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Quotes About Enthusiasm

For Obama, there was just a lot of enthusiasm in the minority communities to get out and vote. Everybody felt like their vote mattered.
~ Malcolm Jenkins
Every minute I'm on the set, it's play time for me. I feel like I'm on the beach!
~ Rachel G. Fox
I just got off stage playing with Lynyrd Skynyrd a minute ago. It was a great show. Got to meet some incredible guests. This is the bee's knees.
~ Bo Bice
Mick says, Would you join the band? I say to him, Mick, you know I'd be there in a New York minute.
~ Ronnie Wood
All one night we sat, with a friend of his, in a big dark roadhouse outside of Philadelphia, arguing and arguing about mysticism, and smoking more and more cigarettes and gradually getting drunk. Eventually, filled with enthusiasm for the purity of heart which begets the vision of God, I went on with them into the city, after the closing of the bars, to a big speak-easy where we completed the work of getting plastered.
~ Thomas Merton
Nobody in this band was a musician when they joined up, but everybody was in some kind of trouble. Play con entusiasmo, as loudly as you can, and trust the good will and bad ear of the gringo hellraiser.
~ Thomas Pynchon
The weather offered a variety of aspects fit for talk, and the subject when broached was leapt on with almost hysterical enthusiasm, that each guest might express and relieve himself before the subject was left lifeless and limp, on the extremes of temperature, of humidity, rain, snow, sleet, the velocity of the wind
~ Thomas Savage
Only boring people are bored.
~ Katherine Neville
I suffered the usual post–collective experience letdown. Sure, I was relieved. Field school was concluded without any disasters of note, and now I could focus on Emma's skeleton. But the students' departure also left me feeling dismally empty. The kids could be exasperating, no question. The unending hubbub. The clowning. The inattention. But my students were also energizing, bursting with enthusiasm, and lousy with youth.
~ Kathy Reichs
One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested. —E. M. FORSTER
~ Katie Couric
Between the covers a book can be a sin. I have spent many hours in search of a waking dream. And once having learned to read, I couldn't imagine my life otherwise. The indifferent children around me didn't share my enthusiasm for the written word. Some might sit for a good story while told, but if a book had no pictures they showed scant interest.
~ Keith Donohue
They are the small segment of the population that will adopt a cool product early on and infect everyone else with the bug.
~ Keith Ferrazzi
I can sustain the impetus over the long tours we do is by feeding off the energy that we get back from an audience. That's my fuel. All i've got is this burning energy, especially when i've got a guitar in my hands
~ Keith Richards
The rock's easy, but the roll is another thing...
~ Keith Richards
When I meet gay fans out and about, they're so great to talk to - and I'm big on hugging, because I'm from the Midwest. They're just so energetic and loving. I'm proud to have those fans, and their support means a lot to me. I don't want just girls coming to my movies I want guys to come, too!
~ Kellan Lutz
J: You will not believe what Mom is doing. M: Ballroom dancing lessons? Hot-air balloon classes?
~ Kelly Bingham
Authentic interest is generated when students are given the opportunity to delve deeply into an interesting idea.
~ Kelly Gallagher
If you're interested, you'll be there.
~ Ken MacLeod
Being in your element is not only about aptitude, it's about passion: it is about loving what you do.
~ Ken Robinson
The word amateur derives from the Latin word amator, which means lover, devoted friend, or someone who is in avid pursuit of an objective. In the original sense, an amateur is someone who does something for the love of it.
~ Ken Robinson
Whatever your aptitudes, the greatest source of achievement is passion. Aptitude matters, but passion often matters more… If you love doing something, you'll be constantly drawn to get better at it.
~ Ken Robinson
Los músicos adoran las melodías que componen, los escritores natos aman las palabras, a los bailarines les encanta el movimiento, los matemáticos aman los números, los empresarios adoran cerrar negocios, los grandes profesores aman la enseñanza.
~ Ken Robinson
Normalmente, las personas que utilizan la creatividad en el trabajo tienen algo en común: aman el medio en el que trabajan. Los
~ Ken Robinson
According to one study, almost half of the adults in the United States have little enthusiasm for life and are not actively or productively engaged in the world. There are equally disturbing figures for other countries and regions of the world, from Europe to Asia.
~ Ken Robinson