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• True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.

  Auguste Rodin

  Art, Men, Pleasure

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• You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Success, Achievement

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• I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

  Aldous Huxley

  Want, Feels, Brave New World Happiness

  Peter Edgerly Firchow, Aldous Huxley (1984). “The end of Utopia: a study of Aldous Huxley's Brave new world”, Bucknell Univ Pr

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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, Order

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• For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still.

  George Chapman

  Heat, Stills, Knows

  'Monsieur D'Olive' (1606) act 5, sc. 1

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• Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Romantic, Valentines Day

  William Shakespeare, James N. Loehlin (2002). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.98, Cambridge University Press

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• I'm sick of people sittin' in chairs stating their problems. Then we roll the videotape... then we have our experts on the topic... I'm in the 'What's next?' phase of my career.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Work, Careers, People

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• Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

  Albert Camus

  Inspirational, Work, Inspire

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• A master passion is the love of news.

  George Crabbe

  News, Masters

  'The Newspaper' (1785) l. 279

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• Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.

  Robert Henri

  Worry, Originality, Wanted

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• The kind of commitment I find among the best performers across virtually every field is a single-minded passion for what they do, an unwavering desire for excellence in the way they think and the way they work. Genuine confidence is what launches you out of bed in the morning, and through your day with a spring in your step.

  James C. Collins

  Morning, Spring, Work

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• Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

  Bertrand Russell

  Life, Strong, Fear

  Autobiography prologue (1967)

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• I think my passion is misinterpreted as anger sometimes. And I don't think people are ready for the message that I'm delivering, and delivering with a sense of violent love.

  Charlie Sheen

  Love, Anger, Thinking

  "The Last Word" with Lawrence O'Donnell, www.today.com. February 28, 2011.

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• The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.

  William James

  Math, Unions, Poet

  William James (1987). “Essays, Comments, and Reviews”, p.356, Harvard University Press

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• With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Poetry, Purpose, Literature

  Edgar Allan Poe (2004). “The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.715, Wordsworth Editions

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• Creating is the most intense excitement one can come to know.

  Anni Albers

  Creating, Excitement, Intense

  Anni Albers (1962). “On designing”

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• All the sorrow, all the bitterness, all the sadness, I forget them and ignore them in the joy of working.

  Camille Pissarro

  Sadness, Joy, Sorrow

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• It is really important that young people find something that they want to do and pursue it with passion. I'm very passionate about filmmaking. It's what I love to do.

  Spike Lee

  People, Important, Want

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• Being an artist is celebrating life.

  Henry Moore

  Artist, Celebrate Life, Celebrate

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• I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism.

  Hans Hofmann

  Optimism, Able, Paint

  "The Artist's Voice: Talks with Seventeen Artists". Book by Katharine Kuh, p. 119, 1962.

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• The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Alive, Painting

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• Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

  Edmund Burke

  Soul, Intuition, Fame

  Edmund Burke, John Shebbeare (1776). “An Answer to the Printed Speech of Edmund Burke, Esq; spoken in the House of Commons, April 19, 1774, etc. By John Shebbeare”, p.191

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• I didn't want to repeat my parents life. I saw in their lives a routine and a lack of dreaming, a lack of the possibilities, a lack of passion. And I didn't want to live without passion.

  Hugh Hefner

  Life, Family, Dream

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• As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.

  Lord Byron

  Nature, Long, Feelings

  Lord Byron (1990). “The Sayings of Lord Byron”, p.21, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Stars, Powerful, Ambition

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