Great Passion Quotes - Page 2

• Quelque e  tendue d'esprit que l'on ait, l'on n'est capable que d'une grande passion. However vast a man's spirit, he is only capable of one great passion.

  Blaise Pascal

  Passion, Men, Spirit

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• Work hard at work worth doing.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Work, Day Jobs, Labor Day

  Theodore Roosevelt (1967). “Writings”

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• Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion--the passion for sweetness and light. It has one even yet greater, the passion for making them all prevail. It is not satisfied till we all come to a perfect man; it knows that the sweetness and light of the few must be imperfect until the raw and unkindly masses of humanity are touched with sweetness and light.

  Matthew Arnold

  Hate, Passion, Men

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.790, Delphi Classics

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• One of my great passions is the collection of historical trivia.

  Lynn Abbey

  Passion, Historical, Literature

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• Great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be seen only by those who are on a level with them

  Oscar Wilde

  Passion, Soul, Events

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.190, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• They ended as all great passions do end - by a misunderstanding.

  Honore de Balzac

  Passion, Ends, Misunderstanding

  Honore de Balzac (1899). “A Passion in the Desert”, p.17, Library of Alexandria

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• Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded.

  Denis Diderot

  Art, Passion, Creativity

  "Diderot". Book by Otis Fellows, 1977.

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• Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can't do it without that passion.

  Agnes de Mille

  Passion, Creative, Energy

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• I get along great with directors, but I think some producers would tell you I'm a pain. They may say I'm tough to work with, but I have a great passion for what I do. I believe in fighting for it.

  Amy Irving

  Pain, Believe, Passion

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody.

  Norman MacCaig

  Passion, Years, Literature

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• The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work

  Steve Jobs

  Work, Believe, Loving What You Do

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• The grand style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please, it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Passion, Style, Suits

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• Passion is a feeling that tells you: this is the right thing to do. Nothing can stand in my way.

  Wayne Dyer

  Passion, Feelings, Way

  Dr. Wayne W. Dyer (2013). “The Essential Wayne Dyer Collection”, p.459, Hay House, Inc

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• I am a fantastic cook. It's my great passion.

  Sean Pertwee

  Passion, Fantastic, Cooks

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• The pope [Francis] speaks with great passion about the shame we should all feel when, as he puts it, "a man does not have the dignity of earning bread for his family," but is turned into a peripheral person, a welfare client, a dependent.

  George Weigel

  Passion, Men, Doe

  Source: eppc.org

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• His great passion for education and [making sure] people have an opportunity. Of course that's what came out of the George Mitchell Institute and his scholarships in those high schools.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Passion, School, Opportunity

  Interview with Brien Williams, digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu. May 4, 2010.

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• When I think of the people I've worked with, all of them have great passion, and the passion is what keeps people inspired.

  Guido Palau

  Passion, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The Spanish league is fantastic, but it has not the great passion the English Premiership has got.

  Michael Owen

  Passion, League, England

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• In a way, being an opera singer is like being a very romantic sixteen-year-old who falls in love with great passion and conviction every month.

  Renee Fleming

  Falling In Love, Passion, Years

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• I'm not an academic, but I'm someone who has a great passion for science and wants to convey the idea that science is for everyone.

  Dallas Campbell

  Passion, Ideas, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• You have to have great passion, because to sing operatic music requires lots of work. I study for at least two hours every day. The voice is like an instrument and requires constant exercise.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Passion, Exercise, Two

  "Andrea Bocelli: 'Only preparation helps my stagefright'". www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2009.

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• The best part about being a Blazer is the fans. The fans here are so loyal it feels like a college team with how close the fans and players are. They have such a great passion for the team that it makes it fun to be a part of and makes you want to work harder to make the team successful.

  LaMarcus Aldridge

  Fun, Team, Hard Work

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• Whenever I find myself arguing for something with great passion, I can be certain I'm not convinced.

  Hugh Prather

  Passion, Arguing, Certain

  Hugh Prather, James Baldwin (1983). “Notes to Myself”

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• Great passions may either bring great victories or great sorrows! In both cases, it is always a great privilege to have great passions!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Passion, Sorrow, Victory

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• We've always told stories through music and rhythm and movement, and what we know as western opera has only been around for a few hundred years and in different forms before that. There is great passion regardless of the fact that it's expensive and people who invest in it are giving money because they believe in it. They're not getting anything back other than satisfaction and enjoyment of hopefully many people having a human, deep, reflective and meditative experience that at its core is incredibly emotional.

  Jake Heggie

  Believe, Passion, Emotional

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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