Quotes About Passion

Skating everywhere is unpredictable, no amount of money or facilities is going to create a skating star. You have to have a skater who is dedicated, passionate, and willing to learn.

We were all crazy about music and almost all the money we had, we spent for equipment.

I've never done anything for money. My first love is things of limited commercial appeal. I could be happy doing Shakespeare for the rest of my life.

Don't do it for the money. Follow the path to do what makes your heartbeat faster. Follow your passion.

For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.

When I was 20 and ran my first race, I told myself I don't know how I'm going to do this for a living. I don't have the money to do it. But it is what I want to do.

By going solo I could lose a fortune but money is not important.

But I was going to be a teacher my entire life, so I wasn't counting on money to much.

Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.

I don't know any musician, successful or otherwise, that got in it to make money. Or writer, for that matter. You get into it because you love it.

Nothing I did where the only reason for doing it was the money was ever worth it, except as bitter experience.

Those movies, Decline I and II and Suburbia, are dearly loved, but they never made any money. I didn't even have the rights for some of them.

I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.

If you take the money away, a lot of the footballers would still be playing football. So, the money has nothing to do with it.

Look, Salvador Dali did not paint because he needed the money. No conversation about materialism and music makes sense. You make music and that's that, it doesn't matter why.

I thought you had to give up a lot for art, and you did. It required complete concentration. It also required that whatever money you had had to be put into art materials.

There's something deeply satisfying when it succeeds, but I'm not going to do another book just to put my name on something and make some money if it's not something I deeply care about.

I truly love the game; I wouldn't be playing if I didn't love the game. I'm not getting paid astronomical dollars; it's truly for the love of the game of basketball.

Don't write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won't write anything worth reading.

If the Masters offered no money at all, I would be here trying just as hard.

Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.

You reach a point where you don't work for money.

I didn't think we would ever make enough money to pay rent by playing music.

I'm not driven by money and I'm not driven by career.