We humans are not born alone; joining and being active in a club whose members share your passion for ideas and get your jokes is one of the great joys of life. – Richard Lederer
It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
As a child, I did what any normal kid who grew up without any electricity would do – I spent countless hours working on a computer wired to my parents’ car battery… and learned how to code. This natural passion for computers lead me into the Internet market during the late 1990s and early 2000s. – Ryan Holmes
It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It’s also a very clear path to happiness. – Sheryl Sandberg
In the First World War, there was the sudden passion of nationalism, and the killing took place because of these emotions. But the Soviet case is different, because you had systematic murder, like the Holocaust. – Ryszard Kapuscinski
I was in a band till I was about 17; then I went to television, and I spent seven years doing that. When I came to Seattle, I started to audition for things. The passion’s always there, and that’s what’s been the hard thing: to fit that passion into a normal life. You can’t do it. You can’t have a normal life and pursue this dream. – Paul Eenhoorn
I consider myself a progressive. I have a passion for people who work. To me, this is about forward looking versus backward looking. Ideological gradations are the wrong way to look at it. – Rahm Emanuel
The great changes in civilisation and society have been wrought by deeply held beliefs and passion rather than by a process of rational deduction. – Paul Keating
Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still. – Robert Sternberg
If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual. – Robertson Davies
Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television. – Rita Mae Brown
If you have real passion for a career in game shows, be willing to serve an apprenticeship; it’s the best way to learn. – Randy West
Passion and hunger are the two ingredients that I look for in first making the judgment on – whether an athlete, an assistant coach, or a horse trainer or anybody I do business with. – Rick Pitino
I think that passion and love and pain are all bearable, and they go to make love beautiful. – Robert Plant
For most people, it’s easy to be passionate about things that are working out, and that distorts our impression of the importance of passion. I’ve been involved in several dozen business ventures over the course of my life, and each one made me excited at the start. You might even call it passion. – Scott Adams
Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits. – Paul Eldridge
Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work. – Olympia Dukakis
One of the things that defines a TEDster is you’ve taken your passion, and you’ve turned it into stewardship. You actually put action to the issues you care about. – Omar Ahmad
The Diesel team has incredible passion. We work for ourselves and design for ourselves. When I see a new watch in our collection, I go crazy. I want one of everything. – Renzo Rosso
I love the process of acting, and to turn your passion into a career is the biggest gift. – Ram Kapoor
I am a guy who likes to do what I am doing with passion, whether it’s a soccer match with friends or golf. – Rafael Nadal
Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one’s death. – Rollo May
I have a passion for music, and I enjoy the process of expressing myself within the parameters of a pop song, and I don’t do it to seek anybody’s approval, necessarily. Obviously, you go on stage, and you enjoy it when people respond to a particular song, but the overall concept of playing music I do for myself. – Russell Crowe
The thing is, my dad’s always been more of a bookworm; he was interested in more intellectual pursuits, but nobody can escape the passion that football stirs. – Shakira
Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that. – Richard M. Nixon