Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tony Hsieh

Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.

Tommy Hilfiger

My passion for music has always inspired my designs.

Tom Sizemore

You must have to want it so badly, if there is any way you can live without it, get out of it. Being an unsuccessful actor is like having a skin disease. Make sure your passion is not misplaced.

Stephen Hawking

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

Stendhal

Every true passion thinks only of itself.

Stendhal

The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.

Spike Lee

It is really important that young people find something that they want to do and pursue it with passion. I'm very passionate about filmmaking. It's what I love to do.

Sigmund Freud

I have often felt as though I had inherited all the defiance and all the passions with which our ancestors defended their Temple and could gladly sacrifice my life for one great moment in history. And at the same time I always felt so helpless and incapable of expressing these ardent passions even by a word or a poem.

Sigmund Freud

The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.

Shenae Grimes

I don't define myself as an actor at all. Nor is that my greatest passion in life by any stretch of the imagination.

Shailene Woodley

If I'm passionate about something, I'll do everything I can to be a part of it.

Scott Weiss

Your happiness is at the intersection of your passions and learning from great people.

Richard Branson

Life's too short. If you're passionate - stand up.

Richard Branson

Put your passions to work to make this world a better place.

Richard Branson

When you are ready to make your first hires, look for people who understand your passion, want to add to your ideas and can envision ways to make improvements.

Tina Yothers

I stopped acting because I had other passions I wanted to pursue.

Tim Henman

I've always felt that my generation was the last group to have passion about the game. Some of today's guys don't seem to share that interest and it shows.

Thucydides

I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness and narrowness of mind.

Richard Branson

Ideally, since 80 percent of your life is spent working, you should start your business around something that is a passion of yours

Tim Reid

Just having hope ain't going to cut it. You've got to have hope, passion and skills.

Tiffeny Milbrett

If you are passionate about something, that will enable you to be the best you can be.

Tika Sumpter

A lot of the times we don't see enough of strength. Imagery is obviously a large part of it. I think it's important to see her [Michelle Obama] passion, her complexity, and to see her be challenged. Whether it's about forgiveness, or wanting to do more, it's what it is.

Tika Sumpter

I was working in customer service and had a verbally abusive boss. One day, I decided to quit and pursue my acting passion with everything I had. One week after quitting, I booked One Life to Live.

Thomas Szasz

Prostitution is said to be the world's oldest profession . It is, indeed, a model of all professional work: the worker relinquishes control over himself ... in exchange for money. Because of the passivity it entails, this is a difficult and, for many, a distasteful role.

Thomas Szasz

The passion to interpret as madness that with which we disagree seems to have infected the best of contemporary minds.

Steven Spielberg

It all starts with the script: it's not worth taking myself away from my family if I don't have something I'm really passionate about.

Toni Morrison

Passion is never enough; neither is skill.

Tom Stoppard

I love love. I love having a lover and being one. The insularity of passion. I love it. I love the way it blurs the distinction between everyone who isn't one's lover.

Thomas Keller

Historically in restaurants, the service staff is awarded significantly higher wages than cooks and other staff who prepare the food on which a restaurant's reputation is based. The gap in pay is so great that it is becoming increasingly difficult for young cooks to pursue their passion at the rate of pay restaurants are able to afford.

Thomas Keller

With passion, if you see the first asparagus of the springtime and you become passionate about it, so much the better, but three weeks later, when you’ve seen that asparagus every day now, passions have subsided. What’s going to make you treat the asparagus the same? It’s the desire.

Thomas Keller

This is the great challenge: to maintain passion for the everyday routine and the endlessly repeated act, to derive deep gratification from the mundane.

Thomas Keller

Its not about passion. Passion is something that we tend to overemphasize, that we certainly place too much importance on. Passion ebbs and flows. To me, it's about desire. If you have constant, unwavering desire to be a cook, then u'll be a great cook.

Thomas Chalmers

Even in the fiercest uproar of our stormy passions, conscience, though in her softest whispers, gives to the supremacy of rectitude the voice of an undying testimony.