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Quotes About Enthusiasm

Orgeron hates dead air. He feeds off energy. As in, energy is enthusiasm…enthusiasm breeds confidence…and confidence leads to winning. Silence, conversely, creates lulls, and lulls make people passive. And passivity? Absolutely, utterly forbidden in Ed Orgeron's world.
~ Bruce Feldman
No money shots! No shifting, grinding, joyfully thrusting crotch shots. It didn't matter. It was all there in his eyes, his face, the face of a Saturday night jukebox Dionysus, the shimmying eyebrows and rocking band.
~ Bruce Springsteen
I wake up laughing every day. I get a kick out of life.
~ Bruce Willis
Enthusiasm is the energy and force that builds literal momentum of the human soul and mind.
~ Bryant McGill
I was shooting in the low 70s and 60s by the time I was twelve. That's the great thing about golf. It doesn't matter how old or young you are; if you're 90 and can shoot a good score, people will want to play with you.
~ Bubba Watson
If a drunkard in a sober fit is the dullest of mortals, an enthusiast in a reason-fit is not the most lively. And this, without prejudice to his greatly improved understanding; for, if his elation was the height of his madness, his despondency is but the extreme of his sanity.
~ Herman Melville
There is thus a very great deal in common between the enthusiasm with which Mohammed's teaching attacked the priesthood, the Mass and the sacraments, and the enthusiasm with which Calvinism, the central motive force of the Reformation, did the same.
~ Hilaire Belloc
Customers at a marathon do not have to be prepared for their excitement. When anything happens they get excited all at once. In that respect a marathon dance is like a bullfight.
~ Horace McCoy
It was dangerous lunacy, but it was also the kind of thing a real connoisseur of edge-work could make an argument for.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Maybe the who secret of turning a crowd on is getting turned on yourself by the crowd
~ Hunter S. Thompson
ignored the Wallace rallies that, night after night, packed halls in every corner of the state. That was all Wallace did—except for a few TV spots—and every one of his rallies attracted more people than the halls could hold.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Then what, Lededje asked, trying to keep her voice cold and not get caught up in the avatar´s obvious enthusiasm, is making you smile about a disaster? -Well, first, I didn´t cause it! Nothing to do with me, hands clean. Always a bonus.
~ Iain M. Banks
I like doing everything fully, getting the most out of everything one does. I think that's the way to live.
~ Ian Fleming
Vesper smiled at him. 'I like it,' she said. 'I like doing everything fully, getting the most out of everything one does. I think that's the way to live. But it sounds rather schoolgirlish when one says it,' she added apologetically.
~ Ian Fleming
He had never before felt so self-consciously young, nor experienced such appetite, such impatience for the story to begin.
~ Ian Mcewan
She had a knack or weakness for laughing boisterously at her own anecdotes—not, I thought, because she found herself funny, but because she thought that life needed celebrating and wanted others to join in.
~ Ian Mcewan
I made the enthusiast's mistake of assuming that everyone shared my previous ignorance.
~ Ian Mcewan
I only had one focus and one direction, and I knew where my spirit and heart lived, and it was in singing and dancing and acting, being that. I know a lot of young people dream that, but it's good that it worked out for me because it was all I ever wanted to do.
~ Cheryl Ladd
I'm incredibly inspired by the goofy edginess of teenagers and young people.
~ Luca Guadagnino
It is the young people in whom I place my confidence because of their competence, because of their enthusiasm, because of their capacity to meet the frontiers that are changing every week.
~ Enda Kenny
People like bluegrass. It's had a following amongst a lot of hip and young people. A lot of college kids like bluegrass.
~ Dolly Parton
Young people are so positive and have an answer for everything.
~ Nigel Mansell
I motivate what I see in young people because we employ about forty thousand young people in our various Chick-fil-A units. Some of them come to work because they need to work; others just work because they just like to work. There's nothing wrong with that.
~ S. Truett Cathy
It meant the world to see kids excited about theatre. That's the great thing about 'Hamilton' for me is to see young people who wouldn't normally think theatre is cool being really excited about how it works and getting involved.
~ Okieriete Onaodowan