Quotes About Enthusiasm

Now it may seem to be a peculiar trait, but the truth is that most people will not grant favors just to please others. If I ask you to render a service that will benefit me, without bringing you some corresponding advantage, you will not show much enthusiasm in granting that favor; you may refuse altogether if you have a plausible excuse for refusing.

You can tell how uninteresting a person is by asking him whom he finds interesting.

Authors, artists, and even philosophers are much better off having a very small number of fanatics behind them than a large number of people who appreciate their work. The number of persons who dislike the work don't count—there is no such thing as the opposite of buying your book

It costs a lot of energy to fake that you're not bored.

you are excited about how cheap it

Nuevo astro que surge», decía mi padre cada vez que nombrábamos a la señora Ghiran. «Nuevo astro que surge» o sólo «nuevo astro» era siempre su ironía cada vez que nosotros nos entusiasmábamos con alguien.

At first, when an idea, a poem, or the desire to write takes hold of you, work is a pleasure, a delight, and your enthusiasm knows no bounds. But later on you work with difficulty, doggedly, desperately. For once you have committed yourself to a particular work, inspiration changes its form and becomes an obsession, like a love-affair… which haunts you night and day! Once at grips with a work, we must master it completely before we can recover our idleness.

Chances are, when you were young, you were told, in effect, Listen, kid, here is the news: life is not about you. Life is not about what you want. What you want is not important. Life is about doing what others expect of you. If you accepted this idea, later on you wondered what had happened to your fire. Where had your enthusiasm for living gone?

If his or her upbringing is successful, the young man or woman will have evolved out of that dependency into a self-respecting and self-responsible human being who is able to respond to the challenges of life competently and enthusiastically.

If you want to know the real secret of Walt's success," longtime animator Ward Kimball would say, "it's that he never tried to make money. He was always trying to make something that he could have fun with or be proud of.

It made me wonder how many important causes were crushed not by opposition, but by lukewarm support.

I suspected you had a spark in you, but never dreamed it would be such an inferno!

We learn because we want to, not because we have to, so we learn faster. We learn deeper.

That's when I first learned that it wasn't enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion for it.

but right now it's Bob Dylan Bob Dylan Bob Dylan all the way.

To be young is the only religion.

the grace is being able to like rock music, symphony music, jazz … anything that contains the original energy of joy.

But you know, only boring people get bored. They have to prod themselves continually in order to feel alive.

it wasn't enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion for it.

He was bursting with enthusiasms. He probably loved many things: the hawk in flight, the god-damned ocean, full moon, Balzac, bridges, stage plays, the Pulitzer Prize, the piano, the god-damned Bible.

what she doesn't realize is that - usually - only boring people get bored.

I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects...

Cuántos creyentes conoce usted que experimentan el gozo y la libertad de ser personas llenas de vida, exuberantes de entusiasmo, que disfrutan viviendo con espontaneidad, en oposición a los cientos de miles que se basan en las pautas fijadas por los legalistas y viven de acuerdo con ellas?

I love people who have such passion for complete nonsense.