Man is so made that whenever anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
Jean de la Fontaine
Set yourself on fire with passion and people will come for miles to watch you burn.
John Wesley
Making money isn’t hard in itself. What’s hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one’s life to.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
Honore de Balzac
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The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at what they enjoy.
Malcolm Forbes
I’d rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.
George Burns
If you enjoyed the Rocky films, this is a great clip from the last movie in the series, Rocky Balboa, showcasing Rocky’s true passion for his dream.
If curiosity was enough for him, just maybe it can be enough for us too…
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The Heart has reasons that Reason does not know.
Passion
The following is a great description of passion taken from Seth Godin’s latest book Linchpin:
Passion is a desire, insistence, and willingness to give a gift. The artist is relentless. She says, “I will not feel complete until I give a gift.” This is more than refusing to do lousy work. It’s an insistence on doing important work.
The relentless passion leads to persistence and resilience in the face of people not accepting your gift.
The artists in your life are gift-focused, and their tenacity has nothing at all to do with income or job security. Instead, it’s about finding a way to change you in a positive way, and to do it with a gift. There’s a strong streak of intellectual integrity involved in being a passionate artist. You don’t sell out, because selling out involves destroying the best of what you are….
“Wait! Are You Saying That I Have to Stop Following Instructions and Start Being an Artist? Someone Who Dreams Up New Ideas and Makes Them Real? Someone Who Finds New Ways to Interact, New Pathways to Deliver Emotion, New Ways to Connect? Someone Who Acts Like a Human, Not a Cog? Me?”
Yes.
I’d like to know…
In which ways are you an artist?
One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
E.M. Forster
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