Quotes About Enthusiasm

It's true," says Michael. "Dicken's novels came out in monthly installments. People couldn't wait for the next chapter to arrive. Mobs would gather at train stations and shipyards so they could be first in line to get the next part of the book." "Mobs?" I say.... ..."People don't feel that way about books anymore," Elena says sadly. "Some people do," I say.

those men worked in order to live, whereas his father seemed to live in order to work, which meant that his parents' friends were defined more by their enthusiasms than their burdens or responsibilities,

Most ardent reformers are accompanied by but equal portion of dullness . John Quincy Adams

The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate.

What's great about the geek spirit is that life never seems to stop us, and they never seem to kill our enthusiasm, our optimism and our hunger to experience the world. We keep our sense of humor, we protect our dignity, we talk to our friends about the experience and then we start again fresh the very next day.

The best player I've ever played with was Paul Gascoigne. He had everything. He was amazing.

Enthusiasm glows, radiates, permeates and immediately captures everyone's interest.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that raises the dough.

Plan your progress carefully; hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power

and the Nazis. A real piece of work, old number XII, who wouldn't intervene even so far as to tell his Polish cardinals to dampen the enthusiasm of the good Catholics running the camps and the

How can one not feel enthusiasm for the man who never said anything vague?

The essence of an orgy is the disappearance of the individual into a greater whole, in a group that has replaced the normal rules by other ones. The limitations of genital orgasm are replaced by the ecstatic enthusiasm of the group, a curious kind of total jouissance that interconnects the individuals and therefore eases them

The essence of an orgy is the disappearance of the individual into a greater whole, in a group that has replaced the normal rules by other ones. the limitations of genital orgasm are replaced by the ecstatic enthusiasm of the group, a curious kind of total jouissance that interconnects the individuals and therefore erases them. This is the same experience that may occur with certain gatherings of religious sects.

I live by 'Go big or go home.' That's with everything. It's like either commit and go for it or don't do it at all. I apply that to everything. I apply that to relationships, I apply that to like sports, I apply that to everything. That's what I live by. That's how I like it.

I think the future also will not belong to those who are cynical or those who stand on the sidelines.

went off full of fire and conviction and derring-do.

If you're ready to make the mad dash I'm game.

Oddly, Angela took to school like a bird to flight. She completed her homework almost before the teacher finished assigning it and read twice as many books as required. She had an understanding of history as if she'd lived it. Most surprising, she could stand in front of the classroom and read with the passion and clarity of a little southern Shakespearean thespian.

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It's very simple.

What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination, will affect everything.

Work, but work with a flare, a love of the art so to speak, of doing what I love.

I love nuts. I'm for nuts. I am nuts.

Good writing makes writers want to write.

There is eloquence in the tongueless wind, and a melody in the flowing brooks and the rustling of the reeds beside them, which by their inconceivable relation to something within the soul, awaken the spirits to a dance of breathless rapture, and bring tears of mysterious tenderness to the eyes, like the enthusiasm of patriotic success, or the voice of one beloved singing to you alone.