"Music directly represents the passions of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person."
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"Let the world know why you're here, and do it with passion."
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"We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of artificial tension, to strain every human desire to the limit and to create as many new desires and synthetic passions as possible, in order to cater to them with the products of our factories and printing presses and movie studios and all the rest."
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"Transferring your passion to your job is far easier than finding a job that happens to match your passion."
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"I see love in black and white. Passion in shades of “gris”. But when it comes to you and I, color is all I see."
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"We must have a passion in life."
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"I don’t have the passion anymore, and so remember, it’s better to burn out than to fade away."
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"We all know fear. But passion makes us fearless."
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"I think our culture doesn't recognize passion, because real passion has the power to disrupt boundaries."
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"One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected."
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"We can at least try to understand our own motives, passions, and prejudices, so as to be conscious of what we are doing when we apeal to those of others. This is very difficult, because our own prejudice and emotional bias always seems to us so rational."
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"When you engage in a work that taps your talent and fuels your passion-that rises out of a great need in the world that you feel drawn by conscience to meet-therein lies your voice, your calling, your soul's code."
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"Live your passion. What does that mean, anyway? It means that when you get up for work every morning, every single morning, you are pumped because you get to talk about or work with or do the thing that interests you the most in the world. You don’t live for vacations because you don’t need a break from what you’re doing—working, playing, and relaxing are one and the same. You don’t even pay attention to how many hours you’re working because to you, it’s not really work. You’re making money, but you’d do whatever it is you’re doing for free."
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"Passion is very important to me. If you stop enjoying things, you've got to look at it, because it can lead to all kinds of depressing scenarios."
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"Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait."
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"A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquility."
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"Seek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls."
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"Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed."
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"A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion."
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"Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion."
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