Quotes About Enthusiasm

No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty

I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad.

I was broadcast-struck from an early age; I had saved up for a tape recorder and started making programmes.

I loved music from the age of eight. Jazz and blues. But also Little Richard and Elvis Presley.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

Adrenaline is an amazing thing.

Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.

Boredom, Timothy Duane assured me, is nothing more than anger without passion.

From everything that I'd read, End Timers were waiting for the collapse of civilization the way fans of the Twilight series awaited the trailer for Breaking Dawn.

think I have sort of an odd aversion, almost like a chemical sensitivity, when it comes to other people's enthusiasm.

I think you've still got lightning in you.

Ralph let out a whoop

It is difficult to be enthusiastic about Aristotle, because it was difficult for him to be enthusiastic about anything. His motto is nil admirari - to admire or marvel at nothing.

If we go back to the beginning," says Holbach, "we shall find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that fancy, enthusiasm or deceit adorned or disfigured them; that weakness worships them; that credulity preserves them; and that custom respects and tyranny supports them in order to make the blindness of men serve its own interests.

Exuberance is beauty.

excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I take a pencil or graver into my hand.

Enthusiastic admiration is the first principle of knowledge and the last

Ahora que tenían algo que hacer, trabajaron con entusiasmo.

Lavoravano dunque con grande energia ed allegria, benché col passar del tempo ci fosse un tantino di panico nell'energia, e d'isterismo nell'allegria.

I am as devoted to adventure now as then, and that's never going to stop.

For the first time in my life, I became actively interested in a book. Me the sports fanatic, me the game freak, me the only ten-year-old in Illinois with a hate on for the alphabet wanted to know what happened next.

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty, and your animal spirits.

Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already exists. The two associated objects grow, as it were, together; the interesting portion sheds its quality over the whole; and thus things not interesting in their own right borrow an interest which becomes as real and as strong as that of any natively interesting thing.

All this was made clear enough to the assembled industrialists and they responded with enthusiasm to the promise of the end of the infernal elections, of democracy and disarmament.