Alas! How enthusiasm decreases, as our experience increases!
When enthusiasm runs in the front door, worry runs out the back door.
Enthusiasm is of the greatest value, so long as we are not carried away by it.
You cannot imagine the wild enthusiasm that these two men created in Vienna. Newspapers went into raptures over each new waltz, and innumerable articles appeared about Lanner and Strauss.
You can teach a bear to tango on a barrel but his enthusiasm and performance are limited and brief.
At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to me that no one in the world has ever made something this beautiful and important.
Being accused of enthusiasm is something I'll never live down.
There is a sort of human paste that when it comes near the fire of enthusiasm is only baked into harder shape.
Life is brimming with things to be discovered and known, skills to be mastered, challenges to be overcome. And when you are discouraged, dig a hole in the earth and think of the possibilities. So many things can be planted in your lifetime, skills that once mastered will bear fruit forever. . . . Pluck up some enthusiasm for the business of life, for the loamy matter that supports us all. Become a handyman and spread your skills wide, digging deeper into the earth's crust to uncover its secrets.
The boredom occasioned by too much restraint is always preferable to that produced by an uncontrolled enthusiasm for a pointless variety.
I really love 'Dexter. ' I'd like to be on 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' or 'Breaking Bad.
Enthusiasm does not always speak for those who arouse it, but always for those who experience it.
Young people can be annoying, let's face it. But they can also be really refreshing to be around and full of enthusiasm.
When. . . we realize the possibilities of deep sea life still unknown to us, every haul of the dredge should be welcomed by an expectant enthusiasm equaled in other fields only by the possible hope of communication with our sister planets.
Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.
I am painting with the same enthusiasm as a Marseillaise eats bouillabaisse. . . I am painting big sunflowers.
To be inspired is to be moved in an extraordinary manner by the power or Spirit of God to act, speak, or think what is holy, justand true; [Enthusiasm is] A Full, but false persuasion in a man that he is inspired.
Solitude is the nurse of enthusiasm, enthusiasm is the true part of genius.
Success in life is the ability to move from one mistake to another without loosing enthusiasm.
Go at life every day with passion and enthusiasm. . . and when challenges arrive, simply do not give up.