Famous Quotes & Sayings

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 analytic psychotherapist thus has a threefold battle to wage -- in his own mind against the forces which seek to drag him down from the analytic level; outside the analysis, against opponents who dispute the importance he attaches to the sexual instinctual forces and hinder him from making use of them in his scientific technique; and inside the analysis, against his patients, who at first behave like opponents but later on reveal the overvaluation of sexual life which dominates them, and who try to make him captive to their socially untamed passion.

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.

Steven Levy

At the core of Silicon Valley is a passion for 'yes.'

Steven Pressfield

In my experience, depth of work consists of two components. The first is recklessness; the second is discipline. Dionysian; Apollonian. Passion;reason.

Steven Pressfield

When we conquer our fears, we discover a boundless, bottomless, inexhaustible well of passion.

Steven Pressfield

I love memoirs, particularly obscure ones because the writer is usually a regular guy just telling what happened to him and to his friends. What these tales lack in artfulness they make up for in passion and authenticity. For a writer of fiction, they are solid gold. I have stolen so much from memoirs it's ridiculous.

Steven Morrissey

I think perhaps I touch on a different passion in people. It’s not simple the passion of rock ‘n’ roll rebellion - it’s more romantic than sexual.

Steven Bochco

When all of your decisions are based on economics, you end up with a sameness of vision. You're not taking the risks, you're not exploiting the passions of your creators. You're manufacturing product for a huge vending machine.

Sue Enquist

Anything worthy of your passion, should be worthy of your preparation.

Sue Monk Kidd

I marvel at how good I was before I met him, how I lived molded to the smallest space possible, my days the size of little beads that passed without passion through my fingers. So few people know what they're capable of. At forty-two I'd never done anything that took my own breath away, and I suppose now that was part of the problem - my chronic inability to astonish myself.

Robert Burns

Misled by fancy's meteor ray, By passion driven; But yet the light that led astray Was light from heaven.

Russell Baker

Long words, fat talk they may tell us something about ourselves. Has the passion for fat in the language increased as self-confidence has waned?

Rose Macaulay

Human passions against eternal laws -- that is the everlasting conflict.

Rose McGowan

I never started out trying to be an actor. That was not my passion, this was not my thing.

Romeo Santos

I try to transmit emotion and soul in my voice, but my true passion has always been writing. I feel more like a writer than anything else.

Umberto Eco

After so many years even the fire of passion dies, and with it what was believed the light of the truth. Who of us is able to say now whether Hector or Achilles was right, Agamemnon or Priam, when they fought over the beauty of a woman who is now dust and ashes?

Umberto Eco

I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.

Umberto Eco

I felt no passion, no jealousy, no nostalgia. I was hollow, clear-headed, clean, and as emotionless as an aluminum pot.

Umberto Eco

That day, I began to be incredulous. Or, rather, I regretted having been credulous. I regretted having allowed myself to be borne away by a passion of the mind. Such is credulity.

Travis Pastrana

With motocross I've found that passion becomes your identity and that identity breaks all barriers.

Rhona Mitra

There's nothing particularly physical that I find attractive in a man. It's men with a passion for something that I find attractive.

Rhonda Britten

Purpose directs passion and passion ignites purpose.

Rhonda Byrne

When you find your purpose, it is like your heart has been set alight with passion. You know it absolutely, without any doubt.

Rick Warren

Passion drives perfection.

Trisha Yearwood

Music is my No. 1 passion. If you made me choose between music and food, it's definitely music.

Tracey Ullman

As you get older, you realize it's work. It's that fine line between love and companionship. But passionate love? I'd love to know how to make that last.

Torsten Wiesel

Science is not an intelligence test. Intuition is important, knowing what kind of questions to ask. The other thing is a passion for getting to the core of the problem.