Enthusiasm Quotes - Page 23

• Would you like to be a brilliant conversationalist? Just give your natural enthusiasm free reign and say whatever comes into your head. Your rashness will be taken for extraordinary courage.

  Alain-Rene Lesage

  Taken, Giving, Reign

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• It sounds strange to say it, but you can be in a war zone and have a lot of fun. Even though war is essentially pain on all sides, human beings have the capacity to enjoy themselves. The soldiers are mostly young people, full of enthusiasm and energy, and that's an exciting thing for an old guy like me.

  Bruce Cockburn

  Fun, Pain, War

  "Gavin's Woodpile". www.brucecockburn.org. December 15, 2012.

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• Even in my stand-up, there's a lot more positivity and enthusiasm rather than negative, I-hate-everything vibes.

  Aziz Ansari

  Hate, Positivity, Negative

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• Progress can be slow and gradual. Continue putting in effort with patience, enthusiasm and faith.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Effort, Meditation, Progress

  Twitter post from Jul 17, 2014

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• It has been said that people never do evil with more enthusiasm than when they do it in the name of God.

  Tony Campolo

  Names, People, Evil

  "The Growing Impossibility of Interfaith Dialogue" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 14, 2011.

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• Education, which was at first made universal in order that all might be able to read and write, has been found capable of serving quite other purposes. By instilling nonsense it unifies populations and generates collective enthusiasm.

  Bertrand Russell

  Education, Writing, School

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.61, Routledge

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• A decline of exuberance is just barely noticeable in America, making itself felt particularly among the most highly educated and the well-to-do in a loss of appetite for work and perhaps even for leisure.

  David Riesman

  Loss, America, Leisure

  David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.162, Transaction Publishers

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• I do have a childlike enthusiasm at times. I certainly enjoy life and get pleasure sometimes in childish things.

  Brian Baumgartner

  Enjoy Life, Sometimes, Pleasure

  "Brian Baumgartner (Kevin) Accounts for The Office's Success". Interview with Sabrina Rojas Weiss, www.tvguide.com. February 1, 2007.

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• When I was a child I used to read books by Gerald Durrell, who founded Jersey Zoo. He had a job collecting animals for zoos and for a long time that is what I wanted to do. Later when I was a teenager I had a fantastic English teacher called Mrs. Stafford. Her enthusiasm made me decide to be a writer.

  Melvin Burgess

  Teacher, Jobs, Zoos

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• I was really glad to meet Jane Clark because it did give me an insight. I couldn't imagine what kind of woman she was. I was hugely impressed by her energy, straightforward nature and enthusiasm for life.

  Jenny Agutter

  Enthusiasm For Life, Giving, Energy

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• Hope is the motivation that empowers the unemployed, enabling them to get out of bed every single morning with unbounded enthusiasm as they look for work.

  Emanuel Cleaver

  Morning, Motivation, Empowering

  Emanuel Cleaver DNC speech, www.politico.com. September 05, 2012.

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• I'm guided by my enthusiasm.

  Jonathan Demme

  "Conversation: Director Jonathan Demme on His New Film and Hero, Carolyn Parker". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. September 20, 2012.

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• I would love to be on 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' I'd love to be on that. A lot of my favorite shows get canceled really early on. I liked 'Twin Peaks.' If I had a time machine I'd be in that.

  Matthew Gray Gubler

  Machines, Twins, Twin Peaks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Play: It is an an activity which proceeds within certain limits of time and space, in a visible order, according to rules freely accepted, and outside the sphere of necessity or material utility. The play-mood is one of rapture and enthusiasm, and is sacred or festive in accordance with the occasion. A feeling of exaltation and tension accompanies the action.

  Johan Huizinga

  Order, Play, Space

  Johan Huizinga (1949). “Homo Ludens”, p.132, Taylor & Francis

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• The main purpose of a significance test is to inhibit the natural enthusiasm of the investigator.

  Frederick Mosteller

  Science, Purpose, Tests

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• If i'm not with somebody who really excites or inspires me, then I'd rather be by myself.

  Blake Lively

  Inspire, Lively, Ifs

  "Blake Lively: Savage Blonde". Interview with Nina Garcia, www.marieclaire.com. June 11, 2012.

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• I didn't like England. I couldn't take the look of the place or the style of friendship. I need more intimacy from people than is considered okay there, and I felt that my personality and my enthusiasms weren't understood. I had to put a big lid on myself.

  Jane Campion

  People, Personality, Style

  Jane Campion, Virginia Wright Wexman (1999). “Jane Campion: Interviews”, p.156, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• What's great about the geek spirit is that life never seems to stop us, and they never seem to kill our enthusiasm, our optimism and our hunger to experience the world. We keep our sense of humor, we protect our dignity, we talk to our friends about the experience and then we start again fresh the very next day.

  Paul Feig

  Next Day, Optimism, World

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One nice thing that I have discovered about Los Angeles is the enthusiasm with which people dress.

  Ellie Kemper

  Nice, People, Dresses

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A lot of bands have the enthusiasm kicked out of them by playing really dreary pub venues that just churn bands through.

  Alex Kapranos

  Band, Pubs, Venues

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Every major industry was once a growth industry. But some that are now riding a wave of growth enthusiasm are very much in the shadow of decline. Others that are thought of as seasoned growth industries have actually stopped growing. In every case, the reason growth is threatened, slowed, or stopped is not because the market is saturated. It is because there has been a failure of management.

  Theodore Levitt

  Growth, Marketing, Shadow

  Theodore Levitt (2008). “Marketing Myopia”, p.1, Harvard Business Press

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• Work for god, love god alone, and be wise with god. When an ordinary man puts the necessary rime and enthusiasm into meditation and prayer, he becomes a divine man.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  God, Wise, Prayer

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• I'm a better coach now than when I joined Celtic. The longer you stay in any job, the better you become. If you lose your drive, your enthusiasm, your imagination, that experience is no good.

  Gordon Strachan

  Jobs, Imagination, Celtic

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• From my point of view what I have to do now is appreciate and enjoy what football gave me, but now do something else with the same energy and enthusiasm I gave to football without expecting the same results.

  Graeme Le Saux

  Football, Views, Appreciate

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• "We may talk what we please," he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, "of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles, in fields d'or or d'argent; but, if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms."

  Abraham Cowley

  Art, Garden, Eagles

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