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Maybe it’s animalness that will make the world right again: the wisdom of elephants, the enthusiasm of canines, the grace of snakes, the mildness of anteaters. Perhaps being human needs some diluting.

Musical acts that feign enthusiasm for what they're doing the guitarist who jumps up and down, like it's choreographed are so transparently vacuous.

Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection.

My belief is that what comes across on the television is a capture of my enthusiasm and my passion for wildlife.

My strength is my enthusiasm.

My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.

My enthusiasms...constitute my reserves, my unexploited resources, perhaps my future.

My feeling was that I simply didn't have the enthusiasm to do reinvention.

Never forget that all the enthusiasm you need is in your mind. Let it out - let it live - let it motivate you.

Nature has given women two painful but heavenly gifts, which distinguish them, and often raise them above human nature,--compassion and enthusiasm. By compassion, they devote themselves; by enthusiasm they exalt themselves.

National enthusiasm is the nursery of genius.

Nothing great or new can be done without enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the fly-wheel which carries your saw through the knots in the log.

No farmer-sportsman group is stronger than the ties of mutual confidence and enthusiasm which bind its members.

Nothing dispels enthusiasm like a small admission fee.

No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty

Nothing cools so fast as undue enthusiasm. Water that has boiled freezes sooner than any other.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?

No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.

Nothing worthwhile was ever accomplished without the will to start, the enthusiasm to continue and, regardless of temporary obstacles, the persistence to complete

Of all natural forces, vitality is the incommunicable one. . . . Vitality never "takes." You have it or you haven't it, like health or brown eyes or a baritone voice.

No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed.

Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith.

One of the reasons we do history, in fact, is because it acts as a brake, a control, on our otherwise unbridled enthusiasm for our own ideas.

One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.

One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm.

One of the easiest forms of pretense to break down is the pretense of enthusiasm for exotic foods. Just bring on the exotic foods.

One of the first signs of a Spirit-filled life is enthusiasm!

Overtraining is the biggest problem incurred by runners who lack the experience or discipline to cope with their own enthusiasm.

Onstage, it's all just a heightened and more elaborate version of me. When you're standing onstage, your adrenaline is going, your enthusiasm is at full tilt, and the excitement helps elevate you're attitude. I've always wanted to be as close to myself offstage, being funny with my buddies, and that's what I've worked hard on - being authentic to who I really am.

Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.

Optimism generates hope...hope releases dreams...dreams set goals...enthusiasm follows

Our spirits grow gray before our hairs.

Perfecting and selling your writing is a lifelong task. If you are a persistent writer, you can expect your abilities to improve with time. Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

Public enthusiasm for new advances is a key ingredient in influencing policy-makers to stimulate follow-up work with suitable funding, and it can be achieved far faster now that interested non-specialists can explore new research autonomously and can also be appealed to directly by scientists.

Persuasive communication involves enthusiasm, animation, audience participation, authenticity and spontaneity.

Phlegmatic natures can be inspired to enthusiasm only by being made into fanatics.

Practice being excited.

Perhaps there was more authentic danger in the photography that was banned - why shouldn't one be able to produce it? But this new enthusiasm finally caused us some trouble, and it suffices to say, if I remember correctly, that it was in this way that my thoughts turned to the young maidens.

pragmatist that I am, I always meet necessity with enthusiasm.

Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.

Religion does not blithely promise some sort of no-trouble, no-problem, no-poverty world; but rather a spirit, a power, an enthusiasm that endows everyone with the ability to overcome any and all of it.

Religion is not a method, it is a life, a higher and supernatural life, mystical in its root and practical in its fruits; a communion with God, a calm and deep enthusiasm, a love which radiates, a force which acts, a happiness which overflows.

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

Ridicule has even been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with success.

Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

Some people just shouldn't be disturbed in their inclinations, whether large or small. A reminder can instantly turn enthusiasm into aversion and spoil everything.

She remained both girl and woman to the last day of her life. Under a grave and gentle exterior burned inextinguishable fires of sympathy, energy, devotion, enthusiasm, and absolutely limitless affection.

So it can be for us as we allow the stirrings of hope to motivate us to action; and then as we act so that our hope becomes faith, that faith gives us power and enthusiasm for the principles of the gospel, which leads us to further action. Soon, we are lifted out of the state of hopelessness, and we begin to aid those around us by working to make the world a better place, rather than languishing in misery watching the world go by without us.

Someone's always saying, "It's not whether you win or lose," but if you feel that way, you're as good as dead.

Some of my enthusiasm for the [found] photograph was based on the fact that there was some residual illusion of reality in it always, no matter what I did to it.