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“if I love something I do it, and if I don't, I don't. I think that this is the most important choice that any of us can make in life, in art, in history: to do the thing you love. If you love it, it is important. If you love it then while you are doing it, you are a true expression of yourself and your time and your story. You are authentic. If you don't love it you betray not only yourself but also your history, your culture, your position in your society.”

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Author:Lina Wertmuller

“Want of passion is, I think, a very striking characteristic of Americans, not unrelated to their predilection for violence. For very few people truly have a passionate desire to achieve, and violence serves as a kind of substitute.”

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Book:With Open Eyes: Conversations with Matthieu Galey

Source: With Open Eyes: Conversations with Matthieu Galey

“I was a huge fan of video games; I wanted to write something, and I saw the tools at my fingertips to upload a video to my audience, and thats why Im here today. I think that freedom and the lack of gatekeepers, combined with peoples passion, is what really the true spirit of Internet geekdom is about.”

Thinking Writing Today Wanted Spirit Passion Games Audience Saws Fans Huge Internet Tools Video Fingertips Gatekeepers

Author:Felicia Day

“I think passion is the magnet to anything.”

Thinking Passion Magnet

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“There is far more sensitivity in acoustic guitar players than could ever be compared to any synthesizer. That's a personal point of view but that's the way I see it. I think that's what it's all about. The drive, the fire, the passion - it all comes out on the guitar.”

Thinking Way Passion Views Fire Player Guitar Point Of View Sensitivity Guitar Player Acoustics Acoustic Guitar Synthesizers

Author:Jimmy Page

“I wouldn't want to compare myself to David Byrne whom I consider a genius, but what I think what we have in common is that he's also a guy who is very interested in the world and who has a lot of passions beyond singing and playing guitar.”

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Author:Anthony Bourdain

“I think you take a job, you owe it as much passion as the job itself demands. And most jobs demand that you be totally committed.”

Thinking Jobs Passion Demand Committed

Author:Morgan Freeman

“To have world peace, we all have to have a healthy understanding of what is necessary to bring World Peace. It's not something that will be dropped on our laps. We have to work for it. Until we get World Peace, I think my strongest passion stays in the effort to get it.”

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Author:Yoko Ono

“There's a big difference between charity and between activism and philanthropy. They're very different things and I think, you know, everybody should find a passion or a cause that they can really get behind, but it has to be organic.”

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Author:Eva Longoria

“Of course I have bills to pay, but at the same time, it's more about the passion and the love, and I think that's where music should come from, the heart, not necessarily just to cash a check.”

Thinking Should Heart Passion Courses Pay Bills Checks Cash Bills To Pay

Author:Ludacris

“To be in the music industry, to be in any kind of entertainment industry, you really, really have to be passionate about it and love it and persevere, because if that passion isn't there, it's easy to give up. If you really want it, the ambition is there, it'll come. It's definitely harder work than some people think.”

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Author:Alexandra Chando

“Looking up at the stars, I know quite well That, for all they care, I can go to hell, But on earth indifference is the least We have to dread from man or beast. How should we like it were stars to burn With a passion for us we could not return? If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me. Admirer as I think I am Of stars that do not give a damn, I cannot, now I see them, say I missed one terribly all day. Were all stars to disappear or die, I should learn to look at an empty sky And feel its total dark sublime, Though this might take me a little time.”

“But it's never just been the journals that have made the difference, I don't think. It's also the way the students are with one another . . . the way they talk about books and authors and themselves. Not just their problems, but their passions too. The way they form a little society and discuss whatever matters to them. Books light the fire-whether it's a book that's already written, or an empty journal that needs to be filled in.”

Thinking Way Needs Littles Made Book Matter Problem Light Form Passion Differences Fire Written Students Empty Filled Journal Filled In

Author:Meg Wolitzer

“I want to eradicate poverty. I think that theres a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank.”

Thinking World Want Passion Poverty World Bank

Author:Jim Yong Kim

“I hope for so much from every book I read. And time and again, I find myself disappointed. I look across my bookshelves and see hundreds of titles which in my memory seem merely mediocre or second-rate. Only occasionally does a novel appear for which I feel a lasting passion, a book that I think could in time become a classic.”

Thinking Feels Looks Doe Book Seems Passion Memories Novel Rate Titles Classic Lasting Disappointed Mediocre Bookshelves Second Rate

Author:John Boyne

“I think there are profound differences between women and men. In intelligence and creativity, there is no difference, but in what one loves, what one likes, the passions - there are differences.”

