Quotes About Enthusiasm

When a man's willing and eager, God joins in.

I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

Give me a man who sings at his work.

What a man accomplishes in a day depends upon the way in which he approaches his tasks. When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen. When we do our work with a dynamic, conquering spirit, we get things done.

Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms, tastes, and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and to posterity.

Blind zeal can only do harm.

My zeal hath consumed me.

Shiver my timbers!... Bless your dear eyes, that sparkle with elation...

If at first you don't succeed, try a little ardor.

Geblendet vom Gefühl stolzer Kühnheit, mit dem das erste und unvollständige Wissen den jungen Menschen erfüllt, und begeistert von den Ideen vom Recht der Völker auf Freiheit und des Einzelmenschen auf Vergnügen und Würde, kamen diese Jünglinge aus den großen Städten, von den Gymnasien und Universitäten, auf denen sie lernten.

When I ducked out, she was talking to Ana Whitney and some Roarke exec about knitting. The three of them were into it like it was their religion.

Yeah, but if you're not excited about your work, life's crap.

the very reasons she'd hyped when talking

I'm sorry, my child, I just find it hard to whip up an interest in the subject. It's admirable, what you do, what she does, but to me animal-welfare people are a bit like Christians of a certain kind. Everyone is so cheerful and well-intentioned that after a while you itch to go off and do some raping and pillaging. Or to kick a cat.

If you are not fully in the game you are playing, however, you are not truly playing it.

Uh-huh, uh-huh, ohhhh, yeeeeeeeaaaah, who's your daddy...

As she hung up on her end, she actually fanned herself with her hand, something she'd assumed people only did in TV commercials and bad sitcoms. And then she couldn't hold it in. Bursting up from her workstation, she ran around her house like a crazy person, making a bizarre kind of eeeee noise as she completed the circuit back to her desk. At which point there might have been some pirouetting.

Let's go, Evelyn.

Just thought he might want to see me play.

She knows you love the game.

Keep it kickwriting at all costs too, that is, write only what kicks you and keeps you overtime awake from sheer mad joy.

I liked him; not because he was a good sort, as he later proved to be, but because he was enthusiastic about things.

He wasn't drunk on liquor, just drunk on what he liked - crowds of people milling.

I promise I shall never give up, and that I'll die yelling and laughing, and that until then I'll rush around this world I insist is holy and pull at everyone's lapel and make them confess to me and to all.