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passion thinking expression
I like to be wild in passion and calculated in expression! I'm both. I like to be wild in passion more. But I think the balance is what's essential. Jane Fonda
passion careers identity
Don't make your career be your life. let it be your passion. Let it bring you pleasure. But don't let it become your identity. You are so much more valuable than that. Celine Dion
passion giving world
I'm very passionate about charity... Performing is my passion. But it's not gonna change the world. That's why I give back. Demi Lovato
passion blow love-is
Love is so much more deadly than I had thought, love is so much inherent as the very lack, and we are guaranteed by a need to be renewed continuously. Love is now, is forever. There is just the blow of grace - call it passion. Clarice Lispector
passion human-nature reason
Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason. Aristotle
passion devil looks
The Devil ... is much better served by exploiting our virtues than by appealing to our lower passions; consequently, it is when the Devil looks most noble and reasonable that he is most dangerous. Dorothy L. Sayers
passion ducks fleeting
How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.
passion car gasoline
Passion about nothing is like pouring gasoline in a car without wheels. It isn't going to lead anybody anywhere. Donald Miller
passion two lust
The agenda in sexual activity, whether it's appropriate or not, has to do with lust, affection, passion, love, but the agenda in sexual harassment is not any of that. It is power, control, dominance. The tool is the same on both, but the agenda is completely different. That's what distinguishes the two. Claudia Kennedy
writing important scene
I am a writer who works from an outline. What I generally do when I build an outline is I find focal, important scenes, and I build them in my head and I don't write them yet, but I build towards them. Brandon Sanderson
writing habit latter
I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter. Barbara Mertz
writing should more-money
A writer should say to himself, not, How can I get more money?, but How can I reach more readers (without lowering standards)? Brian Aldiss
writing way better-person
the only way to become a better writer is to become a better person. Brenda Ueland
writing exercise perspective
The writing of an assay-type poem or a poem investigating perspective isn't an exercise of rational or strategic mind. Poems for me are acts of small or large desperation. They grapple with surfaces too steep to walk in any other way, yet which have to be traveled. Jane Hirshfield
writing sitting-still wish
I wish I could write while I'm on the road but it never works for me. I need to be sitting still. Jami Attenberg
writing emotional historical-novels
I've been told by people who write historical novels that you just sort of write the emotional truth first, the story at the core, and then you go back and research it at the end.
writing important eternal
Write only of what is important and eternal. Anton Chekhov
writing intelligent men
If an intelligent, educated, and healthy man begins to complain of his lot and go down-hill, there is nothing for him to do but to go on down until he reaches the bottom--there is no hope for him. Where could my salvation come from? How can I save myself? I cannot drink, because it makes my head ache. I never could write bad poetry. I cannot pray for strength and see anything lofty in the languor of my soul. Laziness is laziness and weakness weakness. I can find no other names for them. I am lost, I am lost; there is no doubt of that.
mentally
That's just the way he pitches. I think it has more to do with him mentally concentrating really well. He hasn't let anything get away from him. Tony Russa
men iron envy
As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man. Antisthenes
men religion useless
Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity. Baruch Spinoza
men desire tongue
Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more easily than their words.
men simplicity fame
The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men. Augustus Hare
men great-men
Great men can't be ruled. Ayn Rand
men dedication pages
If a dedication page were to precede the total of my work, it would read: To the glory of Man.
men thinking moral
If I were to speak your kind of language, I would say that man's only moral commandment is: Thou shalt think. But a 'moral commandment' is a contradiction in terms. The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments.
men together taught
Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.