Quotes About Enthusiasm

Riichiro Inagaki

When we're infused with either enthusiasm or awe or fondness … it changes what we see. It changes what we remember.

passionate leadership.

The important thing isn't that we're freakazoidal about the same things--it's that she's as freakazoidal about her stuff as I am about mine, and that enthusiasm can't help but unite us, even if the object thereof doesn't. If two people are twisted enough to connect on a deep level, it's only natural there will be lots of angles where they don't connect at all.

Tacos will grow on Christmas trees before I learn to carry a tune. Fortunately, it doesn't matter. In karaoke, talent means nada; enthusiasm is everything. What I lack in talent, I make up for in passion. Hence my karaoke problem.

She liked noise, she liked people, and she especially liked noisy people.

Renee loved to do things. That was mysterious to me, since I was more comfortable talking about things and never doing them. She liked passion. She liked adventure. I cowered from passion and talked myself out of adventure.

We have individual geekdoms that we've turned the other one on to and individual geekdoms we prefer to enjoy alone. There are also the geekdoms that inspire us to try to convert each other.

Earthling and the next record Hours were so damn good, it was startling to hear them, but it was tough to convince my friends they were worth getting excited about.

One of the easiest forms of pretense to break down is the pretense of enthusiasm for exotic foods. Just bring on the exotic foods.

[W]hen I hear or read a good line I can hardly wait to tell it to somebody else...

In a world that has come to see ideas and collective enthusiasm with horror, Hegel becomes a gateway to a new world, where ideas are the key to conciousness, where the philosopher becomes the spokesman for the times and the prophet of a united humanity. It is a world in which archaic terms like "harmony" and "humanity" still make sense—indeed, still give us something to hope for. It is a world worth, at least, considering.

Feeling motivated and energized, we can overcome almost anything. Feeling bored and restless, our minds shut off and we become increasingly passive.

Support a few crackpots, heretics, and dreamers, especially if they are wildly optimistic about their ideas.

The leader of an organization is the engine of change and reform, and his work is never done. If his yellow tablet keeps filling up with ideas, he should keep on truckin'. But if a leader cannot sustain his enthusiasm, energy, and creativity to keep making his institution better, he needs to step aside for someone who can.

Gumption is the psychic gasoline that keeps the whole thing going.

What's the bee in your bonnet? Seems to be some kind of idealism.

As Winston Churchill said, Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill said, Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

They don't do it to brag. They're interested in the subject.

Anger is a big part of that formula, for passion is anger and love combined.

You see, true learning takes energy, passion, and a burning desire.

Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them, exclaimed Anne.