Quotes about Passion
Having an enemy gives you a great story to tell customers, too. Taking a stand always stands out. People get stoked by conflict. They take sides. Passions are ignited. And that's a good way to get people to take notice.
— Jason Fried
Keep in mind why you're doing what you're doing. Great businesses have a point of view, not just a product or service. You have to believe in something. You need to have a backbone. You need to know what you're willing to fight for. And then you need to show the world.
— Jason Fried
The new luxury is to shed the shackles of deferred living—to pursue your passions now, while you're still working.
— Jason Fried
Music is my mistress, and she plays second fiddle to no one.
— Duke Ellington
The difference is that these young people take it for granted that they're going to get whatever they want, and that we almost always took it for granted that we shouldn't. Only, I wonder—the thing one's so certain of in advance: can it ever make one's heart beat as wildly?
— Edith Wharton
Lily had no real intimacy with nature but she had a passion for the appropriate and could be keenly sensitive to a scene which was the fitting background of her own sensations.
— Edith Wharton
He took [the book] up, and found himself plunged in an atmosphere unlike any he had ever breathed in books; so warm, so rich, and yet so ineffably tender, that it gave a new and haunting beauty to the most elementary of human passions.
— Edith Wharton
She clung to him desperately, and as he drew her to his knees on the couch she felt as if they were being sucked down together into some bottomless abyss.
— Edith Wharton
And if you can't come into the room without my feeling all over me a ripple of flame, & if, wherever you touch me, a heart beats under your touch, & if, when you hold me, & I don't speak, it's because all the words in me seem to have become throbbing pulses, & all my thoughts are a great golden blur (Joslin 20).
— Edith Wharton
He had no desire to marry at all—that had been the whole truth of it till he met Undine Spragg. And now—
— Edith Wharton
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
— Edmund Burke
THE CHARACTERISTIC passion of Burke's life was his love of order.
— Edmund Burke