Quotes About Passion

I want my kids to have passion for life, to really have a passion for life. I think when you have a passion for something, you can overcome obstacles, if you float through life without having anything to hold on to or get you fired up emotionally and to focus on, I think it's really hard to overcome things.

Through my work, I've learned that if I love it, whether it's music, acting or any type of entertainment, I can overcome any of the obstacles that come my way.

Motorsport gave me a purpose. It gave me a reason to overcome my condition.

If I don't enjoy it, there's something seriously wrong. There's a reason why they call it playing, what we do. It's ecstatic fun, and I overdo it - I mean, I can't seem to stop - people ask me to act, and I say yes.

For me, in the audition, the song that you choose should make you cry. It doesn't matter why: it could be because you're happy, but it gives you that feeling that you're overflowing.

I think there is some overlap in terms of artistic desires and Christian desires.

I know, for me, that I love wrestling, and I love games, so there was already an overlap there because all of my friends growing up were the same.

I am someone who doesn't pay so much attention to how I am looking. I get so involved in what I am doing, so I overlook that.

Without sounding overly sentimental about the process, I'd say trying to describe how you tend to conceive of a book is like describing how you tend to fall in love.

'Cool' is detached and emotionally cool. My instinct is to battle anything that seems overly cool.

The people I know who have retired, so many of them lose interest and die; they just become nobodies overnight.

I never have the plan to overtake boxing. I love boxing; I came from boxing.

I never feel burdened or overwhelmed by my work. People tell you to find something you love for a career, and I have. That makes me feel very lucky.

I'm overwhelmed by and in awe of the work that I do. I adore my work. I live to work.

There are a lot of things people are calling me, and I'm overwhelmed. I have a lot of gratitude, but I just want to keep doing what I'm in love with, which is acting.

I don't think I've ever felt overwhelmed on an ice rink.

The music stuff is just a hobby.

I wanted my dad to be proud of me, and I fell into acting because there wasn't anything else I could do, and in it I found a discipline that I wanted to keep coming back to, that I love and I learn about every day.

You know, I think anybody who has a dream to do something, that dream will keep you warm in the coldest of nights. You know what I mean? When you're like most lonely... that dream needs to be nurtured and cultivated so, even if you never speak to another person again in your life, that thing, that dream has to keep you company. So I would pour everything into that dream.

You cannot regulate desire.

A romantic, I think the word is. Latin for idiot.

The Caliphate produces only one thing of genuine excellence, and that product is fanaticism.

Hoe zou ik nog een stijve krijgen naast zo'n bodemloze kut waar meer vreemde leuters in verdwijnen dan drollen in een riool?

Eigenlijk zou je twee levens moeten hebben: een om te leven en een om te schrijven. Die twee storen elkaar.