Quotes About Enthusiasm

As an actor, it's more interesting to play a nerd than anything else. It's a lot more fun - you don't worry about 'what's my hair like?' in the morning or 'which is my great angle?'

The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last.

But excitement, I reckon, is overrated.

Japanophiles were people who just loved Japan without asking questions.

If you got a trumpet, get on your feet, brother, and blow it!

I read the fuck out of every book I can get my hands on.

He'd just interpreted his brother's enthusiasm, blending his own fantasies in to add a little extra flavouring. But this new music had a spiritual thing going for it. This was his music, the sound of his soul rising up, and as he leaned forward to embrace it

After all, fear is the passionate enthusiasm for the same.

Whereas contemporaries read only the optimist with enthusiasm, posterity rereads the pessimist with admiration.

I think that politics needs a bit of spicing up.

I put the kitch into kitchen.

Prepare to Be Obsessed

The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power.

I suppose that if one is ever to have boundless enthusiasm and endless energy one has them at seventeen, eighteen.

The general culture itself, though without strong ideological passions or theoretical enthusiasms, is poor soil for cultivating a widespread understanding of science. It is, to use blunt words, a lazy, fatally unambitious culture, strongly resistant to demands for sustained and coherent thought on any topic (aside, perhaps, from sports, guns, and automobiles).

Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.

If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.

If you are not getting as much from life as you want to, then examine the state of your enthusiasm.

There is a real magic in enthuiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

Think excitement, talk excitement, act out excitement, and you are bound to become an excited person. Life will take on a new zest, deeper interest and greater meaning. You can think, talk and act yourself into dullness or into monotony or into unhappiness. By the same process you can build up inspiration, excitement and surging depth of joy.

Whena person applies enthusiasm to his job, the job will itself become alive with exciting new possibilities.

The really happy people are those who have broken the chains of procrastination, those who find satisfaction in doing the job at hand. They're full of eagerness, zest, productivity. You can be, too.

There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk to much.