Irving Stone Quotes

In some ways, it's my rage that keeps me going.

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

The original purpose of the beards was to help with the wind when it's blowing in your face. When you're out there in the woods hunting like we are all the time, we found that facial hair helps you to stay a lot warmer.

I always feel like rejection is my petrol. That's what keeps me going.

Fire is one of my temperaments. It is behind all my work... Fire is a chemical presence.

One must never let the fire go out in one's soul, but keep it burning.

Dreams die hard and we watch them erode, but we cannot be denied the fire inside.

I feel like the need to want to create and make something is stronger than the difficulties are going through.

Use anger to emotionalize whatever thing you intend to do in life - being a painter, a poet or a photographer

All the hatin just fuels to my fire.

This is what it means to live on. When granted hope, a person uses it as fuel, as a guidepost to life. It is impossible to live without hope.

It took strength to hold on to inner passion, and Noah had done that.

Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running.

When the past makes you laugh and you can savor the magic that lets you survive your own war, you'll find that that fire is passion and there's a door up ahead - not a wall.

Life itself, too, is forever turning an infinitely vacant, dispiriting blank side towards man on which nothing appears, any more than it does on a blank canvas. But no matter how vacant and vain, how dead life may appear to be, the man of faith, of energy, of warmth, who knows something, will not be put off so easily.

A lot of times I had some problems, but I always had the passion and the personal motivation to keep going, to keep working hard, keep fighting for the things that really motivates me. That's all.

If I had to choose my driving force, it would be passion.

Seek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls.

There is a spirit in us that makes our brass to blare and our cymbals crash-all, of course, supported by the practicalities of trained lung power, throat, heart, guts.

YOU CAN HAVE ALL THE TALENT IN THE WORLD, IT'S NOT GONNA GET YOU THROUGH... IT'S WHAT YOU HAVE IN YOUR HEART.

Never stop fighting no matter what anyone says. If it's in your gut, your soul, there's nothing, no worldly possession that should come between you and your expression.

Don't let the negatives of life control you. Rise above them. Use them as your stepping stones to go higher than you ever dreamed possible

You've got to shake your fists at lightning now, you've got to roar like forest fire You've got to spread your light like blazes all across the sky They're going to aim the hoses on you, show 'em you won't expire Not till you burn up every passion, not even when you die Come on now, you've got to try, if you're feeling contempt, well then you tell it If you're tired of the silent night, Jesus, well then you yell it Condemned to wires and hammers, strike every chord that you feel That broken trees and elephant ivories conceal

Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written.

But you've got to be tough when consumed by desire, cause it's not enough just to stand outside the fire.