Passionate Quotes - Page 12

• Passionate jealousy is not a good foster-parent for prudence.

  Elinor Glyn

  Jealousy, Parent, Prudence

  Elinor Glyn (2013). “The Essential Elinor Glyn Collection”, p.178, eBookIt.com

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• Anger is just a demand for change, a passionate wish for things to be different.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Anger, Wish, Different

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.94, Penguin

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• Want of passion is, I think, a very striking characteristic of Americans, not unrelated to their predilection for violence. For very few people truly have a passionate desire to achieve, and violence serves as a kind of substitute.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Passion, Thinking, People

  Marguerite Yourcenar, Matthieu Galey (1984). “With Open Eyes: Conversations with Matthieu Galey”, Boston : Beacon Press

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• You don't choose your themes; they choose you. The meaning of your stories will rise out of your deepest longings, often out of longings so deep that you haven't admitted them even to yourself. Your convictions, your confusions, your most passionate dreams will be there whenever you begin a story, so you might as well learn to tap into them.

  Marion Dane Bauer

  Dream, Confusion, Stories

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• I thought I had finished with romantic adventures, but half-way through life and well past the age for losing one's heart, I was suddenly swept off my feet by a new love, a passionate, tyrannical, all-absorbing emotion: the love of a garden.

  Patience Strong

  Heart, Adventure, Garden

  Patience Strong (1951). “The Glory of the Garden”

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• Excellent Sheep is likely to makea lasting mark for three reasons. One, Mr. Deresiewicz spent twenty-four years in the Ivy League, graduating from Columbia and teaching for a decade at Yale.He brings the gory details. Two, the author is a striker, to put it in soccer terms. He's a vivid writer, a literary critic whose headers tend to land in the back corner of the net. Three, his indictment arrives on wheels: He takes aim at just about the entirety of upper-middle-class life in America.Mr. Deresiewicz's book is packed full of what he wants more of in American life: passionate weirdness.

  Dwight Garner

  Soccer, Teaching, Book

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• It's what is strange about doing a job that is also the thing you love, the thing you feel passionate about. People get to the point where they're burned out and disillusioned by the whole thing because when things aren't going well at work it also means they aren't going well in your heart, in your soul. They're all wrapped up together.

  Teddy Thompson

  Jobs, Mean, Heart

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• I really gave up being passionate about politics 10, 15, 20 years ago, because I think finally that there were forces in the country that are larger than politics itself. And so I find it a fascinating game, this wonderful stuff goes on in terms of watching the game. But If you get to down it, look, I`m going to root for someone, I`ll root at a football game, not for politicians.

  Norman Mailer

  Country, Football, Thinking

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• I like to be around people who are very passionate. People that won't fight but that will be very over-protective and outspoken about their opinion, their point of view, their ideas.

  Zoe Saldana

  Fighting, Views, Ideas

  Source: birthmoviesdeath.com

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• If you're passionate, be passionate enough to fail. Fail small, accept responsibility, repeat. The people who make change are the survivors of serial failure.

  Seth Godin

  Responsibility, People, Survivor

  "Small Business Marketing Resources". Experian Interview, www.experian.com.

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• I think the people who work with me are people who love style themselves. I'm leaving the office and they're still working. They're passionate.

  Ralph Lauren

  Thinking, Office, People

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• Aside from eating healthy and taking care of my body, I've always been passionate about skincare. It's an essential part of my daily regimen, which is why I decided to create my own skincare line, DEVONNE by Demi. When my skin is clean, I feel my best!

  Demi Lovato

  Healthy, Skins, Lines

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Religion is passionate, reckless, destructive, idol-smashing. It's a martyr burning at the stake. It's a crown of thorns and a cross.

  Martha Ostenso

  Idols, Religion, Thorns

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• I am, and remain, passionate about news.

  Valerie Trierweiler

  News

  "Valérie Trierweiler: France's femme formidable" by Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2012.

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• You cannot rationalize what is not rational to begin with - as if lying were called truthization. There is no way to obtain more truth for a proposition by bribery, flattery, or the most passionate argument - you can make more people believe the proposition, but you cannot make it more true.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Lying, Believe, People

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• ... the word "theory" ... was originally an Orphic word, which Cornford interprets as "passionate sympathetic contemplation" ... For Pythagoras, the "passionate sympathetic contemplation" was intellectual, and issued in mathematical knowledge ... To those who have reluctantly learnt a little mathematics in school this may seem strange; but to those who have experienced the intoxicating delight of sudden understanding that mathematics gives, from time to time, to those who love it, the Pythagorean view will seem completely natural.

  Bertrand Russell

  School, Views, Giving

  Bertrand Russell (2008). “History of Western Philosophy”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• The secret is to try and do 75% of the things you're really passionate about and maybe 25% doing the shitty jobs that have to be done.

  Michelle Mone

  Jobs, Secret, Trying

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I'm not a parenting expert. In fact, I'm not sure that I even believe in the idea of 'parenting experts.' I'm an engaged, imperfect parent and a passionate researcher. I'm an experienced mapmaker and a stumbling traveler. Like many of you, parenting is by far my boldest and most daring adventure.

  Brené Brown

  Believe, Adventure, Ideas

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, andLead”, p.216, Penguin

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• To be honest with you, I am passionate about all the people out there who want to know Jesus, they want to know God, and they are sick of a system that is hung up on a bunch of things that have nothing to do with the love of God.

  Rob Bell

  Jesus, People, Sick

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• My focus is my art, and that's what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I've turned down many things that I just didn't believe in.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Art, Believe, Order

  "Beyoncé: artist of the decade". Interview With Caspar Llewellyn Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2009.

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• A flock of flirting flamingos is pure, passionate, pink pandemonium-a frenetic flamingle-mangle-a discordant discotheque of delirious dancing, flamboyant feathers, and flamingo lingo.

  Charley Harper

  Flirting, Dancing, Flamingos

  Charley Harper (1994). “Beguiled by the wild: the art of Charley Harper”, Flower Valley Pr

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• I'd get sent home from the first audition of So You Think You Can Dance. My dancing is sort of controlled spasms. I fully accept it might appear ridiculous. But it's passionate!

  Chris Martin

  Home, Thinking, Dancing

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• When we are truly passionate about something we are contagious.

  Keith Ferrazzi

  Contagious

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• Perfection. Excellence. What a passionate lover. But once having tasted the lips of excellence, once having given oneself to its perfection, how dreary and burdensome and filled with anomie are the remainder of one's waking hours trapped in the shackled lock-step of the merely ordinary, the barely acceptable, the just okay and not a stroke better.

  Harlan Ellison

  Perfection, Excellence, Waking

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• Bangalore needs a honest, passionate and hard-working MP, and I will be that MP.

  Nandan Nilekani

  Hard Work, Mps, Needs

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