“Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.”
Iris Murdoch book The Book and the Brotherhood
The Book and the Brotherhood (1987) p. 248.
Source: Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
“Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.”
Iris Murdoch book The Book and the Brotherhood
The Book and the Brotherhood (1987) p. 248.
“It's better to get lost in the passion than to lose the passion”
Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism
Kristin Hannah (1960) American writer
Source: Distant Shores
“You will need find your passion.”
Randy Pausch (1960–2008) American professor of computer science, human-computer interaction and design
Many of you have already done it, many of you will later, many of you may take to your thirties or forties, but don't give up on finding it. Right, then all you are doing is waiting for the reaper. Find your passion and follow it. And if there is anything that I have learned in life, you will not find that passion in things. And you will not find that passion in money. Because the more things and the more money you have, the more you will just look around and use that as the metric — and there will always be someone with more. Your passion must come from the things that fuel you from the inside. And honors and awards are nice things, but only to the extent that they regard real respect from your peers. And to be thought of well by people you think of more highly up is a tremendous honor I've been granted. Find your passion, and in my experience, no matter what you do at work or what you do in in official settings, that passion will be grounded in people. It will be grounded in the relationships you have with people and what they think of you when your time comes.
CMU Graduation speech (2008)
Kathryn Lasky (1944) American children's writer
Source: The Capture
Seth Godin (1960) American entrepreneur, author and public speaker
Source: Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
James Burgh (1714–1775) British politician
The Dignity of Human Nature (1754)
Ray Liotta (1954) American actor
As quoted in "Tribeca Film Festival Interview: Ray Liotta Takes a Rare Comedic Turn in Snowmen" by Cynthia Ellis at Huffington Post (26 April 2010)
“You've got passion to kill but you need to find passion to live.”
Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer
Source: Steelheart