Excitement Quotes - Page 37

• I've no idea where ideas come from and I hope I never find out; it would spoil the excitement for me if it turned out I just have a funny little wrinkle on the surface of my brain which makes me think about invisible train platforms.

  J. K. Rowling

  Wise, Witty, Thinking

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• We cannot feel strongly toward the totally unlike because it is unimaginable, unrealizable; nor yet toward the wholly like because it is stale - identity must always be dull company. The power of other natures over us lies in a stimulating difference which causes excitement and opens communication, in ideas similar to our own but not identical, in states of mind attainable but not actual.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Lying, Communication, Ideas

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.153, Transaction Publishers

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• Journalists generally have no bias toward one cosmological theory or another, but many have a natural preference for excitement.

  Steven Weinberg

  Evolution, Natural, Preference

  Steven Weinberg (2012). “Facing Up”, p.175, Harvard University Press

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• I haven't felt the excitement for so many years. I feel guilty beyond words about these things. When we're back-stage and the lights go out, and the manic roar of the crowd begins, it does not affect me. The fact is, I can't fool you. It isn't fair to you or to me. The worst crime I can think of is to trick people by faking it, and pretending to be having 100% fun.

  Robert Hilburn

  Fun, Thinking, Light

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• We all get report cards in many different ways, but the real excitement of what you're doing is in the doing of it. It's not what you're gonna get in the end - it's not the final curtain - it's really in the doing it, and loving what you're doing.

  Ralph Lauren

  Happiness, Real, Different

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• My interest in science was excited at age nine by an article on astronomy in National Geographic; the author was Donald Menzel of the Harvard Observatory. For the next few years, I regularly made star maps and snuck out at night to make observations from a locust tree in our back yard.

  Dudley R. Herschbach

  Stars, Science, Night

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• I want to give colors intoxication, fullness, excitement, power by trying to forget Impressionism.

  Paula Modersohn-Becker

  Color, Giving, Trying

  "Art of the 20th Century". Book by Ingo F. Walther, Part 1, p. 49, 2000.

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• If you are curious as to what your future may hold, you can look into a mirror. What is reflecting back? Does a sparkle in your eyes indicate excitement about new adventures and opportunities? Does a smile on your lips portray an inner happiness and abundant goodwill towards others?

  John Templeton

  Spiritual, Adventure, Eye

  John Marks Templeton (2008). “Wisdom From World Religions: Pathways Toward Heaven On Earth”, p.266, Templeton Foundation Press

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• It's just a whole different thing, and it's just that my life has been a blessing, and I thank god every day for the gifts that he has given me and for my daughter and to be able to watch her grow and be a part of her joys and her excitement and what she wants to do in life.

  Teena Marie

  Daughter, Mother, Blessing

  Interview with Chris Rolls, www.tv.com. June 20, 2006.

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• A most unfailing experience... of the excitement of sublunary (that is, human) natures by the conjunctions and aspects of the planets has instructed and compelled my unwilling belief.

  Johannes Kepler

  Astrology, Belief, Human Nature

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• The first Tuesday of November, every year it is the same Every Aussie heart is beating with the excitement of the game For they bet on dream or fancy or the forms they've followed up From a dollar up to thousands on the famous Melbourne Cup

  Slim Dusty

  Sports, Dream, Heart

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• It's the excitement of being on the frontier.

  Suzanne Cory

  Motivation, Frontiers

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• My characters talk to one another, and when it reaches a certain pitch of excitement I jump out of bed and run and trap them before they are gone.

  Ray Bradbury

  Running, Character, Writing

  Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.122, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Write what you want to read. The person you know best in this world is you. Listen to yourself. If you are excited by what you are writing, you have a much better chance of putting that excitement over to a reader.

  Robin McKinley

  Writing, World, Want

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• You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair - the sense that you can never completely put on the page what's in your mind and heart. You can come to the act with your fists clenched and your eyes narrowed, ready to kick ass and take down names. You can come to it because you want a girl to marry you or because you want to change the world. Come to it any way but lightly. Let me say it again: you must not come lightly to the blank page.

  Stephen King

  Girl, Eye, Writing

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

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• I try to make things more interesting. I want to inject a little bit of excitement. I try to do the show for the sake of the show itself, not to make money. Fashion isn't always about making money.

  Gareth Pugh

  Fashion, Interesting, Trying

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• Halloween is an ancient druidic holiday, one the Celtic peoples have celebrated for millennia. It is the crack between the last golden rays of summer and the dark of winter; the delicately balanced tweak of the year before it is given over entirely to the dark; a time for the souls of the departed to squint, to peek and perhaps to travel through the gap. What could be more thrilling and worthy of celebration than that? It is a time to celebrate sweet bounty, as the harvest is brought in. It is a time of excitement and pleasure for children before the dark sets in. We should all celebrate that.

  Jenny Colgan

  Summer, Sweet, Children

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• Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.

  Meredith Willson

  Demand, Today, Tomorrow

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• It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader. If you do not believe in the characters or the story you are doing at that moment with all your mind, strength, and will, if you don't feel joy and excitement while writing it, then you're wasting good white paper, even if it sells, because there are other ways in which a writer can bring in the rent money besides writing bad or phony stories.

  Paul Gallico

  Believe, Character, Writing

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• Art is excitement which if we can't create ourselves, we can at least, through love of it, make available to others.

  Vincent Price

  Art, Available, Ifs

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• I have thought from the time of the cessation of the hostilities, that silence and patience on the part of the South was the true course; and I think so still. Controversy of all kinds will, in my opinion, only serve to continue excitement and passion, and will prevent the public mind from the acknowledgement and acceptance of the truth.

  Robert E. Lee

  War, Passion, Acceptance

  Robert E. Lee (1904). “Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee”, p.131, Lulu.com

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• Not write what you know, but know what you write. If you write about a world before, after, or other than this one, enter that world completely. Search it to find your deepest longings and most terrible fears. Let imagination carry you as far as it may, as long as you recount the voyage with excitement and wonder. But this is the most important rule: write the book you most long to read.

  Steven Saylor

  Book, Writing, Imagination

  "Know thy subject" by Steven Saylor, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2002.

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• To find your own way is to follow your bliss. This involves analysis, watching yourself and seeing where real deep bliss is -- not the quick little excitement , but the real deep, life-filling bliss.

  Joseph Campbell

  Real, Deep Life, Analysis

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• Excitement must lead to immediate action or you will lose the power of momentum. More dreams die because we fail to seize the moment. Do it now!

  Tony Robbins

  Dream, Momentum, Action

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• I am a teacher at heart. My goal is to inspire and energize audiences with ideas and possibilities that will challenge them to expand their perceptions of teaching and learning and dare to consider our professional future with optimism and excitement.

  David Warlick

  Teacher, Teaching, Heart

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