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“I have a big passion about civil rights for everyone - whoever is being downtrodden at the moment, it doesn't matter: racial discrimination or sexual orientation or gender. Whatever it is, I'm there. I think I was a born civil rights activist. I can't stand the smashing of a community. It's not fair and it's not right.”

Thinking I Can Matter Moments Bigs Passion Born Community Rights Fairs Gender Discrimination Civil Rights Activist Orientation Not Fair Racial Discrimination Smashing Downtrodden

Author:Pauley Perrette

“So I never spend a lot of time analyzing why people respond to my work. But I think that it's just the joy, a passion for life, that I think has always been in my characters. Beyond that, I'm just grateful for it.”

People Thinking Character Joy Passion Grateful Analyzing Passion For Life

Author:Michael J. Fox

“I certainly don't think it's inevitable that we don't love children who don't carry our own DNA. If that were true we wouldn't have millions of successful adoptions to consider. I do think that it's harder to love a child when you come into that child's life after the unrequited passion of infancy and early childhood has passed.”

Ifs Thinking Children Passion Millions Successful Childhood Harder Inevitable Adoption Dna Infancy Unrequited Children Love Early Childhood

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“It's often said that God works in mysterious ways. You have to really think about what He's trying to do. You can't be lazy and believe in God; He doesn't make it that easy. It takes spirit and faith and passion to really believe. Like most things worthwhile in life, you get back what you put into it. Only with faith, you get back a lot more.”

Thinking Way Trying Believe Said Spirit Passion Easy Mysterious Lazy Get Back Believe In God Worthwhile God Works In Mysterious Ways Mysterious Ways

Book:The Christmas Train

Source: The Christmas Train

“I was very focused, driven, rigid, work-oriented. I didn't care about having a family or making a home. I didn't think about kids. It's not that I didn't want those things, I just didn't think about them. And then I had someone who came in as a tornado, this creative, beautiful ball of insane energy and passion. And it completely opened me up.”

Thinking Want Home Care Kids Beautiful Passion Energy Creative Balls Focused Driven Insane Tornadoes

Author:Susan Downey

“It was a lot of fun being a child actress. It suited me. I don't think it suits everybody, but I was in it because I had a passion, not because my parents wanted me to make money. If other kids want to do it, and they really like acting, go for it.”

Ifs Thinking Want Children Kids Wanted Passion Fun Parent Acting Actresses Suits Making Money

Author:Alanna Ubach

“Get to know yourself. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all... Knowing yourself and knowing the facts, you can judge whether you can change the situation so it is more to your liking. If you cannot--or if you do not know how to improve on things--then discipline yourself to the adjustments that will be necessary.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Facts Passion Situation Know How Knowing Failing Judging Discipline Prejudice Know Yourself Adjustment

Author:Bernard Baruch

“I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous.”

Thinking Passion Obsession

Author:J. J. Abrams

“My urgent advice to you would be, not only always to think first of America, but always, also, to think first of humanity. You do not love humanity if you seek to divide humanity into jealous camps. Humanity can be welded together only by love, by sympathy, by justice, not by jealousy and hatred. I am sorry for the man who seeks to make personal capital out of the passions of his fellowmen. He has lost touch with the ideal of America. For America was created to unit mankind.”

Ifs Thinking Men Firsts Would Be Together America Humanity Passion Lost Justice Advice Mankind He Man Ideals Hatred Sorry Jealous Divides Camps Units Urgent I Am Sorry Am Sorry

Author:Woodrow Wilson

“In order to exert influence over people, there were other things that could be used besides love. Knowledge seemed to be an equally strong force, perhaps even stronger. Whoever possessed knowledge not only had power over the changeable passions of people, but also power over their thinking, over their minds, hearts and souls.”

People Thinking Mind Heart Soul Used Order Passion Strong Force Influence Stronger Possessed Heart And Soul Mind Heart

Book:The Philosopher's Kiss: A Novel

Source: The Philosopher's Kiss: A Novel

“I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.”

Thinking Passion Reasonable

Author:Stephen Fry

“Cezanne was fated, as his passion was immense, to be immensely neglected, immensely misunderstood, and now, I think, immensely overrated.”

Thinking Passion Immense Misunderstood Neglected Overrated Cezanne

Book:Walter Sickert: The Complete Writings on Art

Source: Walter Sickert: The Complete Writings on Art

“We believe people with passion can change the world for the better. That's what we believe. And we believe that those people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones that actually do.”

