Passionate Quotes - Page 19

A cross between a foreign legion boot-camp and a secret-society initiation ritual, the ordeals were grounded in pain. One thing was obvious: the agenda, which was dedicated to grave discomfort, had been drawn up by a passionate sadist.

If I don't like it, I don't want to rant about it. There will be things that I vent about if I'm passionate enough, but there are plenty of scathing voices out there already. Who needs another?

To suffer is one thing; another thing is living with the photographed images of suffering, which does not necessarily strengthen conscience and the ability to be compassionate. It can also corrupt them. Once one has seen such images, one has started down the road of seeing more - and more. Images transfix. Images anesthetize.

I've done other things, but it always seems like my sci-fi projects have been what people respond to the most, because those fans are extraordinary, so passionate.

Acting is such a bizarre way of life. Unless you're really passionate about it, you should give it up. Don't beat yourself up.

When I don't have a movie, I don't take a job just for the sake of working. I just sit it out until I find something I'm passionate about.

Hate is a passionate emotion.

I am a passionate believer that comedy is a way of tackling some of the most dark and difficult aspects of being a human being.

What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man.

I didn't realize quite how liberal I was until I was asked to make passionate comedic choices as opposed to necessarily successful comedic choices.

I am passionate about women's empowerment and women's ways.

I came to realize this weird projection: you are much more passionate about hating something outside of you when you know that something is also in you.

Don't be afraid to start out small. You see tech companies selling for millions, but you shouldn't be afraid to start small and grow it. I work closely with my employees. I don't believe in things working if you're not passionate about things.

I'm addicted to when people are bringing you around their country, telling you their stories. They become so enthusiastic, so passionate.

What I've learned being a writer is to just basically not buckle - not be belligerent, not be angry, not throw fits. Though there are times where you have to stand up and yell. If I've got to throw a chair, I'll throw a chair. There was a meekness about me when I started, and I think the meekness has sort of evaporated. I hope that it's left behind a more passionate person, not a meaner person. So I guess that's what I've learned.

If I'm passionate about something, I'll do everything I can to be a part of it.

It's more important that you be passionate about what you do all day than it is to be passionate about the product that is being sold.

Organizations grow when they persuade a tiny cadre to be passionate, not when they touch millions with a mediocre message

Catering to the passionate is exactly what you should do.

I'm just happy to do projects I'm passionate about.

I've always been passionate about what I do and want to do it well, ... My wife says she's a widow to the computer.

Money ... it's both the most complicated and the most passionate relationship in our lives.

I am passionate about young women and advocating for them.

To sit with George [Clooney] and argue about what we're passionate about was amazing. We're good at arguing our points of view and are all about doing what was best for the movie [ "Gravity"].

I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.