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Enthusiasm Quotes
"No, I can't write treatments, I think there's a danger with treatments. That you... you write out your first excitement and enthusiasm in a prose treatment."
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"Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string."
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"One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity."
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"Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone."
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"Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas."
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"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."
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"You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm."
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"With Star Wars fans, there's so much enthusiasm, and it's a completely different generation now."
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"That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!"
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"You can't climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don't fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness. Try for a goal that's reasonable, and then gradually raise it."
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"There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment."
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"Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm."
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"Being accused of enthusiasm is something I'll never live down."
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"The Department of Cell Biology at Johns Hopkins was founded and directed by Tom Pollard, an engaging young scientist with remarkable energy and enthusiasm."
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"So this is the only TV show in America where I am quite confident that you, the audience, will share my excitement when I tell you that coming up in our next segment, we have the best graph ever. Best graph ever."
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"Faked enthusiasm is worse than bad acting - it is bad acting with the intent to deceive."
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"No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty."
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"I think the biggest difficulty is that when I'm here in America, there's a necessity of using English, so I really have a great sense of really wanting to learn, but unfortunately when I head back to Japan, the necessity vanishes and so does my enthusiasm about learning."
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"Sometimes you don't know what you've got until you put it in front of an audience - and the enthusiasm for the show from the audience has been just incredible."
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"I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win."
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"As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later."
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"Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment."
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"I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the same purpose."
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"If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm."
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"I think enthusiasm is the answer to passionate writing."
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"It cannot take decades to resurrect, we must act immediately with purpose and enthusiasm to rebuild."
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"It is not easy to find something that will intrigue and bind your interest and enthusiasm. This you must seek for yourself."
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"I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill."
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"I wouldn't want the pressure of a Six Feet Under or the pressure of improvising like Curb Your Enthusiasm."
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"Enthusiasm glows, radiates, permeates and immediately captures everyone's interest."
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"I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy."
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"Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others."
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"Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean."
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"Children are a house's enemy. They don't mean to be - they just can't help it. It's their enthusiasm, their energy, their naturally destructive tendencies."
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"The boredom occasioned by too much restraint is always preferable to that produced by an uncontrolled enthusiasm for a pointless variety."
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"Approach every film with the same enthusiasm, regardless of its budget."
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"Let there be great enthusiasm for the plan throughout the entire republic that will overcome all obstacles. Let us join together to realize the Five Year Plan and bring our economy and our own living standards to previously unknown heights."
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"Winning to often is as disastrous as losing too often. Both get the same results, the falling off of the public's enthusiasm."
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"It's been the most creatively liberating thing I've ever done and so I'm bringing some of that mad enthusiasm to Marvel for the next couple of years as they let me loose on some Marvel Universe titles you'll be hearing about soon."
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"Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor foreordained, but subject to a thousand changes and chances."
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"I've been amazed at the degree to which Democrats, in particular, have expressed their enthusiasm for the president's manner with which he handled this budget."
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"Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others."
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