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• It astounds us to come upon other egoists, as though we alone had the right to be selfish, and to be filled with eagerness to live.

  Jules Renard

  Selfish, Being Selfish, Filled

  Jules Renard (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.19, Tin House Books

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• God never forces a person's will into surrender, and He never begs. He patiently waits until that person willingly yields to Him. True surrender is a matter of being 'united together [with Jesus] in the likeness of His death' (Romans 6:5) until nothing ever appeals to you that did not appeal to Him. And after you surrender--then what? Your entire life should be characterized by an eagerness to maintain unbroken fellowship and oneness with God.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Oneness, Yield

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• You just try to do everything that comes up. Get up an hour earlier, stay up an hour later, make the time. Then you look back and say, ‘Well, that was a neat piece of juggling there -- school, marriage, babies, career.’ The enthusiasms took me through the action, not the measuring of it or the reasonableness.

  Ruby Dee

  Marriage, Baby, Children

  "Breaking: Legendary Actress Ruby Dee Has Died at Age 91, Family Says" by Tambay A. Obenson, www.indiewire.com. June 12, 2014.

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• Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead.

  Susan Sontag

  Inspiration, Kissing, Waiting

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• Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.

  William Godwin

  Education, Haste, Forget

  William Godwin (1823). “The enquirer. Reflections on education, manners, and literature. In a series of essays”, p.69

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• Walking along past the store windows, into which she peers with her usual eagerness, her usual sense that maybe, today, she will discover behind them something that will truly be worth seeing, she feels as if her feet are not on cement at all but on ice. The blade of the skate floats, she knows, on a thin film of water, which it melts by pressure and which freezes behind it. This is the freedom of the present tense, this sliding edge.

  Margaret Atwood

  Past, Feet, Ice

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Bluebeard's Egg”, p.257, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The products we design are going to be ridden in, sat upon, looked at, talked into, activated, operated, or in some way used by people individually or en masse. If the point of contact between the product and the people becomes a point of friction, then the industrial designer has failed. If, on the other hand, people are made safer, more comfortable, more eager to purchase, more efficient-or just plain happier-the industrial designer has succeeded.

  Henry Dreyfuss

  Happy, Failure, Hands

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• A wise man should order his interests, and set them all in their proper places. This order is often troubled by greed, which putsus upon pursuing so many things at once that, in eagerness for matters of less consideration, we grasp at trifles, and let go things of greater value.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Letting Go, Wise, Men

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• That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste.

  William Hazlitt

  Education, Teaching, Long

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• A zealous disciple expressed a desire to teach others the Truth and asked the Master what he thought about this. The Master said, "Wait." Each year the disciple would return with the same request and each time the Master would give him the same reply: "Wait." One day he said to the Master, "When will I be ready to teach?" Said the Master, "When your excessive eagerness to teach has left you.

  Anthony de Mello

  Years, Giving, Waiting

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• We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.

  Irving Babbitt

  Romantic Love, Leader, Conventions

  Irving Babbitt (1908). “Literature and the American college: essays in defense of the humanities”

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• That in all these worldly Things, that a Man pursues with the greatest Eagerness and Intention of Mind imaginable, he finds not half the Pleasure in the actual Possession of them, that he proposed to himself in the Expectation.

  Robert South

  Men, Expectations, Half

  "Twelve Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions".

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• Patriotism means unqualified and unwavering love for the nation, which implies not uncritical eagerness to serve, not support for unjust claims, but frank assessment of its vices and sins, and penitence for them.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Peace, War, Mean

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• Always be eager to learn, no matter how successful you might already be. In the Millionaires' Club, we sometimes invite a billionaire to come talk to us. He says, 'You're doing okay, but come on. How about if you really poured it on!'

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Success, Learning

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 20, 2015

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• Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.

  Pele

  Inspirational, Soccer, Athlete

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• We should wish for few things with eagerness, if we perfectly knew the nature of that which was the object of our desire.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Wish, Desire, Want

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• Every one of the geezers who continues to play a leadership role has one quality of overriding importance: neotony. The dictionary definition is that neotony, a zoological term, involves "the retention of youthful qualities throughout old age." It is more than merely retaining a youthful appearance, although that is often part of it. Neotony is the retention of all those wonderful qualities that we associate with youth: curiosity, playfulness, eagerness, fearlessness, warmth, energy.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Play, Curiosity, Age

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Eagerness to please attracts bullies and bores.

  Mason Cooley

  Bullying, Boredom, Please

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• The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Narrators, Tongue, Listeners

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.165, Penguin

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• he was for long my only audience... Only from him did I ever get the idea that my ‘stuff’ could be more than a private hobby. But for his interest and unceasing eagerness for more I should never have brought The L. of the R. to a conclusion.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Ideas, Long, Hobbies

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• Among well bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt for others is disguised; authority concealed; attention given to each in his turn; and an easy stream of conversation maintained without vehemence, without interruption, without eagerness for victory, and without any airs of superiority.

  David Hume

  Air, People, Victory

  David Hume (1870). “Essays, Literary, Moral, and Political”, p.463

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• Are you not ashamed of your eagerness to possess as much wealth, reputation, and honors as possible, while you do not care for nor give thought to wisdom or truth, or the best possible state of your soul?

  Socrates

  Giving, Soul, Honor

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• Victory is plesant, not only to those who love to conquer, bot to all; for there is produced an idea of superiority, which all with more or less eagerness desire.

  Aristotle

  Pride, Ideas, Victory

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• Enemies could become the best companions. Companionship is based on a common interest, and the greater the interest the closer the companionship. What makes enemies of people, if not the eagerness, the passion for the same thing?

  Bernard Berenson

  Passion, People, Enemy

  Bernard Berenson (1963). “Sunset and Twilight: From the Diaries of 1947-1958”, New York : Harcourt, Brace & World

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• A people that is able to say everything, becomes able to do everything. The crowd which follows me with admiration, would run with the same eagerness were I marching to the Guillotine.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Running, People, Crowds

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