Excitement Quotes - Page 14

• I'm a firm believer that the wild-card teams, because they're grinding it out until the final days, have a tremendous amount of excitement. That excitement carries over into the playoffs and really helps.

  Tim Salmon

  Team, Finals, Cards

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• It was very exciting to see Alan Sugar, so I think I've peaked with excitement for the evening, because I'm a massive Apprentice fan.

  David Walliams

  Thinking, Fans, Sugar

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• There is an aesthetic excitement about painting which is one of the most beautiful experiences that can be. Put things down while you feel that joy.

  Charles Webster Hawthorne

  Beautiful, Joy, Painting

  Richard Mühlberger, Charles Webster Hawthorne (1999). “Charles Webster Hawthorne”, University of Washington Press

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• Boredom is the thing that regularly arrives between excitements and episodes of meaning: it is as natural as the tides, and in it an artist can drown.

  Eric Maisel

  Artist, Boredom, Tides

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• Artists of all sorts remain youthful for so long, and in many cases attain a grand old age. The explanation is that they live in an almost permanent condition of stimulation and excitement.

  Egon Friedell

  Artist, Long, Age

  Egon Friedell (2008). “A Cultural History of the Modern Age Vol. 1: Renaissance and Reformation”, p.60, Transaction Publishers

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• It has that thing - the imagination, and the feeling of happy excitement- I knew when I was a kid.

  Walt Disney

  Life, Kids, Imagination

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• Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. Whatever the vexations or concerns of their personal lives, their thoughts can find paths that lead to inner contentment and to renewed excitement in living.

  Rachel Carson

  Nature, Contentment, Earth

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.41, Open Road Media

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• The American child is a highly intelligent human being - characteristically sensitive, humorous, open-minded, eager to learn, and has a strong sense of excitement, energy, and healthy curiosity about the world in which he lives. Lucky indeed is the grown-up who manages to carry these same characteristics into adult life. It usually makes for a happy and successful individual.

  Walt Disney

  Dream, Strong, Children

  "Deeds Rather Than Words". Essay by Walt Disney, 1963.

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• Positive Thinkers get positive results because they appreciate the inestimable value of a day, this day, not the next day, but this day, and every day. Today offers at least sixteen waking hours that may be crammed FULL of opportunity, joy, excitement, and achievement.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Opportunity, Next Day, Appreciate

  Norman Vincent Peale (2015). “Why Some Positive Thinkers Get Powerful Results”, p.53, Open Road Media

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• It will help at every state along the road to learning. For the pre-school years we will help needy children become aware of the excitement of learning.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Children, School

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• It sure did kick up some excitement in the Senate when one Senator called the other Senators 'sons of Wild jackasses.' Well, if you thought it made the Senators hot, you wait till you see what happens when the jackasses hear how they have been slandered.

  Will Rogers

  Son, America, Waiting

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.53, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The good point is when you combine excitement and calm together.

  Lyoto Machida

  Mma, Together, Calm

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• I loved the excitement and the pleasures of life in New York, the opportunities for advancement, the pursuit of ambition, the theaters, the places of amusement, and such nights as the last I spent with you just as I was leaving for the West.

  Cass Gilbert

  New York, Ambition, Opportunity

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• We've learned from experience that the truth will out. Other experimenters will repeat your experiment and find out whether you were wrong or right. Nature's phenomena will agree or they'll disagree with your theory. And, although you may gain some temporary fame and excitement, you will not gain a good reputation as a scientist if you haven't tried to be very careful in this kind of work. And it's this type of integrity, this kind of care not to fool yourself, that is missing to a large extent in much of the research in Cargo Cult Science.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Integrity, Missing, Research

  "Cargo Cult Science". Richard P. Feynman's Caltech commencement address (1974), as quoted in "'Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!': Adventures of a Curious Character" edited by Ralph Leighton (p. 342), calteches.library.caltech.edu. 1985.

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• Attention spans are changing. It's very noticeable. I am very aware that the kind of books I read in my childhood kids now won't be able to read. I was reading Kipling and PG Wodehouse and Shakespeare at the age of 11. The kind of description and detail I read I would not put in my books. I don't know how much you can fight that because you want children to read. So I pack in excitement and plot and illustrations and have a cliffhanger every chapter. Charles Dickens was doing cliffhangers way back when. But even with all the excitement you have to make children care about the characters.

  Cressida Cowell

  Children, Book, Reading

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• The excitement I get from writing is finding out each day what happens next.

  Charles de Lint

  Writing, Each Day, Next

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• The Moon was the most spectacularly beautiful desert you could ever imagine. Unspoilt. Untouched. It had a vibrancy about it and the contrast between it and the black sky was so vivid, it just made this impression of excitement and wonder.

  Charles Duke

  Beautiful, Moon, Sky

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• As the romance of manned space exploration has waned, the drive today is to find our living, thinking counterparts in the universe. For all the excitement, however, the search betrays a profound melancholy - a lonely species in a merciless universe anxiously awaits an answering voice amid utter silence.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Lonely, Thinking, Space

  "Are We Alone in the Universe?". jewishworldreview.com. December 30, 2011.

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• Human character is smaller now, people don't have durable passions; they've replaced passions with excitement.

  Saul Bellow

  Passion, Character, People

  "The joy of texts". www.theguardian.com. September 10, 1997.

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• In cities men cannot be prevented from concerting together, and from awakening a mutual excitement which prompts sudden and passionate resolutions. Cities may be looked upon as large assemblies, of which all the inhabitants are members; their populace exercises a prodigious influence upon the magistrates, and frequently executes its own wishes without their intervention.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Exercise, Men, Cities

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1839). “Democracy in America”, p.289

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• But metre itself implies a passion , i.e. a state of excitement, both in the Poet's mind, & is expected in that of the Reader.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Passion, Mind, Poet

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1978). “Imagination in Coleridge”

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• Having a diverse sense of taste - or lack of taste - I loved so many different things. I was drawn to the stupidity and excitement of glam, I had a thorough upbringing in rhythm and blues.

  Paul Westerberg

  Stupidity, Rhythm And Blues, Different

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When you start photographing somebody, it's like a lustful relationship and there's all the excitement of new flesh.

  Andrea Modica

  Photography, Flesh, Lustful

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• What you learn from bad habits and in bad society, you will never forget, and it will be a lasting pang to you. I tell you in all sincerity, not as in the excitement of speech, but as I would confess and have confessed before God, I would give my right hand if I could forget that which I have learned in bad society.

  John Bartholomew Gough

  Hands, Giving, Speech

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert (p. 217), 1895.

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• Michelangelo worked from within. He described not the excitements of touching or seeing a man but the excitement of being Man.

  Quentin Crisp

  Men, Touching, Seeing

  "The Naked Civil Servant". The Naked Civil Servant, Chapter 19, 1968.

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