Sigmund Freud Quotes

I still tour like a man possessed, because I am.

I've always known why I do what I do. I didn't need to be psychoanalysed to find that out.

An ambition is a little creeper that creeps and creeps in your heart night and day, singing a little song, "Come and find me, come and find me."

We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win.

Quit everything until you find something that you just cannot quit.

You have to be emotionally attached to what you are doing.

Motivation is when you get hold of an idea and don't let go of it until you make it a reality. Inspiration is the reverse - when an idea gets hold of you and you feel compelled to let that impulse or energy carry you along. You get to a point where you realize that you're no longer in charge, that there's a driving force inside you that can't be stopped.

O sacred hunger of ambitious minds.

Love's like a junkie, addiction's a fact. Passion's a monkey, you can't keep off your back.

If you don't feel it, you'll never achieve it.

All human activity is prompted by desire.

One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.

Desire makes everything blossom

The pleasures of love are for those who are hopelessly addicted to another living creature.

If you are interested in photography because you love it and are obsessed with it, you must be self-motivated, a perfectionist, and relentless.

I have always loved locomotives passionately. For me they are living creatures and I love them as others love women or horses.

The mere presence of PASSION within you is all you need to fulfill your DREAMS.

Your job, work, life assignment must be the spark that fuels your fire. It must be a passion that you pursue. You must want it enough to do it for free. You must be willing to stick with it, taking the ups and downs, giving it all that you are for as long as you can! You’ve got to taste it, smell it, know it whether you are awake or asleep. If you do not have a lustful passion for your work, you really need to find something else to do.

I have no idea how to start doing something that doesn't connect with me or my soul, somehow.

You have to want weight-loss success so badly that no mountain, river, or ocean could keep you from reaching your goals. If you have that drive, passion, and commitment, there is no way you won’t get there.

Enthusiasm is the dynamics of your personality. Without it, whatever abilities you may possess lie dormant; and it is safe to say that nearly every man has more latent power than he ever learns to use. You may have knowledge, sound judgment, good reasoning faculties; but no one-not even yourself-will know it until you discover how to put your heart into thought and action.

Each of us has a fire in our hearts for something. It's our goal in life to find it and keep it.

He often wondered whether it were possible to be more possessed by desire for any other woman. The fact was that they functioned well together, and they had a connection as addictive as heroin.

The key that unlocks energy is desire. It's also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited.

Strength is not nearly as important as desire. I don't think you can teach anyone desire. I think it's a gift. I don't know why I have it, but I do.