Passion Quotes

"Enthusiasm is the base of the pyramid for a reason."

"When it comes to money, most people want to play it safe and feel secure. So passion does not direct them. Fear does.”"

"Passion is the engine of the evolutionary process. It's what drives us to improve and to learn."

"Instead of asking 'What am I passionate about?', ask 'What is the world missing that I am uniquely qualified to build?'"

"Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it. p. 486"

"There are better starters than me but I’m a strong finisher."

"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do."

"Sex energy is the most powerful of all the stimuli which move people into action. Because it is the most powerful of the emotions, it must be controlled, through transmutation, and converted into other channels."

"Whenever anything is being accomplished, it is being done, I have learned, by a monomaniac with a mission. Adventures of a Bystander (1979) (Autobiography)"

"Legumes—lentils, black beans, pinto beans—are a cornerstone of the Slow-Carb Diet because they provide slow-release energy and satiety."

"If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done."

"It's very important to like the people you work with, otherwise your job will be quite miserable."

"I loved the smell of the gym."

"You see, true learning takes energy, passion, a burning desire."

"Don't confuse your desires with your goals. Passion should be directed toward your goals, not your whims."

"You have to be passionate about the process, not just the result."

"I wish to suggest that a man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. All great enterprises are self-supporting. The poet, for instance, must sustain his body by his poetry, as a steam planing-mill feeds its boilers with the shavings it makes. You must get your living by loving. pp. 486–7"

"Win or lose, I'm going to give it my all because that's the only way I know how to compete."

"To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks."

"If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own."

"No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like. The most essential step in the marketing of personal services is that of selecting an occupation into which you can throw yourself wholeheartedly. p. 87"

"Often, 80% of your customers contribute to only 20% of your profit but create 80% of your headaches."

"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times."

"You have to be very driven to make it happen. Otherwise, you will just make yourself miserable."

"Love is the most important word in our language."

"I have a passion for radical transparency because it eliminates the barriers to progress."

"The people who change the world are the ones who are too passionate to give up when things get boring."

"My life has been the poem I would have writ,But I could not both live and utter it. My Life Has Been a Poem I Would Have Writ"

"My hunger is always there. It's what keeps me going every single day."

"I was a fanatic about software. I thought about it all the time."

"Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain."

"People are smart. Crowds are dumb."

"The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering."