You show me a great program and I'll show you a passionate individual somewhere behind it. ~ Andy Hertzfeld

When you do something, you should burn yourself completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself. ~ Shunryn Suzuki

Make passionate my sense of hearing. ~ William Shakespeare, Love's Labour Lost

If I had to choose my driving force, it would be passion. ~ Anita Roddick

Honest criticism means nothing; what one wants in unrestrained passion, fire for fire. ~ Henry Miller

The children—my own and other people’s—became the passion of my personal and professional life. ~ Hillary Rodham Clinton

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river. ~ Chuang Tzu

Our world is incomplete until each of us discovers what moves us--our passion. No other person can hear our calling. We must listen and act on it for ourselves. To hear it, we need a positive environment that supports deep listening and truth telling. ~ Richard J. Leider

Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together. ~ Carson McCullers

It is impossible to drive out human passions from the human heart. You may supress them, you may deaden them, keep them in subjection, but you can not root them out. ~ Mrs. Henry Ward

I've always been passionate about these different (film) genres. Kung fu movies, samurai movies, Japanese movies, all this kind of stuff, and my love for it, and just trying to present it in a way that other people can love it as much as I do. ~ Quentin Tarantino, CNN, 4/19/04

One person with passion is better than 40 people merely interested. ~ E.M. Forster, IBD, 6/16/04

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark burn out in a brilliant blaze than it be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. ~ Jack London

Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast. ~ Epictetus

It'll take a smart person with passion over someone with years of experience any day. People with intelligence and passion will get the problem solved, no matter what. ~ Carol Bartz, Attitude Attitude Attitude

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