Quotes About Passion

I don't dig ditches for a living, so I don't really hate going to work. I chose this for a reason. I would much prefer to be over-worked than under-worked.

I wake up and I go to work. I don't look for the cup of coffee. The universe is enough of a draw for me - to awaken me and have me bound out of bed and go to my office.

Just like everything, even the most fun and creative endeavor requires work to be successful, and I'm so sick of working. I'm a lazy person at heart. I never meant to be a go-getter.

How can someone say they're successful if they're not happy doing their work?

The most successful people are those who are wildly enthusiastic about their work.

Let me just put it that way: I work really hard and play really hard too.

I've been lucky to work with some of the most creative people and it's true that I enjoy filmmaking and I'm an enthusiast.

I will promise you that if I can give you two good scenes -- which is what I always try to do in every movie -- then I feel like I'm doing my job.

If I were to find something that is going to be more important to me than fashion - that would be work and love - then I probably would let go. That's a possibility. But fashion is an addiction.

Find out what your passions are and gauge your limit. Because success requires hard work and perseverance and sadly, not everyone has the two.

Songwriting is something I really need to work on. I don't have very many songs but I really love it. I would love to be a great song writer some day.

You know what you like, you know what you want. So all you have to do is find something work related to that stuff

It is not the being paid money in advance that jars the sensitive artist: it is the having to work.

If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong.

I was lucky to go to work every day for 50 years, to a job that I loved.

When I left Maine, I always wanted to be a working actor. I never cared too much about being the star. I just wanted to do the work and get on with it.

Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted.

You can hear how hard I work, I think, from these stories I'm telling. I'm incredibly dedicated and I'm sort of known as that to a point that people tease me about it.

The key is to work with people who are passionate about storytelling and who have a similar sensibility of the type and nature of the stories that you want to tell.

I used to work in a record store. I'm kind of a record nerd.

Apparently I work for free, look at some of the independent films I've done.

I always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I was seven, and one has to live long enough to evolve as an artist and do one's finest work.

There are so many great 19th-century photographers, and it's really my favorite period, but the amateurs did such beautiful work.

We never had any children," he said ruefully. "Our work was our children.