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Quotes About Enthusiasm

I think I was 10 or 11 years old. I think the first song I learned about then was 'Open Arms.' Then, when I got tired of listening to 'Open Arms,' I borrowed my friend's Journey album, 'Escape,' and tried to listen to every song.
~ Arnel Pineda
Taika grabbed me and went, 'Come and meet these guys'. He knocked on this really massive campervan and then the door opened and there's Chris Hemsworth and Mark Ruffalo peering down, then giving me high-fives and hugs. I was like, 'Oh my god.'
~ Rachel House
I go into calling any match, any fight - I don't care if it's the main event or the opener - that these guys have put in their work: they're here for a reason, and there's a reason I'm calling this fight, so I do want to give it as much attention and respect and energy as I would the main event or a championship fight.
~ Mauro Ranallo
When you're opening for someone, there's no pressure.
~ Gord Downie
I like to go to openings when I'm in it, or friends are in it.
~ Kathleen Quinlan
High energy creates more energy, more energy, more energy. It kicks off synapses, I guess. It opens up your brain and you think of one thing after another thing, after another. You can really open yourself up comedically, which is fun.
~ Michael Keaton
I'd hate this to get out but I really like opera.
~ Ford Frick
College football, acting, opera singing - I approached them all in the same obsessive way.
~ Forest Whitaker
For years, I wasn't in the least bit interested in opera.
~ Simon McBurney
a really GRANDE PASSION is comparatively rare nowadays. It is the privilege of people who have nothing to do.
~ Oscar Wilde
One must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.
~ Oscar Wilde, John Cooper
man, i would have peeled off my shirt faster than you can say bubba loves trucks.
~ P.C. Cast
Oh. Yeah. That does make sense." Shaylin hesitated. "But I don't know which dorm room is hers." "Third floor, number thirty-six. When they shared a brain, they used to say it stood for their chest size. I said it was their combined IQ." "Of course you did," Shaylin said. "See, you do understand me!" Aphrodite said with fake enthusiasm.
~ P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast
I shoved on a dressing-gown, and flew downstairs like a mighty, rushing wind.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
His spirit was willing, but his will was not spirited.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Few things are so pleasant as the anticipation of them...
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Those who know Bertram Wooster best are aware that he is a man of sudden, strong enthusiasms and that, when in the grip of one of these, he becomes a remorseless machine—tense, absorbed, single-minded.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
a chap after the horses.' He had found the right
~ P.G. Wodehouse
I worship her, Bertie! I worship the very ground she treads on! continued the patient, in a loud, penetrating voice. Fred thompson and one or two fellows had come in, and McGarry, the chappie behind the bar, was listening with his ears flapping. But there's no reticence about Bingo. He always reminds me of the hero of a musical comedy who takes the centre of the stage, gathers the boys round him in a circle, and tells them all about his love at the top of his voice.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
I MUST SAY I was pretty well a-twitter. It was about as juicy a biff as I had had for years.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
The law of demand and supply reaches into subtler realms than I had supposed." Ananta spoke with a spiritual enthusiasm never before noticeable. "I understand for the first time your indifference to the vaults and vulgar accumulations of the world." Late as it was, my brother insisted that he receive diksha into kriya yoga. The 'guru' Mukunda had to shoulder the responsibility of two unsought disciples in one day.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
The one major factor that motivated people was the work itself. If the work was exciting and interesting, the worker looked forward to doing it and was motivated to do a good job.
~ Dale Carnegie
possible way to prepare for tomorrow is to concentrate with all your intelligence, all your enthusiasm, on doing today's work superbly today. That is the only possible way you can prepare for the future.
~ Dale Carnegie
Considero —dijo Schwab— que el mayor bien que poseo es mi capacidad para despertar entusiasmo entre los hombres, y que la forma de desarrollar lo mejor que hay en el hombre es por medio del aprecio y el aliento.
~ Dale Carnegie