When I was young, it wasn't about the money, it wasn't about the fame and fortune, it was about playing football.
My grandmother told me that to be in fashion, one must be young and passionate about the work. At this moment, every aspect of my life is permeated by fashion - everything has a reference to my job.
The passions of youth are not more dangerous to health than is the lukewarmness of old age.
Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.
Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age.
I should be, right now, a normal 17-year-old sitting in class in high school. Instead, I'm recording, and it's so exciting for me. I can't imagine anything I'd rather be doing right now.
What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but passionate and absolutist youth can only be enthralled by a problem.
As a kid I was fascinated with sports, and I loved sports more than anything else. The first books I read were about sports, like books about Baseball Joe, as one baseball hero was called.
I'm certainly not surprised by the passion of the youth for our myths. Mythology is almost a part of an Indian's DNA.
Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
I think it's just really important for youth today to have a passion and pursue something seriously.
That which fires youth, generally rings true.
Paris was incredible. Everything about it for me, from spending hours eating, drinking and talking to walking through the streets...at that time I hadn't seen that sort of political passion in the youth, and I got to experience that first hand.
When I was 14, I used to do music 365 days a year.
I grew up skateboarding; it was fun. I didn't think about money, I didn't know how much professional skateboarders made. I just knew that if I became a professional skateboarder, I would achieve a lot and get to travel and do these great things.
I don't think you ever love anything as passionately as you do when you're a teen. You remember the books you read as a young person your whole life. I feel so lucky to write for young adults.
I'm passionate about making this country and the youth passionate about football.
Don Chew is the owner of the Orange County Badminton Club, the location where I train. He played badminton when he was young and always had the passion for it. He never made it at the international level, but he wanted to give back to the sport. The majority of the elite players train at Orange County Badminton Club.
When I was in secondary school, I cared about nothing but music.
My dream was to become a footballer. I started loving football so much that I followed my dad wherever he went and spent all my time playing football with friends out in the fields. But my parents also taught me the important values and principles in life of respect and to raise me in that way.
When I was younger I was obsessed with writing, so even if I wanted to listen, I didn't have time.
