Quotes About Passion

The combination between the speed, personality, and being able to temper your emotions in both directions is a great ingredient.

I have a hell-fire temper.

I can be very passionate but I also have a bit of a hot temper - when pushed.

I don't temper how I feel. I'm Greek. I've got emotions.

I'm a bit of a hothead in certain circumstances, but you've got to temper it because your fans are there, and they've paid good money to see a show.

I've always had a bit of a temper.

Music inflames temperament.

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

I feel like rap fit me better. I could hoop. I could have went and did that, but this is my lifestyle, my temperament, my mentality.

My on-court temperament is totally to just win and destroy.

I love sports, but I never had the temperament for it.

Of all the art forms that my family dabbles in, writing suits my temperament the most.

If they're not temperamental, I don't want them. It's in the nature of a great artist to be that way.

I would say, as loving as I am... I am definitely an extremely temperamental man who has a very large temper.

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Even as a young child, I was a lover of books and of the spaces in which, as indeed in a sacred temple, books might safely reside.

Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself.

Every sport needs its temple, its cathedral.

As far as rock groups, I really like Stone Temple Pilots. As for classical composers, it's Bach. I love Paganini, too, the Italian composer who would break strings during a performance and finish playing on just one string. Someone I would have loved to play with is Jimi Hendrix.

When I was 20, I was the hustler - rubbing my temples, stressed, trying to get out the streets, trying to take my life to another side of the game with something I really loved to do: rap music.

I don't even know if hip-hop is music anymore. It's definitely rhythm. It's definitely tempo. It's definitely beats per minute. But it's product. And television is product placement for the most part. It's not passion.

I want to be an artist artist, a real artist. I don't just want to do this for temporary money.

Everything is temporary. I don't know how long will I have my time here in the industry. I want to concentrate in making good music. That will be my biggest satisfaction.

The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.