Enthusiastic Quotes - Page 13

• I take great pride in all the tremendous success we've enjoyed at CBS. And the good news is that I feel even more enthusiastic about what my terrific team and I will accomplish going forward.

  Leslie Moonves

  Team, Pride, News

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• The Avatar is a child to the children, a boy to the boys, a man among men, a woman among women, so that the Avatar?s message might reach each heart and receive enthusiastic response as Ananda. It is the compassion of the Avatar that prompts His every action.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Children, Heart, Boys

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• My aim is to give you only the things with which I am completely satisfied, even if it means asking you a little more [time] for them... for if I were to do otherwise I'd turn into a mere painting machine and you would be landed with a pile of incomplete work which would put off the most enthusiastic of art collectors.

  Claude Monet

  Art, Mean, Giving

  Claude Monet (1999). “Monet by himself: paintings, drawings, pastels, letters”

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• I've always thought of myself as an Expo. I probably had better seasons with the Cubs. The fan base and the bleacher bums at Wrigley Field were so enthusiastic compared to later years with the Expos.

  Andre Dawson

  Years, Fans, Fields

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• Are you spontaneously enthusiastic about everyone having everything you can have?

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Enthusiasm

  "Critical Path". Book by Buckminster Fuller, 1981.

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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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• I'm very happy and excited to be re-joining the Sixers family as a part of their broadcast team. I spent my best and most enthusiastic years of my NBA career with this organization and its fans and I truly feel honored and blessed to have been given this opportunity to return.

  Eric Snow

  Team, Blessed, Opportunity

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• I look forward to having the time and the opportunity to take on new challenges, but I'm also aware that I've loved every minute of the 'Potter 'experience: to make films for an enthusiastic audience and work with great material.

  David Heyman

  Opportunity, Challenges, Looks

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• It's just nice to see people enthusiastic about their tennis and want to learn and improve - for me that's the most important thing - I still love my tennis.

  Jo Durie

  Nice, People, Tennis

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• I love just going out and sitting down in the park along with the thousands of other people who apparently have no work to do during the day. People come up to me, but they are generally really nice. New York makes it easier, for me at least. People manage to be enthusiastic and sort of sane at the same time. And that’s lovely.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  New York, Nice, People

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• Who is an authentic seeker, but someone who has understood that there is nothing else to do but practice? Enthusiastic or discouraged, he or she continues, no matter what.

  Lee Lozowick

  Practice, Matter, Discouraged

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• I'm known for being very enthusiastic about using technology. A lot of the attraction is the way that it streamlines the process and takes a lot of the drudgery out of it.

  Dave Gibbons

  Technology, Way, Process

  "Computers draw a new chapter in comics". Interview with Jack Schofield, www.theguardian.com. August 12, 2009.

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• It is hard to be enthusiastic about the economy's prospects when house prices are falling: Households spend less, small business owners can't use homes as collateral for loans and local governments are forced to cut jobs and programs as property-tax revenue disappears.

  Mark Zandi

  Jobs, Fall, Home

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• You can literally force yourself to be courteous, happy and enthusiastic with every person you meet. After you have forced yourself to be so for a short period of time... the habit takes over.

  Zig Ziglar

  Habit, Force, Periods

  Zig Ziglar (2010). “See You at the Top”, p.289, Pelican Publishing

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• Few places in this world are more dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain passes. They will kill care, save you from deadly apathy, set you free, and call forth every faculty into vigorous, enthusiastic action.

  John Muir

  Home, Adventure, Environmental

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.364, Library of America

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• If you can dream it, you can make it so.

  Belva Davis

  Inspirational, Positive, Dream

  Belva Davis, Vicki Haddock (2011). “Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman's Life in Journalism”, p.215, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• With an abstract idea it is possible to enter into a relation of formal knowledge, to become enthusiastic about it, and perhaps even to put it into practice; but it can never be followed in personal obedience. Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Practice, Ideas, Christianity

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.17, SCM Press

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• The Communists claim that they liberated the Russian people. Yet, when the Great Patriotic War began, these same Russians greeted their foreign invaders with tears, with flowers and with enthusiastic hospitality. What can have brought them to the point at which they would greet even Hitler as their saviour and liberator?

  Viktor Suvorov

  War, Flower, Patriotic

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• Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Enthusiasm For Life, Triumph, Movement

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• If an enthusiastic, ardent, and ambitious man marry a wife on whose name there is a stain, which, though it originate in no fault of hers, may be visited by cold and sordid people upon her, and upon his children also: and, in exact proportion to his success in the world, be cast in his teeth, and made the subject of sneers against him: he may, no matter how generous and good his nature, one day repent of the connection he formed in early life; and she may have the pain and torture of knowing that he does so.

  Charles Dickens

  Children, Pain, Men

  "Oliver Twist".

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• The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking

  Samuel Johnson

  Love, Life, Enthusiasm

  1750-2 In The Rambler.

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• It was more like an abortion than music, but he got a wildly enthusiastic response from the crowd. Well, we're all pro-choice out here in Hillmont, after all.

  Frank Portman

  Choices, Abortion, Crowds

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• Give the brethren a chance to do something, anything, no matter how small or unimportant. A brother convinced that he is helpful is enthusiastic.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Brother, Giving, Matter

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• One side thinks the president'€™s request for war-making powers is too brazen and even reckless. The other side thinks it is too spineless and probably ineffectual. 'It does not seem to have resonated with anyone,' said Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine and a member of the Intelligence Committee. 'I haven't found any colleague who'€™s been enthusiastic about it.'

  Peter Baker

  War, Thinking, President

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• Now, six months after he sent the military back into combat to take on the terror group calling itself the Islamic State, Mr. Obama has acquiesced and sent a measure to Congress asking it to formally authorize what he has been doing all along. And now that they have gotten what they asked for, few in Congress seem all that enthusiastic about the prospect.

  Peter Baker

  Military, Islamic, Groups

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