The Passions

What Is Passion? Passion is an intense, uncontrollable emotion Tears streamed down my face as I watched the first man finish the sixty-hour marathon in the Netflix documentary “The Barkley Marathons.” I jumped up and threw both fists in the air. I felt like I had won. His determination and perseverance had done something to my core. I could control neither my body nor my tears. My reactions demonstrate how passion is both intense and uncontrollable. Passion is an ambition we put into action…

The determination in leadership can come from one’s passion or passion can dictate one’s purpose, and the result can be an unquestionable leader. For some of us, it takes many years to find the purpose of our leadership – and the right place to devote our passions. I understand the importance of education, and am determined; seek improvement for myself so I can help improve others. I generally look to make things better in the physical workplace, and the interpersonal customer peer environment.…

What does it mean to be passionate about something? Passion implies feelings and dedication. It means that you love to do something and you don't consider that spending your free time that way is overdoing it. In fact, you're so focused at what you're passionate about that you find a way to squeeze it in your schedule and you almost forget about the world around you while you're at it. To have a passion means to surrender, to offer yourself fully in order to accomplish that thing, to be hooked…

pleasurable passion. Zeena Frome was a woman who constantly ignored her responsibility in hopes that her husband would begin to give her the attention…

The Pritzker Passion Prize evoked many emotions for me because my mom passed away just months after being diagnosed with cancer. Experiences like these serve as reminders to not take time on this world for granted and to use every chance possible to pursue passions. No one knows how long their life will last, so finding what means the most to you and going after it is of great importance. In the last letter my mom wrote me, she said her wish was for me to be happy. I live every day with this in…

Define passion. I define passion as an uncontrollable emotion for someone or something that compels you to exert more than the required amount of energy to keep it ongoing. Passion is more than excitement, its devotion and ambition that one materializes by putting their mind, body and soul into it. Finding a passion isn't easy. It takes people years, decades or their entire lives to find the one activity that brings them true joy. Sometimes it's more than just joy, its a sense of fulfillment,…

“Medea explores the tension between reason and passion”. Discuss It is within the very nature of humans to isolate the polarised forces of reason and passion, yet within his Greek tragedy Medea, Euripides demonstrates the “fatal results” of possessing a predisposition for either frame of mind. Indeed, the antagonistic relationship between Medea and society best contextualises the gripping antithesis between maintaining an acceptable outward demeanour and laying bare our inner impulses…

How We Experience Passion Everyone is passionate about something, whether it's college sports or the judical system of our country. Throughout This I Believe the reader learns about the passions of various people from various walks of life, but we also take in how these people experience them. In the essays In Giving I Connect With Others by Isabele Allende and Getting Angry Can Be A Good Thing by Cecilia Munoz we see two mirrored forms of passion; unyeilding love and slow burning anger.…

meditations and in “The Passion of the Soul”. So what if he just came up with the idea of wondering later in his life, but in fact everything started with wondering? It’s possible that wondering is the real proof of the existence while thinking is just a product of wondering. To prove this thesis, I’m going to research…

Desire and Passion! “Whatever the mind of a man can conceive and believe, it can achieve” (Napoleon Hill) Desire is a very important part of attracting the universal laws into your life. Can you remember when you wanted something or even someone with a passion? It felt so right, so good, and so exciting. You could almost touch and feel it without being near it, and you could smell it, taste and hear it and it 's nowhere near you. You thought about it day and night till you were obsessed with…