Jenny Holzer Quotes

Anger is a good motivator.

Anger can keep you warm at night, and wounded pride can spur a man to wondrous things.

Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love.

I get fired up when emotions are involved. I think it pulls a little bit of extra out of me.

Love may be the best driving wheel, but anger is a pretty good second.

Hate is a passionate emotion.

Resistance is directly proportional to love. If you’re feeling massive Resistance, the good news is, it means there’s tremendous love there too. If you didn’t love the project that is terrifying you, you wouldn’t feel anything. The opposite of love isn’t hate; it’s indifference.

For a lot of people, their first love is what they'll always remember. For me it's always been the first hate, and I think that hatred, though it provides often rather junky energy, is a terrific way of getting you out of bed in the morning and keeping you going.

Everybody kind of perceives me as being angry. It's not anger, it's motivation.

Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.

Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.

All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.

If I ever stopped being angry, I couldn't write anymore. How could I?

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.

Teams are made up of a lot of components. They're made up of hunger, they're made up of desire, they're made up of chemistry, and they're made up of emotion.

The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.

I don't think it's good to run on anger, but it's really great when that's the first couple of gallons in your tank - when you've had enough, and you're just pissed off enough to go for it. In a lot of ways, that sort of environment can be a catapult for a great situation.

[Senator Roscoe Conkling is:] A great fighter, inspired more by his hates than his loves.

I think being angry is what keeps me motivated.

I played on anger for the first 15 years of my career.

What drives you? What's your motivation? That's not emotion. That's passion. It's a different word.

I always write about something that moves me.

When I'm angry, when I've got something to fight for, I'm charged up.

Knowledge fueled by emotion equals action.