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That’s when I first learned that it wasn’t enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion for it.
But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist the good are ever too luke-warm.
You taught me to be nice, so nice that now I am so full of niceness, I have no sense of right and wrong, no outrage, no passion.
When magic through nerves and reason passes, Imagination, force, and passion will thunder. The portrait of the world is changed.
Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization.
The thrills, the turmoil, the passion, the stunning surprises of that roller coaster ride in '72 caused our emotions to run wild
And in this passion for understanding her soul lay close to his; she had him all to herself. But he must be made abstract first.
What I could not support was a dumb war, a rash war, a war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics.
My main hope for my children would be that whatever profession or calling they choose in life, that they pursue it with passion.
If painting is no longer needed, it seems a pity that some of us are born into the world with such a passion for line and color.
Your love for Jesus Christ and your discipleship in His cause must be the consuming preoccupation and passion of your mortality.
The road to success is not easy to navigate, but with hard work, drive and passion, it's possible to achieve the American dream.
If I was able to tell my story with the passion I felt, my lecture might help others find a path to fulfilling their own dreams.
I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. That was my childhood thing.
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.
Freud was way off base in considering sex the fundamental motivation. The ruling passion in men is minding each other's business.
Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.
Therefore, vegetarianism alone can give us the quality of com-passion, which distinguishes man from the rest of the animal world.
I sort of feel sorry for the next man who gets me. I may just kill him with passion. He'd better be strong and have a good heart!
In the same degree in which a man's mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is it nearer to strength.
Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity these, three and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?
I grew a strong passion for music. The more I did the music thing it's like I saw myself going far with it. I believed in myself.
If talented people across teams, functions, and geographies share the same passion and dedication, the results can be remarkable.
It is nevertheless a game of considerable passion, either of the explosive type, or that which burns inwardly and sears the soul.
My second passion besides fighting is traveling. So, for me to be able to go somewhere like the places I've been is just awesome.
The only noise now was the rain, pattering softly with the magnificent indifference of nature for the tangled passions of humans.
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.
O May, sweet-voice one, going thus before, Forever June may pour her warm red wine Of life and passions,--sweeter days are thine!
Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.
Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.
The red rose whispers of passion, And the white rose breathes of love; O, the red rose is a falcon, And the white rose is a dove.
Try hard to find out what you're good at and what your passions are, and where the two converge, and build your life around that.
Love is a consistent passion to give, not a meek persistent hope to receive. The only demand of life is the privilege to love all.
If you're from South London you feel like you're always trying to win people over, so perhaps that underdog passion comes through.
The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
My own passion for caravan holidays has been occasionally commented on by the media. It is certainly something that I am proud of.
The passion to win games, the incredible, focused energy and also the camaraderie of the team were all things that I really loved.
Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting.
Fame and fortune should never get in front of your passion. The passion will generate the fame and fortune, if you're good enough.
Follow your passion. Nothing - not wealth, success, accolades or fame - is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don't enjoy.
Revolution is a drama of passion. We did not win the people over by appealing to reason but by developing hope, trust, fraternity.
It is always noteworthy that all those who seriously study this science [the theory of numbers] conceive a sort of passion for it.
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I hate rarely, though when I hate. I hate murderously.
The key to success is to find things that you have a passion for and would enjoy doing, even if you weren't getting paid to do it.
All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.
Crime fiction is a genre for writing stories about people - about conflict, about guilt, about passion, about the human condition.
The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
Passion gives you an advantage over others, because one person with passion is greater than ninety-nine who have only an interest!