Top 100 Quotes About Passion In Work
#1. Nothing more powerfully excites any affection than to conceal some part of its object, by throwing it into a kind of shade, whichat the same time that it shows enough to prepossess us in favour of the object, leaves still some work for the imagination.
David Hume
#2. I had prepared myself for the second half of my life [to be] filled with other passions that don't include being in front of the camera. And then all of a sudden I got more work and more work and more work. And I went, "Well maybe things have shifted." And I think they have.
Sandra Bullock
#3. For the most important decisions in your life, trust your intuition, and then work with everything you have, to prove it right.
Tim Cook
#4. The compulsion to work long years in pursuit of some inner vision must be fueled by stubborn fires.
Silvia Tennenbaum
#5. Education in the United States is a passion and a paradox. Millions want it, and commend it, and are busy about it. At the same time they degrade it by trying to get it free of charge and free of work.
Jacques Barzun
#6. In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's sake. The difference is that if that one person in a thousand is a man, we say, simply, that he is passionately keen on his job; if she is a woman, we say she is a freak.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#7. There is no 'master plan' on the road to the Nobel Prize. It represents a lot of hard work, a passion for that work and ... being in the right place at the right time. For me, that place was Caltech.
Ahmed Zewail
#8. Get in touch with your passion and put it to work at work.
Marilyn Suttle
#9. In many ways semantic search takes us back to the golden days of the Web when in terms of working online anything was possible as long as you had passion, belief in yourself, and energy to work at it.
David Amerland
#10. I could go and buy one of the islands in the
Bahamas and turn it into my personal fiefdom, but I am much more interested in trying to build and
create a new company.
Elon Musk
#11. Looking back upon my work today, I think the best I have done grew out of things deeply felt, the worst from a pride in mere talent.
Diego Rivera
#12. Cat, I'll let you in on a little secret. We don't all love our jobs every day. And doing something you have passion for doesn't make the work part of it any easier ... It just makes you less likely to quit.
Kate Jacobs
#13. Everybody is born with a little bit of writer in them. We all come with the desire to work hard to see our creations come to life on the page. But it is those who choose to do something about this passion that has been ignited inside of them that are true writers.
Brian A. McBride
#14. What I found in Kabul was a sisterhood unlike any I had seen before, marked by empathy, laughter, courage, curiosity about the world, and above all a passion for work.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#15. It's not a matter of becoming a superstar. Fame and money aren't the purpose of all this. No actor's going to say, 'I don't want to be famous.' But the main purpose for doing what I'm doing is the passion in the work.
Christopher Lambert
#16. Forget if you are rich or poor. All you need is faith in yourself. If you have the passion to work then just get up and set forth and you will find the way!
Narendra Modi
#17. Fairly early in my career, I had a passion for wine just as a consumer, and I started to learn about the whole process, starting with a piece of raw ground, and ending up with a work of art in a bottle.
Drew Bledsoe
#18. That's when I first learned that it wasn't enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion for it.
Charles Bukowski
#19. I used to lie awake at night, willing myself to put in the hard work, the determination, the passion.
Kevin Pietersen
#20. So instead of investing your time in a passion, you've sold your life to work for an uncaring machine that doesn't understand you. That's the problem with our society. And what's the reward? Go home and get a big TV.
Joe Rogan
#21. Evagrius said, 'A wandering mind is strengthened by reading, and prayer. Passion is dampened down by hunger and work and solitude. Anger is repressed by psalmody and long-suffering and mercy. But all these should be at the proper times and in due measure.
Benedicta Ward
#22. The first thing that has to be recognized is that one cannot train someone to be passionate
it's either in their DNA or it's not.
Richard Branson
#23. When the effects of female jealousy do not appear openly in their proper colours of rage and fury, we may suspect that mischievous passion to be at work privately, and attempting to undermine, what it doth not attack above-ground.
Henry Fielding
#24. You can only be fulfilled in life when you achieve your purpose
Sunday Adelaja
#25. We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
Henry James
#26. Work, Work and work, until you either succeed in your mission, or you die!
Abhijit Naskar
#27. I honestly believe that my best work is in front, not behind me. I am driven by a deep passion and need to make a difference and leave this world a little better than when I arrived. That's what keeps me going.
Rick Hansen
#28. Passion. Confidence. Gratitude. The possibility of making positive change in the world. It's the sort of "spark" one gets the moment they decide to go after what they want, really fight for it, work hard, and not give up. I love that spark; it's beautifully contagious.
Beth Riesgraf
#29. With more money, you can take better care of yourself and leverage your passion and higher purpose in the world. Earn more, so you can give more of yourself and put your money to work for causes that make our world a better place.
John Assaraf
#30. How was I able to live alone before, my little everything? Without you I lack self-confidence, passion for work, and enjoyment of life
in short, without you, my life is no life.
[Written to his wife, Mileva]
Albert Einstein
#31. You cannot fulfill your mandate without fulfilling your purpose and calling in life
Sunday Adelaja
#32. In my experience, depth of work consists of two components. The first is recklessness; the second is discipline. Dionysian; Apollonian. Passion;reason.
