#passion

People think that if you are a scientist you have to give up that joy of discovery, that passion, that sense of the great romance of life. I say that's completely opposite of the truth. ↗

— Ann Druyan

#discovery #give #great #i #joy

A lot of times passion projects or films are difficult to make because they don't have proven directors attached to them. ↗

— David Duchovny

#because #difficult #directors #films #lot

Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#constantly #frenzy #our #passion #principals

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits. ↗

— Paul Eldridge

#far #far less #jealousy #less #love

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism. ↗

— George Eliot

#bred #cloudy #damp #despondency #egoism

It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#experienced #explain #light #more #never

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#character #diminished #importance #insignificance #knowledge

The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it. ↗

— Jodie Foster

#best #feel #film #make #passionately

I think anybody over 30 plays parents because it happens in your thirties and so that's kind of a natural progression. But I'm definitely drawn to it. It's probably the most intense, passionate thing that happens to you as you get older. ↗

— Jodie Foster

#because #definitely #drawn #get #happens

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#hold #passion #reason #reins #you