Quotes About Enthusiasm

Look at World War II, at Hitler's cruelty. The more cruelty, the more enthusiasm for revolution.

Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war.

I find I like it too much.

Flying is the only active profession I could ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.

Americans' enthusiasm for apocalyptic fantasy probably owes more to movies like The Exorcist and The Omen than to the Bible itself.

I think enthusiasm counts for a lot in dancing and in life.

Bold and courageous and so full of life. She was adventure and zeal and added a brightness to his day.

Here and there and everywhere . . . puppies, puppies, puppies!

Quoting Althea Warren, librarians should "read as a drunkard drinks, or as a bird sings or a cat sleeps or a dog responds to an invitation to go walking, not from conscience or training, but because they'd rather do it than anything else in the world.

As she said in a speech to a library association in 1935, librarians should "read as a drunkard drinks or as a bird sings or a cat sleeps or a dog responds to an invitation to go walking, not from conscience or training, but because they'd rather do it than anything else in the world.

fiction fiends.

In fact, Perry was passionate, but his passion was exclusively for libraries, and he judged people by whether or not they shared his passion.

librarians should "read as a drunkard drinks or as a bird sings or a cat sleeps or a dog responds to an invitation to go walking, not from conscience or training, but because they'd rather do it than anything else in the world.

I suppose I do have one embarrassing passion- I want to know what it feels like to care about something passionately.

Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.

Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art

A lot of us don't have big passions, like 'I knew from the time I was three I was going to be a concert pianist,' so we have to issue an invitation to even a little flicker of interest.

A spark could be enough to set them ablaze.

They more than do their work, they take pride in it. Like Cinna.

What young brains lack in experience they sometimes make up for in idealism.

I have plenty of fire myself.

Now I smile. "How's everything with you?" I call down cheerfully. This takes them aback, but I know the crowd will love it.

Lady Fawcett was one of those hostesses who throw parties like other people throw tantrums, i.e. with insatiable relish and single-minded abandon.

Don't look back—forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience—then alone can great deeds be accomplished.