Steven Pressfield
#33. Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.
Che Guevara
#34. If you want to go beyond that small percentage of people who are already environmentally and scientifically aware, you have to make your work somehow link with a passion, interest, or profession of someone who isn't interested in science or nature.
Nalini Nadkarni
#35. The Mission is to do one's passion work, which is the chariot you ride in the BECOMING part of existence.
Bill Harvey
#36. When I'm not working, I'm on the road with my band. Or I'm performing in poetry houses doing spoken work. So I've got another passion and another outlet that allows me to be creatively fulfilled and not sitting at home pulling my hair out waiting for the right role to come along.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
#37. You will surely succeed in life with great passion and desire for self-study.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#38. I later discovered that in order to be a good athlete one must care intensely what is happening with a ball, even if one doesn't have possession of it. This was ultimately my failure: my inability to work up a passion for the location of balls.
Haven Kimmel
#39. The paradox of vocation. We think that passion comes first, that our desire is primary; but if we are truly called, the work always comes before we are ready. We will have to act in spite of feeling unprepared.
Jeff Goins
#40. The binding factor between knowing something and doing it is "passion". When your passion is concentrated in what you know, your work output will bind well.
Israelmore Ayivor
#41. Having a literary agent makes a huge difference in submitting work. My agent has access and tremendous passion.
Jacqueline Carey
#42. I'm not going to just stop doing it because I got hurt once. People get hurt in car wrecks every day, and they don't stop driving the car the rest of their life to work. It's my passion. It's what I want to do with my life. It's a part of what I do.
Tony Stewart
#43. If you follow your passion, you'll never work a day in your life.
Tony Bennett
#44. Motivation is the key to success in whatever you're doing in life. It comes a lot easier when you're doing something you love and have passion for. My goal is to have a good time and a hot run. And I'm not afraid of disappointment
it only makes me work harder.
Missy Giove
#45. A lot of people realize "I don't have to work in this job that I'm miserable at every year, or every day, and I don't have to live in, for example, New York City where it's super expensive and if I live somewhere else that is less expensive and could pursue my passion like, I can afford to do that."
Tony Hsieh
#47. My skin will never work like that again, so aware of the other person that I'm unsure where she ends and I begin. Never again. Never again will my skin be a thing that can so perfectly communicate; in losing my skin to the fire, I also lost the opportunity to make it disappear with another person.
Andrew Davidson
#48. Our mission is making the world's daily habits inspiring and entertaining. Which people come to work at Yahoo to build on that mission? Those who are inspired by that, and you can feel that passion in the products.
Marissa Mayer
#49. Entrepreneurs' grounded enthusiasm is contagious, stimulating a high level of commitment, confidence, passion, and performance in the people who work for and with them.
Amy Cuddy
#50. Reading is only a pretext for our bodies to stick together, like a sculpture, fused in a way that when trying to separate one from other, or the work remains intact or is completely lost
Ben Oliveira
#51. And from the look on his face I could see he was one of the lucky ones, one of those people who like doing what they're good at. That's rare. When you see that in a person, you can't miss it.
David Wroblewski
#52. A work-in-progress generates its own energy field. You, the artist or entrepreneur, are pouring love into the work; you are suffusing it with passion and intention and hope.
Steven Pressfield
#53. A lot of people mock fandom and fan fiction, like it's lazy to base your own creativity and passion on someone else's work. But some of us need a stepping-stone to start. What's wrong with finding joy in making something, regardless of the inspiration?
Felicia Day
#54. Your true passion in life is what you'd be doing if somebody handed you 100 million dollars.
Maggie Young
#55. In the future, each of us must have the courage to follow our gift or to be engaged in a favorite occupation, even if it does not bring you any income at the moment
Sunday Adelaja
#56. I can't work on something if I don't believe in it. I love music, and I am inspired to work harder and spend more energy. I feel lucky that I was born with this passion.
Carolina Kostner
#57. Remaining poor in spirit, combined with a first love passion for Jesus are the keys God created to anchor us to the center of His work.
Bill Johnson
#58. Whatever work you undertake to do in your lifetime, it is very important that first you have a passion for it - you know, get excited about it - and second, that you have fun with it. That's important. Otherwise, you see, your work becomes nothing but an idle chore. Then, you hate the life you live.
Julius Sumner Miller
#60. Your calling is in what you can do without noticing time
Sunday Adelaja
#61. Ray Lewis, I've grown up watching Ray Lewis. Just watching his intensity, his passion for the game, his love for the game, his work ethic. Everything in a linebacker that you want to be is in Ray Lewis, from leadership qualities, all that.
Manti Te'o
#62. Don't go in the opposite direction, locate your calling
Sunday Adelaja
#63. God created us to live with a single passion: to joyfully display his supreme excellence in all spheres of life. The wasted life is the life without this passion. God calls us to pray and think and dream and plan and work, not to be made much of, but to make much of him in every part of our lives.
John Piper
#64. I think it's very important to recognize talent in all facets of filmmaking. Making a movie is such a lengthy and intense experience, so it's wonderful to honour actors, directors, producers and all crew members who put so much hard work and passion into a project.
