Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.
I developed two strong passions. The first was to help build a great company. The second was to identify and understand the principles that lead to prosperity and societal progress. After studying history, economics, philosophy, science psychology and other disciplines, I concluded that the two passions were strongly, indeed intimately related. - Charles G. Koch
I like to cook, and I tend to make those one-pot meat dishes of my Hungarian ancestors. Also, I make a great Bolognese. - Goldie Hawn
I'm deeply, deeply passionate about creating peace and well-being in the classroom, and well-being as a global nation. - Goldie Hawn
A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke. - Vincent van Gogh
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way. - Vincent van Gogh
Whoever loves much, performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well. - Vincent van Gogh
Your profession is not what brings home your weekly pay check, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling. - Vincent van Gogh
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal. - William James
When you are doing what you really love and creating the life that you really want it will be easier to create a healthy personal relationship with someone that will be supportive of what you want too. - Marshall Sylver
I always wanted to direct. Directing is a lot more of a commitment though, a lot more time. I like directors who do very few takes, they know what they want. - Robert DeNiro
Movies are hard to make, and you have to work toward a common ethic and do your best. You don't want to work with people who don't care or who are acting out some neurotic, crazy thesis on the set. - Robert DeNiro
When you are working hard, you don't have time for anything other than what you are doing in the scene and what the director wants. - Robert DeNiro
When you feel that you can't fight it, you just go for it. When it comes to the arts, passion should always trump common sense. - Robert DeNiro
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