Quotes About Passion

I always tell people that the music industry may be frustrating sometimes, but the singing never gets old. It's something I grew up doing, and I take the bitter with the sweet.

Listen, I'm a sweet guy. I'm just intense at work. I have nothing but the end result in mind. My entire career has been like that.

It takes a lot of courage, when everyone is asking you what you want to do, if you say that you want to be a musician or an actor; people can be very condescending and say, 'Oh, that's so sweet, good luck with that!' It can be very frustrating.

We just try to write about things that are close to our hearts. We don't sit around trying to write another 'Free Bird' or 'Sweet Home Alabama.'

Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.

My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.

I lose my mind if I miss a swell that I want to be on and I have the ability to be on it.

Hard to say an absolute favorite, but some of my favorites are: 'Ryan's Daughter,' 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' 'The Piano,' Lina Wertmuller's 'Swept Away,' 'Blade Runner.'

I don't want to make the same mistakes of being swept along with things, taking on jobs that I'm not passionate about, that I don't really believe in but that everyone says I should do.

Maybe it goes away, but this is the way I've chosen to live: I want to go down or rise up as an artist. I don't want to get swept up in lipstick or whatever the hell.

I ran spotlight. Swept up. Did box office. Ran the lighting board. But acting was the most fun.

I didn't grow up thinking I'd be a decorator. Design is my greatest passion, and it naturally just pulled me down the path. Same with TV. Being famous or having a show was never the motivation. I got a call and was swept up by the challenge of that first small space redesign.

When the Japanese occupied Korea in the early 20th century, they brought their passion for baseball with them, and the game swiftly surpassed basketball and soccer as the nation's pre-eminent sport.

I just always really wanted to swim. It was always a family thing: dad obviously swam, and my sister did, too. And mum used to come along to meets. They had to drag me out of the pool - so there was never any pressure on me to swim. It was just something I loved doing.

We don't swim for the attention. We don't swim to be rock stars. There is something beautiful about being in an anonymous sport and being fairly anonymous. It enables you do something you love without any of the other effects.

Some people might go to the gym and swim laps, but I write songs. Every single day, I write something new and record it.

I swim for myself. I love it, I have fun, and just representing my country is the greatest honor I could ever have.

In the spirit of debunking racial stereotypes, the one that black people don't like to swim, I'm going to tell you how much I love to swim. I love to swim so much that as an adult, I swim with a coach.

I didn't just swim when I was younger. I did ballet, horse riding, everything. I was very active.

I know I'm enough with or without the gold medals. I just love to swim.

I feel like I've got this great catalogue of songs sink or swim, it doesn't matter. If you've got that, you've got a lot.

I was a better basketball player growing up in high school than I was a swimmer. Basketball to this day is my favorite sport.

I fell in love with this idea of becoming a swimmer. I knew two strokes at the time but I went and I just loved racing these girls with legs.

I am a passionate swimmer and scuba-diver.