Enthusiasm Quotes - Page 16

• It can be set down as a broad, general principle that we cannot indulge in idleness and abundance during both the first and second half of our life. Study, application, industry, enthusiasm while we are young usually enable us to enjoy life when we grow older. But unless we toil and strive and earn all we can in the first half, the second half of our life is liable to bring disappointment, discomfort, distress. The time to put forth effort is when we are most able to do it, namely, in the years of our greatest strength. The law of compensation hasn't ceased to function.

  B. C. Forbes

  Disappointment, Indulge In, Years

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• Enthusiasm is a wonderful thing. In South America they throw flowers to you. In Greece Greeks throw themselves.

  Melina Mercouri

  Flower, America, Greek

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• Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection.

  Alban Berg

  Reflection, Feelings, Perception

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• If you're bringing up kids, you just want to smother them with love and praise and enthusiasm. So I don't think you can mollycoddle your kids too much really.

  Richard Branson

  Motivation, Inspiration, Kids

  "Life at 30,000 feet". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.ted.com. March, 2007.

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• When we're infused with either enthusiasm or awe or fondness ... it changes what we see. It changes what we remember.

  Robert Legato

  Motivation, Inspiration, Remember

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• Not everyone voted for me, but the fact that we have so far approximately 32 seats in the 50 seat parliament demonstrates the enthusiasm and the faith and the trust the Fijian people have had for both the track record of my government and FijiFirst manifesto.

  Frank Bainimarama

  Government, People, Track

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• If you want to win anything - a race, yourself, your life - you have to go a little berserk.

  George A. Sheehan

  Adversity, Winning, Race

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• I have lost the consolation of faith/ though not the ambition to worship

  Forrest Gander

  Ambition, Acceptance, Worship

  Forrest Gander (2001). “Torn Awake”, p.8, New Directions Publishing

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• It's absolutely impossible to have a serious critical discussion about enthusiasms for movie stars. Because a movie star is an animal separate from acting. Sometimes, he or she is a great actor. Sometimes a third-rate one. But the star is something that you fall in love with.

  Peter Biskind

  Falling In Love, Stars, Animal

  Peter Biskind (2013). “My Lunches with Orson: Conversations between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles”, p.193, Macmillan

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• Introverted feeling types have a wealth of warmth and enthusiasm, but they may not show it until they know someone well. They wear their warm side inside, like a fur-lined coat.

  Isabel Briggs Myers

  Feelings, Fur, Coats

  Isabel Briggs Myers, Peter B. Myers (1995). “Gifts differing: understanding personality type”, Davies-Black Publishing

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• The book it reminded me of most is Henry Miller’s The Books in My Life. Like Miller, Shields manages to convey his affection for and admiration of literature, and that, the enthusiasm and admiration, can revitalize the reader’s love for the art form. I’m grateful for How Literature Saved My Life because the book has made me think again – and for the first time in a while – 'Well, what is it we do when we read?' It’s a damned annoying question, but it needs to be asked now and then, and Shields has asked it in a way I find resonant and moving.

  Andre Alexis

  Art, Book, Grateful

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• Enthusiasm is by far the highest paid quality on earth, probably because it is one of the rarest; yet it is one of the most contagious.

  Frank Bettger

  Quality, Earth, Contagious

  Frank Bettger (2009). “How I Raised Myself From Failure”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• In an idealized world, we would all be able to do what our English teachers told us to do, which is to write beautiful prose where enthusiasm is conveyed by word choice and grammar.

  Will Schwalbe

  Beautiful, Teacher, Writing

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• We have to be vigilant on two fronts: (1) to not let our anti-imperialism lead to the defense of authoritarian regimes in the region and (2) to not let our enthusiasm for rebellion lead to cheering on the cruise missiles from US warships. These two sirens should worry us as we make our hesitant way alongside the rebirth of a New Left in the Arab world.

  Vijay Prashad

  Cheer, Two, Worry

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• Ron Pernick and Clint Wilder have created a compelling vision for a Clean Tech Nation and a roadmap for creating it, even as they surprise and delight readers with a rich account of progress already achieved. I salute their unique combination of technical savvy, practical sense, and imperishable enthusiasm.

  Ralph Cavanagh

  Unique, Creating, Vision

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• I have a very, very secret drive to become a dilettante, without the pejorative overtones or the obligation to produce myself. There's so much to examine, so much to contemplate. I have enormous enthusiasm when I start a new project but then there's the meetings and the counter-meetings, the rehearsals, the struggles. You have to keep pushing and pushing and pushing to get your dreams realised.

  Peter Greenaway

  Dream, Struggle, Secret

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• School is temporary. Education is not. If you want to prosper in life: find something that fascinates you and jump all over it. Don't wait for someone to teach you; your enthusiasm will attract teachers to you. Don't worry about diplomas or degrees; just get so good that no one can ignore you.

  James Marcus Bach

  Teacher, School, Worry

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• I still enjoy the company of most dogs more than that of most people, because dogs are capable of uncomplicated enthusiasm.

  John Gierach

  Dog, People, Enjoy

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• I think the biggest difficulty is that when I'm here in America, there's a necessity of using English, so I really have a great sense of really wanting to learn, but unfortunately when I head back to Japan, the necessity vanishes and so does my enthusiasm about learning.

  Chiaki Kuriyama

  Thinking, Japan, America

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• There's nothing clinically wrong with me, only an emotional imbalance - I pass too quickly from the wildest enthusiasm to the blackest despair.

  Henri Matisse

  Emotional, Despair, Imbalance

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• Those who approach their jobs and careers with enthusiasm always find plenty of opportunities, while those who complain about no one ever giving them a chance are merely observers of life. When you are determined that you will not allow others to determine your future for you, when you refuse to allow temporary setbacks to defeat you, you are destined for great success. The opportunities will always be there for you.

  Napoleon Hill

  Jobs, Opportunity, Careers

  Napoleon Hill (1997). “Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success”, p.65, Penguin

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

  William Feather

  Two, Individual, Found

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• You must bring every particle of your energy, unanswerable resolution, your best efforts, your persistent industry to your task or the best will not come out of you. You must back up your ambition by your whole nature, by unbounded enthusiasm and a determination to win which knows no failure.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Determination, Ambition, Winning

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• Enthusiasm is the dynamics of your personality. Without it, whatever abilities you may possess lie dormant; and it is safe to say that nearly every man has more latent power than he ever learns to use. You may have knowledge, sound judgment, good reasoning faculties; but no one-not even yourself-will know it until you discover how to put your heart into thought and action.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Attitude, Lying

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• I feel that talent means little unless coupled with an insatiable desire to give an excellent personal demonstration of ability...talent must be in company with a capacity for unlimited effort which provides the power that eventually hurdles the difficulties that would frustrate lukewarm enthusiasm.

  Andrew Loomis

  Mean, Giving, Effort

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