Quotes About Passion

From this moment on I'd dedicate my life to rock and roll and take as many drugs as possible. What could possibly go wrong?

I found out it is just as hard to make a movie that you are not proud of as it is to make one you love.

I long to drift through turquoise skies; race the wind in rampant flight. Ruddy chains have framed my eyes, they seize my heart and stain the light.

If you want your ministry to have 'it', more important than anything else we've discussed, you must have 'it'. When it has filtered through your heart - the rare combination of passion, integrity, focus, faith, expectation, drive, hunger, and God's anointing - God tends to infuse your ministry with 'it'. He blesses your work. People are changed. Leaders grow. Resources flow. The ministry seems to take on a life of its own.

A man with nothing to fight for quickly becomes a frustrated man, often without a clue as to why.

Inspire them to want so much more than what's normal.

God put you on earth with a divine assignment- something prepared in advance for you to do. I've found that the things that make us sad, the things that make us righteously angry, or the things we care about that others don't are often a key that unlocks our reason for living. It's our burden.

Limited Resources + Increasing Passion = Exponential Innovation

I'm asking God to give you a Popeye moment. A moment when God blesses you with a divine burden: something that bothers you so deeply, you're moved from complacency to action.

The best explanation I can give you is this: it is what God does through a rare combination of these qualities found in his people: • Passion for his presence • A deep craving to reach the lost • Sincere integrity • Spirit-filled faith • Down-to-earth humility • Brokenness

What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act?

Fueled by faith and passion for our true priorities we're going to drive against traffic in order to find rest, refreshment, and time for what matters most in life.

Full-time lover of your world; part-time lover of God

I thought about Maggie and how passion was a difficult thing to sustain, but that friendship had a pace that could go on forever.

There are a number of smells I've loved in my lifetime, but few can compare with the smell of a bookstore.

I flattered myself by thinking that, if faced with such a circumstance, I would respond within the letter of the law; but passion is a strange thing, a thing that warps and twists everything with which it comes in contact.

Some buckle bunny's bed, I suppose.

Maybe I'm sad about wanting you. I'm not too comfortable with wanting someone.

Which is scarier-- lust or temptation?

Her lips tarried at mine. Baiting each other with the warmth of our breath, barely grazing, detouring, then connecting.

As Albert Einstein said of himself in his later years, "I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

As Confucius is reputed to have said some 2,500 years ago, "Find a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Work ethic (chapter 1) Resilience (chapter 2) Originality (chapter 3) Childlike imagination (chapter 4) Insatiable curiosity (chapter 5) Passion (chapter 6) Creative maladjustment (chapter 7) Rebelliousness (chapter 8) Cross-border thinking (chapter 9) Contrarian action (chapter 10) Preparation (chapter 11) Obsession (chapter 12) Relaxation (chapter 13) Concentration (chapter 14)

Musk always had a book in hand. Said his brother, Kimbal, "It was not unusual for him to read ten hours a day. If it was the weekend, he could go through two books in a day.