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• I'm doing what I think I was put on this earth to do. And I'm really grateful to have something that I'm passionate about and that I think is profoundly important.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Work, Grateful, Thinking

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• If you want to know where I come by the passionate commitment I have to bringing people together without regard to race, it all started with my grandfather.

  William J. Clinton

  Commitment, Race, People

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• When you are passionate, you always have your destination in sight and you are not distracted by obstacles. Because you love what you are pursuing, things like rejection and setbacks will not hinder you in your pursuit. You believe that nothing can stop you!

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Believe, Sight

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• Sometimes people get passionate about the obscure jokes.

  Martin Short

  People, Sometimes, Obscure

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• The folks who go after grand challenges are impatient. They're pissed off. They're sick and tired, but in a passionate way. They're driven by a fire in their bellies to make a difference.

  Peter Diamandis

  Meaningful, Tired, Differences

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• One has to believe in what one is doing, one has to commit oneself inwardly, in order to do painting. Once obsessed, one ultimately carries it to the point of believing that one might change human beings through painting. But if one lacks this passionate commitment, there is nothing left to do. Then it is best to leave it alone.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Believe, Commitment, Passion

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• Our desires presage the capacities within us; they are harbingers of what we shall be able to accomplish. What we can do and want to do is projected in our imagination, quite outside ourselves, and into the future. We are attracted to what is already ours in secret. Thus passionate anticipation transforms what is indeed possible into dreamt-for reality.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Future, Reality, Imagination

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• When natural inclination develops into a passionate desire, one advances towards his goal in seven-league boots.

  Nikola Tesla

  Passion, League, Goal

  Nikola Tesla (2014). “My Inventions Nikola Tesla's Autobiography”, p.26, Lulu.com

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• I believe that traditional wisdom is incomplete. A composer can have all the talent of Mozart and a passionate desire to succeed, but if he believes he cannot compose music, he will come to nothing. He will not try hard enough. He will give up too soon when the elusive right melody takes too long to materialize.

  Martin Seligman

  Giving Up, Believe, Passionate Desire

  Martin E. P. Seligman (1998). “Learned Optimism”, Free Press

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• Scheele, it was said, never forgot anything if it had to do with chemistry. He never forgot the look, the feel, the smell of a substance, or the way it was transformed in chemical reactions, never forgot anything he read, or was told, about the phenomena of chemistry. He seemed indifferent, or inattentive, to most things else, being wholly dedicated to his single passion, chemistry. It was this pure and passionate absorption in phenomena-noticing everything, forgetting nothing-that constituted Scheele's special strength.

  Oliver Sacks

  Passion, Dedication, Smell

  Oliver Sacks (2011). “Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood”, p.33, Pan Macmillan

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• What is a scientist?... We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a means guiding him to search out the deep truth of life, to lift a veil from its fascinating secrets, and who, in this pursuit, has felt arising within him a love for the mysteries of nature, so passionate as to annihilate the thought of himself.

  Maria Montessori

  Love, Life, Mean

  Maria Montessori (2013). “The Montessori Reader”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• Nothing is more despicable than the old age of a passionate man. When the vigour of youth fails him, and his amusements pall with frequent repetition, his occasional rage sinks by decay of strength into peevishness; that peevishness, for want of novelty and variety, becomes habitual; the world falls off from around him, and he is left, as Homer expresses it, to devour his own heart in solitude and contempt.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Fall, Heart, Men

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• You have to have a passion for your work. How can we expect people to be passionate if you, as their coach, does not have a passion? Coaching has to be something that gives you passion and energy.

  Lord Byron

  Work, Passion, People

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• If you're going to be passionate about something, be passionate about learning. If you're going to fight something, fight for those in need. If you're going to question something, question authority. If you're going to lose something, lose your inhibitions. If you're going to gain something, gain respect and confidence. And if you're going to hate something, hate the false idea that you are not capable of your dreams.

  Daniel Goldston

  Inspirational, Confidence, Dream

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• I think it's good for moms to work. I have three daughters, so I like them to see me working and doing something I'm passionate about.

  Mary McCormack

  Mom, Mother, Daughter

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Be passionate about the culture and the business, and remain positive, because it inspires others.

  Barry Libert

  Successful, Inspire, Marketing

  Barry Libert (2010). “Social Nation: How to Harness the Power of Social Media to Attract Customers, Motivate Employees, and Grow Your Business”, p.88, John Wiley & Sons

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• Sure I am a religious man who is also passionate about conserving the environment. But I am also a CEO, with all the bad habits and attitudes that are natural to the species. . . . I am still naturally self-interested, overconfident, full of pride, and eager to control a meeting as any CEO in America. Every day, I struggle with my ego.

  Tom Chappell

  Religious, Attitude, Struggle

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• Deep in the soul, below pain, below all the distraction of life, is a silence vast and grand - an infinite ocean of calm, which nothing can disturb; Nature's own exceeding peace, which "passes understanding". That which we seek with passionate longing, here and there, upward and outward; we find at last within ourselves.

  Richard Maurice Bucke

  Pain, Ocean, Silence

  Richard Maurice Bucke (2012). “Cosmic Consciousness: A Study in the Evolution of the Human Mind”, p.329, Courier Corporation

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• I find myself enjoying a deeper love than I ever imagined was possible in the form of my daughter and certainly in the union with my wife. It makes everything else, including work, which is one of the things I'm most passionate about, pale by comparison.

  Benjamin Bratt

  Mother, Daughter, Wife

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• After all, a creature without passionate conviction doesn't cling to extremes. He surveys the scenery and makes sure his outfit doesn't clash.

  Frank Bruni

  Integrity, Commitment, Conviction

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• Many people are passionate, but because of their limiting beliefs about who they are and what they can do, they never take actions that could make their dream a reality

  Tony Robbins

  Wise, Dream, Powerful

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say, written from an exclusive point of view, but a point of view that opens up the widest horizons.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Views, Political, Criticism

  Charles Baudelaire, Jonathan Mayne (1981). “Art in Paris 1845-1862: salons and other exhibitions”

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• Normal children often pass through stages of passionate cruelty, laziness, lying and thievery.

  G. Stanley Hall

  Children, Lying, Normal

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• When you are passionate about life, it keeps you young. Sometimes I wake up at 4:00 am just to see how my roses look.

  Salma Hayek

  Inspirational Life, Rose, Looks

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• What's worked for me is not quitting and being passionate about what I do and not giving up - and when I don't believe in myself, turning to others who believe in me.

  Marc Jacobs

  Giving Up, Life Changing, Believe

  "Marc Jacobs Interview: Fashion Designer Muses On His Teenage Years And Early Days In The Industry". Interview With Julia Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 11, 2013.

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