Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andy Hertzfeld

But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't good enough. And also his creative spirit. You know he really, really wants to do something great.

Andy Hertzfeld

You show me a great program and I'll show you a passionate individual somewhere behind it.

Amy Irving

I have a passion to do theater.

Ally Carter

What?" He cut a grin at Kat when he saw the impressed look on her face. "Corporate espionage is my second greatest passion.' "With your first being..." Kat prompted. "Gelato," Hale said, and turned back to the group.

Anthony Jeselnik

It's always difficult when someone close to you passes away. But it's really tough when they're on top of you.

Andrea Bocelli

To sing opera, one needs two things: the voice and the passion - and above all, the passion.

Andrea Bocelli

I have to face life with a newly found passion. I must rediscover the irresistible will to learn, to live and to love.

Andrea Bocelli

You have to have great passion, because to sing operatic music requires lots of work. I study for at least two hours every day. The voice is like an instrument and requires constant exercise.

Keith Coogan

I started out as Keith Mitchell. I had done probably about ten years of television work under that name. Then my grandfather passed away in 1984. I wanted to honor him and his name.

Alan Cohen

The first step to boosting your income is to identify where your passion lives and to be true to it.

When we're focused, we can go on runs like that. In the second half, we started making more unselfish passes and made things happen.

Nolan Bushnell

Sometimes when you hire people who have to pass a Mr. Congeniality test, you end up losing some of the non-conformists who will give you different views and perspectives.

Lucy Punch

I was very chatty and talkative and always getting sent out of class for talking too much and not paying attention, passing notes.

William Shakespeare

Warble, child; make passionate my sense of hearing.

Oscar Arias

I often say that poverty needs no passport to travel.

Wayne Gretzky

I get a feeling about where a teammate is going to be. A lot of times, I can turn and pass without even looking.

Damien Hirst

I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'

Craig Patrick

We didn't sense that there was any problems with the shoulder. He passed the physical.

We don't have any way to pass it on.

Xavi

You pressure, you want possession, you want to attack. Some teams can't or don't pass the ball. What are you playing for? What's the point? That's not football. Combine, pass, play. That's football - for me, at least.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness.

Ada Leverson

When a passion is not realized ... it fades away, or becomes ideal worship--Dante--Petrarch--that sort of thing!

Ada Louise Huxtable

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.

Abraham Flexner

Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking ... Institutions of learning should be devoted to the cultivation of curiosity, and the less they are deflected by the consideration of immediacy of application, the more likely they are to contribute not only to human welfare, but to the equally important satisfaction of intellectual interest, which may indeed be said to have become the ruling passion of intellectual life in modern times.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal

Alexander Hamilton

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

Alex Pettyfer

When you have passion it changes your perspective on things, you want every tiny detail to be right. You wanna give your all.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

In every life there is one particular event that is decisive for the entire person-for his fate, his convictions, his passions.

Aleister Crowley

They look for a victim to chivy, and howl him down, and finally lynch him in a sheer storm of sexual frenzy which they honestly imagine to be moral indignation, patriotic passion or some equally allowable emotion, it may be an innocent Negro, a Jew like Leo Frank, a harmless half-witted German; a Christ-like idealist of the type of Debs, an enthusiastic reformer like Emma Goldman.

Aleister Crowley

The greatest, like Rembrandt, paint a gallant, a hag, and a carcass with equal passion and rapture; they love the truth as it is. They do not admit that anything can be ugly or evil; its existence justifies itself. This is because they know themselves to be part of an harmonious unity; to disdain any item of it would be to blaspheme the whole. The Thelemite is able to revel in any experience soever; in each he recognizes the tokens of ultimate Truth. It is surely obvious, even intellectually, that all phenomena are interdependent, and therefore involve each other.

Albert Einstein

Time is relative; its only worth depends upon what we do as it is passing.

Algernon Sidney

Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect.

Alfred North Whitehead

It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty in our present society .