#passions

Try hard to find out what you're good at and what your passions are, and where the two converge, and build your life around that. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#build #converge #find #good #hard

Traveling is one of my great passions and something I do a lot of. ↗

— Sabrina Lloyd

#great passions #i #i do #lot #passions

Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#known #literature #man #passions #sweetest

Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past, the Islamists use religion to evoke emotions and passions in people who have been oppressed for a long time in order to reach their purpose. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#been #emotions #evoke #fundamentalism #german

We build our technologies as a way of addressing all our anxieties and desires. They are our passions congealed into these prosthetic extensions of ourselves. And they do it in a way that reflects what we dream ourselves capable of doing. ↗

— Richard Powers

#anxieties #build #capable #desires #doing

The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#continual #good #good man #his #life

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors. ↗

— Antoine Rivarol

#passions #reason

Vices are often habits rather than passions. ↗

— Antoine Rivarol

#often #passions #rather #than #vices

I just love real characters, they're not pretentious, and every emotion is on the surface, they're regular working people. Their likes, their dislikes, their loves, their hates, their passions; they're all right there on the surface. ↗

— David O. Russell

#dislikes #emotion #every #hates #i

No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests. ↗

— Sallust

#best interests #ever #his #interests #man