![I have been fortunate to work in places where people have a passion for their work. At HHS the passion sort of exceeds passion - it's a vocation.... I obviously knew that there were certainly some challenges that I would be taking on both with the work and the politics. [But] I probably did not have the right expectation level with regard to the number and volume of crises that would occur.](/assets/img/quote-photos/i-have-been-fortunate-to-work-in-places-where-people-have-a-passion-for-their-wor-638935587829858538.jpg)
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passion numbers study
It is always noteworthy that all those who seriously study this science [the theory of numbers] conceive a sort of passion for it. Carl Friedrich Gauss
passion sky littles
Her face was working and twitching with passion, but his looked up at the sky, still quiet, neither angry nor afraid, but a little sad. C. S. Lewis
passion night years
Are not lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but faint and uncertain even in the best) of that something which you were born desiring, and which, beneath the flux of other desires and in all the momentary silences between the louder passions, night and day, year by year, from childhood to old age, you are looking for, watching for, listening for? You have never had it.
passion creative energy
Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can't do it without that passion. Agnes de Mille
passion dancer technique
Dancers aren't made of their technique, but their passion.
passion political wasps
An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting. Agnes Repplier
passion oats dirt
The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest. Charles Dudley Warner
passion desire taste
The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times. Charles de Gaulle
passion equality want
Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that's the way he shows his passion for equality
numbers worry firsts
My worrying, for instance, was a scene in which I looked at myself while I had the sensation of being boxed in. I call that worrying, It has happened to me a number of times after that first time. Carlos Castaneda
numbers jewels scales
The total number of Dirichlet's publications is not large: jewels are not weighed on a grocery scale.
numbers important problem
The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.
numbers endurance vices
The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number. Charles Caleb Colton
numbers sides smallest
The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands. Charles Simmons
numbers people wish
There is no question that everybody who works in show business is lucky because of the number of people who wish they where working in show business. Brent Spiner
numbers speak
We know we don't get a lot of attention. We just feel we're a numbers team. We let our numbers speak for us. Selvin Young
numbers bills constitution
I`ve passed on a number of bills. I`ve studied the Constitution myself. I am reasonably well educated. Dianne Feinstein
numbers government cells
It is my hope that the number of stem cell lines available for federally-funded research will be expanded so that the government can continue to participate in this vital research and provide hope to the millions of Americans with diseases that might be cured.
expectations i-can do-the-best
I know there are a lot of expectations of me, and I will do the best I can. Carlos Beltran
expectations stupidity conform
It was stupidity that forced us to discard anything that did not conform with ourself - reflective expectations.
expectations world too-late
We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me. Charles Dickens
expectations people words-of-wisdom
So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.
expectations woods grain
No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.
expectations ugly helping
Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?
expectations shining quality
Shining outward qualities, although they may excite first-rate expectations, are not unusually found to be the companions of second-rate abilities.
expectations not-good-enough deadline
Meeting the deadlines is not good enough, beating the deadlines is my expectation. Dhirubhai Ambani
expectations assumption
All work flows from some underlying assumptions, and the content of that faith can dramatically change our expectations for our work. David Kim