Passion Quotes

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Whenever we have something that we are good at--something we care about--that experience and passion fundamentally change the nature of our first impressions. — Malcolm Gladwell
The vocational approach at NOCCA (New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts) helps build grit in students. It teaches them how to be single-minded in… — Jonah Lehrer
The indispensability of reason does not imply that individual people are always rational or are unswayed by passion and illusion. It only means that people… — Steven Pinker
Passion has overthrown tyrants and freed prisoners and slaves. Passion has brought justice where there was savagery. Passion has created freedom where there was nothing… — Jim Butcher
Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which… — Walter Pater
The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions… — Alfred Jarry
I play tennis for a living even though I hate tennis, hate it with a dark and secret passion and always have. — Andre Agassi
Self-mastery is a challenge for every individual. Only we can control our appetites and passions. Self-mastery cannot be bought by money or fame. It is… — James E. Faust
A man who governs his passions is master of his world. We must either command them or be enslaved by them. It is better to… — Saint Dominic
When, in adoration, we look at the consecrated Host, the sign of creation speaks to us. And so, we encounter the greatness of his gift;… — Pope Benedict XVI
As love is the most noble and divine passion of the soul, so is it that to which we may justly attribute all the real… — Aphra Behn
We don't have to live up to the expectations of others. Passion is personal. As long as our passion is fueled with the right stuff… — Jack White
Passion lies between one mark and the next, and also within all of them. — Howard Hodgkin
Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft. Â Without skill, all the passion in the world will leave you… — Twyla Tharp
I am never happier than when I have something to compose, for that, after all, is my sole delight and passion — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
For the virtuoso, musical works are in fact nothing but tragic and moving materializations of his emotions; he is called upon to make them speak,… — Franz Liszt
Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate. The world doesn’t need any more gray.… — Jon Bon Jovi
In truth, philosophy is the mode of thought shaped by the most radical form of prejudice: the passion of being-in-the-world. With the sole exception of… — Peter Sloterdijk
All laws which can be violated without doing any one any injury are laughed at. Nay, so far are they from doing anything to control… — Baruch Spinoza
The artists who stand out to me have a passion for what they do. There are a lot of people who can sing. It's just… — Jill Scott
I have been writing songs since I was 9 years old, so writing has and always will be my first love and passion. — Solange Knowles
The Revolutionist is a doomed man. He has no private interests, no affairs, sentiments, ties, property nor even a name of his own. His entire… — Sergey Nechayev
Obligation is a flimsy base for creativity, way down the list behind passion, courage, instinct, and the desire to do something great. — Twyla Tharp
Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft, — Twyla Tharp
I hate the PC, with a passion. — Larry Ellison

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