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Quotes About Enthusiasm

Is that another sort of joke? asked the old man. You've no excuse for being bored anywhere. When I was your age I had never heard of such a thing.
~ Henry James
There is only one recipe - to care a great deal for the cookery.
~ Henry James
The great thing is to love something.
~ Henry James
Un soldado entusiasta que tomó parte en la expedición puso en verso su visión de la promesa de gloria para España: Españoles, españoles, ¡Que todos os han temor!
~ Henry Kamen
Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: It comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.
~ Henry Miller
Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
~ Henry Miller
No quiero ser razonable ni lógico. ¡Los detesto! Quiero reventar de risa, quiero divertirme. Quiero hacer algo. Quiero sentarme en un café y pasarme el día hablando. Dios, nosotros tenemos nuestros defectos...pero tenemos entusiasmo. Es mejor cometer errores que no hacer nada.
~ Henry Miller
They don't want to see sad faces in Russia; they want you to be cheerful, enthusiastic, light-hearted, optimistic. It sounded very much like America to me. I wasn't born with this kind of enthusiasm
~ Henry Miller
Eres presa de un vértigo espiritual, te tambaleas al borde del precipicio, se te ponen los pelos de punta, no puedes creer que bajo tus pies haya un abismo insondable. Se debe a un exceso de entusiasmo, a un deseo apasionado de abrazar a la gente, de mostrarles tu amor. Cuanto más tiendes tus brazos hacia el mundo, más se retira.
~ Henry Miller
Well, a few years ago I think I could have given you a more enthusiastic answer about that but in the last few years, for the first time in my life, I really haven't listened to much music. I used to work with music on and now I don't.
~ Ann Beattie
We have this pre-show thing where we all get into a huddle and yell, 'Pop, pop, it's showtime,' and I have to give credit to Bruno Mars for that one. I started doing it after I became obsessed with '24K Magic.' I want to ask Bruno if he'll ever come to my huddle with me!
~ Noah Cyrus
It's like all guys want to do is make a dunk, grab their shirt and yell out and scream - they could be down 30 points but that's what they do. Okay, so you made a dunk. Get back down the floor on defense!
~ Oscar Robertson
When I was younger, I was emulating David Letterman. David Letterman would yell out of his office window with a megaphone, and the next thing I'm doing is standing on the roof of a parking garage with a megaphone.
~ Tom Green
It is a special, weird thing being a cheerleader. You need to want to yell and perform, dance, and wear a cute little costume. It's a thing you're kind of born with or without.
~ Betsey Johnson
Wherever I go in Orlando, people always are nice to me and say, 'hi' and want to talk to me. And when they yell, 'VOOOOOOCH!' in games I love that.
~ Nikola Vucevic
There's a frenetic energy in screaming and yelling and being a rebel in a way.
~ The Ultimate Warrior
It's not tough at all as long as the fans are yelling, screaming and hollering.
~ Bill Laimbeer
In the late '70s I was asked to sing for the first time in Germany. I'll never forget it. It was at a festival in Bremen. The German audience went berserk and the reviews were a phenomenon. For some reason the German audience understood how technically challenging this music was; it wasn't just someone yelling their head off.
~ Meredith Monk
Steve Ballmer never used to be someone who let facts speak for themselves. In the 1990s, he was the hyper-energetic Microsoft exec yelling 'Developers! Developers! Developers!' at an all-hands meeting in Safeco field.
~ Steven Levy
That's something I loved growing up - the other team yelling, hyped, student section, all of that gets me going.
~ Kevin Knox
I get excited after I dunk. I yell and scream, but it's not yelling and screaming at other players to show them up. It's the way I play. What I do is have fun on the court.
~ Shawn Kemp
I think that's when I get excited in the writers' room - when people are yelling back and forth at each other.
~ Misha Green
I'm confident about going out there and playing - playing with emotion, screaming and yelling.
~ Grayson Allen
It's quite something to see that what I was doing was affecting people in that respect: people jumping up and down on their couches, screaming, yelling, crying.
~ David Nutter