Quotes About Passion

I could not shake my point of view, infected as it was, and I took up their study with a manly passion.

Furthermore, the sense of passion or of power, of depth and vibrancy, feeling and vision, we take away from any work is the result of the intermingling, balance, play, and antagonism between these: it is the arrangement of blues, not any blue itself, which lets us see the mood it formulates, whether pensive melancholy or thoughtless delight, so that one to whom aesthetic experience comes easily will see, as Schopenhauer suggested, sadness in things as readily as smoky violet or moist verdigris.

Serious writing must nowadays be written for the sake of the art. The condition I describe is not extraordinary. Certain scientists, philosophers, historians, and many mathematicians do the same, advancing their causes as they can. One must be satisfied with that.

I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on.

A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust hatred alone is immortal.

Zeal will do more than knowledge.

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.

Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.

Never so sure our rapture to create As when it touch'd the brink of all we hate.

We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse of life, we are governed by whim, caprice, prejudice, or accident. The falling of a teacup puts us out of temper for the day; and a quarrel that commenced about the pattern of a gown may end only with our lives.

Todo aquello que se encuentra fuera del alcance del sentido y del conocimiento, todo aquello que se percibe defectuosamente, la imaginación lo recompone a su antojo; y todo menos el momento presente, menos el lugar presente, la pasión lo reclama para sí, lo incuba con las alas extendidas y le imprime su propia imagen. La pasión es dueña del espacio infinito y los objetos distantes nos gustan porque limitan con sus confines y se moldean con su contacto.

My feathered friends were so much to me that I am constantly tempted to make this sketch of my first years a book about birds and little else.

I like your eyes when you get mad," I said. "They glow like embers.

It's usually some badass makes a young girl's heart beat faster.

Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgement.

Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages.

Man lives by habits indeed, but what he lives for is thrill and excitements. ... From time immemorial war has been ... the supremely thrilling excitement.

Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.

An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.

My heart is in this work, for it is not a question of 'Will we win' or 'Will we lose.' We must win, and that is all there is to it.

I used to do this as a kid. And now they're paying me for it, which is cool.

People who don't know me well wonder that I'd give up my badge for an apron, thinking that flipping burgers is a big step down. If they asked me, which they don't, I would tell them that when a man stumbles onto happiness, he'd be a fool to pass it by. It's as simple as that. Sam's Place makes me happy.