Quotes About Passion

I think you can lose yourself in any creative activity - if you enjoy your job or enjoy a task, you can lose yourself in that.

I wanted to make films since I was young. My background had nothing to do with anything creative, so it seemed an impossible task.

To portray a singer who gets on stage at night, who is away from the limelight, is never an easy task.

My task as poet is close to me.

Whenever I get a task I can focus on, I get excited for that.

Filmmaking is no easy task.

Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire - you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.

Taste and love are not the servants of the will. Love is and must be free. It rises from the heart like perfume from a flower.

Exuberance is better than taste.

You get a taste of playing in the playoffs and what that's like, and it's a completely different world. You get a taste in those meaningful games. You get that taste, and you can't get it out. You want more.

Whatever I write has to evolve around my taste in music at that moment, because that always changes.

There is something about New Orleans that embodies passion; I've never seen that before. There's something tangible about the essence of the city. You can taste and smell it.

New York is a brutally expensive place to live, and the kind of person who might have the dedication and esoteric taste to make the comics that I would really love is finding it more relaxing to live elsewhere.

I really feel I have found myself as a chef. It's very clear to me what I want to do - and how it should taste.

I've had my taste of intense fame, and I've got it out of my system. Now I'm free to choose parts which fulfil me in different ways.

I remember the Neil Young brand hitting me very hard immediately. He wasn't an acquired taste. I loved him immediately.

I have a taste for ghazals and I like them.

The No. 1 thing is to write the book that you love and then hope that it finds an audience with the same taste as you. I think I've done that, and that's lucky.

To sustain and become a musician of a certain calibre, you need to know and understand music completely. You need to have a good taste in music and should know your good music from mediocre ones.

I just have my own taste, and I just try and stick with that. I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can for as long as I have an opportunity to.

First and foremost, you have to make the movie for yourself. And that's not to say, to hell with everyone else, but what else have you got to go on but your own taste and judgment?

Go out and make something that reflects your interests, your taste, and your ideas. No one will pay you to make something until you have a few things you can show that you've directed. I got my start by making short films on my own.

It's important for people who criticise architects - whether what they build is or isn't to your taste - to appreciate how they devote themselves and put everything into bringing a building into existence.

Don't be a writer; it's a terrible way to live your life. There's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don't expect anything from anybody.