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Author:Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

“Economics works great for planning your life when you don't have a work passion, since we tend to assume that your job delivers only money and you trade off job hours with leisure hours. If you think your job will just be a job, pick one that pays well per hour and leaves you some time off, even if the activity of the job is boring.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Jobs Passion Hours Pay Activity Picks Economics Trade Assuming Boring Planning Leisure Time Off Trade Offs Passion For Work

Author:Emily Oster

“I think it's a mistake to work on success in career. I've worked on my passions obsessively. How can I say what I want to say more precisely than the last time I said it? Success is such an elusive concept. When you work for it, I think you get it in a way you might regret it.”

Thinking Way Want Said Might Lasts Passion Mistake Careers Regret Concepts Last Time My Passion Elusive Career Success

Author:K'naan

“I have a lot of passion. I have a lot of pride. I think I do get that from my family. But you can be driven and be nice.”

Thinking Passion Nice Pride My Family Driven Being Nice

Author:Aerin Lauder

“I wonder whether my bleak-o-meter is set differently from other people's. I have such passion for what I do that I can't see it as bleak. When people use that word, or “grim” or “gritty,” I just think, “Oh, come on, look a bit deeper.” My films don't give you an easy ride. I can see that. The sense I get is that people have quite a physical experience with them. They feel afterwards that they've really been through something.”

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Author:Andrea Arnold

“I think the American people expect more from us than cries of indignation and attack. The times are too grave, the challenge too urgent, and the stakes too high - to permit the customary passions of political debate.”

People Thinking Political Passion Challenges Cry Debate Graves Permit Stakes Law Enforcement Urgent Indignation Political Debates New Frontiers

Author:John F. Kennedy

“I don't necessarily do anything just for the money. I do it for the passion and I do it for the love, because I'm still hungry. So if I want to do music, it's not necessarily motivated because of monetary value. It's more about the passion and the love, and I think that's where music should come from, the heart, not necessarily just to cash a check.”

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Author:Ludacris

“Careless of books, yet having felt the power Of Nature, by the gentle agency Of natural objects, led me on to feel For passions that were not my own, and think (At random and imperfectly indeed) On man, the heart of man, and human life.”

Thinking Men Feels Humans Heart Book Passion Felt Nature Natural My Own Objects Gentle Human Life Agency Humankind Careless Power Of Nature

Book:The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth

Source: The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth

“. . . you may think I waste my breath Pretending that there can be passion That has more life in it than death”

Thinking May Passion Waste Breaths Pretending Idealism

Book:Later Poems

Source: Later Poems

“We are often moved with passion and think it to be zeal.”

Thinking Passion Moved Zeal

Author:Thomas a Kempis

“As the tenor roars his passion, I think sadly of my spreading middle, and his.”

Thinking Passion Middle Aging Tenors

Author:Mason Cooley

“In fact the whole passion ordinarily termed love (and heaven help me if I can think of any other term to apply to it) is of such exceeding triviality that I see nothing that I think comparable with it.”

Ifs Thinking Love I Can Whole Facts Helping Passion Heaven Term Help Me Triviality

Book:Cicero

Source: Cicero

“An immoderate fondness for dress, for pleasure, and for sway, are the passions of savages; the passions that occupy those uncivilized beings who have not yet extended the dominion of the mind, or even learned to think with the energy necessary to concatenate that abstract train of thought which produces principles.... that women from their education and the present state of civilized life, are in the same condition, cannotbe controverted.”

Thinking Mind States Passion Energy Pleasure Principles Conditions Produce Dresses Train Abstract Thoughtful Civilized Savages Dominion Fondness Uncivilized Train Of Thought

Author:Mary Wollstonecraft

“First, I think of myself as a brand, a businesswoman. Musician is something I just do because it's my passion - I love it and it's something I do for fun. I love music and I love to make people dance.”

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Author:Paris Hilton

“I think the reason I went into theater, ultimately, was because that was one of multicultural groups. Because you identify with other people that share similar passions to you, so it didn't matter how much melanin was in their skin.”

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Author:Keegan-Michael Key

“I'd love to continue to produce movies. My number one passion is acting, but I also think there's something so special in being able to support a script and an idea, and take it all the way through to fruition. I think that process is so rewarding.”

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Author:Roberto Aguire

“I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project. The project that influenced me the most is this cooking show I do online. I film it all myself, and I think making so many of those gave me the confidence that all I need is a camera, and I could go and do an interview. The freedom to be a filmmaker - you just need a camera.”

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Author:Tamra Davis

“I think that sometimes the difference between winning and losing, success and failure, is this gray line between will, passion and self-belief that says, 'I'm going to do this'.”

Thinking Self Sometimes Passion Winning Belief Differences Lines Losing Gray Success And Failure Winning And Losing Belief In Self

Author:Howard Schultz

“Here are poems from a new generation of writers who honor the magnetic fields of the real; who feel and think with full and open-eyed passion; who focus heat as the magnifying glass focuses sun: until the paper catches. Read them.”

