Quotes About Passion

Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

I am attracted only to music which I consider to be better than it can be performed.

If you're going to be a writer you have to be one of the great ones... After all, there are better ways to starve to death.

The things that are important to me - being a mother, a businesswoman, an activist - are all things that were borne out of great passion.

Great companies start because the founders want to change the world... not make a fast buck.

They ended as all great passions do end - by a misunderstanding.

When I was a fireman I was in a lot of burning buildings. It was a great job, the only job I ever had that compares with the thrill of acting.

One of the great things about songwrighting; it's not an intellectual experience

When I was starting as an anime director I wanted to be known for great things. I never wanted to be known for some overblown toy commercial.

I soon realized that I didn't have a great passion for academia and I didn't like sitting in front of the computer all day. I would much prefer to be a carpenter.

My mom was a great tennis player, and I remember being six or seven years old watching Steffi Graf and Monica Seles in Wimbledon in my house. I've always been a tennis fan.

Whenever I find myself arguing for something with great passion, I can be certain I'm not convinced.

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.

I wanted to make a living, but I really was not interested in money at all. I was interested in being a great comedian.

Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you.

I think my great book is Born to Sing: An Interpretation and World Survey of Bird Song.

Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

Write while the heat is in you.

A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.

I was lucky enough as a kid to spend most of my weekends at the Fillmore East. On a great night, that was like a Holy Roller evangelical church.

Sometimes I have a great day of filming and sometimes the theater strikes me better. It just depends.

Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject.