Passion For Something Quotes

1. "What a need we humans have for confession. To a priest, to a friend, to a psychoanalyst, to a relative, to an enemy, even to a torturer when there is no one else, it doesn't matter so long as we speak out what moves within us. Even the most secretive of us do it, if no more than writing in a private diary. And I have often thought as I read stories and novels and poems, especially poems, that they are no more than authors' confessions transformed by their art into something that confesses for us all. Indeed, looking back on my life-long passion for reading, the one activity that has kept me going and given me the most and only lasting pleasure, I think this is the reason that explains why it means so much to me. The books, the authors who matter the most are those who speak to me and speak for me all those things about life I most need to hear as the confession of myself."
Author: Aidan Chambers

2. "Don't let society's labelshold you back. If you have atrue passion for somethingwhether its sports, art,science, etc…don't believeanyone who says you can't doit because you're a girl. If youwant to play baseball, hockey,or football, don't let anyonetell you that you can't. If youwant to play with Hot Wheelcars and Legos, then do it.Only you are the boss of you"
Author: Alison G. Bailey

3. "But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't good enough. And also his creative spirit. You know he really, really wants to do something great."
Author: Andy Hertzfeld

4. "An enthusiasm is to keep doing something to never let own mind to feel tired and the passion is to let the heart keep doing something own to never feel hired."
Author: Anuj Somany

5. "...some small part of her had reacted to the passion inside him. Despite his role as a titled gentleman, there seemed to be a facet inside him that society could not tame, something stimulating yet dangerous, like standing at the edge of a cliff and feeling the mysterious, subtle pull to jump."
Author: Brenda Novak

6. "Everybody is born with a little bit of writer in them. We all come with the desire to work hard to see our creations come to life on the page. But it is those who choose to do something about this passion that has been ignited inside of them that are true writers."
Author: Brian A. McBride

7. "I miss having a villain. Whether we realize it or not, most of us define ourselves by opposing rather than by favoring something or someone. To put it another way, it is easier to react than to act. Nothing arouses a passion for dogma more than a good antagonist. And the more unlikely the better."
Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafón

8. "Why would God give us a passion for something unless we could somehow use it for his glory?"
Author: Diane Moody

9. "There are no arguments. Can anyone who has reached the limit bother with arguments, causes, effects, moral considerations, and so forth? Of course not. For such a person there are only unmotivated motives for living. On the heights of despair, the passion for the absurd is the only thing that can still throw a demonic light on chaos. When all the current reasons—moral, esthetic, religious, social, and so on—no longer guide one's life, how can one sustain life without succumbing to nothingness? Only by a connection with the absurd, by love of absolute uselessness, loving something which does not have substance but which simulates an illusion of life. I live because the mountains do not laugh and the worms do not sing."
Author: Emil Cioran

10. "Every motion she made was slow, as if she'd never before put her arms around a man, and didn't know for certain where everything fit. When at last they were pressed close, she didn't think she'd know how to let go when the time came. They summarized the course of passion with kisses: a chaste, half-frightened brush of the lips metamorphosed into something fierce and fast-burning, which in its turn became a more patient, more intimate touch, full of inquiry and shared pleasure."
Author: Emma Bull

11. "My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life."
Author: Faye Dunaway

12. "Each instinct and passion of man is amoral; it is only the abuse of these passions that makes them wrong. There is nothing wrong about hunger, but there is something wrong about gluttony; there is no sin in thirst, but there is a sin in drunkenness; there is nothing wrong with a man who seeks economic security, but there is something wrong with a man who is avaricious; there is nothing to be despised in knowledge, but there is something to be condemned in pride; there is nothing wrong with the flesh, but there is something wrong in the abuse of the flesh. Just as dirt is matter in the wrong place, so sin is flesh in the wrong place. Sex has its place in that area of life designed for its fruition, but the misuse of it outside of that natural and supernatural bond is wrong."
Author: Fulton J. Sheen

13. "Every actor and actress is possessed of the absorbing passion to create something distinctive and unique."
Author: Hattie McDaniel

14. "I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous."
Author: J. J. Abrams

15. "One passion can only be cured by another—a misplaced love by a greater love, wrong behavior by right behavior that makes provisions for the desire underlying the wrongdoing, recognizes the conscious or unconscious needs that seek fulfillment and either offers them legitimate satisfaction or transfers them to something compatible with the person's calling."
Author: Jacques Philippe

16. "I lost my passion for work. No, that's a negative statement. I just had a bigger passion for something else, for my son, and growing up with him."
Author: James Caan

17. "The passion to produce is very great. One man, who has not yet been assigned his little garden plot, is hopefully watering a jimson weed simply to have something of his own growing."
Author: John Steinbeck

18. "After reading Edgar Allan Poe. Something the critics have not noticed: a new literary world pointing to the literature of the 20th Century. Scientific miracles, fables on the pattern A+ B, a clear-sighted, sickly literature. No more poetry but analytic fantasy. Something monomaniacal. Things playing a more important part than people; love giving away to deductions and other forms of ideas, style, subject and interest. The basis of the novel transferred from the heart to the head, from the passion to the idea, from the drama to the denouement."
Author: Jules De Goncourt

19. "But music raises a lot of issues. Music is something that matters to people a lot, and they put a lot of passion into it. And I think when you have an area like that, you're gonna find a lot of issues coming up."
Author: Kurt Loder

20. "It's about carrying on the legacy and doing something I love and have a passion for."
Author: Nik Wallenda

21. "There's nothing particularly physical that I find attractive in a man. It's men with a passion for something that I find attractive."
Author: Rhona Mitra

22. "My biggest turn-off is if a woman doesn't have a real passion for something... and bad breath!"
Author: Romeo Miller

23. "Once you have built something - something that takes all your passion and will - it becomes more precious to you than your own happiness. You don't realise that, while you are building it. That you are creating a martyrdom - something which, later, will make you suffer."
Author: Sofia Samatar

24. "Don't write something that is your passion project because all it will do is get the passion stomped out of you."
Author: Thomas Lennon

25. "If you feel like there's something out there that you're supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it."
Author: Wanda Sykes

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