Quotes About Passion

impulse is the medium of emotion; the seed of all impulse is a feeling bursting to express itself in action.

Our journey begins in Part One with new discoveries about the brain's emotional architecture that offer an explanation of those most baffling moments in our lives when feeling overwhelms all rationality. Understanding the interplay of brain structures that rule our moments of rage and fear—or passion and joy—reveals

Good work requires enthusiasm, ethics, and excellence.

Except for the financially desperate, people do not work for money alone. What also fuels their passion for work is a larger sense of purpose or passion. Given the opportunity, people gravitate to what gives them meaning, to what engages to the fullest their commitment, talent, energy, and skill.

passions overwhelm reason time and again.

Research by Harvard's Howard Gardner, Stanford's William Damon, and Claremont's Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi zeroed in on what they call "good work," a potent mix of what people are excellent at, what engages them, and their ethics—what they believe matters.18 Those are more likely to be high-absorption callings: people love what they are doing. Full absorption in what we do feels good, and pleasure is the emotional marker for flow.

Research by Harvard's Howard Gardner, Stanford's William Damon, and Claremont's Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi zeroed in on what they call "good work," a potent mix of what people are excellent at, what engages them, and their ethics—what they believe matters.18

Una investigación realizada por Howard Gardner, de Stanford, William Damon, de Harvard, y Csikszentmihalyi, de Claremont, se centró en lo que ellos llamaban un "buen trabajo", una combinación entre la ética (es decir, lo que uno cree que le gusta) y aquello en lo que destaca (es decir, lo que realmente le gusta).

What you are about, is more important than who you are

When the reward is the activity itself--deepening learning, delighting customers, doing one's best--there are no shortcuts.

For artists, scientists, inventors, schoolchildren, and the rest of us, intrinsic motivation—the drive do something because it is interesting, challenging, and absorbing—is essential for high levels of creativity.

We leave lucrative jobs to take low-paying ones that provide a clearer sense of purpose.

I stand entwined in fire on the inextinguishable bonfire of inconceivable love.

I opened my mouth and kissed you then, the first time all night, attacked you and surrendered completely, and let's get out of here. I'm ready, I'm finished, let's not break up, no, no. Take me home, my boyfriend, my love.

But just suddenly I really, really needed to see you again right that minute, that night.

I'd ruin any day, all my days, for those long nights with you. And I did. But that right there was why it was doomed.

This is love if it's not with you, a terrible fiery something that makes people look away, and it feels like a punch in the throat.

No soy una enamorada, soy una tonta

I think one of the reasons it ended was that his eyes never lit up for me the way they did for classical music. I realize that in the long run I may not be as wonderful as a Brahms symphony but I think I'm good for a Haydn quintet.

I'd ruin any day, all my days, for those long nights with you, and I did.

You never love a book the way you love a book when you are ten. It is an honor to be in that sacred space in some children's brains.

After all, love is for people who are ready to dream big and risk everything. Unfortunately, so is prison.

I am in love with what I am doing, because the answer to this problem is right here in my mind, and soon - very soon - it will burst into consciousness.

There is no question about it now. I'm in love.