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Quotes About Passion

Van Gogh became a painter because he had no ear for music.
~ Unknown
Nunca me esfuerzo en hacer algo que no me apetezca. Si me atasco hago otra cosa.
~ Niklas Luhmann
If you want to be an entrepreneur, it's not a job, it's a lifestyle. It defines you. Forget about vacations, about going home at 6 pm - last thing at night you'll send emails, first thing in the morning you'll read emails, and you'll wake up in the middle of the night. But it's hugely rewarding as you're fulfilling something for yourself.
~ Niklas Zennstrom
I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success . . . Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.
~ Nikola Tesla
What is stronger in us — passion or habit? Or are all the violent impulses, all the whirl of our desires and turbulent passions, only the consequence of our ardent age, and is it only through youth that they seem deep and shattering?
~ Nikolai Gogol
Woman is in love with the devil.
~ Nikolai Gogol
Wise is he who disdains no character, but, fixing a searching eye on him, explores him down to the first causes… Blessed is the man who has chosen the most noble passion from among them all.
~ Nikolai Gogol
How strangely, how inconceivably our fate plays with us! Do we ever get what we desire? Do we ever achieve that for which our powers seem purposely to prepare us? Everything happens in a contrary way. To this one fate gave wonderful horses, and he drives around indifferently without ever noticing their beauty—while another, whose heart burns with the horse passion, goes on foot and contents himself with merely clicking his tongue as a trotter is led past him.
~ Nikolai Gogol
Such is the Russian man: strong is his passion for knowing someone at least one rank above himself, and a nodding acquaintance with a count or prince is better to him than any close relations with friends.
~ Nikolai Gogol
Matthew likes hentai
~ Nikolai Gogol
Prepare to Be Obsessed
~ Unknown
A man needs a little madness, or else... he never dares cut the rope and be free.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
You have everything but one thing: madness. A man needs a little madness or else - he never dares cut the rope and be free.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
We know, all of us, that there is more to our lives than markets and calculation. We have friends for friendship, fall in love for no rational reasons, behave as beasts or heroes even when we know it will not profit us.
~ Unknown
I was into opera as a kid - I'd play 'Carmen' and sing and dance. My mom signed me up for a theater group before preschool, and I never looked back.
~ Nina Arianda
Love and reason have never been well acquainted.
~ Unknown
Archie had broken rules with passion as his excuse, and she was asked to rationally pick up the pieces.
~ Unknown
You are my life, but you are not my purpose.
~ Unknown
She played the game the way that it was meant to be played?as if her life depended on it. And she seemed driven by some need, or struggle, or fundamental resolve, that preceded the basketball and made it possible..
~ Unknown
I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.
~ Nina Simone
Do what you believe in and believe in what you do. All else is a waste of energy and time.
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
It is earnestness that will take you through, not cleverness - your own or another's.
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
The study of medicine was, in its own way, something to love in place of a missing family.
~ Noah Gordon
I live my life in pursuit of truth and beauty. It doesn't pay very well.
~ Unknown