Quotes About Enthusiasm

Soon became convinced I was right and undertook the task with all the fire and boundless confidence of youth.

If I were fire, I would burn; if I were a woodcutter, I would strike. But I am a heart, and I love.

He wanted his life to be painted with the strongest colors he could find.

You've got to take a test? I love tests. His eyes actually lit up. Do you need a study buddy? And yes, I capitalize the N in nerd.

The lack of energy struck unfairly keen when Mo bounced into the stables. Just had to come by before I headed off to the hell of school.

If I were writing a book I'd talk about it all the time, to everyone. People would start to avoid me, so I'd seek out complete strangers and talk about it until they, too, avoided me.

thespian, since Kev's into that.

celebrating the rush

read?" "Nothing I like better

A man can't work too hard at something he loves.

I swooned again – I had that moment of falling in love with reading again.

If you hate everything, you're a banal asshole…but if you don't hate anything, you're boring.

All the effort in the world won't matter if you're not inspired.

If you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane.

Nevertheless, if you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane. A child allows us to revisit the excitement we once felt about, well... everything. A generation later, our grandkids bump up our enthusiasm yet again. Reproducing is a kind of booster shot to keep us loving life.

My goal is to be an engine of excitement in people's lives.

Because I know what it's like to pour your heart and soul into a book, day after day after day, when it comes to the work of other authors, I either give them five stars -- or say nothing! I simply can't bring myself to do anything else.

the only way to do great work is to love what you do.

People who truly love what they do and who think their work is meaningful have a distinct advantage when they arrive at work every day. They throw their best effort into their jobs, and it makes them very good at what they do. This

In a small, independent organization, these small wins will generate energy and enthusiasm. In the mainstream, they would generate skepticism about whether we should even be in the business. I want my organization's customers to answer the question of whether we should be in the business. I don't want to spend my precious managerial energy constantly defending our existence to efficiency analysts in the mainstream.

Try to finish everything. You'll always find your enthusiasm for a project waning as it goes on, and you'll be tempted by a new idea, but learn to ignore the latter and continue with the former. If you start abandoning work, you set a bad precedent, and establish a pattern for the years to come. And be nice to booksellers: never let them pay for a round.

When one loves one's work, time and inconvenience have little meaning.

we have to listen to the child we once were, the child who still exists inside us. That child understands magic moments. We can stifle its cries, but we cannot silence its voice.The child we once were is still there. Blessed are the children, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.If we are not reborn if we cannot learn to look at life with the innocence and the enthusiasm o childhood it makes no sense to go on living.

The boys knew to hide their enthusiasm over little kid things that still had an allure.