Passion makes the world go around. It is it the juice that drives
creativity. When you care enough to put your heart into your work, passion
will keep you going through thick and thin.
See also
commitment, confidence, daring, effort, enthusiasm*, inspiration, love*,
persistence*, stimulation, vision
Quotes
‘Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint
which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.’
— Henri-Frédéric Amiel
‘I was on automatic pilot; ideas for gadgets kept coming, fed by a force of
energy flowing through me and around me. I wasn’t really conscious of pausing to
eat or sleep, I was caught up in a flurry of activity. I must have been
experiencing the same sort or rapture of creation I imagine composers or poets
get carried away by when they lose themselves in their work. I forgot about
everything else to concentrate on what I was doing. I’d work eighteen-hour
stretches and fall asleep in my clothes. Then I’d wake up in the middle of the
night, brew a pot of tea, and start work again. I was tired, but work had become
pure enjoyment.’
— Trevor Baylis
‘Feeling alone guides the mind.’
— Claude Bernard
‘I believe that all wisdom consists in
caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.’
— John Buchan
‘Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give
yourself up to it.’
— Gautama Buddha
‘Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.’
— Sydney Charles Buxton
‘Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles
and dies.’
— Albert Camus
‘If you believe in an idea, you don’t own you, it owns you.’
— Raymond Chandler
‘What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is
that idea—possessing them—that what has been said has still not been said
enough.’
— Eugene Delacroix
‘The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.’
— Agnes De Mille
‘The state of mind which enables a man to do work of this kind is
akin to that of the religious worshiper or the lover; the daily effort comes
from no deliberate intention or program, but straight from the heart.’
— Albert Einstein
‘I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.’
— Albert Einstein
‘Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavour and
human creations.’
— Albert Einstein
‘Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.’
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
‘Men are not moved by things, but the views they take of
them.’
— Epitectus
‘You must love your work as you love a mistress whom you want to glorify.
Once you are possessed by the creative urge there is no room for any other drive
or thought.’
— Carl Hauptman
‘Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing
great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter, we persevere in
nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.’
— William Hazlitt
‘Zeal will do more than knowledge.’
— William Hazlitt
‘It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking,
does not occur with regard to problems about which the thinker is lukewarm.’
— Mary Henle
‘If you care enough for the result, you will almost always attain it.’
— William James
‘Optimism is the father that leads to achievement.’
— Helen Keller
‘One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.’
— Helen Keller
‘If a man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to
live.’
— Martin Luther King
‘In art, truth and reality begin when one no longer understands what one is
doing or what one knows, and when there remains an energy that is all the
stronger for being constrained, controlled and compressed.’
— Henri Matisse
‘An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage
concludes it will also make a better soup.’
— H. L. Mencken
‘If you don’t invest very much, then defeat doesn’t hurt very much and
winning is not very exciting.’
— Dick Vermeil
‘Ideas won’t keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new
its custodians have fervour, live for it, and, if need be, die for it.’
— Alfred North Whitehead
‘The mind of an artist, in order to achieve the prodigious effort of freeing
whole and entire the work that is in him, must be incandescent…there must be no
obstacle in it, no foreign matter unconsumed.’
— Virginia Woolf
‘Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.’
— William Wordsworth
‘Innovation doesn’t happen until you want to do something badly enough.’
— Albert Yu
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