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There is no greater gift you can give or receive than to honor your calling. It's why you were born. And how you become most truly alive.
Don't die with your music (stories/talents) still inside you. Listen to your intuitive inner voice and find what passion stirs your soul.
Give yourself ten years of failing with a smile on your face. If, after ten years, you still have the passion, you're heading to success!
I've grown, and my passion for music has grown. I've become more advanced and I've enhanced my vocabulary. All around artist development.
I wrote the book [Today Matters] because I have a passion to help people personally grow. Really what it is, it's a personal growth book.
I really would not change anything. Have a passion for what you do, work hard, have great people with good personalities, enjoy the ride.
Cezanne was fated, as his passion was immense, to be immensely neglected, immensely misunderstood, and now, I think, immensely overrated.
If you don't have passion, everything you do will ultimately fizzle out or, at best, be mediocre. Is that how you want to live your life?
Sexual passion is the cause of war and the end of peace, the basis of what is serious... and consequently the concentration of all desire
Man peoples his current living space with a world of his own, crowded with the offspring of his fancies, desires, impulses, and passions.
Just as there are rocks which receive the constant shock and spray, the battering of waves, so there are heads about which passions roar.
Whether thats positive or not, people are talking about the Old Vic Theater again with passion and commitment and controversy and debate.
Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. It is strange that these voices often contradict each other?
I think what people are attracted to about me, if anything, is my passion. People got exposed to my passion through music and song first.
To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion.
Passion looks not beyond the moment of its existence. Better, it says, the kisses of love to day, than the felicities of heaven afar off.
Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its highest. Live in fragments no longer
A good civilization gives the greatest possible scope to the common passions and makes them intelligible among the great number of people.
Every sport, every profession, every group united by a single passion draws on a lexicon that is uniquely theirs, and theirs for a reason.
Every businessman, or every person who has a passion for his work, is torn for the time spent at work and the time spent with your family.
Art can't be taught; passion can't be taught; discipline can't be taught; but craft can be taught. And writing is both an art and a craft.
Love grows by not giving to us. And if our passion for poetry lives on and persists, it is because poetry offers us only its bits of lint.
I could not sleep when I got on the hunt for an idea, until I had caught it. This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck with me.
The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.
I feel a passion for what we're trying to do.I mean, why does somebody who's old who's a writer keep writing? Because that's who they are.
My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.
I don't know whether it's the athlete in me or the passion I have for the game: I always think that I can step back on the field and play.
Adventure is just about doing something you’ve never done— doing it with enthusiasm and curiosity: doing something difficult with passion.
It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause
I have been a teacher myself all my life. I have an intense passion to share with people. Our only salvation is in knowledge, in learning.
It is a certain rule that wit and passion are entirely incompatible. When the affections are moved, there is no place for the imagination.
The tragic incident of Luis Salom reminds us that our sport, our passion, is dangerous. We know it but, in a way, we don't think about it.
People are often vain of their passions, even of the worst, but envy is a passion so timid and shame-faced that no one ever dare avow her.
A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
I try to transmit emotion and soul in my voice, but my true passion has always been writing. I feel more like a writer than anything else.
If something rad is going on and it has to do with film, I want to be there. If it's getting coffee, I don't care. It's a passion of mine.
The more I read my poems, the more I find out about them. I still read them with the same passion I felt when I wrote them as a young man.
Your passion is your true power. The more you discover and express your passion for life, the more irresistible you will become to others.
So powerful is the charm of words, which for us reduces to manageable entities all the passions that would otherwise madden and destroy us.
I am an Addictive Personality, they say, a natural slave to passion - and many Doctors have warned me against it. I am a High-risk Patient.
Do your best at every job. Don't sleep! Success generates more success so be hungry for it. Hire good people with a passion for excellence.
It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy, you know. Killers, even.
Christ always had a passion for whatever He was doing. That's how I try to define myself as an athlete. That's the example I try to follow.
With passions stilled and one's nature firm, all destinies are in harmony; When the full moon of contemplation is reached you will be pure.
I still have so much passion to perform... That's who Johnny Weir is: I'm a figure skater, I'm an athlete. I want to have fun and enjoy it.
Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion?
Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks.
A true outlaw finds the balance between the passion in his heart and the reason in his mind. The outcome is the balance of might and right.
The love of fame is a passion natural and universal, which no man, however high or mean, however wise or ignorant, was yet able to despise.
He is next to the gods whom reason, and not passion, impels; and who, after weighing the facts, can measure the punishment with discretion.