People Thinking World Believe Enough Passion Crazy Changing The World

Author:Steve Jobs

“I never yelled at my players much. That would have been artificial stimulation, which doesn't last very long. I think it's like love and passion. Passion won't last as long as love. When you are dependent on passion, you need more and more of it to make it work. It's the same with yelling.”

Thinking Needs Long Has Beens Motivational Lasts Passion Player Dependent Working It Artificial Yelling Like Love Stimulation Love And Passion

Author:John Wooden

“Passion is what you would do if you got to choose. It's what you think about doing in the privacy of your own mind, without ear of dismissal or mockery.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Passion Ears Privacy Mma Mockery Dismissal

Author:Urijah Faber

“To think big is to love the universe, to embrace our passion. To love is to fight for what we love. What a waste not to, when we have only this one life to live.”

Thinking Bigs Fighting Universe Passion Love Is Waste Embrace Think Big One Life To Live

Book:The Think Big Manifesto: Think You Can't Change Your Life (and the World) Think Again

Source: The Think Big Manifesto: Think You Can't Change Your Life (and the World) Think Again

“There's something suspicious about saying, 'I'm just going to leave my child alone and let her pursue her passions.' You know what? I think most 13-year-olds' passion is sitting in front of the TV, or doing Facebook, or surfing the Internet for hours.”

Thinking Knows Years Children Passion Hours Fronts Tvs Internet Sitting Pursue My Children Surfing Suspicious Surfing The Internet

Author:Amy Chua

“Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking ... Institutions of learning should be devoted to the cultivation of curiosity, and the less they are deflected by the consideration of immediacy of application, the more likely they are to contribute not only to human welfare, but to the equally important satisfaction of intellectual interest, which may indeed be said to have become the ruling passion of intellectual life in modern times.”

“Yoga answers a lot of physical problems such as back pain, stress issues, and any kind of joint problems or illnesses. Even more important is the spiritual questioning that comes up around our middle years. We wonder what do I want to hand down to my children, and how do I want to spend my days on this earth? I think yoga begins to help us look at what our passions and our dreams are. And it helps give us the courage once we find passion to actually pursue that!”

“I am unable, when I turn to myself, to recognize any of my faculties or my capacities. The inner sensation which I have of myself informs me that I am, that I think, that I will, that I have sensory awareness, that I suffer, and so on; but it provides me with no knowledge whatever of what I am - of the nature of my thought, my sensations, my passions, or my pain - or the mutual relations that obtain between all these things ... I have no idea whatever of my soul.”

Thinking Ideas Soul Pain Suffering Turns Passion Awareness Capacity Relation My Soul No Idea Mutual Faculty Sensations My Thoughts My Passion Sensory

Author:Nicolas Malebranche

“I think I've found my passion in life. I'm going to direct a couple of short film on hiatus. That's what I really want to do.”

Thinking Want Film Passion Found Couple Direct My Passion Short Films Hiatus

Author:Matt Barr

“I look at society and I look at people and I say... I'm not Mr. Motivator. I think you get a better sense - I believe in energy. I believe in passion. I believe in teaching people.”

People Thinking Believe Looks Passion Energy I Believe Teaching I Believe In

Author:Tony Robbins

“I think the popular concept of the artist is a person who has this great passion and enthusiasm and super emotion. He just throws himself into this great masterpiece and collapses from exhaustion when it's finished. It's really not that way at all.”

Thinking Way Persons Artist Passion Emotion Concepts Finished Enthusiasm Collapse Masterpiece Exhaustion Great Passion

Author:Richard Estes

“There is no human being who having both passions and thoughts does not think in consequences of his passions--does not find images rising in his mind which soothe the passion with hope or sting it with dread.”

Thinking Mind Humans Doe Passion Human Beings Consequence Rising Dread

Book:Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“Try to remember this: what you project Is what you will perceive; what you perceive With any passion, be it love or terror, May take on whims and powers of its own. Therefore a numb and grudging circumspection Will serve you best - unless you overdo it, Watching your step too narrowly, refusing To specify a world, shrinking your purview To a tight vision of your inching shoes, Which may, as soon as you come to think, be crossing An unseen gorge upon a rotten trestle.”

Thinking World Trying May Remember Passion Vision Steps Projects Shoes Terror Perceive Unseen Rotten Crossings Numb Whim Shrinking Gorges Circumspection

Book:Collected Poems 1943-2004

Source: Collected Poems 1943-2004

“I am inclined to agree with the Head Master of Eton that pæderastic passions among schoolboys 'do no harm'; further, I think them the only redeeming feature of sexual life at public schools.”

