Quotes About Enthusiasm

He also had a gung-ho hairline. It couldn't wait to get started

People will tie in with a fanatic if for no other reason than to break the monotony of their lives.

What could be more lovely than writing a book about something you love?

The only thing New Yorkers ignore more than nature is history. They have a habit of not spending a great deal of time pondering the history of their city. That is because of a sense that it has always been more or less the same, or, as Edmund Wilson, one of the more venerated New Yorker writers of that magazine's heyday, explained his waning enthusiasm for reading history in his old age, "I know more or less the kind of things that happen.

Enthusiasm and hard work are also indispensable ingredients of achievement.

I read with the pure, exhilarating greed of readers sixteen, seventeen years old;

Toast your goddamn muffins.

Oh, good," said Hugh, but without enthusiasm. "By the way, here is that American novel I told you about. Let me know what you think of it." "Anything special?" "I don't feel happy about the chapter where Irving and Wayne listen to the whip-poor-will." "I'll study it." I took Lot's Hometown and went back to my room to ring up Hudson.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

Todo momento grande y exigente que se produce en los anales del mundo es el triunfo de algún entusiasmo. RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Of whom did the party consist? — Of honest, chivalrous, and enthusiastic men, but mainly of men who were idle, and unable to take upon their own shoulders the responsibility of real work. Their leaders had been selected from the outside, — clever, eager, pushing men, but of late had been hardly selected from among themselves.

on behalf of his special hobbies, he was ready to meet the world at large.

Friendship is an obstetric art; it draws out our richest and deepest resources; it unfolds the wings of our dreams and hidden indeterminate thoughts; it serves as a check on our judgements, tries out our new ideas, keeps up our ardor, and inflames our enthusiasm.

We shared an explosive enthusiasm that we blasted out of our bodies with alcohol. It was almost a sport. We tore through sobriety together, drink by drink, until we occupied a separate reality from the rest of the world.

We shared an explosive enthusiasm that we blasted out of our bodies with alcohol.

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing.

C'mon, let's go join those tedious people.

He broke open the first of the meal packets, and inspected it without enthusiasm. The name on the label—SPACETASTIES—was enough to put him off. And he had grave doubts about the promise printed underneath: 'Guaranteed crumbless'.

As a matter of interest," he said

Well, that's a relief. You know that I have the greatest possible enthusiasm for this mission." "I'm sure of it. Now please let me have

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I have always had the greatest enthusiasm for the mission.

It had taken the human race several thousand years to realize that there were some jobs that should never be given to the people who volunteered for them, especially if they showed too much enthusiasm.

I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of everyday life. You have shown your relish for it by the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own little adventures.