enthusiasm

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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.	enthusiasm inspirational passion passionate-living	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.	authentic-living conviction enthusiasm inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes life life-quotes living-on-purpose motivation motivational opportunity optimism optimistic passion positive positive-affirmation	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 belief confidence discipline enthusiasm inspiration inspirational motivational	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.	enthusiasm job work	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.	childhood enthusiasm tears	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.	enthusiasm inspiration intellectual madness	William Blake
50e5e5b	"...the worst thing said about him is that he was "uncurious."	enthusiasm motivation	Yvon Chouinard
d692344	"But they're already singing our praises!" "They are Americans. They toot their horns for anything."	enthusiasm humor	Scott Westerfeld
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 enthusiasm inner-strength inner-voice negative-thinking negativity positive-thinking revolution	Joseph Campbell
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.	ease enthusiasm fatigue fear future heroism ideals imaginary past variety	G.K. Chesterton
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.	cheerfulness curiosity enthusiasm parenthood personality	Doris Kearns Goodwin
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."	april-fool-s blow-up camera chemical crazy dark-room darkroom demented develop disturbing enthusiasm film friends funny hilarious home-movies humor insane instamatic joke kodak murder nikon photography photography-humor shoot strange super-8 weird	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.	cynicism enthusiasm personality sentiment	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.	enthusiasm job vocation work	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.	enthusiasm honor hope les-misérables passion youth	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.	enthusiasm leadership symbolism	Robert A. Caro
119fb1d	Even his own speeches bored him.	charisma enthusiasm job passion vocation	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 enthusiasm leadership	Bill Bryson

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.

enthusiasm inspirational passion passionate-living

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.

authentic-living conviction enthusiasm inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes life life-quotes living-on-purpose motivation motivational opportunity optimism optimistic passion positive positive-affirmation

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 belief confidence discipline enthusiasm inspiration inspirational motivational

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.

enthusiasm job work

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.

childhood enthusiasm tears

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.

enthusiasm inspiration intellectual madness

William Blake

50e5e5b

"...the worst thing said about him is that he was "uncurious."

enthusiasm motivation

Yvon Chouinard

d692344

"But they're already singing our praises!" "They are Americans. They toot their horns for anything."

enthusiasm humor

Scott Westerfeld

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 enthusiasm inner-strength inner-voice negative-thinking negativity positive-thinking revolution

Joseph Campbell

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.

ease enthusiasm fatigue fear future heroism ideals imaginary past variety

G.K. Chesterton

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.

cheerfulness curiosity enthusiasm parenthood personality

Doris Kearns Goodwin

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."

april-fool-s blow-up camera chemical crazy dark-room darkroom demented develop disturbing enthusiasm film friends funny hilarious home-movies humor insane instamatic joke kodak murder nikon photography photography-humor shoot strange super-8 weird

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.

cynicism enthusiasm personality sentiment

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.

enthusiasm job vocation work

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.

enthusiasm honor hope les-misérables passion youth

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.

enthusiasm leadership symbolism

Robert A. Caro

119fb1d

Even his own speeches bored him.

charisma enthusiasm job passion vocation

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 enthusiasm leadership

Bill Bryson