions. I like working with other actors.

Any song I have to work on longer than a day, I just leave it. It's not gonna work. Everything that's good is really instant.

Creativity is part sweat - not just beads of it, but sometimes buckets.

The great-at-anything do not set to work because they are inspired, but rather become inspired because they are working. They don't waste time waiting for inspiration.

Character, not passion keeps marriages together long enough to do their work of raising children into mature, responsible, productive citizens.

I just don't feel like I'm old. I still feel like I've got a lot of years, a lot to give in this game, and I'm able to do it because I love to work.

In terms of work, obviously acting is such a job that is very in the flesh kind of thing. It's your work, but it's your life, in a way. You can get so mixed up.

If you find something you are passionate about, you've got to try. Even if something doesn't quite work out, disappointment is a temporary thing. Regret lasts forever.

If a man does not go about his work with enthusiasm, it means that he has not yet found a work that he likes. Every mortal is a busy bee when he comes to the task that Destiny has set aside for him.

Marriage is based on the theory that when a man discovers a brand of beer exactly to his taste, he should at once throw up his job and go to work inthe brewery.

When you want a thing deeply, earnestly and intensely, this feeling of desire reinforces your will and arouses in you the determination to work for the desired object.

You should just enjoy it, but as soon as you decide that it is going to be your career, no matter whether you want to be a doctor or an architect or anything else, you need to work 5 hours a day.

No one hates his job so heartily as a farmer.

There are probably seven persons, in all, who really like my work; and they are enough. I should write even if I were the only patient reader, for my aim is merely self-expression.

The successful man has enthusiasm. Good work is never done in cold blood; heat is needed for forge anything. Every great achievement is the story of a flaming heart.

The thing to do with money is to put it back into yourself, into your work, into the thing that is important, into whatever you are so much interested in that it is more important than money.

But I have a good life. I enjoy what I do. I am married to work.

Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else.

As for the job of prime minister, I like it, yes. But no more than I've liked other work that I've done as an adult.

I think you're born with style, but you have to develop it. You can be born with the talent to be an opera star, but you've got to work and practice it.