Quotes about Passion

The artist needs no religion beyond his work.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed — there's so little competition.

Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don't be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you. The chances are that they aren't paying any attention to you. It's your attention to yourself that is so stultifying.

Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don't be concerned about whether people are watching your or critising you. The chances are that they aren't paying any attention to you.

It is not more vacation we need — it is more vocation.

how could I, fool that I am, go on sitting in my office, or here at home, instead of leaping onto a train with my eyes shut and opening them only when I am with you?

I cannot become modest; too many things burn in me; the old solutions are falling apart; nothing has been done yet with the new ones. So I begin, everywhere at once, as if I had a century ahead of me.

Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.

Mona Simpson, rose to honor him at his memorial service, that's not what she focused on. Yes, she talked about his work and his work ethic. But mostly she raised these as manifestations of his passions. "Steve worked at what he loved," she said. What really moved him was love. "Love was his supreme virtue," she said, "his god of gods. "When [his son] Reed was born, he began gushing and

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.

I've had a different career than a lot of different quarterbacks, but this has been a career that I've loved and a position that I like being in.

I have a passion for racing, for competing and for fighting on the track.