Passionate Engagement Quotes

Everything I involve myself with is an extension of me, so I take everything super seriously, from the music to the shows. That's the only way to do it.

What is erotic? The acrobatic play of the imagination. The sea of memories in which we bathe. The way we caress and worship things with our eyes. Our willingness to be stirred by the sight of the voluptuous. What is erotic is our passion for the liveliness of life.

Zest. Gusto. How rarely one hears these words used. How rarely do we see people living, or for that matter, creating, by them. Yet if I were asked to name the most important items in a writer's make-up, the things that shape his material and rush him along the road he wants to go. I would only warn him to look to his zest, see to his gusto.

The creative mind plays with the object it loves.

Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in love.

I find that it's not the numbers but the quality of the audience. That's why it got to be such a big thing when I left Microsoft, because I had an interested audience; not huge, but passionate. The passionate ones are the ones who change society.

A film causes me so many worries and such a lot of reactions that I have to love it in order to get over it and past it.

Be passionate and be involved in what you believe in, and do it as thoroughly and honestly and fearlessly as you can.

I just - I love my job. I love doing it. It's a passionate endeavor. And sometimes you can get close to something that you believe is the truth. The truth of something. Not all the time, but sometimes.

Singing, it's like it's like loving somebody, it's a supreme emotional and physical experience.

Inside me, 'Dragon Ball' became a thing of the past, but later, I got upset at the live-action film, revised the script for the anime film, and complained about the quality of the TV anime. I guess, at some point, it became a work that I like so much that I can't leave it alone.

The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing.

I want to make people feel intensely alive. I'd rather have them against me than indifferent.

I always approach film as a fan.

And so, from the first, we separated our pleasure. She lay on the rug and I lay at right angles to her so that only our lips might meet. Kissing in this way is the strangest of distractions. The greedy body that clamors for satisfaction is forced to content itself with a single sensation and, just as the blind hear more acutely and the deaf can feel the grass grow, so the mouth becomes the focus of love and all things pass through it and are re-defined. It is a sweet and precise torture.

Art is a means to function thoroughly and passionately in a world that has a lot more to it than paint.

To taste fully is to live fully. And to live fully is to be awake and responsive to complexities and truths - good and terrible, overwhelming and miniscule. To eat passionately is to allow the world in; there can be no hiding or sublimation when you're chewing a mouthful of food so good it makes you swoon.

Creativity means enjoying any work as meditation; doing any work with deep love.

By reading keep in a state of excited igorance, like a blind man in a house afire; flounder around, immensely but unintelligently interested; don't know how I got in and can't find the way out, but I'm having a booming time all to myself.Don't know what a Schelgesetzentwurf is, but I keep as excited over it and as worried about it as if it were my own child. I simply live on the Sch.; it is my daily bread. I wouldn't have the question settled for anything in the world.

Every time I get a script it's a matter of trying to know what I could do with it. I see colors, imagery. It has to have a smell. It's like falling in love. You can't give a reason why.

When they talk about music getting in your blood, I understand exactly what they're talking about, because that is me.

Consider this: alms aside, Wikipedia is fueled by competitive pedantry and emo-ness. How great is that?

As tough as things have been, I am convinced you are tougher. I've seen your passion and I've seen your service. I've seen you engage and I've seen you turn out in record numbers. I've heard your voices amplified by creativity and a digital fluency that those of us in older generations can barely comprehend. I've seen a generation eager, impatient even, to step into the rushing waters of history and change its course.

In whatever one does there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart.

I can't really stop doing the music because it really feeds me.