Enthusiasm Quotes - Page 24

• Perfecting and selling your writing is a lifelong task. If you are a persistent writer, you can expect your abilities to improve with time. Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

  Winston Churchill

  Writing, Tasks, Losing

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• I just think to be a manager you've got to live and breathe and have this incredible enthusiasm for football, the whole thing. And while I love the game, and it's been a large part of my life, it's not the only thing in my life.

  Gary Lineker

  Football, Thinking, Games

  "Gary Lineker: 'After football, you have to make yourself interesting'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2011.

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• My schedule has slowed a little. I've cut back on some of my assignments. But I still have the enthusiasm for the sports world that I had 38 years ago.

  Lesley Visser

  Sports, Cutting, Years

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• The self is too small an object for perpetual enthusiasm.

  Huston Smith

  Self, Objects, Perpetual

  Huston Smith (2009). “The World's Religions, Revised and Updated: A Concise Introduction”, p.27, Harper Collins

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• Until he announced his immigration policy last week, Obama had the support of most Hispanic voters - but not the enthusiasm they had shown for him in 2008. That may be changing in part because of the decision not to deport young immigrants whose undocumented parents brought them here as children.

  Mara Liasson

  Children, Support, Decision

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• My father was an inspiration to me; I made a few movies with him and I loved working with him. Everything about him - his whole approach to work, as well as his love, enthusiasm and respect for it and other people in the business - was inspiring. I was very lucky to have him as a role model.

  Hayley Mills

  Father, Inspiration, People

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• A sure sign of a soul-based workplace is excitement, enthusiasm, real passion; not manufactured passion, but real involvement. And there's very little fear.

  David Whyte

  Real, Passion, Soul

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• United States:. A nation given either to unjustified over-enthusiasms or infantile furies.

  John Ralston Saul

  United States, Given, Fury

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.299, Simon and Schuster

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• Missionarying was a better thing in those days than it is in ours. All you had to do was to cure the head savage´s sick daughter by a miracle- a miracle like the miracle of Lourdes in our day, for instance- and immediately that head savage was your convert, and filled to the eyes with a new convert´s enthusiasm. You could sit down and make yourself easy now. He would take the ax and convert the rest of the nation himself.

  Mark Twain

  Daughter, Eye, Sick

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.276, Courier Corporation

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• I noticed recently, in the last few shows I did, that I'm starting to get people - not a large group, but quite a few people - who come to see me because they love Curb Your Enthusiasm.

  Wanda Sykes

  People, Groups, Lasts

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. October 20, 2004.

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• In a modern world, increasingly filled with pop culture fads and gimmicks, Lisa Morton reveals much of the underbelly history and unknown facts regarding the biggest pop culture event in history-Halloween. Her sheer delight and well-researched enthusiasm in tackling many of the unrecognized aspects of this monstrous topic makes one wonder what we don't know about everything else that should be as commonplace to our psyche as a bag of candy.

  Del Howison

  Halloween, Topics, Gimmicks

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• It takes courage to stay young, to make your enthusiasms work for you. Don't let anyone drag you down.

  Ken Adam

  Drag, Young

  "The grand illusionist" by Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 1999.

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• I did about 10-12 national commercials and then got one line parts in things like 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' and the show 'The Unit.' Got a little part in the movie 'Redbelt' by David Mamet and kept slowly grinding up and then started getting bigger parts in independents and getting noticed by Liz Meriwether.

  Jake M. Johnson

  Liz, Lines, Littles

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

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• I really love 'Dexter.' I'd like to be on 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' or 'Breaking Bad'.

  Melinda McGraw

  Curb Your Enthusiasm, Curb

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I am thoroughly enjoying spending the majority of my time with entrepreneurs. I find that their enthusiasm, dedication, willingness to take huge risks and desire to make a dramatic impact quite inspiring.

  Maynard Webb

  Dedication, Impact, Entrepreneur

  "There’s Something Happening Here: Entrepreneurship and the Decline of Corporate Appeal" by Maynard Webb, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 26, 2011.

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• It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used pencils, two for a nickel, and could not buy a fountain pen, when I lost mine.

  Immanuel Velikovsky

  Two, Research, Poverty

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• It is a great art to succeed in having your soul sanctified. A person can become a saint anywhere. He can become a saint in Omonia Square, if he wants. At your work, whatever it may be, you can become a saint through meekness, patience, and love. Make a new start every day, with new resolution, with enthusiasm and love, prayer and silence - not with anxiety so that you get a pain in the chest.

  Porphyrios (Bairaktaris) of Kafsokalivia

  Art, Prayer, Pain

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• I find that most of wake up day, not because we genuinely 'want' to, but because we have to. We have to be somewhere, do something, answer to or take care of someone. But when you shift your intention and create a genuine desire - event enthusiasm - for waking up in the morning, your entire life changes.

  Hal Elrod

  Morning, Life Changing, Desire

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• The 2nd secret to success is to be emotionally 'engaged' with your goals, but not emotionally attached. What's the difference? When you are emotionally engaged you create excitement & enthusiasm for the possibility of achieving your goals, but when you are emotionally attached you create fear & pain that you might not.

  Hal Elrod

  Success, Pain, Differences

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Aug 29, 2010

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• No one has success, until he has the abounding life. This is made up of the many-fold qualities of energy, enthusiasm, and gladness.

  L. Whitney Clayton

  Success, Quality, Energy

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• If many people follow your enthusiastic endeavours, perhaps a new Athens might be created in the land of the Franks, or rather a much better one.

  Alcuin

  Land, People, Athens

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• The Bush administration, they had two blue ribbon commissions about infrastructure finance that recommended a lot more money, and additionally the gas tax being increased. We couldn't get them to accept being able to move forward. Since President Obama's been in office, there has been, to be charitable, a lack of enthusiasm for raising the gas tax.

  Ray LaHood

  Moving, Blue, Two

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I like American black soul music, that was my first big enthusiasm.

  Bill Nighy

  Soul, Black, Firsts

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• 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.

  Robert Reich

  Political, Energy, Clinton

  "American Experience", www.pbs.org.

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• 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.

  William Ruckelshaus

  Effort, Sound, Easy

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