Quotes About Enthusiasm

You came pretty late to my party— you'd better be able to dance until dawn

It isn't sacrifice if you love what you're doing.

If you don't love what you do, you won't do it with much conviction or passion.

Someone, maybe it was Pauline Kael, once wrote that "we all love good movies but a true cinephile is someone who totally digs talking about the worst movies they've seen.

Rock'n'roll is a teenage sport, meant to be played by teenagers of all ages--they could be 15, 25 or 35. It all boils down to whether they've got the love in their hearts, that beautiful teenage spirit... -Calvin Johnson

Being a teen was a metaphorical state that could be prolonged indefinitely, a way of being in which one was unspoiled, blameless, enthusiastic, and sincere.

By the time I was 8 years old, sports had pretty much taken over my life.

And if I can't get excited about whatever that something else is, I really have trouble doing good work as a designer. To me, the conclusion is inescapable: the more things you're interested in, the better your work will be.

Puck rushed into the kitchen. He looked as if he had just gotten off a roller coaster. "That was awesome!" he cried. "The arrow coming out is totally more fun to watch going in.

I really don't have favorites I'm just a fan of movies, period.

Life is too short to half-ass it. Full-ass it!

Even when I'm old and grey, I won't be able to play it, but I'll still love the game.

What is love? Love is playing every game as if it's your last!

There is no secret" to success, Fred explained years later in accepting the Horatio Alger Award, given to people who overcame adversity. "There are just two things. One, you must like what you do. You must pick out the right business or profession. You must learn all about it . . . so you become enthusiastic about it. Nine out of ten people don't like what they do. And in not liking what they do, they lose enthusiasm, they go from job to job, and ultimately become a nothing.

It's easier to cool down a fanatic than to warm up a corpse.

Of course I'm excited about the Nobel. But I am passionate about my research. Passion is really important for anything you do; it's a general requirement

What those who were contemptuous of sports misunderstood was not merely that a middle-class sports fan might revere football to the same degree that an inveterate theatergoer revered Shakespeare, but that he might do so for many of the same reasons.

I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.

I'm sorry, but this is musical theater, guys. Okay? You've just got to do it all.

You have to take an interest in something in life, I told myself. I wondered what could interest me, now that I was finished with love. I could take a course in wine tasting, maybe, or start collecting model aeroplanes.

Western nations took a strange pride in this system, though it amounted to little more than a power-sharing deal between two rival gangs, and they would even go to war to impose it on nations that failed to share their enthusiasm.

Western nations took a strange pride in this system, though it amounted to little more than a power-sharing deal between two rival gangs, and they would even go to war to impose it on nations that failed to share their enthusiasm. Over

Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly.

What you can't get out of... Get into wholeheartedly.