Chris Pine Quotes

Whatever it is that I am working on is what I become obsessed with.

Determination becomes obsession and then it becomes all that matters.

I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous.

Without obsession, life is nothing.

I am obsessed with people that are obsessed with what they do.

You can do anything you want to do. What is rare is this actual wanting to do a specific thing: wanting it so much that you are practically blind to all other things, that nothing else will satisfy you.

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

I'm an all-or-nothing kind of person, and when I become interested in something, I give it my all.

When you're around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it's not strange, it's just Gaga.

Ambition can take the place of everything - even sex.

Do whatever you do intensely.

Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.

I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.

I am full of fire and passion. I am not ready yet for great concentration and passion.

Well, I am obsessive about my work. I throw myself in all the way.

One cannot accomplish anything without fanatacism.

My friends have always called me 'Mr. Thorough,' in that when I get into something, I become obsessed with it.

I tend to obsess over my passions.

The parts I've been most successful in are the ones I've desperately, desperately wanted.

When I think about it, the happiest and most successful people I know don't just love what they do, they're obsessed with solving something that matters to them. They remind me of a dog chasing a tennis ball: Their eyes go a little crazy, the leash snaps and they go bounding off, plowing through whatever gets in the way.

When you really want a role, you just put your soul in it.

I was so focused and so driven, there was this fire inside of me that was burning so brightly.

Maybe I've just been incredibly fortunate, but there's a level of dedication, devotion, intensity and seriousness around me every day.

It's that one thing that you're passionate about, that you end up developing tunnel vision for and everything else tends to fall by the wayside. Passion is appealing and universal.

Once something is a passion, the motivation is there.