Quotes About Passion

What convinces is conviction. You simply have to believe in the argument you are advancing; if you don't, you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there.

Being integrated means being able to accept all aspects of one's self. An integrated man is able to embrace everything that makes him unique: his power, his assertiveness, his courage, and his passion, as well as his imperfections, his mistakes, and his dark side.

a majority when united by a common interest or passion cannot be restrained from oppressing the minority, what remedy can be found in a republican Government, where the majority must ultimately decide?

Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.

Teachers must, I discovered, have a gift to teach and the compulsion to use it. And faith. Anything less won't carry you through.

We fear the thing we want the most.

In order to eat, you have to be hungry. In order to learn, you have to be ignorant. Ignorance is a condition of learning. Pain is a condition of health. Passion is a condition of thought. Death is a condition of life.

Education is about finding out what form of work for you is close to being play—work you do so easily that it restores you as you go.

It seems to me now that true love is the only theme for either song or story.

Only when you've had that experience of falling in love with something, Barron believes, will learning the rules that support it make sense. Otherwise, "rule-talk" is always going to seem like someone trying to control another, like an exercise in power rather than liberation to play the game well.

At first, all wonder and curiosity, we are easily influenced by surrounding circumstances, which often affect our lives, as colours laid at the root of bulbous plants are said to transmit their tints to the blossom; next comes the age of knowledge, when reason struggles with passion, and is not always the victor; lastly, the decay, when passion is extinct, and we live from day to day on our memories, and then drop into dust.

Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.

An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens.

How do we come to choose what it is that we spend our days doing? Would we choose it again if we could? Did we choose it today, or has it simply carried us along somehow?

I know I am finished with a book when I never want to see it again. And if you have worked at it long enough to hate the sight of it, I promise you will come to love it again some sweet day. That is when you will know you did a writer's work.

You listen to me, Annie Woods. The one word that's forbidden when we're in bed is 'no.'" She

Be the master of your fate, be the captain of your soul, but do not hesitate, should the chance befall you, to be the slave of your heart.

What is the fire in our belly but the eternal flame of a thousand ancestors.

If you don't decide what your life is about, it defaults to what you spend your days doing.

It's not that I'm a Type?B personality. It's that I'm driven by a passionate, all-consuming desire to take it easy.

It is possible at any age to discover a lifelong desire you never knew you had.

In your passion for the true, people may see nothing but faddism.

When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best -- that is inspiration.

Love is energy of life.