Quotes About Enthusiasm

When I look back now, I realize what a trial I must have been to my friends and relatives. It was one frenzy after one elation after one enthusiasm after one hysteria after another. I was always yelling and running somewhere, because I was afraid life was going to be over that very afternoon.

The more I did, the more I wanted to do.

Everything I've ever done was done with excitement, because I wanted to do it, because I loved doing it.

That's how I think of children, cruel as they sometimes are, mean as I know they can be, but not yet showing the meanness around their eyes or in their eyes, not yet full of tiredness. They're so eager for everything! I guess that's what I miss most in older folks, the eagerness gone nine times out of ten, the freshness gone, so much of the drive and life down the drain. I like to watch school let out each day. It's like someone threw a bunch of flowers out the school front doors.

Since then, I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas.

if you are writing without zest, without gusto, without love, without fun, you are only half a writer. It

For the first thing a writer should be is—excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms

But about feelings people really know nothing. We talk with indignation or enthusiasm; we talk about oppression, cruelty, crime, devotion, self-sacrifice, virtue, and we know nothing real beyond these words.

We talk with indignation or enthusiasm; we talk about oppression, cruelty, crime, devotion, self-sacrifice, virtue, and we know nothing real beyond the words. Nobody knows what suffering or sacrifice mean—except, perhaps the victims of the mysterious purpose of these illusions.

Between the five of us there was the strong bond of the sea, and also the fellowship of the craft, which no amount of enthusiasm for yatching, cruising, and so on can give, since one is only the amusement of life and the other is life itself.

Falamos com indignação ou com entusiasmo; falamos sobre opressão, crueldade, crime, devoção, abnegação, virtude e nada sabemos, além de palavras. Ninguém sabe o que significa sofrimento ou sacrifício – exceto, talvez, as vítimas do misterioso propósito dessas ilusões.

The American casualties continued to be staggering, in no small part because among the AEF's junior officers enthusiasm generally outran their experience.

Five is very good, Milo," he observed with enthusiasm, spying a ray of hope. "That averages out to almost one combat mission every two months. And I'll bet your total doesn't even include the time you bombed us." "Yes, sir. It does.

Become enthusiastic over new creative ideas, make spiritual progress, and continue to learn and to grow. In this manner you remain young in heart, because you are hungering and thirsting after new truths, and your body will reflect your thinking at all times.

Years may wrinkle your skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles your soul.

We need to be enthusiastic! Too many of us walk around with long faces looking and feeling worn-out. But the human heart was made for passion, for strong desire to reach for something beyond ourselves.

Never lag in zeal and in earnest endeavor; be aglow and burning with the Spirit, serving the Lord. ROMANS 12:11

Go, go, go! the taxi driver shouted gleefully as he stomped on the gas, practically sending them through the roof. I love Americans!

The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies.

if you can't keep him interested, that's your fault.

That is why it is often such a relief when the talk turns from "general topics" to a man's own hobby. It is like turning from the landscape in the parlor to the ploughed field outdoors. It is a return to the three dimensional world, after a sojourn in the painter's portrayal of his own emotional response to his own inattentive memory of what he imagines he ought to have seen.

La pasión no es negociable.

Los que están enamorados y además son fieles casi nunca se aburren, porque no dejan que la chispa de la creatividad y la pasión se apague.

As Winston Churchill once said, "The trick is to go from one failure65 to another, with no loss of enthusiasm." But how does one learn to perform that "trick" of "failing enthusiastically"?