“ My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose. ”
- Bette Davis- Copy
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“ Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot. ”
- D. H. Lawrence- Copy
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“ Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things. ”
- Denis Diderot- Copy
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“ The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless. ”
- Dorothy L. Sayers- Copy
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“ Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion. ”
- Georg Wilhelm- Copy
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“ Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself! ”
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus- Copy
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“ When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us. ”
- Margery Allingham- Copy
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“ I had learnt to seek intensity…more of life, a concentrated sense of life. ”
- Nina Berberova- Copy
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“ Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. ”
- Oprah Winfrey- Copy
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“ I believe that one of life's greatest risks is never daring to risk. ”
- Oprah Winfrey- Copy
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“ You will need to find your passion. Don't give up on finding it because then all you're doing is waiting for the Reaper. ”
- Randy Pausch- Copy
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“ You will not find your passion in things and you will not find your passion in money. The more things and the more money you have, the more you will look around and use that as the metric and there will be someone with more. ”
- Randy Pausch- Copy
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“ Your pasion must come from the things that fuel you from the inside. Honors and awards are nice things, but only to the extent that they regard the real respect from your peers. ”
- Randy Pausch- Copy
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“ It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion. ”
- Rebecca West- Copy
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“ Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still. ”
- Robert Sternberg- Copy
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“ The biggest thing [Frida] brought into my life was this peacefulness. I still get passionate about things, but my passion is not so scattered and it's not needy. It's a lot more powerful because it comes with this groundedness and peacefulness. That it's about the process, not about the results. ”
- Salma Hayek- Copy
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“ There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger. ”
- Saul Bellow- Copy
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“ Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive 'nows.' ”
- Sue Halpern- Copy
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“ Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. ”
- Abigail Adams- Copy
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“ Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things. ”
- Denis Diderot- Copy
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“ The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
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“ The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion. ”
- Nadia Boulanger- Copy
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“ Take heed lest passion swayThy judgment to do aught, which else free willWould not admit. ”
- John Milton- Copy
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