Quotes tagged ‘Enthusiasm’

“Lucius: Alright, now to the important business: this company picnic. James: Oh, fuck. Lucius: See, that’s the enthusiasm I love about you guys. Everyone’s coming. Dee: I think I’m getting a toothache. Lucius: Well, bring your dentist.”

— Jack LoGiudice, Paul Eckstein, Lucius Mosley, Terrence Howard, imdb.com

“Ambiguity may be interesting—and when the limited information we have is positive, we tend to fill in the gaps with flattering guesses.”

— Alice Robb, elle.com

“Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.”

— John Muir, amazon.com

“Overpowered by stormy enthusiasm, I fell down on my knees and thanked Heaven from an overflowing heart for granting me the good fortune of being permitted to live at this time....There now began the greatest and most unforgettable time of my earthly existence.”

— Adolf Hitler, amazon.com

“I like saying ‘No.’ It lowers their enthusiasm.”

— Aisha Muharrar, Ron Swanson, Nick Offerman, imdb.com

“Always have something to look forward to. Whatever it is. If you don't have that, you lose interest, you become stale.”

— David Beckham, beckham-fragrances.com

“Your energy introduces you before you even speak.”

— Mel Robbins, twitter.com

“I recommend her to you, not as a husband but as an enthusiastic admirer of her work, acid and tender, hard as steel and delicate and fine as a butterfly's wing, lovable as a beautiful smile, and as profound and cruel as the bitterness of life.”

— Diego Rivera, goodreads.com

“Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.”

— Murray Newlands, twitter.com

“Beware you are not a fiery, persecuting enthusiast. Do not imagine that God has called you (just contrary to the spirit of Him you style your Master) to destroy men’s lives, and not to save them. Never dream of forcing men into the ways of God. Think yourself, and let think. Use no constraint in mat…”

— John Wesley, en.wikiquote.org

“There is a sort of enthusiasm in all projectors, absolutely necessary for their affairs, which makes them proof against the most fatiguing delays, the most mortifying disappointments, the most shocking insults; and, what is severer than all, the presumptuous judgement of the ignorant upon their desi…”

— Edmund Burke, amazon.com

“I feel my heart glow with an enthusiasm which elevates me to heaven, for nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose — a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.”

— Mary Shelley, amazon.com

“If it’s darkness we’re having, let it be extravagant.”

— Jane Kenyon, amazon.com

“I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. If you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good, either. White hot and pa…”

— Roald Dahl, amazon.com

“Do not look at yourself with disgust, you are a gift to this earth. You are beautiful, you are a light, an energy, an essence. You are nature herself.”

— Heidi Pickett, goodreads.com

“Ask yourself if you would do it if nobody would ever see it, if you would never be compensated for it, if nobody ever wanted it. If you come to a clear ‘yes’ in spite of it, then go ahead and don’t doubt it anymore.”

— Ernst Haas, ernst-haas.com

“I have no idea what I am doing. But incompetence has never prevented me from plunging in with enthusiasm”

— Woody Allen, nydailynews.com

“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”

— Colette, goodreads.com

“Let your enthusiasm bleed onto the Kickstarter page, so that people can feel your excitement for the project. You put all this time, effort and passion into it. Let them feel it, let them see it...”

— Adam McLaughlin, comixlaunch.com

“My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.”

— Gary Oldman, m.imdb.com