Quotes About Enthusiasm

I chose the members very carefully, based on their ability to correctly answer the following question: "Do you want to go to Orlando at your own expense and perform before Tupperware distributors?" (The correct answer was: "Yes.")

In Toronto, fans applaud; in Vancouver, they cheer; but in Calgary, they howl hair-raising, guttural paroxysms of zeal.

Here I am Rock You Like a Hurricane.

Her face held the wonderful enthusiasm of youth as yet unblemished by life. That age was a nice time in anyone's life. And it was necessary. To get through what was coming in later years. If we all started out cynical, what a shitty world that would be.

Wham! Bam! Thank You Ma'am! - Suffragette City

I had to admit, standing there, that sometimes you just gotta admire the passion of the truly insane -- a passion that bulls right past all sense or reason.

Does bouncing count? -- Silk, The Belgariad

Readers often become fans of a genre after discovering one defining work in that genre.

an indicative transposition like 'I'm here But For the Grace of God' is, she says, literally senseless, and regardless of whether she hears it or not it's meaningless, and that the foamy enthusiasm with which these folks can say what in fact means nothing at all makes her want to put her head in a Radarange at the thought that Substances have brought her to the sort of pass where this is the sort of language she has to have Blind Faith in.

SAMPLE SOLUTION: After a kind of long wait for wood, a B-girl fluffed the rookie woodman into a state where he could take part in a DP SS whose frequent beams required maximum wood, and after a shaky start the SS ended up a spectacular double-facial in which the starlet really displayed her professionalism by managing to stay enthusiastic even though some of the skeet went in her right eye.

foamy enthusiasm with which these folks can say what in fact means nothing at all makes her want to put her head in a Radarange

The most important thing about education is appetite.

Their national psychology is such that the bigger the Idea the more wholeheartedly and obstinately do they throw themselves into making it a success. It is an admirable characteristic provided the Idea is good.

Success is Ability to go from One Failure to Another. Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

I have no idea what I am doing but incompetence has never prevented me from plunging in with enthusiasm.

I don't know what I'm doing, but my incompetence has never stopped my enthusiasm.

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Remember, passion and purpose go handinhand.

They were linked by the usual shared enthusiasms to which lovers give exaggerated importance: a fondness for Vivaldi and the Beatles;

I maintain that this revolution has aroused in the hearts and desires of all spectators who are not themselves caught up in it a sympathy which borders almost on enthusiasm . . . It cannot therefore have been caused by anything other than a moral disposition within the human race.

Loveable as he is, Lawrence is a hyperkinetic freak, and the world is far too full of marvels and joys for him to ever do anything except lunge and swerve toward whatever catches his eye.

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

If you're not really into something, you don't put the time in, so you don't get good at it. Passion is the key to everyone's gifts.

What puts you so in the zone that hours and hours pass and you've barely glanced at the clock? If money were no issue, what is the thing you feel so passionately about that you'd do it for free? What do you care about enough to want to put in the time required to get better and better at it?