Quotes About Passion

With my students, I always have to sell my subject because I know when you're 19, 20 years old, you've got other things on your mind besides American history. What I have to do is make this as compelling as possible.

We want people to listen to records, to a whole body of music. I want you to buy into my life, not just one subject in my life.

Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.

It's a choice - there are two different sorts of photographer: those obsessed with the technicalities and those obsessed by the subject.

I am only 30, and music is like a subject for me. I work like a student in every film.

I don't really think about what the subject of my next album will be. I just know that I'm going to make another album.

Nerds are just deep, and neurotic, fans. Needy fans. We're all nerds, on one subject or another.

I finally reached the conclusion that mathematics was the study I was best fitted to follow, though I did not clearly see in what way I should turn the subject to account.

Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books.

I'm a writer, and the subject is less important than the act of writing itself.

I consume an enormous number of books, but they're always on a particular subject because I'm obsessive.

My father never forced me, but chemistry was my best subject.

I don't think of careers from a functional perspective or from a subject matter perspective. I think of careers as, how do you like spending the time in your day? What makes you happiest? What are you most passionate about?

One of the things I've learned as a filmmaker is to have some aspect of the movie be something that I admire greatly, whether that's an actor I'm working with, the subject matter, or a book.

I would go to sketch groups and draw. I really enjoyed the subject matter, but I wasn't good at it.

People can get obsessed with romance, they can get obsessed with political paranoia, they can get obsessed with horror. It's isn't the fault of the subject matter that creates the obsession, I don't think.

The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter.

All of our columnists have areas of interest and expertise that they will return to frequently, but the subject matter of any given column is up to them.

Pretty much everything that I pick, when it comes to choosing roles, is just based on things and materials that grabs me. It's pretty much the subject matter that I gravitate towards.

The podcasts that keep my attention are those where I can feel the hosts and guests are enjoying themselves or are really passionate about the subject matter.

People will reach out because they know I'm trying to put my best forward when it comes to subject matter and creation of song.

I found when I started getting serious about writing music, that my writing was country songs. It was basically country subject matter, country melodies and simple chord changes.

What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave.

I think the whole definition of a geek is somebody being passionate and focused, and being proud of saying that they're passionate and focused, on a narrow range of subjects.