Enthusiasm Quotes - Page 34

• If many people follow your enthusiastic endeavours, perhaps a new Athens might be created in the land of the Franks, or rather a much better one.

  Alcuin

  Land, People, Athens

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• The Bush administration, they had two blue ribbon commissions about infrastructure finance that recommended a lot more money, and additionally the gas tax being increased. We couldn't get them to accept being able to move forward. Since President Obama's been in office, there has been, to be charitable, a lack of enthusiasm for raising the gas tax.

  Ray LaHood

  Moving, Blue, Two

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I like American black soul music, that was my first big enthusiasm.

  Bill Nighy

  Soul, Black, Firsts

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I knew Hillary Clinton from undergraduate days and was enormously impressed with her. She was a terrific energy and enthusiasm, and a great organizer. And I knew that she was going to have a political future.

  Robert Reich

  Political, Energy, Clinton

  "American Experience", www.pbs.org.

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• It's relatively easy to generate a lot of enthusiasm for Puget Sound in the short term. Sustaining the effort to clean it up is somewhat tougher.

  William Ruckelshaus

  Effort, Sound, Easy

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• 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.

  James Russell Lowell

  Powerful, Names, Long

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among My Books”, p.232

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• Faith, enthusiasm, and passionate intensity in general are substitutes for the self-confidence born of experience and the possession of skill. Where there is the necessary skill to move mountains there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.

  Eric Hoffer

  Moving, Self Confidence, Skills

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose.

  George Orwell

  Writing, Political, Historical

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• Maintain a childhood enthusiasm for the game of golf.

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Golf, Games, Childhood

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• Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm.

  Agnes Repplier

  Simplicity, Quality, Faces

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• Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms, tastes, and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and to posterity.

  John Jay Chapman

  Secret, Generations, Taste

  John Jay Chapman (1970). “The Collected Works of John Jay Chapman: Criticism & memoirs”

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• Earn by your efficiency and enthusiasm, The right to play higher and higher roles ,That is the meaning and purpose of life.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Play, Roles, Purpose

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• Every page must explode, whether through seriousness, profundity, turbulence, nausea, the new, the eternal, annihilating nonsense, enthusiasm for principles, or the way it is printed.

  Francis Picabia

  Nausea, Principles, Pages

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• Now then, you of noble mind, who love this profession, come at once to art and accept these precepts: enthusiasm , reverence, obedience, and perseverance. As soon as you can, place yourself under the guidance of a master, and remain with him as long as possible.

  Cennino Cennini

  Perseverance, Art, Long

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• There's been plenty of adversity, starting the moment he was born. He had a respiratory crisis, and it was touch and go for a week whether he would survive. I think ever since, you can feel this pulse in the guy, an almost physical enthusiasm.

  James Taylor

  Adversity, Thinking, Guy

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• Doggedness depends on emotional traits - enthusiasm and persistence in the face of setbacks - above all else.

  Daniel Goleman

  Persistence, Emotional, Faces

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.135, Bantam

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• If we're not enthusiastic, we can't get things done. If we're over-enthusiastic, we run into the danger of being fanatical.

  Woodrow Wyatt

  Running, Done, Danger

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• In every painting a whole is mysteriously enclosed, a whole life of tortures, doubts, of hours of enthusiasm and inspiration.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Inspiration, Doubt, Painting

  Wassily Kandinsky (1970). “Concerning the Spiritual in Art: And Painting in Particular”

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• Inspiration demands the active cooperation of the intellect joined with enthusiasm, and it is under such conditions that marvelous conceptions, with all that is excellent and divine, come into being.

  Giorgio Vasari

  Inspiration, Demand, Cooperation

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• Baseball is the exponent of American Courage, Confidence, Combativeness, American Dash, Discipline, Determination, American Energy, Eagerness, Enthusiasm, American Pluck, Persistency, Performance, American Spirit, Sagacity, Success, American Vim, Vigor, Virility.

  Albert Goodwill Spalding

  Baseball, Determination, Discipline

  Albert Goodwill Spalding, Samm Coombs (1991). “America's national game: historic facts concerning the beginning evolution, development, and popularity of base ball, with personal reminiscences of its vicissitudes, its victories, and its votaries”

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• Copying is an art in itself, demanding the greatest technical ability, especially in watercolour. However well done, the copy invariably lacks that nascent, ineffable, but definite quality, provided by the furious enthusiasm with which an original is created, an essential spontaneity that defies reproduction.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Art, Quality, Copying

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• Alas! How enthusiasm decreases, as our experience increases!

  Louise Colet

  Increase, Decrease, Alas

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• Share your enthusiasm with the collector's enthusiasm for the work, and discover things together. Be nice and appreciative and at the same time give them the hint that you're a winner so they believe they've made a good investment. It's simple common sense.

  Mark Kostabi

  Nice, Believe, Simple

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• I'm going to just sit down for a couple of weeks and do nothing but read who-dunnits and Art books. I feel my work is getting a bit dull and mechanical and this proposed resting should work up some enthusiasm in me.

  E. J. Hughes

  Art, Couple, Book

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• We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us. Our flesh-and-bone tabernacle seems transparent as glass to the beauty about us, as if truly an inseparable part of it, thrilling with the air and trees, streams and rocks, in the waves of the sun,-a part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.‎

  John Muir

  Nature, Science, Glasses

  John Muir (1997). “John Muir: Nature Writings”, p.161, Library of America

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