That the corruption of the best thing produces the worst, is grown into a maxim, and is commonly proved, among other instances, by the pernicious effects of superstition and enthusiasm, the corruptions of true religion.
The life of the spirit is the expression of Infinity and, as such, knows no artificial limits. True spirituality is not to be mistaken for an exclusive enthusiasm for some fad. It is not concerned with any "ism. " When people seek spirituality apart from life, as if it had nothing to do with the material world, their search is futile.
Enthusiasm is contagious. Start an epidemic.
I wouldn't want the pressure of a Six Feet Under or the pressure of improvising like Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Enthusiasm does not always speak for those who arouse it, but always for those who experience it.
When once enthusiasm has been turned into ridicule, everything is undone except money and power.
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.
I love the Broadway audiences, who relish live drama and don't hesitate to display their enthusiasm.
Amateurs believe their enthusiasm will suffice.
Reason alone is insufficient to make us enthusiastic in any matter.
A lot of bands have the enthusiasm kicked out of them by playing really dreary pub venues that just churn bands through.
My enthusiasms. . . constitute my reserves, my unexploited resources, perhaps my future.
None of my friends don't have Facebook accounts. Op-eds and studies can highlight our decreased enthusiasm for Facebook 'til the cows come home, but it doesn't change the fact that we are chained to the beast. Voluntarily, of course.
Maintain your rage and enthusiasm for the campaign for the election now to be held and until polling day.
This enthusiasm [for empathy] may be misplaced. Empathy has some unfortunate features – it is parochial, narrow-minded and innumerate. We’re often at our best when we’re smart enough not to rely on it.
Labor, in itself, is neither elevating or otherwise. It is the laborer's privilege to ennoble his work by the aim with which he undertakes it, and by the enthusiasm and faithfulness he puts into it.
My feeling was that I simply didn't have the enthusiasm to do reinvention.
If you feel afraid, you can make yourself courageous by acting courageous. If you are feeling unhappy, by deliberately acting happy you can induce happy feeling. If you are lacking in enthusiasm, by simply acting enthusiastic you can make yourself enthusiastic.
Humor, however broad and genial, takes a narrower view than enthusiasm.
I thought of Joel Silver. He never changes. He's sort of the unmoving, unchanging rock of Gibraltar in the otherwise-shifting world of Hollywood. He's the same as he always was. He looks the same, talks the same, has the same enthusiasm.