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Quotes About Passion

Even the most highly respected physicist, artist, or politician becomes a hollow bore and ceases to enjoy life if all he can interest himself in is his limited role in the universe. 4.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
It's fun to come up with an idea, and if nobody wants it, I don't give a damn. It's just fun to come up with something strange and different.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
without disinterested interest life is uninteresting.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
If you are interested in something you will focus on it, and if you focus attention on anything, it is likely that you will become interested in it.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
If you are interested in something you will focus on it, and if you focus attention on anything, you will become interested in it.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Perhaps the most important quality, the one that is most consistently present in all creative individuals, is the ability to enjoy the process of creation for its own sake.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
creative people usually enjoy not only their work but also the many other activities in their lives.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
If you are interested in something, you will focus on it, and if you focus attention on anything, it is likely that you will become interested in it. Many of the things we find interesting are not so by nature, but because we took the trouble of paying attention to them.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue...as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a course greater than oneself.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
She shook a slim finger before my face, and her eyes laughed as she said, "And remember to beware of women whose loins burn worse than fire!
~ Mika Waltari
Mutta paadutin sydämeni kuulemasta näitä ääniä, sillä rakastin häntä, vaikka hän oli hullu, ja kenties rakastin häntä juuri hänen hulluutensa tähden, sillä hänen hulluutensa oli kauniimpi kuin muiden ihmisten viisaus.
~ Mika Waltari
moteris panaši ? kat?, kaip ir aistra panaši ? kat?. Jos leten?l?s minkštos, ta?iau slepia aštrius nagelius, negailestingai susmingan?ius iki širdies. Moteris iš ties? panaši ? kat?, nes katei taip pat malonu vilioti auk? ir nageliais suteikti jai skausmo, tas žaidimas jai niekada nepabosta. Vos aukai susmukus, kat? j? su?da ir tipena ieškoti naujos aukos.
~ Mika Waltari
Saat olla kiihkeä ja tulinen, mutta kiihkosi ja tulesi on valauduttava kiinteään, vakuuttavasti taiteelliseen muotoon, muuten se merkitsee vain sohimista. Harkinnan ja rauhan alta kuultava kiihkeys tekee voimakkaamman vaikutuksen kuin holtiton tunteittensa purkaminen
~ Mika Waltari
Is there a point at which every Sunday during the NFL season ceases to make a man feel like a kid on Christmas morning?
~ Unknown
right, until he found just the right words – not too difficult words, but words with some fire and juice in them.
~ Mike Ashley
We must repent when we seek to fulfill this longing in an incorrect way, but we can never repent for having the longing. This longing will never go away, but it is satisfied by the revelation of God's extravagant passion for us and the revelation of the Father and the Bridegroom.
~ Mike Bickle
I really like the heart of Mary of Bethany. She was not an apostle. She was never famous, never wrote a book, never did a conference and never said much. Her passionate love was in secret—she just loved the Lord ferociously in secret.
~ Mike Bickle
A look at Simeon and Anna also shows how God significantly uses older people in serving the Lord through continual prayer and fasting. In our day, God is going to use people who are retired. If you are nearing retirement, your strength has been given to you for this hour, and God has freed you from many things. There's not a more powerful force in the earth than that of senior saints who have time and passion for Jesus.
~ Mike Bickle
The only thing that will ultimately break the power of sin is passion for Jesus. The only thing that will guard me from being entrapped by sin is being entranced by Jesus.
~ Mike Bickle
The destiny of the Church is directly tied to how passionate she remains to her mission.
~ Unknown
I am going to give from every corner of my soul.
~ Mike Dolan
The only way to get what you really want, is to know what you really want. And the only way to know what you really want, is to know yourself. And the only way to know yourself, is to be yourself. And the only way to be yourself is to listen to your heart.
~ Mike Dooley
Life suddenly makes sense and you want to live forever.
~ Mike Dooley
I can think of some things that would be fun, but I'm living my dreams.
~ Mike Farrell