Enthusiasm Quotations | Page 10

I still would like you to feel the enthusiasm that all those people felt in the twenties and thirties, that indeed we had discovered, with cinema, the great 20th-century, all-embracing medium.

You could take the Internet enthusiasm that was happening in 1999 and 2000 here in the U.S., and in China it was three-to-five times more ebullient.

Depression is an illness that robs one of the meaning of life. Heal the illness. As the depression heals, enthusiasm, well-being, and a sense of life's purpose will return.

Enthusiasm is not contrary to reason; it is reason - on fire.

Let us beware of losing our enthusiasms. Let us ever glory in something, and strive to retain our admiration for all that would ennoble, and our interest in all that would enrich and beautify our life.

Enthusiasm is everything. It must...

My strength is my enthusiasm.

Enthusiasm and eagerness give life to our devotional service.

A sincere soul is not trying to make a show. His enthusiasm is an act of service.

The banality of evil transmutes into the banality of sentimentality. The world is nothing but a problem to be solved by enthusiasm.

Being Larry David on Curb Your Enthusiasm was the best thing to happen to Larry David in life.

There's a very fine line between anxiety and excitement. If you don't let anxiety stop you, you can nudge it over the line.

Dan Spainhour is a terrific coach and educator. I had the pleasure of working several years with him, and I know that his knowledge and enthusiasm are first-rate.

You should live fully and with enthusiasm, the commands of your faith, but it is not the role of the public servant to mandate that for everybody else.

An unprecedented wave of enthusiasm for missionary work is sweeping the entire earth. It is not man-made! It comes from the Lord, who said, “I will hasten my work in its time” (D&C 88:73).

To succeed in any field, Our enthusiasm-eyes must sparkle and our enthusiasm-hearts Must dance.

Daring enthusiasm And abiding cheerfulness Can accomplish everything on earth Without fail.

Courage, enthusiasm, awareness -- if only one can keep these to the end.

My feeling was that I simply didn't have the enthusiasm to do reinvention.

Love born in the brain is more spirited, doubtless, than true love, but it has only flashes of enthusiasm; it knows itself too well, it criticizes itself incessantly; so far from banishing thought, it is itself reared only upon a structure of thought.

I promote my value to others with passion and enthusiasm.

Do whatever you do intensely.

Nothing good or great can be done in the absence of enthusiasm.

a committee, of course, exists for the purpose of damping enthusiasms.

Enthusiasm is a virtue rarely to be met with in seasons of calm and unruffled prosperity.

One of the easiest forms of pretense to break down is the pretense of enthusiasm for exotic foods. Just bring on the exotic foods.

Enthusiasm for one's goal lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it.

I knew Hillary Clinton from undergraduate days and was enormously impressed with her. She was a terrific energy and enthusiasm, and a great organizer. And I knew that she was going to have a political future.

Aphrodite," she said. "Venus?" Hazel asked in amazement. "Mom," Piper said, with no enthusiasm.

Study the unusually successful people you know, and you will find them imbued with enthusiasm for their work which is contagious. Not only are they themselves excited about what they are doing, but they also get you excited

What is man but his passion?

I wouldn't want the pressure of a Six Feet Under or the pressure of improvising like Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Without enthusiasm nothing great can be effected in art.

I was overcome with an attack of pathological enthusiasm.

I want to apologize for plaguing you with so many telephone calls last November and December. When the 'enthusiasm' is coming on me it is accompanied by a feverish reaching out to my friends. After its over I wince and wither.

Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.

But then anyone who's worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm.

All the things you would do gladly, oh without enthusiasm, but gladly, all the things there seems no reason for your not doing, and that you do not do! Can it be we are not free? It might be worth looking into.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?

Some people just shouldn't be disturbed in their inclinations, whether large or small. A reminder can instantly turn enthusiasm into aversion and spoil everything.

In every painting a whole is mysteriously enclosed, a whole life of tortures, doubts, of hours of enthusiasm and inspiration.

Enthusiasts soon understand each other.

Experience and enthusiasm are two fine business attributes seldom found in one individual.

It's relatively easy to generate a lot of enthusiasm for Puget Sound in the short term. Sustaining the effort to clean it up is somewhat tougher.

There will be that zip-a-dee-doo-dah after the nominee is chosen. I guarantee there will be that enthusiasm. But to be brutally honest, with all due respect to governor Romney, who is obviously the frontrunner... hes not garnering a lot of that enthusiasm right now.

