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• I've experienced a private doubt, something that I've kept deeply inside, and then eventually delivered a piece of work that people responded to with huge enthusiasm.

  Trevor Nunn

  People, Doubt, Pieces

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• Ridicule has even been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with success.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Powerful, Enemy, Ridicule

  Oliver Goldsmith, David Masson (1869). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith”, p.260

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• I think enthusiasm is the answer to passionate writing.

  Jerome Lawrence

  Writing, Thinking, Passionate

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• Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius, throwing the reader of a book, or the spectator of a statue, into the very ideal presence whence these works have really originated. A great work always leaves us in a state of musing.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Book, Design, Secret

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 226, Literary Character, Chapter XII. Last lines, 1922.

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• Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Motivational, Strong, Pain

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “The Positive Principle Today”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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• Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.

  Julia Child

  Inspirational, Leadership, Sports

  FaceBook post by Julia Child from Sep 01, 2013

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• If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Positive, Graduation

  Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, p.92, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• One can succeed at almost anything for which he has enthusiasm.

  Charles R. Schwab

  Education, Enthusiasm For Life, Succeed

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• You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Inspirational, Appreciation, Teacher

  "The New York World-Telegram and Sun" Newspaper, 1961.

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• Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Inspirational, Positive, Contagious

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• How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it.

  Jim Valvano

  Motivational, Basketball, Dream

  Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

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• The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.

  Aldous Huxley

  Birthday, Children, Mean

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• One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.

  Ella Maillart

  Running, Imagination, Routine

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• The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'

  Madame de Stael

  Greek, Definitions

  "Germany". Book by Madame de Stael, 1813.

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• Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Photography, Enthusiasm For Life, Color

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• The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is it to his mind to see one before him, than joy to leave thousands at a distance

  Akhenaton

  Distance, Joy, Mind

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• Don't let negativity affect your vision. A lot of people have said harsh things, but I don't let it affect me. If anything it gives me more enthusiasm and pushes me to do better in my career so I can prove them wrong.

  Nicole Polizzi

  Careers, People, Giving

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• Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Men

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• No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed.

  William Cowper

  Half, World, Possessed

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• The Government's enthusiasm for 24 hour drinking puzzles me... We want people to be responsible, yet we urge them to drink.

  Frank Dobson

  Drinking, Government, People

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• Thus, after finishing high school, I started with high expectations and enthusiasm to study chemistry at the famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.

  Richard Ernst

  School, Technology, Zurich

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• As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later

  Alistair Cooke

  Years, Two, Embrace

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• The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  People, World, England

  Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The works of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield: embracing novels, romances, plays, poems, biography, short stories and great speeches”

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• Enthusiasm is the most beautiful word on earth.

  Christian Morgenstern

  Beautiful, Earth, Beautiful Words

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• ...it was dangerous to overflow because we might end up finding ourselves occupied by our loved ones and drowning them with our love and enthusiasm.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Might, Drowning

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