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Author:Jane Hirshfield

“One is conscious of no brave and noble earnestness in it, of no generalized passion for intellectual and spiritual adventure, of no organized determination to think things out. What is there is a highly self-conscious and insipid correctness, a bloodless respectability submergence of matter in manner--in brief, what is there is the feeble, uninspiring quality of German painting and English music.”

Source: H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series

“I think if you checked the attendance records of all the announcers, you'd find a lot better record than you would of anybody else in any other business because we love the game and have a passion for it.”

Ifs Thinking Passion Games Records Attendance Announcers

Author:Ernie Harwell

“No matter what you do next, the world needs your energy, your passion, your impatience for progress. Don't shrink from risk. And tune out those critics and cynics. History rarely yields to one person, but think, and never forget, what happens when it does. That can be you. That should be you. That must be you.”

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Author:Tim Cook

“A man often thinks he rules himself, when all the while he is ruled and managed; and while his understanding directs one design, his affections imperceptibly draw him into another.”

Thinking Men Passion Understanding Emotion Design Draws Affection

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“You have to have the passion. I could not live if I wasn't an actor. If you're just in it for beautiful dresses and movie stars, then I think you should not be an actor.”

Ifs Thinking Should Beautiful Passion Actors Stars Dresses Movie Star Beautiful Dress

Author:Diane Kruger

“I think the brain is a dynamic system in which some parts control or suppress other parts. And if perhaps one has damage in one of the controlling or suppressing areas, then you may have the emergence or eruption of something, whether it is a seizure, a criminal trait - - or even a sudden musical passion.”

Ifs Thinking May Passion Brain Areas Musical Criminals Damage Traits Emergence Suppressing Seizures Eruption

Author:Oliver Sacks

“I find many women are intimidated by "career women"! Bottom line: snap judgments about what you think others' perceptions might be about you, personally or professionally, can be more dangerous or damaging to you than those who are uncomfortable with your stature or your smarts. If you are smart and focused on your career, remind yourself that no one can ever take away your drive and your passion.”

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Author:Jenna Lee

“You can try your passion for a while and see if it works and if it doesn't, at least you tried. I think that's why I quit my job and went back to acting. I said this is what I'm going to dedicate my life to doing because I didn't want to look up and say, "Man I wish I would have been an actor. I wish I would have tried."”

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Author:Jay Ellis

“One of the things that personally kept me in music was that it has always been my passion,my vision and change. No matter how far I may think I can go without it, it always tend to slap me right back in the face! So why not do what naturally fills your soul. Music completes me.”

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Author:Mandisa

“Find something you enjoy and love and you're passionate about. And then dedicate all you've got to make it a success. And if you have those two things, I think with your passion and dedication, there is nothing that you cannot accomplish.”

Ifs Thinking Two Passion Enjoy And Love Passionate Accomplish Two Things Dedication

Author:Anousheh Ansari

“The weight changes and balance that I have become accustomed to in riding have helped me to feel what the car is doing. It has become instinctive to me and I think that has something to do with why I am doing so well in my passion for racing.”

Thinking Feels Wells Passion Car Balance Weight Racing Riding Accustomed My Passion

Author:Liz Halliday

“Internet has been really amazing, and I think it's a place of great passion, creativity, and knowledge.”

Thinking Has Beens Passion Creativity Internet Really Amazing Great Passion

Author:Lauren Mayberry

“The saints are like the Lord, but so are all people who keep the commandments of Christ; but those who live according to their own passions and do not repent are like the devil. I think that if this mystery were revealed to the world, then they would stop serving the devil, and every one would strive to serve the Lord with all his strength, and to be like Him.”

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Author:Silouan the Athonite

“His passion was the Galaxy. In retrospect, it's fitting that we won a championship for him this last year because I think he was so passionate about this team and loved every single player and the organization.”

Thinking Years Lasts Passion Player Team Organization Passionate Last Year Championship Galaxy Fitting Retrospect

Author:Steve Sampson

“I don't think of marriage as the drudge work that a lot of sitcoms and movies might have shown it to be, I think it's more deadly murderous rage, unadulterated passion, soul-crushing purgatorial dread... It's more interesting.”

Thinking Soul Might Passion Interesting Rage Crush Dread Sitcom

Author:Rob Delaney

“As far as fighting, I just love to fight and enjoy my life more because of that. I think that it is pretty apparent to those who know me that I do this because of the love. I am not looking to get famous or acquire a bunch of cash. I am following my passion and that's what is about for me.”

Thinking Knows Fighting Passion Enjoy Following Bunch Acquire Cash Know Me My Passion

Author:Urijah Faber

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