Enthusiasm Quotes - Page 3

• Are you spontaneously enthusiastic about everyone having everything you can have?

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Enthusiastic

  "Critical Path". Book by Buckminster Fuller, 1981.

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• The worst bankrupt in the world is the man who has lost his enthusiasm. Let a man lose everything else in the world, but his enthusiasm and he will come through again to success.

  William Howard Arnold

  Life, Motivational, Success

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• A method of achieving wild enthusiasm is to act wildly enthusiastic. Often, a growing and beautiful love-affair develops quite automatically.

  Robert Genn

  Beautiful, Growing, Affair

  Robert Genn (1996). “The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn”, p.33, Studio Beckett Publications

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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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• Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Photography, Enthusiasm For Life, Color

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• Enthusiasm is the most beautiful word on earth.

  Christian Morgenstern

  Beautiful, Earth, Beautiful Words

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• He brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket match.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Summer, Struggle, Cricket Match

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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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• Art cannot single-handedly create enthusiasm... it merely contributes to enthusiasm and guides us to be more conscious of feelings that we might previously have experienced only tentatively or hurriedly.

  Alain de Botton

  Art, Feelings, Might

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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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• 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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• ...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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• 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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• There is a melancholy which accompanies all enthusiasm.

  Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury

  Melancholy, Accompany

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• I admit I'm enthusiastically demanding.

  Brad Bird

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• The popularity of the paranormal, oddly enough, might even be grounds for encouragement. I think that the appetite for mystery, the enthusiasm for that which we do not understand, is healthy and to be fostered. It is the same appetite which drives the best of true science, and it is an appetite which true science is best qualified to satisfy.

  Richard Dawkins

  Encouragement, Thinking, Healthy

  "Science, Delusion, and the Appetite for Wonder". Richard Dimbleby Lecture on BBC1 Television, www.edge.org. November 12, 1996.

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• Leave those vain moralists, my friend, and return to the depth of your soul: that is where you will always rediscover the source of the sacred fire which so often inflamed us with love of the sublime virtues; that is where you will see the eternal image of true beauty, the contemplation of which inspires us with a holy enthusiasm.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Fire, Inspire, Soul

  'La Nouvelle Hèloise' (1761, ed. M. Launay, 1967) pt. 2, letter 11

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• I am hoping the four new players can bring in some energy and fresh enthusiasm because they do not have the baggage that comes from being part of a losing side.

  Andy Pick

  Player, Two Sides, Energy

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• Enthusiasm is a divine possession.

  Margaret Sanger

  Divine, Possession

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• In times of danger large groups rise to the highest pitch of enthusiasm, courage and sacrifice . . . Mankind will be refashioned and history rewritten when this law is understood and obeyed.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Sacrifice, Law

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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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• What is man but his passion?

  Robert Penn Warren

  Passion, Men

  Robert Penn Warren, John Burt (1998). “The Collected Poems of Robert Penn Warren”, p.254, LSU Press

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• Many of the old masters of watercolour painted from notes, with enthusiasm either unabated or renewed. It is hard to assume the same degree of concentration in the studio, but not impossible.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Degrees, Impossible, Assuming

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• Rich people are almost always excellent promoters. They can are willing to promote their products, their services, and their ideas with passion and enthusiasm.

  T. Harv Eker

  Inspirational, Passion, Ideas

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Dec 17, 2011

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• I think the real test is to plan something and be able to carry it out to the very end. Not that you're always enthusiastic; it's just that you have to get this thing out. It's not done with one's emotions; it's done with the head.

  Richard Estes

  Real, Thinking, Done

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