Enthusiastic Quotes - Page 6

• I am often accused of being childish. I prefer to interpret that as child-like. I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things. I tend to exaggerate and fantasize and embellish. I still listen to instinctual urges. I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind. I never water my garden without soaking myself. It has been after such times of joy that I have achieved my greatest creativity and produced my best work.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Running, Children, Creativity

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• How old are you?” she asked. My answer was automatic and ingrained. “Seventeen.” “And how long have you been seventeen?” I tried not to smile at the patronizing tone. “A while,” I admitted. “Okay,” she said, abruptly enthusiastic. She smiled up at me.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Long, Answers, Tone

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• He couldn't tell the difference between one politician and another. They were all formlessly enthusiastic chimpanzees to him.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Differences, Politician, Chimpanzees

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• I am an enthusiastic Darwinian, but I think Darwinism is too big a theory to be confined to the narrow context of the gene.

  Richard Dawkins

  Thinking, Genes, Bigs

  Richard Dawkins (2006). “The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary edition”, p.191, OUP Oxford

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• There had been certain romantic interludes in the past that had included galloping across the desert at night; but he had never abducted any woman whose enthusiastic support for such a plan had not been secured well in advance.

  Robin McKinley

  Past, Night, Support

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• I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong. If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives. We will not become enthusiastic for the fact, the knowledge, the absolute truth of the day, but remain always uncertain … In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Science, Opportunity, Thinking

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• His speech failed to rouse an enthusiastic cheer, but no one dared contradict him.

  Kenneth Oppel

  Cheer, Speech

  Kenneth Oppel (2009). “Skybreaker”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• I think America is a hard nut to crack. But once you get a toehold, it's a great place for an entrepreneur because people are so enthusiastic, and you have the most enthusiastic audiences in world.

  Simon Cowell

  Thinking, America, Nuts

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• Now that I think about it, it seems to me that’s what Idiocy is: the ability to be enthusiastic all the time about anything you like, so that a drawing on the wall does not have to be diminished by the memory of the frescoes of Giotto in Padua.

  Julio Cortazar

  Wall, Memories, Thinking

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• It is most gratifying," it said, "that your enthusiasm for our planet continues unabated, and so we would like to assure you that the guided missiles currently converging with your ship are part of a special service we extend to all of our most enthusiastic clients, and the fully armed nuclear warheads are of course merely a courtesy detail. We look forward to your custom in future lives ... thank you.

  Douglas Adams

  Special, Details, Nuclear

  "Fictional character: Slartibartfast". "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy/ Episode #1.3", www.imdb.com. 1981.

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• I am enthusiastic over humanity’s extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuity. If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano top buoyant enough to keep you afloat that comes along makes a fortuitous life preserver. But this is not to say that the best way to design a life preserver is in the form of a piano top. I think that we are clinging to a great many piano tops in accepting yesterday’s fortuitous contrivings as constituting the only means for solving a given problem.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Mean, Thinking, Piano

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• Enthusiasm needs to be effective enthusiasm. We must distinguish between the contribution and enthusiasm of the cheerleader and the enthusiasm of the player. While cheerleaders serve an important purpose, the real contest involves players on the field or on the court of life. We must not go through life acting only as enthusiastic cheerleaders available for hire; we must be anxiously and personally engaged.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Real, Player, Important

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• Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Motivational, Opportunity, Ideas

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2003). “Enthusiasm Makes the Difference”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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• Everything depends on attitude. We are ambitious or lazy, enthusiastic or dull, loyal or undependable, according to our attitude. We get good grades or poor grades - according to our attitudes. Discouragement is an attitude. Lack of industry is an attitude. Failure to follow instructions is an attitude. attitude

  Sterling W Sill

  Loyalty, Attitude, Failure

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• I once read somewhere that Sean Connery left school at the age of 13 and later went on to read Proust and Finnegans Wake and I keep expecting to meet an enthusiastic school leaver on the train, the type of person who only ever reads something because it is marvellous (and so hated school). Unfortunately the enthusiastic school leavers are all minding their own business.

  Helen DeWitt

  School, Age, Proust

  Helen DeWitt (2016). “The Last Samurai”, p.61, New Directions Publishing

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• Percy!” he bellowed. He dropped his broom and ran at me. If you’ve never been charged by an enthusiastic Cyclops wearing a flowered apron and rubber cleaning gloves, I’m telling you, it’ll wake you up quick.

  Rick Riordan

  Wakes You, Gloves, Rubber

  "Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth". Book by Rick Riordan, books.google.ru. March 5, 2009.

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• As a member of the Protestant British squirearchy ruling Ireland, he was touchy about his Irish origins. When in later life an enthusiastic Gael commended him as a famous Irishman, he replied "A man can be born in a stable, and yet not be an animal.

  Duke of Wellington

  Animal, Men, Born

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• The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.

  Aldous Huxley

  Birthday, Children, Mean

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• New York is fast paced, with enthusiastic fans and lots of media attention. Houston's slower paced, and there's more of a southern culture to the city. But both cities have unbelievable food.

  Jeremy Lin

  New York, Media, Cities

  "Jeremy Lin: The ‘Linsanity’ Interview". Interview With Kam Williams, www.eurweb.com. October 29, 2013.

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• When you're a very ambitious person, the things that are disappointing are when other people around you aren't as enthusiastic.

  Reba McEntire

  People, Ambitious, Disappointing

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• Scotland is one of my favourite places to perform: it's really something special. Scottish audiences are just so enthusiastic; their approach to dance music just feels similar to my own somehow.

  Moby

  Scotland, Special, Scottish

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• I am a regular if not exactly enthusiastic patron of my local bookshop. I try to buy at least some books there because I cling to the belief that it's important to maintain those businesses which put a human face on the exchange of money for goods and services.

  Will Self

  Book, Important, Trying

  "The Essential David Shrigley" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2010.

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• None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.40, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I now believe that the only way in which Americans can rise above their ordinariness, can mature sufficiently to rescue themselves and to help rescue their planet, is through enthusiastic intimacy with works of their own imagination.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Believe, Imagination, Way

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• ...full of God's thoughts, a place of peace and safety amid the most exalted grandeur and enthusiastic action, a new song, a place of beginnings abounding in first lessons of life, mountain building, eternal, invincible, unbreakable order; with sermons in stone, storms, trees, flowers, and animals brimful with humanity.

  John Muir

  Song, Life Lesson, Flower

  John Muir (2006). “Our National Parks”, p.78, Cosimo, Inc.

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