Quotes About Enthusiasm

The point of living in the world is just to stay interested

It troubles me that among my few remaining acquaintances there is no one with whom I can share my enthusiasm for these new things.

A motto of mine had long been, "When the heart isn't in it, all zest in the job is destroyed

I dedicate this book to all of you Guardians of Ga'hoole readers who have become like citizens in my imaginary world. Imagination is, in a sense, a two-way street. Through your enthusiasm you have made this world much more real for me. I had originally intended to write only six books. This book, the fifteenth, is the last. It is the last not because your fervor has waned but because this is the logical place for the story of Soren and the band to conclude.

An ardent temperament makes one very vulnerable to dreamkillers.

Yet however genuinely dreadful these moods and memories have been, they have always been offset by the elation and vitality of others; and whenever a mild and gentlish wave of brilliant and bubbling manic enthusiasm comes over me, I am transported by its exuberance—as surely as one is transported by a pungent scent into a world of profound recollection—to earlier, more intense and passionate times.

College, for many people I know, was the best time of their lives. This is inconceivable to me. College was, for the most part, a terrible struggle, a recurring nightmare of violent and dreadful moods spelled only now and again by weeks, sometimes months, of great fun, passion, high enthusiasms, and long runs of very hard but enjoyable work.

Vincent van Gogh, for one, wrote that his exuberant mood propelled not just his art but his speech: There are moments, he said, when I am twisted by enthusiasm or madness or prophecy, like a Greek oracle on the tripod. And then I have great readiness of speech.)

And charge it please.

Perhaps it is indeed time I began to look at this whole matter of bantering more enthusiastically. After all, when one thinks about it, it is not such a foolish thing to indulge in – particularly if it is the case that in bantering lies the key to human warmth.

They were part of an international community of scholars .... There was an atmosphere of feverish excitement among them as they discovered and explored the treasure-house of Arab learning, and they had casually welcomed Jack as a student: they admitted into their circle anyone who understood what they were doing and shared their enthusiasm for it.

By the bounteous bottom of sweet Vashtilulu the Buxom! I'm looking forward to this, Our Kandar!

To foster the people's willing spirit is often as important as to possess the more concrete forms of power.

There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian regimes are in power.

Fanaticism, or, to call it by its milder name, enthusiasm, is only powerful and active so long as it is aggressive. Establish it firmly in power, and it becomes conservatism, whether it will or no.

Let us recognize the beauty and power of true enthusiasm; and whatever we may do to enlighten ourselves and others, guard against checking or chilling a single earnest sentiment.

Enthusiasm is the power that transfers the mental blueprint into the physical dimension.

Whatever I receive from a higher power gets me pumped, which gets the crowd pumped, which gets me more pumped, and then we're just pumped up.

Enthusiasm generates Hope

Passion for what you do goes hand in hand with style.You can say I'm a passionista

When an idea takes hold, nothing can stop it!

Yank some of the groans out of your prayers and shove in some shouts.

You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.

The main thing (about the organization) is to enjoy motorcycles, ..and have a good relationship with the community.