Passion Quotes

Love, in the eyes of the world, is either a carnal appetite or a vague fancy, which possession extinguishes or absence destroys. That is why it is commonly said, with a strange abuse of words, that passion does not endure.

Your work should be in praise of what you love.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.

Love what you do...Don't settle

Pour your heart and soul into your business. People will notice.

Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

You see I am an enthusiast on the subject of the arts.

Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions. Intellect, will, taste, and passion co-operate just as they do in practical affairs; and lucky it is if the passion be not something as petty as a love of personal conquest over the philosopher across the way.

If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.

It is not permitted to a man, who takes up pen or chisel, to seek originality, for passion is his only business, and he cannot but mould or sing after a new fashion because no disaster is like another.

Other than our love our labor is one of the most sacred gifts we can give. When your labor is your love, life is sacred. Love what you do or change.

There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.

My passion is bringing storylines around and constructing a full body of work rather than just a 16-bar verse.

The idea of lying on a beach as my main thing just sounds like the worst. It sounds horrible to me. I would go bonkers. I would have to be on serious drugs. I'd be super-duper bored. I like high intensity.

It is in the realm of uncertainty, that your passion is found.

I must never write when I do not want to write.

Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most swayed and in which they show absence of control...They are changeable and fickle in their desires which are violent while they last, but quickly over: their impulses are keen but not deep rooted.

If you find a job you love, you'll never work again.

They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.

Zest. Gusto. How rarely one hears these words used. How rarely do we see people living, or for that matter, creating, by them. Yet if I were asked to name the most important items in a writer's make-up, the things that shape his material and rush him along the road he wants to go. I would only warn him to look to his zest, see to his gusto.

Love, that is day and night - love, that is sun and moon and stars, Love, that is crimson, sumptuous, sick with perfume, no other words but words of love, no other thought but love.

In my mind, I see all of my passionate memories in bright, burning Red.

Make passionate my sense of hearing.

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I'm borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

Those who don't feel this love pulling them like a river, those who don't drink dawn like a cup of springwater or take in sunset like a supper, those who don't want to change, let them sleep.

The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading. They took his taper away, and he bred glow-worms to serve his purpose. They took the glow-worms away and he almost burnt the house down with a tinder.

I love your daughter fondly, dearly, disinterestedly, devotedly. If ever there were love in the world, I love her.

They are in the very wrath of love, and they will go together. Clubs cannot part them

One of the great secrets of the day is to know how to take possession of popular prejudices and passions, in such a way as to introduce a confusion of principles which makes impossible all understanding between those who speak the same language and have the same interests.

Everybody is interesting when they are interested in something.

Money doesn't excite me - my ideas excite me.

My writing is nothing, my boxing is everything.

Passion - and humor will permit all of us to do some marvelous things.

The art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea.

A lover knows only humility, he has no choice. He steals into your alley at night, he has no choice. He longs to kiss every lock of your hair, don't fret, he has no choice. In his frenzied love for you, he longs to break the chains of his imprisonment, he has no choice.

Follow your dream as long as you live, do not lessen the time of following desire, for wasting time is an abomination of the spirit.

My waking thoughts are all of thee. Your portrait and the remembrance of last night's delirium have robbed my senses of repose. Sweet and incomparable Josephine, what an extraordinary influence you have over my heart. Are you vexed? Do I see you sad? Are you ill at ease? My soul is broken with grief, and there is no rest for your lover.

The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I'll never be hands-on on anything except software.

The law of work does seem utterly unfair-but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash, too.

I wouldn't want to compare myself to David Byrne whom I consider a genius, but what I think what we have in common is that he's also a guy who is very interested in the world and who has a lot of passions beyond singing and playing guitar.

When you play the game for fun, it's fun. When you play it for a living, it's a game of sorrows.

I like the color red because it's a fire. And I see myself as always being on fire.

Never fall in love?" "Always," said the count. "I am always in love.

An artist or a creative person of any kind goes about their work because it's their path, it's what excites them, it's what aligns their soul with who they truly are, who they showed up to be.

I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one.

I love thee so, that, maugre all thy pride,Nor wit nor reason can my passion hide.Do not extort thy reasons from this clause,For that I woo, thou therefore hast no causeBut rather reason thus with reason fetter,Love sought is good, but given unsought better.

I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.

I'm evangelical on the subject of some chefs and writers.

Truth is not a virtue, but a passion. It is never charitable.

We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.

I'm short and I have a big appetite. I can't do nothing just a little. It's the same with anything I do. It's very hard for me to love a little, have sex a little, to eat a little. I like to do everything, and I like to do it all the way that I want to do it.

One must not think slightingly of the paradoxical…for the paradox is the source of the thinker’s passion, and the thinker without a paradox is like a lover without feeling: a paltry mediocrity.

I don't want to be on the phone talking numbers and budget. I want to be creating a world.

What I do best is share my enthusiasm.

I find it a great and fatal difference whether I court the Muse, or the Muse courts me. That is the ugly disparity between age and youth.

It's insane to me to ask anybody to be what they're not. Know what you know the best, love the most. That's always going to be the answer to the thing that you have the best shot at winning at.

It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.

It was only in the theatre that I lived

If you don't love where you are right now, you won't love where you are going. Here is what I know: People who are passionate about what they do every day and love where they are in life are the fortunate ones. They have discovered their purpose. They are the difference makers who fully understand the gift of adding value, and yes, they can't help but love where they are going on their journey.

Love why do we one passion call,When 'tis a compound of them all?Where hot and cold, where sharp and sweet,In all their equipages meet;Where pleasures mix'd with pains appear,Sorrow with joy, and hope with fear.