Quotes About Passion

There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you've read only once can't.

I love having written. Sometimes I love writing. I love to revise. Revising is my favorite part of writing.

Don't be afraid to show excitement for what you do. Too often people try to appear above the fray by staying emotionally aloof. Believe me, it doesn't work. If you're looking to stir others to action--from returning your phone calls to getting your project approved--get them excited about what you're doing. You'll see surprising results.

Drums just always sounded like the most fun part of that good music for me.

We all love musical architecture there's no doubt about that.

THE BASIC CON Those who can't find anything to live for, always invent something to die for. Then they want the rest of us to die for it, too.

My job is writing poems, reading them out loud, getting them printed, studying, learning how to become the kind of man who has something of worth to say. It's a great job. Naturally I'm starving to death

Love defies all calculation. We are not judicious in love; we do not select those whom we ought to love, but those whom we cannot help loving.

Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed.

The Greek poleis in their best days had no great surplus of goods: what they had was a surplus of time, that is, leisure, free and untrammeled, not commited-as in America today-to excessive materialistic consumption, but available for conversation, sexual passion, intellectual reflection, and esthetic delight.

There is great pain in all love, but we don't care, it's worth it.

Kildall, the innovator, followed his passion for technical excellence and was shocked that IBM wouldn't follow him. Gates, the imitator, took his cues from IBM every step of the way, because he believed that following Big Blue was the smartest way to follow the money.

For high-achieving people, the ultimate reward for great success is not the idleness of retirement. The reward is doing more of the productive things that they love the most, which, as with Doobin, often turns out to make the most financial sense anyway.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

Some people are motivated by a need for recognition, some by money, and some by a broad social goal. I start from a different place: from the love of ideas and the urge to put them into motion and see where they might lead.

The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.

Why go to Antarctica, why do a film like 'Grizzly Man'? It's the sheer joy of storytelling - it's the urge.

I've never really had the urge to make an English album.

The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.

I urge readers to experience things that they love and give up things that are not working.

I could write songs as bad as Wham's if I really felt the urge to, but what's the point?

Do not write if there is no tremendous urge to do so. At the heart, there must be an inspiration or muse or one of those old-fashioned things. Else, why bore yourself, destroy other people's interest and kill trees?

As an actor there is an urge to act only if something really interesting comes my way.

Every time I see a piano, I have this urge to play it.