Passion Quotes
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Every businessman, or every person who has a passion for his work, is torn for the time spent at work and the time spent with your family.
Phil Knight
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When I joined Lucasfilm, I immediately saw the true passion shared by 'Star Wars' fans around the world.
Kathleen Kennedy
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When a man makes utensils out of a metal which has been thoroughly cleansed of dross, the utensils will be excellent. You monks, who wish to follow the Way, make your own hearts clean from the dirt of evil passion, and your conduct will be unimpeachable.
Gautama Buddha
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I believe we're all endowed with a very small set of narrow skills that make us unique. You've got to find what that is. Most often what you truly understand makes you unique is something that you're also going to build passion around.
Daniel L. Doctoroff
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My passion is writing, but it is also a fight because I still see home as a woman's duty.
Angeles Mastretta
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Photograph because you love doing it, because you absolutely have to do it, because the chief reward is going to be the process of doing it. Other rewards - recognition, financial remuneration - come to so few and are so fleeting...Take photography on as a passion, not a career.
Alex Webb
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I write and record all the time; it's my hobby and my passion.
Alvin Lee
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You can't teach passion. You can teach everything else.
Lee Trevino
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In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry.
Danielle Steel
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If biking is your passion, set aside time to enjoy a good ride.
Patrick Dempsey
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In offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend, I dare not hope they will make the strong and lasting impression I could wish; that they will control the usual current of the passions, or prevent our nation from running the course which has hitherto marked the destiny of nations. ... moderate the fury of party spirit, to warn against the mischiefs of foreign intrigue, to guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism; this hope will be a full recompense for the solicitude for your welfare, by which they have been dictated.
George Washington
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Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.
Thomas Hobbes
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I'm very confident that Nick Hornby always gets it right as a writer. He has the vernacular and passion. He is adroit and dry, and balances humor with the humanity of life.
Pierce Brosnan
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With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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My sexuality is not black and white. I'm a gay man who has occasionally drifted. I am not bi. I've had perfectly pleasant romances with women, but they weren't sustainable. My passion wasn't there. I would always be looking at guys.
Kehinde Wiley
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In accounts of men in battle, there is an incredible adrenaline rush from group-versus-group conflict. The fervor and passion of partisans is clearly rewarding; and if it's rewarding, it involves dopamine; and if it involves dopamine, then it is potentially addictive.
Jonathan Haidt
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I'm not a huge fan of the concept of 'passion' when it comes to careers. Instead of trying to answer the daunting question of, 'What's your passion?' it's better simply to watch what you do when you've got time of your own and nobody's looking.
Dan Pink
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The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.
Czeslaw Milosz
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I may sing the same songs for over 40 years now but I always sing them in different ways in order to keep the excitement and passion alive.
Eric Burdon
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The fashion thing is something I do, and yes, it is definitely also becoming a part of myself and my personality. It also doesn't really feel like a job, either: it's a dream or a passion or something.
Raf Simons
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In the end, oh I know, never, in my haggard passion, have I ever been such a cadaver as now as I take again in hand my tables of the present— if reality's real, but after it's been destroyed in the eternal and the moment by the obsessive idea of a shining nothingness.
Pier Paolo Pasolini
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Had Passion and Purity never encountered, Tenderness had never come into the world.
William Faulkner
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Delacroix était passionnément amoureux de la passion, et froidement déterminé à chercher les moyens d'exprimer la passion de la manière la plus visible. Dans ce double caractère, nous trouvons, disons-le en passant, les deux signes qui marquent les plus solides génies, génies extrêmes.
Charles Baudelaire
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He had no picture of her. She would be a memory that would fade as her warmth would fade, but would fade over the years, and he would forget the passion that gave life to this face.
Bernard Cornwell