Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harriet Lerner

If we only listened with the same passion that we feel about being heard.

Ian Somerhalder

Collaboration - the ultimate intertwining of skills, passions, and knowledge - is what concocts the most shatterproof forms of changemaking.

Ian Somerhalder

The world is so tremendously spectacular that every visual, sense, and sparked connection swells my unrestrained passion for life. I find I feel this the most when I am immersed in nature and sliding into the bloodstream of the wilderness.

Ian Somerhalder

So many people are working in industries that don't inspire them, to pay the bills and survive. In an ideal world, everyone would get paid to work within their passion and expand in their talents. If you have a skill, a passion, and a love for creating change, the best way to support us is to co-create with us.

Hugh Prather

Whenever I find myself arguing for something with great passion, I can be certain I'm not convinced.

Horace

Pry not into the affairs of others, and keep secret that which has been entrusted to you, though sorely tempted by wine and passion.

Guy Forget

Anything is possible as long as you have the passion.

Guy de Maupassant

Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food

He told me as soon as he passed it to me to shoot it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

love as a passion—it is our European specialty—must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to the Provencal poet-cavaliers, those brilliant, ingenious men of the "gai saber," to whom Europe owes so much, and almost owes itself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

You implanted your highest goal into the heart of those passions: then they became your virtues and joys.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Just as bones, tissues, intestines, and blood vessels are enclosed in a skin that makes it possible to bear the sight of a human being, so the agitations and passions of the soul are wrapped up in vanity: it is the soul's skin.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The grand style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please, it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills.

George Berkeley

That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.

George Bernard Shaw

There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.

George Bernard Shaw

Is the devil to have all the passions as well as all the good tunes?

George Bernard Shaw

There is only one universal passion fear.

Gemma Arterton

Music is my biggest passion aside from anything else.

Gemma Arterton

You can't connect with something you're not passionate about.

Galen Rowell

My advice for climbers or photographers is to really tune into your own passions and not just what other people are doing or aren't doing. Figure out what works for you, what turns you on, what gives you the greatest amount of energy and feeling of satisfaction.

Freeman Dyson

For me too, the periodic table was a passion. ... As a boy, I stood in front of the display for hours, thinking how wonderful it was that each of those metal foils and jars of gas had its own distinct personality.

Fred Brooks

To only a fraction of the human race does God give the privilege of earning one's bread doing what one would have gladly pursued free, for passion.

Erich Fromm

I only wish to be the fountain of love from which you drink, every drop promising eternal passion.

Erich Fromm

Reason flows from the blending of rational thought and feeling. If the two functions are torn apart, thinking deteriorates into schizoid intellectual activity and feeling deteriorates into neurotic life-damaging passions.

Gary Myers

Everyone stayed in the saddle and passed the first test.

Publilius Syrus

Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last.

Some speak and expound, and while speaking and lecturing, they pass away.

Jim Thorpe

The sounds of Bye, Bye Blackbird still stung him to the day he passed away.

John Lurie

The thing with sculpture is, 90% of the time, when I pass a piece of sculpture, it's in public or somewhere, and it's just, how inconvenient that that's there. It takes up so much room, and it's so oppressive.

Regina Hall

I've always loved shows like '48 Hours' and 'Dateline,' and I've always been passionate about getting to the truth, and journalism.

I wanted people to be more than just passive consumers. I wanted them to be part of it.

Television viewing has been, for the most part, a passive activity.

It was too dark. The passengers couldn't see the stone-throwers' faces.