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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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• 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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• 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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• As the excitement of the game increases, prudence is sure to diminish.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Flirting, Games, Increase

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• The real secret of success is enthusiasm. Yes, more than enthusiasm, I would say excitement. I like to see men get excited. When they get excited they make a success of their lives.

  Walter Chrysler

  Motivational, Real, Men

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• A longing for excitement can be satisfied without external means within oneself: For creating is the most intense excitement one can come to know.

  Anni Albers

  Mean, Creating, Longing

  Anni Albers (1962). “On designing”

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• Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. . . . It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Dog, Travel, Gambling

  George Bernard Shaw (1988). “Collected letters: 1926-1950”, Vintage

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• Here is something you have to understand about stories: They point you in the right direction but they can't take you all the way there. Stories are crescent moons; they glimmer in the night sky, but they are most exquisite in their incomplete state. Because people crave the beauty of not-knowing, the excitement of suggestion, and the sweet tragedy of mystery.

  Diana Abu-Jaber

  Sweet, Moon, Night

  Diana Abu-Jaber (2004). “Crescent: A Novel”, p.384, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The ability to keep a cool head in an emergency, maintain poise in the midst of excitement, and to refuse to be stampeded are true marks of leadership.

  Robert R. Shannon

  Inspirational, Leadership, Emergencies

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• The noble entitlement bespeaks an élan, a certain type of relationship with your partner. It means formidable technique not displayed lightly. The excitement comes from elegance.

  Kevin McKenzie

  Mean, Ballet, Technique

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• Passion. It can be used to describe the beauty of an earth-shaking meeting between two people, but it isn't just that. It's there in the excitement of the unexpected, in the desire to do something with real fervour, in the certainty that one is going to realise a dream. Passion sends us signals that guide us through our lives.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Dream, Real

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• The excitement of life is in the numinous experience wherein we are given to each other in that larger celebration of existence in which all things attain their highest expression, for the universe, by definition, is a single gorgeous celebratory event.

  Thomas Berry

  Life, Expression, Definitions

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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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• Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Imagination, Suspense, Left

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• I mean, movies are all geared to be basically under 25, and they're all tentpoles, explosions, excitement and all that - they take advantage of the big screen, which is great.

  Joe Dante

  Mean, Advantage, Explosions

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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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• I learned that the richness of life is found in adventure. . . . It develops self-reliance and independence. Life then teems with excitement. There is stagnation only in security.

  William O. Douglas

  Nature, Adventure, Journey

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• But games always cover something deep and intense, else there would be no excitement in them, no pleasure, no power to stir us.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Power, Games, Would Be

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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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• But all should know that the people's participation in the elections will take the country forward ... an election full of excitement will be a major blow to the enemy.

  Ali Khamenei

  Country, Blow, Iran

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• The world needs actual excitement and emotion more than it needs cool people.

  Amanda Palmer

  People, Needs, World

  "Ukelele Techno Sucks: Interview With Amanda Palmer". Interview with Scott Thill, www.wired.com. September 30, 2008.

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• The only difference between fear and excitement is what we label it. The two are pretty much the same physiological/emotional reaction. With fear, we put a negative spin on it: "Oh no!" With excitement, we give it some positive english: "Oh, boy!"

  Peter McWilliams

  Fear, Boys, Emotional

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• The World Cup in 2010 is going to be the most inspirational thing ever to hit the streets in South Africa. For the first time, the World Cup won't just be something that is happening on the other side of the world think about the excitement-the biggest players, from all over the world, will be playing football in a stadium just round the corner from home.

  Benni McCarthy

  Football, Home, Player

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• When David Marr at MIT moved into computer vision, he generated a lot of excitement, but he hit up against the problem of knowledge representation; he had no good representations for knowledge in his vision systems.

  Marvin Minsky

  Vision, Mit, Computer

  "HAL's Legacy: 2001's Computer As Dream and Reality". Book by David G. Stork, 1997.

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• Anytime I was in Memphis with my dad and at the house, I was happy. That was, like, a given. It was what I lived for. And I still feel the same excitement and warmth.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Dad, House, Memphis

  "A New Life, Album for Lisa Marie Presley". www.elle.com. April 25, 2012.

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