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• The ongoing successful treatment of my depression is the single most important positive step I have taken in my life, hence my enthusiasm for the subject.

  Peter McWilliams

  Depression, Taken, Successful

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• When ... we realize the possibilities of deep sea life still unknown to us, every haul of the dredge should be welcomed by an expectant enthusiasm equaled in other fields only by the possible hope of communication with our sister planets.

  William Beebe

  Ocean, Communication, Sea

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• Nothing cools so fast as undue enthusiasm. Water that has boiled freezes sooner than any other.

  George Iles

  Science, Water, Freeze

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• Others may have more ability than you, they may be larger, faster, quicker, better jumpers ... but no one should be your superior in respect to team spirit, loyalty, enthusiasm, cooperation, determination, industriousness, fight effort, and character.

  John Wooden

  Sports, Loyalty, Determination

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• The successful man has enthusiasm. Good work is never done in cold blood; heat is needed for forge anything. Every great achievement is the story of a flaming heart.

  Harry S. Truman

  Leadership, Sports, Heart

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• You work and live to meet your daily needs rather than to maximize your potential. You simply exist from day to day, without much passion or enthusiasm for life. Meanwhile, your talents remain untapped, buried somewhere deep inside. This is an awful way to live.

  Simon T. Bailey

  Passion, Enthusiasm For Life, Needs

  Simon T. Bailey (2009). “Release Your Brilliance: The 4 Steps to Transforming Your Life and Revealing Your Genius to the World”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means 'filled with a god,' so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it. So I have a little word: follow your bliss. The bliss is the message of God to yourself. That's where your life is.

  Joseph Campbell

  Mean, Littles, Messages

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• China approaches fashion with strong enthusiasm. And I believe that this enthusiasm can be translated into something interesting, economically speaking. Not only for my brand, but also for other brands.

  Giorgio Armani

  Fashion, Strong, Believe

  "Talk Asia" with Anna Coren, edition.cnn.com. June 22, 2012.

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• People tell me I'm dancing better than ever. I don't know what happened, but I have new enthusiasm and more endurance.

  Natalia Makarova

  People, Dancing, Endurance

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• The nation is burdened with the heavy curse on those who come afterwards. The generation before us was inspired by an activism and a naive enthusiasm, which we cannot rekindle, because we confront tasks of a different kind from those which our fathers faced.

  Max Weber

  Father, Different, Tasks

  "Max Weber". Book by Reinhard Bendix, p. 53, 1960.

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• Never stop challenging yourself! Never loose enthusiasm!

  Haider Ackermann

  Challenges, Challenge Yourself

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• Rooting in work is crucial to any accomplishment. Rooting in mere enthusiasm will in the long run force illusory measures to keep the fires of empty enthusiasm going. And this makes politics and politicians.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Running, Fire, Long

  Writings by Wilhelm Reich, April 19, 1951.

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• It's nice when I can be met with warmth and enthusiasm, but doing standup comedy has taught me how to push through the fact that statistically speaking, 100% of Earth's population population doesn't have any interest in what I'm doing at all. I try to think less about having/deserving an audience and focus on enjoying the privilege of creating things I like.

  Josh Gondelman

  Nice, Thinking, Focus

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• The banality of evil transmutes into the banality of sentimentality. The world is nothing but a problem to be solved by enthusiasm.

  Teju Cole

  Evil, World, Problem

  Teju Cole (2016). “Known and Strange Things”, p.240, Faber & Faber

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• Any music can be healing if it inspires, relaxes, encourages or creates enthusiasm for life in you.

  David Simon

  Healing, Enthusiasm For Life, Inspire

  David Simon, M.D. (1999). “Return to Wholeness: Embracing Body, Mind, and Spirit in the Face of Cancer”, Wiley

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• We can put our whole heart into whatever we do; but if we freeze our attitude into for or against, we're setting ourselves up for stress. Instead, we could just go forward with curiosity, wondering where this experiment will lead. This kind of open-ended inquisitiveness captures the spirit of enthusiasm, or heroic perseverance.

  Pema Chodron

  Perseverance, Attitude, Stress

  Pema Chodron (2007). “No Time to Lose: A Timely Guide to the Way of the Bodhisattva”, p.226, Shambhala Publications

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• Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning. Dream is also just a word until you decide to fight for it with all your enthusiasm and commitment

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Commitment, Fighting

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Oct 18, 2011

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• To the children who loved Harry Potter, I want to say your enthusiasm was the real magic. I so enjoyed being on the journey with you. And to the adults who bought the Harry Potter books and devoured them, I just want to say, those books were for children.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Children, Real, Book

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• Dear friends, sometimes we may be tempted to allow ourselves be overtaken by laziness or despondency, especially when faced with the hardships and trials of life. In these cases, do not lose heart, but invoke the Holy Spirit, so that with the gift of fortitude He can lift our hearts and communicate new vigor and enthusiasm to our lives and our following Jesus.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Heart, May

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• Follow your enthusiasm. It's something I've always believed
  in. Find those parts of your life you enjoy the most. Do what
  you enjoy doing.

  Jim Henson

  Enjoy, Always Believe

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• What happens when you believe something with all your heart? Belief fuels enthusiasm, and determined enthusiasm explodes into passion. It fires our souls and lifts our spirits.

  Mac Anderson

  Believe, Passion, Heart

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• To run this business ... you need ... optimism, humanism, enthusiasm, intuition, curiosity, love, humour, magic and fun, and that secret ingredient-euph oria.

  Anita Roddick

  Running, Fun, Optimism

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• Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Enemy, Opponents, Worthy

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• I will begin with what in my opinion is your lack of restraint. You are like a spectator in a theatre who expresses his enthusiasm so unrestrainedly that he prevents himself and others from hearing. That lack of restraint is particularly noticeable in the descriptions of nature with which you interrupt dialogues; when one reads them, these descriptions, one wishes they were more compact, shorter, say two or three lines.

  Anton Chekhov

  Nature, Two, Wish

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  Let us remember the past with gratitude, live the present with enthusiasm, and look forward to the future with confidence.

  Pope John Paul II

  Gratitude, Past, Looks

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