Quotes of: Passion Keyword

Perhaps it is partly that we need to love books ourselves as parents, grandparents and teachers in order to pass on that passion for stories to our children. It's not about testing and reading schemes, but about loving stories and passing on that pas...

Michael Morpurgo

My father loved 'Godard and Truffaut.' He was more artsy. My mom loved the 'Bourne' trilogy; she likes big blockbusters. She loved that I did 'I Am Legend.' My passion for acting came with my passion for movies.

Alice Braga

I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics. So forgive me. But I am passionate about this country. I am equally passionate about the potential of the people who live here.

Simon Cowell

Think about what you are passionate about. Dream about it. Write it down. Read it always. Now, live it. Whatever you are passionate about will directly lead you to your purpose!

Daily Drive 365

It is the very use of coercion, positive or negative, that breaks or deadens the spirit, which is the source of motivation.

Don't Be Nice, Be Real: Balancing Passion for Self with Compassion for Others

The Element is about discovering your self, and you can't do this if you're trapped in a compulsion to conform. You can't be yourself in a swarm.

The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

We are all born with extraordinary powers of imagination, intelligence, feeling, intuition, spirituality, and of physical and sensory awareness. (p.9)

The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

And the reason I came to IBM was I think - I always say at a really early age, I learned you've got to be passionate about what you do. No matter what it is, you put too much, your heart and soul in it, you have to be passionate about it. You make to...

Ginni Rometty

You will live once on earth. Live to pursue what you want. Do not wait for a next life... Reach out to your dreams.

The Alphabets of Success: Passion Driven Life

I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness and narrowness of mind.

The History of the Peloponnesian War

We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.

The Middle Years

That we cannot rise equal to situations when we are in them — that is the tragedy of life.

A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953

What could he be thinking of? He seemed to be trying to remember something, perhaps an engagement, perhaps an excuse to leave her. For eventually, they all made some excuse.

The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne

What stirs lyrical poets to their finest flights is neither the delight of the senses nor the fruitful contentment of the settled couple; not the satisfaction of love, but its passion. And passion means suffering.

Love in the Western World

I wanted to love this piano. I wanted to invite music back into my life.

The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier

We are not as Christ-centered and cross-cherishing as we should be, because we do not ponder the truth that everything good, and everything bad that God turns for the good, was purchased by the sufferings of Christ.

The Passion of Jesus Christ

The Bible says he was raised not just after the blood-shedding, but by it. This means that what the death of Christ accomplished was so full and so prefect that the resurrection was the reward and vindication of Christ's achievement in death.

The Passion of Jesus Christ

Love, they say, enslaves and passion is a demon and many have been lost for love. I know this is true, but I know too that without love we grope the tunnels of our lives and never see the sun.

The Passion

Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.

A Reading Diary: A Passionate Reader's Reflections on a Year of Books

There are reasons we congregate in these hot spots- to worship beauty and to feel its effects light up the electrolytes in the bloodstream.

A Year in the World: Journeys of a Passionate Traveller

Running is a simple activity. Just lace up your shoes and go, one step at a time, like each breath.

Running with the Kenyans: Passion, Adventure, and the Secrets of the Fastest People on Earth