Thinking School Passion Masters Agree Harm Features Public School Redeeming Eton

Author:Aleister Crowley

“I think it's wonderful when a love story begins with a great deal of romance and affection, passion and excitement, that's how it should be. But I don't necessarily know that it's the wisest thing in the world to expect that it ends there, or that it should, 30 years down the road, still look as it did on the night of your first kiss.”

“I think of part of myself as a very passionate person, but I don't think that comes across. I don't know where it comes from, that reserve or veneer of British niceness. But it doesn't bother me if other people don't spot the passion. I know it's there.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Persons Passion Passionate British Spots Bother Reserves Niceness Veneer

Author:Julie Andrews

“I don't even look at resumes anymore. I think they're misguided. I talk to them, ask them where they've been, "What's your favorite experience in a restaurant?" Where do they like to eat? Blah blah blah. All that stuff, but I can only really describe my journey with another person if I can connect with them and their passion. Otherwise, I don't care where they've worked. It doesn't matter to me. Really I have to feel it, and then I can teach them anything.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Looks Persons I Can Matter Care Passion Asks Stuff Teach Journey Don't Care I Don't Care Restaurants Resumes Misguided Your Favorite My Journey Blah

Author:Geoffrey Zakarian

“I think if you find your passion and you go with it you are rewarded.”

Ifs Thinking Passion

Author:Kirby Larson

“The world is only as deep as we can see. This is why fools think themselves profound. This is why terror is the passion of revelation.”

Thinking World Passion Fool Profound Terror Revelations

Book:The Judging Eye: One (The Aspect-Emperor Trilogy)

Source: The Judging Eye: One (The Aspect-Emperor Trilogy)

“You know, we have moments of passion when we are in pain. And then of course the moment ends, and with it the passion and the pain, and we forgive and forget. But I think that every time you hurt somebody that you care for, a crack appears in your relationship, a little weakening - and it stays there, dangerous, waiting for the next opportunity to open up and destroy everything.”

Thinking Knows Littles Ends Moments Care Pain Passion Courses Next Opportunity Waiting Hurt Forget Dangerous Forgiving Cracks Our Relationship Weakening Forgive And Forget

Author:Edith Hahn Beer

“I think I have a passion for playing the game. I love to play, and I want to play at a high level. You have to do the right things in order to continue at that level.”

Thinking Want Play Order Passion Games Sports Levels Right Thing High Level

Author:Dan Marino

“I think the support of the other team at AOL and everybody's really shared passion and belief about this and - saying that some day everybody was going to be on line.”

Thinking Passion Belief Lines Support Economy Team

Author:Steve Case

“The quality of Korean actors is actually quite high. Their passion is overwhelming but not many platforms are available to cater to their creative needs. They're thirsty for something new and I think that's where I connect with them. They have vision. In certain sense many Korean actors have better vision than directors.”

Thinking Needs Certain Passion Actors Quality Vision Creative Directors Available Something New Overwhelming Platforms Korean Thirsty

Author:Lee Yoon-ki

“It's great to have people to bounce off and I love working with people my age. I think young actors have such energy about them and such a passion and a drive to do their best and prove themselves constantly, and to work with that is really fun and interesting.”

People Thinking Age Young Passion Actors Energy Fun Interesting Prove Bounce Young Actors

Author:Kaya Scodelario

“I think passion is something that's more powerful than even love. It's something that you're not willing to let go of, and you'll work really hard to make sure that stays a part of your life.”

Thinking Hard Passion Powerful Willing Letting Go

Author:Bethany Hamilton

“If I didn't get joy from acting, I wouldn't do it. My passion for acting is growing and I love telling good stories and inspiring stories and helping to give a little happiness to the world and perhaps get the audience to think about different issues.”

Thinking World Giving Littles Different Helping Stories Joy Passion Acting Audience Issues Growing My Passion Good Story Inspiring Stories

Author:AnnaSophia Robb

“Surfing is a huge passion of mine. I'm and addict to it in a sense. I think it is a good addiction. I spend about anywhere from two to eight hours a day in the water when I am home. I enjoy competing and traveling. I don't know, I just like being in the ocean and enjoying God's creation. Just the adrenaline you get and its good exercise you get at the same time.”