Eva Green
#65. You can never stop thinking when you have passion in your work.
Afdholul Rahman
#66. When your purpose and passion are in alignment, your work becomes your calling, your life becomes your dream, and your mindset becomes 20/20 in clarity.
Farshad Asl
#67. It is through her love for Dick that she begins to write, through her passion for him that she finds her own voice. And in that sense he can be seen as an "author of her work".
Joan Hawkins
#68. In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap, our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
Erica Jong
#69. From my point of view, any outstanding work of art is a fantasy insofar as it reflects the unique world of a unique individual. Art is not just simple arithmetic, it's a delicate calculus. Keep in mind the passion of the scientist and the precision of the artist.
Vladimir Nabokov
#70. Don't dedicate all your resources to helping others invest in their calling. Rather, invest in yourself as well
Sunday Adelaja
#71. I don't have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there.
Cillian Murphy
#72. We are seeing some challenges and some changes in American business, American enterprise, but the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award is a reminder of things that must never change: the passion for excellence, the drive to innovate, the hard work that goes with any successful enterprise.
George W. Bush
#73. I loved you madly; in the distasteful work of the day, in the wakeful misery of the night, girded by sordid realities, or wandering through Paradises and Hells of visions into which I rushed, carrying your image in my arms, I loved you madly.
Charles Dickens
#74. Passion is the driver of achievement in all fields. Some people love doing things they don't feel they're good at. That may be because they underestimate their talents or haven't yet put the work in to develop them.
Ken Robinson
#75. You can only derive pleasure from work when it is in the sphere of your calling
Sunday Adelaja
#76. I married him against all evidence. I married him believing that marriage doesn't work, that love dies, that passion fades, and in so doing I became the kind of romantic only a cynic is truly capable of being.
Nora Ephron
#79. If your questioning whether something will work or not. Remember that life is an experiment. Don't over analyze just act with heart and passion and move forward in compassion.
Matthew Donnelly
#80. It is only when you trust in God that you can make it life
Sunday Adelaja
#81. When you work on what you love, you have the best job in the world.
Ben Tolosa
#82. When you look at facing retirement in your mid-30s, and all of a sudden the outlet for that passion and work ethic goes away, you can't just sit back in a rocking chair and be retired at 35. I'm not a good enough golfer to play golf every day.
Drew Bledsoe
#83. The great problems we see in the world today will not be solved by people functioning at half capacity cranking out work they don't care about in order to buy more things that will eventually rust and rot.
Todd Henry
#84. Quote of the day: Quote of the day: We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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#85. What I had to prove was that I had a dedication and a desire and a passion to do the work and everything else would fall in place because I have a vision that I want to portray and it did and I do it. I don't sell anything.
Kim Weston
#86. There are no moral lectures in 'Lookaway, Lookaway;' there aren't even any lessons. But there is passion. It is a work that hides its craft but never its beauty, that is ambitious but never pretentious, that does not sacrifice nuance for power or power for nuance.
Cathleen Schine
#87. My secret is that I have never thought there is a secret to anything in life. Passion. Love. Drive. Work. Work. Work. Dull but true.
Stephen Fry
#88. I love opera. Si. But I am old. No passion in my life, you know? I work, I walk slowly now through my years ... but opera! I see, I hear that passion, Eva. Is like the passion of youth. And I live again. I feel something.
J.J. Brown
#89. Nothing exists in isolation; there is a purpose for everything
Sunday Adelaja
#90. Acting has been my passion from the minute I started. I was pretty young when I wanted to be a doctor, but when I started doing theater work as a freshman in high school, the first time I hit the stage I was like, If I can do this every day, life won't get any better!
Sophia Bush
#91. What good is it to have a belly if there's no fire in it? Wake up, drink your passion, light a match and get to work.
Simon Sinek
#92. My passion is becoming involved in good work, whether that means as an actor or writer or director or producer or all - that is not as important to me.
Bryan Cranston
#93. Although my family - parents and sister - all work in the personnel management business, their real passion is performing, amateur operatic societies and so on.
Michael Sheen
#94. Thomas Merton writes that if we have meditated on the events of the Passion but have not meditated on Dachau and Auschwitz, our perception of God at work in present times is incomplete.
Richard J. Foster
#95. Every entrepreneur talks about the passion you have for your work, and I think that's what's missing with a lot of women in business.
Martha Stewart
#96. I'm constantly involved in theater, looking at theater, trying to do work in theater, support theater. And that's kind of my creative passion.
Scott Bakula
#98. Don't always wish it is easier to be done; wish you have enough power to make it happen. No matter how difficult it is, you can do it when the solution is in your palms!
Israelmore Ayivor
#99. I was offered more work after the Oscar. When I was younger, I would take whatever I was offered because it was money and work and experience. In a way, choosing is the hard part. I know that's a luxury problem, but it's true. I try to go where passion takes me.
Rachel Weisz
#100. Be spectacularly great at what you do. Wear your passion on your sleeve and hold your heart in the palm of your hand. And work hard. Really hard.
Robin S. Sharma
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