Best 590 quotes in «enthusiasm quotes» category

Your youth is certainly finished and old age has definitely arrived if you feel that you are losing enthusiasm, excitement and energy towards your dreams and goals.

You should find something better to do with your time,” Mandy told him. “I spend my time shooting people, and then I take them to darkrooms and blow them up.” “…Come again?” Alecto questioned with a tone of alarm in his voice. “I take photographs and develop them myself, I’ve got my own darkroom… it was a joke,” Mandy laughed. “I love photography and I’m gonna be a photojournalist someday.” “Really?” Alecto asked. For the first time since she’d met him, he sounded slightly enthusiastic. “…I take photographs and I film my own home movies, I have a darkroom as well… but I can’t be a photojournalist like you… I can’t be anything… still, at least I can take photographs, it’s fun.

Ability without enthusiasm is like a rifle without a bullet.

A coach can be like oasis in the desert of a runner's lost enthusiasm.

A convert's enthusiasm for his new religion is greater than that of a person who is born in it.

A decline of exuberance is just barely noticeable in America, making itself felt particularly among the most highly educated and the well-to-do in a loss of appetite for work and perhaps even for leisure.

Alas! How enthusiasm decreases, as our experience increases!

A lot of bands have the enthusiasm kicked out of them by playing really dreary pub venues that just churn bands through.

All the things you would do gladly, oh without enthusiasm, but gladly, all the things there seems no reason for your not doing, and that you do not do! Can it be we are not free? It might be worth looking into.

All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene

And I say to my heart: rave on.

A man's library is a sort of harem.

A method of achieving wild enthusiasm is to act wildly enthusiastic. Often, a growing and beautiful love-affair develops quite automatically.

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm.

And so we shall have to do more than register and more than vote; we shall have to create leaders who embody virtues we can respect, who have moral and ethical principles we can applaud with enthusiasm.

"Aphrodite," she said. "Venus?" Hazel asked in amazement. "Mom," Piper said, with no enthusiasm.

A sincere soul is not trying to make a show. His enthusiasm is an act of service.

Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.

Approach every film with the same enthusiasm, regardless of its budget.

Are you spontaneously enthusiastic about everyone having everything you can have?

As long as I can do something that I am passionate about and that I can really enjoy and the audience can enjoy. That is where my enthusiasm comes from.

As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.

As we have seen after every other [Donald] Trump controversy, this one only increased their enthusiasm for him. His supporters thought the idea of a temporary halt in Muslims coming to the U.S. was a common sense proposal in a time of great fear about terrorism.

A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.

A tendency toward enthusiasm and a chivalrous instinct have more than once been weighed as evidence of a lack of judgment.

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

Being Larry David on Curb Your Enthusiasm was the best thing to happen to Larry David in life.

Be careful about a policy generated with enthusiasm in the rush of a moment. It usually doesn't turn out well.

Being enthusiastic settles nothing.

Be careful who you share your dreams with; not everyone shares your enthusiasm.

Being internet famous is kind of like being a camp counselor, and you've got this group of rowdy energetic kids every day. You've got to come up with something new every single day to entertain all of us. The internet is a 24-hour playground, there's a lot of enthusiasm.

But then anyone who's worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm.

Boredom: the desire for desires.

But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be doing. You know, you're working on something. You get bugged, or you lose your enthusiasm or something. So you turn to something else with an absolute vengeance

Cash can buy, but it takes enthusiasm to sell.

California is a state peculiarly addicted to swift enthusiasms. It is a seed-bed of all manner of cults and theories, taken up, and dropped, with equal speed.

Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.

Character is the salesperson's stock in trade. The product itself is secondary. Truthfulness, enthusiasm and patience are great assets to every salesperson. Without them, they couldn't go far. Courage and courtesy are essential equipment.

Charisma is the transference of enthusiasm.

Dogs have boundless enthusiasm but no sense of shame. I should have a dog as a life coach.

Consider that this day ne'er dawns again.

Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasms.

Develop an enthusiasm for life, create a need for more life, and you will receive more life.

Curb Your Enthusiasm, is not so much about Hollywood. It's more about Larry's weaknesses.

Curtis, where was that enthusiasm in the match? You might have won.

Dan Spainhour is a terrific coach and educator. I had the pleasure of working several years with him, and I know that his knowledge and enthusiasm are first-rate.

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

Do not lose your enthusiasm. In its Greek etymology, the word enthusiasm means, "God in us.

Don't listen to other people's advice unless it is rooted in irrepressible enthusiasm (e.g., "Be afraid but do it anyway"), or about the importance of being a good colleague.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.