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ade9565 I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He taught me that if you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it at full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be. passion inspirational passionate-living enthusiasm Roald Dahl
415cd23 Enthusiasm can help you find the new doors, but it takes passion to open them. If you have a strong purpose in life, you don't have to be pushed. Your passion will drive you there. living-on-purpose opportunity passion inspiration inspirational-quotes life-quotes motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive motivational optimism life inspirational enthusiasm authentic-living conviction Roy T. Bennett
73a0fc5 Not a visible enthusiasm but a hidden one, an excitement burning with a cold flame. enthusiasm excitement hidden Patrick Süskind
ddd5cce Always Remember to take your Vitamins: Take your Vitamin A for ACTION, Vitamin B for Belief, Vitamin C for Confidence ,Vitamin D for Discipline, Vitamin E for Enthusiasm!! action confidence inspiration motivational inspirational enthusiasm belief discipline Pablo
92bb2e2 You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you must not be ashamed of your work, and think it would be more honorable to you to be doing something else. You must have a pride in your own work and in learning to do it well, and not be always saying, There's this and there's that--if I had this or that to do, I might make something of it. No matter what a man is--I wouldn't give twopence for him'-- here Caleb's mouth looked bitter, and he snapped his fingers-- 'whether he was the prime minister or the rick-thatcher, if he didn't do well what he undertook to do. work enthusiasm job George Eliot
3957452 I wept because I was re-experiencing the enthusiasm of my childhood; I was once again a child, and nothing in the world could cause me harm. enthusiasm tears childhood Paulo Coelho
2e79d83 excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I take a pencil or graver into my hand. madness inspiration intellectual enthusiasm William Blake
d692344 "But they're already singing our praises!" "They are Americans. They toot their horns for anything." humor enthusiasm Scott Westerfeld
50e5e5b "...the worst thing said about him is that he was "uncurious." motivation enthusiasm Yvon Chouinard
8df2669 Revolution doesn't have to do with smashing something; it has to do with bringing something forth. If you spend all your time thinking about that which you are attacking, then you are negatively bound to it. You have to find the zeal in yourself and bring that out. change positive-thinking inner-voice enthusiasm inner-strength negative-thinking negativity revolution Joseph Campbell
5db31f4 Excitement about things became a habit, a part of my personality, and the expectation that I should enjoy new experiences often engendered the enjoyment itself. personality enthusiasm cheerfulness curiosity parenthood Doris Kearns Goodwin
b2d5e14 The modern mind is forced towards the future by a certain sense of fatigue, not unmixed with terror, with which it regards the past. It is propelled towards the coming time; it is, in the exact words of the popular phrase, knocked into the middle of next week. And the goad which drives it on thus eagerly is not an affectation for futurity Futurity does not exist, because it is still future. Rather it is a fear of the past; a fear not merely of the evil in the past, but of the good in the past also. The brain breaks down under the unbearable virtue of mankind. There have been so many flaming faiths that we cannot hold; so many harsh heroisms that we cannot imitate; so many great efforts of monumental building or of military glory which seem to us at once sublime and pathetic. The future is a refuge from the fierce competition of our forefathers. The older generation, not the younger, is knocking at our door. It is agreeable to escape, as Henley said, into the Street of By-and-Bye, where stands the Hostelry of Never. It is pleasant to play with children, especially unborn children. The future is a blank wall on which every man can write his own name as large as he likes; the past I find already covered with illegible scribbles, such as Plato, Isaiah, Shakespeare, Michael Angelo, Napoleon. I can make the future as narrow as myself; the past is obliged to be as broad and turbulent as humanity. And the upshot of this modern attitude is really this: that men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back. heroism future fear past fatigue variety imaginary enthusiasm ideals ease G.K. Chesterton
f10b249 "You should find something better to do with your time," Mandy told him. "I spend my time shooting people, and then I take them to darkrooms and blow them up." "...Come again?" Alecto questioned with a tone of alarm in his voice. "I take photographs and develop them myself, I've got my own darkroom... it was a joke," Mandy laughed. "I love photography and I'm gonna be a photojournalist someday." "Really?" Alecto asked. For the first time since she'd met him, he sounded slightly enthusiastic. "...I take photographs and I film my own home movies, I have a darkroom as well... but I can't be a photojournalist like you... I can't be anything... still, at least I can take photographs, it's fun." photography murder friends funny humor april-fool-s blow-up chemical dark-room demented instamatic nikon photography-humor home-movies kodak darkroom super-8 disturbing develop camera enthusiasm shoot weird film strange hilarious joke crazy insane Rebecca McNutt
ba7e599 Within he felt that faint stirring of derision for the whole business of life which is the salt of the American mentality. Outwardly they are sentimental and enthusiastic and inwardly they are profoundly cynical. personality sentiment enthusiasm cynicism H.G. Wells
34d35a0 I always like to be in the presence of people who are good at and love their jobs, Irrespective of their jobs. work enthusiasm vocation job Geoff Dyer
7f1faae In the chaos of sentiments and passions which defend a barricade, there is something of everything; there is bravery, youth, honor, enthusiasm, the ideal, conviction, the eager fury of the gamester, and above all, intervals of hope. passion youth hope enthusiasm les-misérables honor Victor Hugo
12c0678 For Ibsen, gusto forgives almost everything. enthusiasm Harold Bloom
624840d His enthusiasm and willingness to use what he learned made him get ahead in Spanish. enthusiasm humility Elisabeth Elliot
b16e383 (Lyndon) Johnson created his own theater. leadership enthusiasm symbolism Robert A. Caro
119fb1d Even his own speeches bored him. passion enthusiasm vocation charisma job Barbara W. Tuchman
d26aafc Tunney has all the makings of a hero - he was clean living, intelligent, polite, reasonably good-looking - but, like Lou Gehrig, he lacked the chemistry that stirred affection. emotion leadership enthusiasm Bill Bryson