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• When I started doing chemistry, I did it the way I fished - for the excitement, the discovery, the adventure, for going after the most elusive catch imaginable in uncharted seas.

  Karl Barry Sharpless

  Adventure, Discovery, Sea

  Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 08, 2001.

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• Washington is a resigning town. Nothing else holds the special excitement of a rumored resignation.

  George P. Bush

  Special, Towns, Resignation

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• The artist has a duty to be calm. He has no right to show his emotion, his involvement, to go pouring it all out at the audience. Any excitement over a subject must be sublimated into an Olympian calm of form. That is the only way in which an artist can tell of the things that excite him.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Artist, Pouring, Way

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• By dislaiming the idea of a next life, we can take more excitement in this one!

  Richard Dawkins

  Ideas, Next, Next Life

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• We need to dream big dreams, propose grandoise means if we are to recapture the excitement, the vibrancy, and pride we once had.

  Coleman Young

  Dream, Mean, Pride

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• When we let God be God and work through us, we experience both a sense of serenity and excitement.

  Julia Cameron

  Faith, Letting Go, Serenity

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• Any piece of knowledge which the pupil has himself acquired- any problem which he has himself solved, becomes, by virtue of the conquest, much more thoroughly his than it could else be. The preliminary activity of mind which his success implies, the concentration of thought necessary to it, and the excitement consequent on his triumph, conspire to register the facts in his memory in a way that no mere information heard from a teacher, or read in a schoolbook, can be registered.

  Herbert Spencer

  Teacher, Memories, Learning

  Herbert Spencer (1861). “Education: intellectual, moral, and physical”, p.100

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• The harder I push, the more I find within myself. I am always looking for the next step, a different world to go into, areas where I have not been before. It's lonely driving a Grand Prix car, but very absorbing. I have experienced new sensations, and I want more. That is my excitement, my motivation.

  Ayrton Senna

  Lonely, Motivation, Car

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• An unprecedented number of uniformed males, marching, parading and engaging in mock battles in every region of Great Britain brought a pleasant frisson of excitement into many normally quiet and deeply repetitive female lives.

  Linda Colley

  Numbers, Battle, Males

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• One of the people that I respect the most now, a person I think has done a heck of a lot for this world as a leader, is Margaret Thatcher. She helped create a world that offers us a lot of excitement as we look to the next century.

  Sanford I. Weill

  Respect, Thinking, People

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• A woman, I always say, should be like a good suspense movie: The more left to the imagination, the more excitement there is. This should be her aim - to create suspense, to let a man discover things about her without her having to tell him.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Relationship, Men, Imagination

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• In putting images together I become active, and excitement is of another order - synthesis overshadows analysis.

  Minor White

  Order, Together, Analysis

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• On general principles, it is best that I should not leave the country. Scotland Yard feels lonely without me, and it causes an unhealthy excitement among the criminal classes.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Country, Lonely, Travel

  "The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax" (1911)

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• As I see it, creative achievement is the very heart of the human enterprise... The destiny of man, of all men and of each man, is that he is condemned to invent what he will be - condemned if he is fearful but blessed if he welcomes the great adventure. We are responsible in the last analysis, not simply for what we are, but for what we will become; and that is a source of either high excitement or distress.

  Paul Kurtz

  Blessed, Adventure, Heart

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• Some ideas are not born of logic and good sense. They are made of clouds and cobwebs. They sprout from nowhere and feed on excitement, sprinkled with adventure juice and the sweet flavor of the forbidden. The psyche moves from the realms of the ordinary and takes a delicate step towards the unknown. We know we shouldn't and that is exactly why we do.

  Brigid Lowry

  Sweet, Moving, Inspiration

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• Parents, what are your children learning from your worship? Do they see the same excitement as when you go to a basketball game? Do they see you prepare for worship as you do for a vacation? Do they see you hungry to arrive, seeking the face of the Father? Or do they see you content to leave the way you came?.....They are watching. Believe me. They are watching.

  Max Lucado

  Basketball, Children, Father

  Max Lucado (2012). “Just Like Jesus: A Heart Like His”, p.76, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I love America. I really do. It's by far the place I like visiting out of anywhere in the world. I get a palpable sense of excitement when the plane's landing. It's a cliché, but there's still an incredible energy about New York in particular.

  Nick Cave

  New York, America, Energy

  "Nick Cave/Grinderman". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. September 20, 2010.

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• How important is excitement to happiness? The key is to get excited about the mundane-- not just extraordinary things

  Dennis Prager

  Keys, Important, Excited

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• I want to bring excitement back to the heavyweight division.

  Deontay Wilder

  Heavyweights, Division, Want

  "Deontay Wilder decisions Stiverne" by Dan Rafael, abcnews.go.com. January 18, 2015.

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• I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.

  Gertrude Stein

  Class, People, Serenity

  Gertrude Stein (2016). “Three Lives”, p.250, Simon and Schuster

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• Even when I'm singing on record there's a lot of times when I'll fight for a bit of imperfection. I might not have quite hit the note to the perfect pitch, but there was a soul in there and feeling that,to me, delivers the emotion of that moment. For me, doing a show, the excitement of singing live, and the possibility that you're not going to be perfect - that's the thrill of it.

  Alicia Keys

  Fighting, Perfect, Feelings

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've been involved in one or two successes in classical plays but nothing to touch the excitement and the glamour and the gratification of being a children's hero for so long.

  Tom Baker

  Children, Hero, Play

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• Of everything I have done, 'The Archers' always gets the most excitement; there's a sort of uncontrollable joy from fans of the program.

  Felicity Jones

  Archer, Joy, Fans

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• Life is too brief and too rich to tiptoe through half-heartedly, rather than galloping at it with whooping excitement and ambition.

  Alastair Humphreys

  Ambition, Half, Tiptoes

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• . . when the initial excitement of playing starts to evaporate, good habits are needed to sustain the learning process.

  Howard Snell

  Habit, Process, Needed

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