Passion Quotes

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.

I love to play golf, and that's my arena. And you can characterize it and describe it however you want, but I have a love and a passion for getting that ball in the hole and beating those guys.

I've always lived my gymnastics career with a lot of passion and a lot of purpose.

It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.

Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos.

It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what they mean, I sympathize with them, I understand them. There should be a name (as poetic as love) for this relationship between loather and loathed; it is of the closest and more full of passion than incest.

I always think in life passion supersedes everything.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

The talent that has to be learned is finding out what someone's passion is and setting them up to realize that. You don't get the best work from people if you're guiding them versus them guiding themselves.

Passion is the genesis of genius.

Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

Well, if you look at the whole story, I mean there's only Jews and Romans in the story. I mean I just wanted to flesh that character out and make that a drama about the people around Christ when he was going through this passion.

Sometimes you have to find the passion. It comes from the inside... Everyone has to find it for themselves.

It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy, you know. Killers, even.

In fact, in more cases than not, when we are rational, we're actually unhappy. Emotion is good; passion is good. Being into what we're into, provided that it's a healthy pursuit, it's a good thing.

I could have evaded the FBI a lot longer if I had been able to control my passion for hacking.

Acting for me, is a passion, but it's also a job, and I've always approached it as such. I have a certain manual-laborist view of acting. There's no shame in taking a film because you need some money.

But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion.

Robert Jordan, whether he's writing with passion or not, I don't know.

I've spent my life following my passion.

You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.

I only want to make music because I have a passion for it.

I also had a tremendous passion for art and read a lot.

Until very recently men and women inhabited very separate spheres. There was always interconnection, passion, love. But men and women didn't hang out at the end of the day and chat about what their day was like at the office.