Quotes About Passion

Sometimes we come up with something great, but a lot of times it just feels like work.

I was doing illustration work, and the cartooning slowly took over.

Men are failures, not because they are stupid, but because they are not sufficiently impassioned.

Artists lead unglamorous daily lives of discipline and routine, but their work is full of passion. Each has a vision and feels responsibility to that vision.

I have a holistic need to work and to have huge ties of love in my life. I can't imagine eschewing one for the other.

I have three joys in my life: work, sport and food. All these come in one and do not make a hobby.

As soon as I step on that stage, nothing matters. I don't think of it as work. It's just so much fun.

I take the responsibility of choosing seriously because it becomes an indelible part of your body of work. Something has to sing to me.

My first love is writing and producing. So I sometimes put my own stuff off to work on other people's projects.

I love what I do. And why not be nice? I mean, I've seen people who work and they're apparently not enjoying it, and they're making sure everybody knows it.

Make your Vocation into Vacation and you will not have to work a single day.

It's important to keep the eccentric spirit alive, because when that goes, the work will go.

I don't have a goal but I just want to work on movies that I really like.

A writer, or any artist, can't expect to be embraced by the people [but] you just keep doing your work - because you have to, because it's your calling.

I never thought of being a performer, never thought of being a singer, never thought of being a photographer. It's just the trajectory of my work. I go to the medium that serves the vision.

Persistence and love of one's work is the key.

I try to look at the whole thing and say 'yes' to the projects that I cannot stop thinking about. If I read a script and the subject stays with me - then that's when I want to go to work.

I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.

Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership. Keep going until you know you're doing work that's worthy. And then see what happens. That's my advice.

You have to really believe in what you're doing, be passionate enough about it so that you will put in the hours and hard work that it takes to actually succeed there, and then you'll be successful.

People thrive by focusing on the question of who they really are - and connecting that to work that they truly love .

The good work proceeds with tenacity, intention, without interruption, with an equal measure of passion and reason and it must surpass that goal the artist has set for himself.

Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.