Improvement of one's economic position is helped more by cool persistence than by hot enthusiasm.

Reverence, enthusiasm, and a sense of guardianship, these three are actually the panacea, the magical remedy, in the soul of the educator and teacher.

When we can identify a problem and face the problem with confidence and enthusiasm, the solution is on the way.

What I do best is share my enthusiasm.

I'm an investor in a number of biotech companies, partly because of my incredible enthusiasm for the great innovations they will bring.

The state sometimes makes mistakes. When one of these mistakes occurs, a decline in collective enthusiasm is reflected by a resulting quantitative decrease of the contribution of each individual, each of the elements forming the whole of the masses. Work is so paralysed that insignificant quantities are produced. It is time to make a correction.

It's that enthusiasm, that passion for what you're doing, that is most important.

Nothing great comes without enthusiasm.

Religion is among the most powerful causes of enthusiasm.

That youthful fervor, which is sometimes called enthusiasm, but which is a heat of imagination subsequently discovered to be inconsistent with the experience of actual life.

Enthusiasm is the breath of genius.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of poets.

I found him well educated, with unusual powers of mind, but infected with misanthropy, and subject to perverse moods of alternate enthusiasm and melancholy.

Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.

It is so much easier to be enthusiastic than to reason!

Success is bounding from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Who will speak for Planet Earth?

To a modern mind, it is difficult to feel enthusiastic about a virtuous life if nothing is going to be achieved by it.

...the best possible way to prepare for tomorrow is to concentrate with all your intelligence, all your enthusiasm, on doing today's work superbly today. That is the only possible way you can prepare for the future.

If we want to make friends, let's greet people with animation and enthusiasm.

Enthusiasm is that ingredient of vitality mixed with a firm belief in what you are doing that ensures the success of any project you undertake.

Is enthusiasm important in selling? Yes, genuine, heartfelt enthusiasm is one of the most potent factors of success in almost any undertaking.

Cash can buy, but it takes enthusiasm to sell.

You have to put the idea into action. If you don’t have the motivation and the enthusiasm, your great idea will simply sit on top of your desk or inside your head and go nowhere.

Try to improve. Don't expect too much, but don't feel discouraged either; keep up your enthusiasm; you will make progress.

Only one who bursts with enthusiasm do I instruct; Only one who bubbles with excitement do I enlighten. If I hold up one corner and you do not come back to me with the other three, I do not continue the lesson.

We are all experiments in enthusiasms, narrow and preordained.

With his optimism and with the new enthusiasm that a new coach always brings, I think he can take it to the championship level, and I will be surprised if he doesn't win the championship. Not that it will be easy, but he's a very talented individual.

Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk to much.

Every product of genius must be the product of enthusiasm.

Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any occupation, no mater how frightening or difficult, a new meaning. Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish miracles.

Your enthusiasm will be infectious, stimulating and attractive to others. They will love you for it. They will go for you and with you.

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go farther than a great idea that inspires no one.

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.

If you aren't fired up with enthusiasm, you'll be fired with enthusiasm.

If you are not fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

Be fired with enthusiasm or you'll be fired with enthusiasm.

How do you go from where you are to where you want to be? I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal, and you have to be willing to work for it.

Phlegmatic natures can be inspired to enthusiasm only by being made into fanatics.

Of all natural forces, vitality is the incommunicable one. . . . Vitality never "takes." You have it or you haven't it, like health or brown eyes or a baritone voice.

There is a sort of human paste that when it comes near the fire of enthusiasm is only baked into harder shape.

Ridicule has even been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with success.

Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

I felt it was my duty to praise all of God's works with fervent enthusiasm. At the same time I killed flies in my house in a spirit of hatred, exasperation and contempt. My praise to God for all his works was dishonest, the act of killing the fly was honest.

Enthusiasm is caught, not taught.

And so we shall have to do more than register and more than vote; we shall have to create leaders who embody virtues we can respect, who have moral and ethical principles we can applaud with enthusiasm.

The essential in this time of moral poverty is to create enthusiasm.

The purpose of Art is to create enthusiasm.

I am afraid that we are beginning to be over-educated; at least everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching -that is really what our enthusiasm for education has come to.

I think anyone's success depends on working hard, Industriousness and Enthusiasm, enjoying what you are doing. You can't work your best if you're not enjoying what you are doing. No way you can force yourself to.

Enthusiasm brushes off upon those with whom you come in contact.

Defeat is for those who, despite their fears, live with enthusiasm and faith.