Quotes About Passion

When he traveled, he was writing. When he was at the pub, he was writing. He would stop in the middle of a staircase or a crowded street to write. When he ran out of paper, he would write on his shirt cuffs. He was always writing. He was one of the most prolific writers who ever lived. A hundred books, thousands of essays, hundreds of poems.

Act enthusiastic and you become enthusiastic.

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing.

Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

There's an alchemy that happens during sex that causes 1 + 1 to add up to much more than 2, even as those halves meld in an almost magical way to form a single unit that's more complete than either of them alone.

Reason generates the list of possibilities. Emotion chooses from that list.

Dos 19 aos 25 anos, Anne. Estes são os "anos de loucura". É a época em que se deve ter loucos casos de amor, longas conversas com alguém que poderia ser mas não é, o grande amor de nossa vida. É quando a gente experimenta usar as roupas mais estranhas e muda de penteado dez vezes por mês, vai a festas esquisitas, bebe demais e vomita no tapete.

whether all these things people talk about are worth dying for

Oh my god, Danny Devito! I love your work!- Damian

I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.

Coldly furious now, the steel showing.

I'm inspired by love, by the moments that we commit to something with all our heart - be it a person, a project, an animal, anything really. It's undeniably inspiring, that acknowledgment of existence, that I love, that I care. That fills me with purpose.

Then she squeezed me tighter. Her leg came up and wrapped around me. Then she kissed me too hard and our teeth banged together. I felt like a boa constrictor's dinner.

Our ideal self is revealed in what we value (passion), how we understand the world (belief), and what we do to reach our ideal (behavior). Our passion, belief, and behavior fit together so intimately that I can say this with confidence: • What we do is what we really value.

We are what we choose. And we choose whatever our deepest passion compels us to be and to do. To understand the truth of this simple principle, we must examine choice's power to shape our character.

You have to play this game like somebody just hit your mother with a two-by-four.

If the cause is worthy the cost is irrelevant!

I don't think anyone wants to write a book that people don't like, but you have to write the book you want to write. You have to be true to yourself and hope that people will respond to that.

The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.

There are two kinds of people in the world, Notre Dame lovers and Notre Dame haters. And, quite frankly, they're both a pain in the ass.

The passion has never left me. I live as two people - myself, Dan Fante, and Bruno Dante or Mickey Di Salvo, or whoever I say I am in one of my books. I can tap that Bruno character any time I need to. He lives inside me like a quiet, simmering pool of magma. Years ago I stopped feeding him with booze and he was kind enough to stop trying to kill me. That's our truce.