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Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed or governed their passions, but because they have cultivate their understandings.
My legacy as governor was UConn and the cities. This is my passion. When I was governor, I would call Waterbury the center of the universe.
In order to be a great marketer, you have to be focused and intense and look at scarcity, urgency, activity and passion in the marketplace.
Democracy isn't solely about polite conversations in parliaments. It needs to be continually refreshed with raw passions, anger and ideals.
Earl Nightingale never let a day go by that he didn`t learn something new and, in turn, pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.
Best way to measure your passion is simply asking would you do it for free? If money is your motivation, then it's not really your passion.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
Epicurus was in favour of friendly sex but not of grand passions or marriage and children, viewing them as sources of trouble and vexation.
Peace-not passion, not personal possessions, not personal accomplishments nor happiness-is one of the greatest blessings a man can receive.
Talent is the discipline, commitment, and willpower to practice/train/study often, long, and hard. Discover your passion and pay the price.
That is like throwing two virgins into a bed. Enthusiasm, passion, and ignorance are not a good combination. Someone is likely to get hurt.
Sadly, children's passion for thinking often ends when they encounter a world that seeks to educate them for conformity and obedience only.
He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor.
Building takes passion and energy. Maintenance is awful. It's nothing but fatigue. Once you reach the top, maintaining that beast is awful.
You can take a handful of dollars, a good story, and people with passion and make a movie that will stand up against any $70 million movie.
I think space, architectural space, is my thing. It's not about facade, elevation, making image, making money. My passion is creating space.
My passion strengthens daily to quit political turmoil, and retire into the bosom of my family, the only scene of sincere and purehappiness.
When Jesus wept, the falling tear in mercy flowed beyond all bound; when Jesus groaned, a trembling fear seized all the guilty world around.
From my earliest days, reading was my passion, and at Cambridge, where I studied English literature, my intellectual life deepened and grew.
A liking for truth at any cost is a passion that spares nothing and that nothing resists. It's a vice, at times a comfort, or a selfishness.
A government by the passions of the multitude, or, no less correctly, according to the vices, and ambitions of their leaders is a democracy.
We are perfectionists. We are hungry to work all the time. We are entertained by every aspect of business and we never want to stop working.
It is the rare architect who does not hope in his heart to design a great building and for whom the quest is not a quiet, consuming passion.
The great lesson about filmmaking is never take "no" for an answer, especially if you have a lot of passion and inspiration to do something.
Collaboration - the ultimate intertwining of skills, passions, and knowledge - is what concocts the most shatterproof forms of changemaking.
When we dream with the courage of our soul, we dream sacred dreams - fresh, creative, and able to infuse us with passion and courage to act.
He thrived with passion and compassion, humor and style. We had him whether we know who he was or did not know, he was ours and we were his.
In how many lives does love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of the grand passion than of a grand opera.
I play really hard. I put my body on the line every damn practice. Every day in the games. That's my passion. That's how I give to the game.
A lot of people like to think that polio was a inspiration in what I do. I think that music has to do with what kind of passion do you have.
Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, depreciating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room.
If you make something with love and, you know, passion and you tell a real story, I think it will always find an audience somehow, you know.
In Scripture we read of two kinds of men-the spiritual man controlled by the Holy Spirit, and the "carnal" man who is ruled by his passions.
My passion for innovation and my interest in the 'business of science' has seen Biocon commercialize many innovative platforms and products.
People with passion are people who will destroy - for a man's passion is not true until he proves how much he's willing to sacrifice for it.
The great sins and fires break out of me like the terrible leaves from the bough in the violent spring. I am a walking fire, I am all leaves.
He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Selflove seems so often unrequited.
All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.
The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all.
I have a secret passion for horse riding. I haven't done it for ages, but I used to have a horse. I love it; it's one of my favourite things.
Both of my parents are surfers, of course, so they understood where my passion for surfing was at and I guess they saw the talent that I had.
Art is a language. It's not a skill. It's not a stunt. It's not something that you just learn to do and put it down. It comes from the heart.
The passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it, even (or especially) when it's not going well, is the hallmark of the growth mindset.
The best thing you can do in the whole world is to play baseball. That's a lucky job... The passion for baseball is always going to be there.
I love you with the passion of a drowning man for breathing air. I can't just have enough of you and having you a little would be disastrous.
Faith is a marvel, and yet no human being is excluded from it; for that in which all human life is united is passion, and faith is a passion.
And so we smile on, Feeding the truths we share With a union of our souls, Cathedral slaves of our passion Which builds beauty amongst chaos.
Giving builds loyal customers and turns those customers into supporters...You can find passion and profit and meaning all at once, right now.
I used to write cookbooks. It was passion to try to bring healthy and fun recipes to people's homes. It was a way to bring my home to theirs.
I don't believe other people are ever as foolishly excited as I am while I'm working. How could they be? Writers would have to live in trees.