Thinking Knows Two Home Passion Enjoy Water Hours Creation Mines Huge Exercise Ocean Addiction Eight Competing Addict Surfing Adrenaline God's Creation Good Exercise

Author:Bethany Hamilton

“You need response from the fan to fuel your sense of musical rebellion. It's very symbiotic, it's very cyclic in a way. You can't have one without the other. So I think the rebellion is reflected in the audience, but at the same time, the artist has to have that passion too. And I think once you're a fan for life, you feed each other's sense of passion and rage and whatnot. You really can't have one without the other.”

Thinking Way Needs Artist Passion Audience Fans Response Musical Rage Fuel Rebellion

Author:Corey Taylor

“I think film was my passion without it being declared like a job that I could have, or a career that I could have.”

Thinking Jobs Film Passion Careers My Passion

Author:David O. Russell

“Envy is the most universal passion. We only pride ourselves on the qualities we possess, or think we possess; but we envy the pretensions we have, and those which we have not, and do not even wish for. We envy the greatest qualities and every trifling advantage. We envy the most ridiculous appearance or affectation of superiority. We envy folly and conceit; nay, we go so far as to envy whatever confers distinction of notoriety, even vice and infamy.”

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“A man may be a great statesman, and yet dislike his wife, and like somebody else's. A man may be a great hero, and yet he may have an unseemly passion, or an unpaid tailor. But the British public does not understand this. ... It thinks, unhappily or happily as you may choose to consider, that genius should keep the whole ten commandments. Now, genius is conspicuous for breaking them.”

Thinking Men Should May Doe Whole Passion Wife Genius Hero Ten British Dislike Commandments Statesmen Ten Commandments Tailors Great Hero

Author:Ouida

“Every one knows the veneration which was paid by the Jews to a name so great, wonderful, and holy. They would not let it enter even into their religious discourses. What can we then think of those who make use of so tremendous a name, in the ordinary expression of their anger, mirth, and most impertinent passions?”

Thinking Knows Use Passion Names Religious Wonderful Expression Holy Ordinary Paid Jew Discourse Mirth Profanity Veneration

Book:The Evidences of the Christian Religion: To which are Added, Several Discourses Against Atheism and Infidelity, and in Defence of the Christian Revelation

Source: The Evidences of the Christian Religion: To which are Added, Several Discourses Against Atheism and Infidelity, and in Defence of the Christian Revelation

“I think that passion if really intense is always destructive if not to the two involved, always to other people.”

People Ifs Thinking Two Passion Involved Intense Destructive

Author:May Sarton

“I know that anybody who does all this and doesn't have to, everything thinks she's very driven. The truth is, I enjoy it all so! Can't it be that simple? I think it is! I don't feel overworked. I get a constant kick out of being heavily committed. Is that sick or something? God, what would I do sitting still?”

Thinking Knows Feels Doe Stills Passion Enjoy Work Simple Truth Is Sitting Sick Constant Committed Driven Kicks Sitting Still

Author:Beverly Sills

“Passion alone could destroy passion. All the thinking in the world could not make so much as a dent in its surface.”

Thinking World Passion Surface

Book:In This Our Life

Source: In This Our Life

“I think I love most people best when they are in adversity; for pity is one of my prevailing passions.”

People Thinking Passion Adversity Pity Prevailing

Book:The collected letters of Mary Wollstonecraft

Source: The collected letters of Mary Wollstonecraft

“... the whole of society in Washington is to some degree political. It is like no other capital city known to me, in that political thinking, the whole business, technical and personal, of politics, is not diluted by an equal interest in art, industry, amusement, anything you like. I don't meant that these are non-existent in Washington -- only that they are subdued to the ruling passion.”

Thinking Art Whole Political Passion Interest Cities Known Industry Equal Degrees Ruling Amusement Ruling Passion Political Thinking

Book:Journey from the North, Volume 2: Autobiography of Storm Jameson

Source: Journey from the North, Volume 2: Autobiography of Storm Jameson

“The only way for a relationship to survive, I think, is to have no sex at all. After all, you marry for friendship, for companionship - and passion after a while ... pfffft. I mean, does it excite you when your left hand touches your right?”

Thinking Way Mean Doe Hands Passion Left Sex Companionship Left Hand

Book:Diane Von Furstenberg's Book of Beauty: How to Become a More Attractive, Confident, and Sensual Woman

Source: Diane Von Furstenberg's Book of Beauty: How to Become a More Attractive, Confident, and Sensual Woman