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Quotes About Passion

The camera was waiting for me by predestination and I took to it as a musician takes to the piano or a painter to canvas. I found that I was master of the elements, that I could work miracles.
~ Alfred Stieglitz
It takes a lot of hard work to achieve your dreams, but nothing in life is easy. If it's something you really want, go after it!
~ Alicia Sacramone
Im not really devoted or specified towards any specific genre at all. I really like it all. Theres good storytelling in all the genres, you know. I just want to tell good stories and do good work.
~ Angela Bettis
Not too many people can say they love what they do and they really like the people they work with.
~ Anthony Mackie
One thing I have clear is that I don't want to work for money anymore.
~ Antonio Banderas
Work without joy is drudgery. Drudgery does not produce champions, nor does it produce great organizations.
~ John Wooden
Unless we put heart and soul into our labor we but brutify our actions.
~ Josh Billings
What I want out of my career is just to work.
~ Josh Charles
I literally want to work until I'm in the grave.
~ KaDee Strickland
I hate leisure, except reading. I'm really a person made to work, if sketching is considered work.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
All of my wildness is in the writing. I have discovered I have to be orderly and boring in my personal life to be wild in my work.
~ Kate Zambreno
I think that an obsession with art history gave rise to the work.
~ Kehinde Wiley
I don't know about other people, but I love to work.
~ Kevin Hart
Fights over ideas are the most vicious of all. If it were merely food, or water, or shelter, we would work something out. But in the realm of ideas one can become idealistic .
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Work is life for me, it is the only point of life - and with it there is almost religious belief that service is everything.
~ Laurence Olivier
I've never had to work out of the arts. I've always either been a writer or an editor, or something where I've made my living from doing what I love. You can't get any better than that.
~ Len Wein
Only work with projects you love. That will make your creativity blend with your vitality, and the project will create itself.
~ Unknown
Even in my dreams of being an actor, my dream was not in the celebrity. My dream was in the work that I wanted to do.
~ Lupita Nyong'o
I do my best work when I feel conviction to say something through the character I play. Always I want to have integrity and not compromise that.
~ Lupita Nyong'o
Do whatever work feeds your true self, even if it's not a safe bet, even if it's like a crazy risk, even if everyone in your life tells you you're wrong or bad or crazy.
~ Martha Beck
I wanted to hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know, whoever I was, I was alive for a little while.
~ Mary Oliver
I don't have to work. I suppose I should retire. But I enjoy working.
~ Michael Caine
I don't work very much, and I just sit here waiting for a script that I can't refuse - and I'm not talking about money.
~ Michael Caine
I'm 74 but I feel like I'm 35. And it isn't work. You know what it is? It's fun, absolute fun. I don't know many people who are fortunate enough to be in a business like that.
~ Mickey Rooney