Enthusiasm Quotes - Page 29

• This generation has a responsibility to reshape the world. Start the task even if it will not be fulfilled in your lifetime. Even if it seems hopeless now, never give up. Offer a positive vision, with enthusiasm and joy, and an optimistic outlook.

  Dalai Lama

  Giving Up, Optimistic, Responsibility

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

  Dalai Lama

  Progress, Trying, Too Much

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• 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).

  Russell M. Nelson

  Men, Missionary, Earth

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• Young people, you need the wisdom of age, just as some of us older ones need your enthusiasm for life.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Enthusiasm For Life, People, Age

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• Inspirational leaders need to have a winning mentality in order to inspire respect. It is hard to trust in the leadership of someone who is half-hearted about their purpose, or only sporadic in focus or enthusiasm.

  Sebastian Coe

  Winning, Order, Focus

  "The Winning Mind: What it takes to become a true champion". Book by Sebastian Coe, January 3, 2010.

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• The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sappy, that fire in their eyes.

  Rachel Zoe

  Eye, Fire, People

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• My enthusiasm for joining the New York Film Academy is predicated on my personal explorations into video as well as a sense of responsibility to share my extended experience of photography with committed students in both mediums.

  Ralph Gibson

  Photography, New York, Responsibility

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• We must see to it that enthusiasm for the future does not give rise to contempt for the past.

  Pope Paul VI

  Past, Giving, Doe

  Pope Paul VI “Insegnamenti di Paolo VI.”

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• Everything I do that I'm enthusiastic about. This is genuine enthusiasm. If I don't - I mean I've done other projects that I have not been a fan of until I realized I was doing it and I wasn't really there. And I don't do those anymore.

  Michael Novak

  Mean, Fans, Done

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Anything where there's great enthusiasm, and a place to come share what you think is cool.

  Keanu Reeves

  Thinking, Share

  "COMIC-CON 2004: Keanu Reeves, Djiimon Hounsou, and Director Francis Lawerence Talk Constantine!". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. July 25, 2004.

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• The one thing that fills me with enthusiasm is to try, despite everything, to get nearer to those visions that seem so hard to express.

  Alberto Giacometti

  Vision, Trying, Despite

  Paul Cézanne, Alberto Giacometti, Felix Andreas Baumann, Poul Erik Tøjner, Tobia Bezzola (2008). “Cézanne & Giacometti: paths of doubt”, Hatje Cantz Pub

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• There's a fascinating school of thought that some women are relationship addicts. You get really strung out on a guy who's not returning your enthusiasm and tell yourself you're going to fix him and make him better, and of course it's impossible.

  Phoebe Snow

  School, Guy, Impossible

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• This enthusiasm [for empathy] may be misplaced. Empathy has some unfortunate features – it is parochial, narrow-minded and innumerate. We’re often at our best when we’re smart enough not to rely on it.

  Paul Bloom

  Smart, Empathy, May

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• Enthusiasm is something so positive.

  Carine Roitfeld

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• Ive always enjoyed the enthusiasm of the best studio musicians and, over the years, have collected so many inspired contributions from them.

  Michael Franks

  Years, Musician, Inspired

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

  John Wooden

  Brushes, Contact

  John Wooden (2010). “Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success (Large Print 16pt)”, p.20, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Public enthusiasm for new advances is a key ingredient in influencing policy-makers to stimulate follow-up work with suitable funding, and it can be achieved far faster now that interested non-specialists can explore new research autonomously and can also be appealed to directly by scientists.

  Aubrey de Grey

  Keys, Research, Ingredients

  "Speaker interview: Aubrey de Grey". www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2010.

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• I don't have a problem with enthusiasm.

  Jason Scott Lee

  Problem

  Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. August 29, 2005.

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• I am not a speaker nor a preacher. I have no mission to change the world. I have no original words or teaching to give anyone. I reflect only what I've seen and heard - most ordinary, very common. I have no fascination for fresh ideas and activity. All enthusiasm for worldly endeavours and strivings have all but gone. For me, thoughts, words and deeds- the activities of life, are merely the utensils for serving out the 'prasad' of the Being-ness.

  Mooji

  Teaching, Ideas, Giving

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• If unconditional love and genuine enthusiasm are present, praise isn't necessary. If they're absent, praise won't help.

  Alfie Kohn

  Unconditional Love, Helping, Praise

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

  George Eliot

  Fire, Shapes, Harder

  George Eliot “Daniel Deronda - Volume 2 of 2”, Lulu.com

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• Wait a second while I take a swig off this bottle: it's my true and only Helicon, my Caballine fount, my sole Enthusiasm. Here, drinking, I deliberate, I reason, I resolve and conclude. After the epilogue I laugh, I write, I compose, I drink. Ennius drinking would write, writing would drink.

  Francois Rabelais

  Inspirational, Drinking, Writing

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• Nothing, indeed, could be more unlike the tone of the [Patristic] Fathers, than the cold, passionless, and prudential theology of the eighteenth century; a theology which regarded Christianity as an admirable auxiliary to the police force, and a principle of decorum and of cohesion in society, but which carefully banished from it all enthusiasm, veiled or attenuated all its mysteries, and virtually reduced it to an authoritative system of moral philosophy.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Philosophy, Father, Police

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• Musical acts that feign enthusiasm for what they're doing the guitarist who jumps up and down, like it's choreographed are so transparently vacuous.

  John Maus

  Musical, Vacuous, Up And Down

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Nietzsche said that the earth has been a madhouse long enough. Without contradicting him we might perhaps soften the expression, and say that philosophy has been long enough an asylum for enthusiasts.

  George Santayana

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Expression

  George Santayana (1998). “The Genteel Tradition: Nine Essays”, p.116, U of Nebraska Press

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