Francis Collins Quotes

If I am not deeply passionate about a certain project then I will let it be.

I'm sometimes willing to put in vast, even inordinate amounts of time if I find a project that interests me.

I look for stuff that I'm passionate about.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

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.

You're always fascinated by what you do, and how other people look at it.

I've always followed my enthusiasm. Whether the pictures have turned out good or not is one thing - but I've always had a lot of enthusiasm for the project at hand.

You gotta love this thing. Whatever you choose to pursue - medicine, law, writing, you have to love it. You study it, you eat it, you drink it, you try it, you do it, you love it in every way.

I really believe that whoever is doing something with a strong passion is very much important to me. I love people like that.

You have to have passion for a subject to write about it. You can't expect your readers to feel any excitement if it's nothing but a boring writing exercise for you.

If I'm interested in what I'm doing, other people will be interested in it.

Inspiration is finding something that excites you.

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

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.

We only take on projects that we're really passionate about.

Zeal will do more than knowledge.

I'm very glad to have something to be passionate about. I can't imagine a life without passion.

Whatever you do, you do out of a passion.

I developed this - I don't know, like a burning love, almost, inside of me that I just wanted to get up, and I just wanted to skate every single day and get better.

I have to have a passion in my life.

When you have a passion for something then you tend not only to be better at it, but you work harder at it too.

It is not easy to find something that will intrigue and bind your interest and enthusiasm. This you must seek for yourself.

I don't want to do anything that I'm not passionate about.

The truest drive comes from doing what you love.

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.