Janis Joplin Quotes

You can't connect with something you're not passionate about.

If it's something that reaches out and grabs me, I want to do it. I have a lot of trouble doing things that don't grab me. So, I'm not a very good actor in that way. I can't fake it.

If people see that you're passionate about what you're creating, they're going to enjoy it.

Growing up, I learned that if you are passionate about something, that you can move mountains. Passion is more precious than gold, and it's a currency that everyone craves. It's something that's hard to fake, and when it's real, everyone wants to be on that train. It's about giving people something that they can believe.

I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.

You have to lead people to get excited and be passionate and be activated by what you do.

I think energy is the most important thing that we can give to people as performers. Anything else is a little bit pretentious. But energy is not.

I think if people are passionate about something, it could be real estate or biochemistry, and that spark gets turned on in them, everyone's beautiful in that zone.

There was nothing in all Douglas's powerful effort that appealed to the higher instincts of human nature, while Lincoln always touched sympathetic cords. Lincoln's speech excited and sustained the enthusiasm of his audience to the end.

Passion is just something that comes naturally to me.

That which fires youth, generally rings true.

If your heart's not into what you're selling, you're not going to make it.

You always want to be part of something you're so passionate about.

I have to be absolutely drawn to the project. If you're ashamed or bored by it at the beginning, it's going to be a pretty nightmarish thing.

I think that's the main thing - when people watch TV and they can see that you're truly passionate about what you do, they can see it. They know it. And that's what they're drawn to.

Passion is not something you have to talk about. People feel it.

We always play better when we play with emotion.

As far as enthusiasm goes, yes, certain games maybe bring more out of the players.

To love is to be engaged is to work is to be interested is to create.

Passion is the motto of all my actions.

If you truly dig what you are doing, if you lay it out that way, nobody can not respond. That's what rock and roll is; it's relentless.

I will work as hard as I do because I love it.

I stay excited 'cause for me, this is something I love to do. I'm like Coca Cola with it. I been here for a long time, I just gotta keep it nice and stay up to date and also give them that quality taste that they been looking for. It's nothing to me. When you built for it, you born for it, you do it cuz you wanna do it, not cuz you have to.

Write about what you care about. If you do that, you're probably going to do your best writing, reach off the page and touch the reader. How are you going to make the reader care if you don't care yourself?

I love the passion you go through while you're creating.