Passion

"Dance, dance...otherwise we are lost."

"I see myself as a huge fiery comet, a shooting star. Everyone stops, points up and gasps 'Oh look at that!'"

"Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence."

"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."

"Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings."

"The passions of men are commonly more potent than their reason."

"Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age."

"Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering."

"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."

"Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly."

"Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it."

"Entrepreneurship is about turning what excites you in life into capital, so that you can do more of it and move forward with it."

"Find what you love and let it kill you."

"When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy."

"Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray."

"The purpose of life is to maximize the time spent in the state of flow – doing what you love while achieving optimal performance."

"I put my heart and my soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process."

"There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living."

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."

"You must be passionate, you must dedicate yourself, and you must be relentless in the pursuit of your goals. If you do, you will inevitably see progress."

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do."