Benjamin Zander on music and passion

It's about passion, and what excites our spirit and our energy.

DSR Close enough! Passion.

I carried that fascination with me into adulthood, and it grew as my grasp on it all increased.

Why this passion for translations from Portuguese to French?

Thus El Guardabosques was born, a non institutionalized network of people passionate about nature

This did not settle the matter the passion for human rights simply moved to the next level.

FN And I brought this all together, this passion with alternative energy and raced a solar car across Australia also the U.S. and Japan.

A deep craving for the favor of foreign lenders usually derives from some deeply engrained form of misgoverance.

When you live that way, when you live with that kind of passion, there's no time, there's no time for regrets, you're just moving forward.

The Romantic view is that first comes the passion and then the outpouring of emotion, and then somehow it gets shaped into something.

The fact that we debate such questions passionately suggests that we all have varying conceptions of where self interest lies.

So, I've had an obsession basically for 30 years, and that obsession has been, What makes the difference in the quality of peoples lives?

When the Internet injected the media industry with a heavy dose of speed, I welcomed the resulting 24 hour mania of political coverage, and working as a correspondent in a storied newsroom made the craving virtually insatiable.

Luis Soriano has enjoyed reading since childhood a passion he says he owes to his aunt, with whom he discovered a memorable poem by the Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío

And then he didn't particularly like school that much, but he got involved in robotics competitions, and he realized he had a talent, and, more importantly, he had a real passion for it.

And I'm saying, well, the passion's still there, but the vessel that it's going to be injected into and poured into, that is instinctively and intuitively created first.

With the same desire to honor and archive Madagascar's history, two Facebook pages are archiving vintage pictures of the cities and the Malagasy people Madagascar Hier (Yesterday's Madagascar) and Il était une fois Madagascar (Once upon a time in Madagascar) .

The fact that we debate such questions passionately suggests that we all have varying conceptions of where self interest lies. Our interests are in fact hostage to our ideas.

At Global Voices in French, volunteer translators choose to translate because they love news, because they are interested in the world at large, because they enjoy translating.

So from sixth through 12th grade, once, twice, sometimes three times a week, I would take classes at the art museum, and I was surrounded by other kids who loved to draw, other kids who shared a similar passion.

Of course, in countries receiving assistance such as Greece in the last few years the IMF excites great passion. But in the halls of the US Congress, few people pay any attention.

I mean, here you have these guys who basically thought they were just following this hunch, this little passion that had developed, then they thought they were fighting the Cold War, and then it turns out they're just helping somebody find a soy latte.

I mean, today, one person speaking can be seen by millions, shedding bright light on potent ideas, creating intense desire for learning and to respond and in his case, intense desire to laugh.

Paradoxically, too, the greening of America an America that discovers late but with passion its responsibility for the planet s survival may lead to a competitive transatlantic race for first prize in ecological good behavior.

But since the 1960 s, the passions expended until then on righting collective wrongs have been increasingly channeled into securing the rights of humans as individuals. Indeed, if the West can be said to have a public philosophy nowadays, it is a philosophy of human rights.

Paradoxically, too, the greening of America an America that discovers late but with passion its responsibility for the planet s survival may lead to a competitive transatlantic race for first prize in ecological good behavior.

So, together, these two projects answer questions I hadn't asked carefully. The class at MIT shows the killer app for personal fabrication in the developed world is technology for a market of one personal expression in technology that touches a passion unlike anything I've seen in technology for a very long time.

I m very passionate about mental health. I believe we are in a beautiful time, growing up in this day and age, however I do think we are equally connected and disconnected simultaneously. And what I mean by that is that it s easier to connect with someone across the world than across the room.