Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.
The Greeks understood the mysterious power of the below things. They are the ones who gave us one of the most beautiful words in our language, the word enthusiasm.
Enthusiasm is a good engine, but it needs intelligence for a driver.
I work because I love it. It's a projection of myself. It allows me to express my enthusiasm for music and film using the spoken word, which I love, and broadcasting, a medium which has always fascinated me. I'm very lucky.
Nothing dispels enthusiasm like a small admission fee.
Nothing great or new can be done without enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the fly-wheel which carries your saw through the knots in the log.
The experience of the past lives little doubt that every economic system must sooner or later rely upon some form of the profit motive to stir individuals and groups to productivity. Substitutes like slavery, police supervision, or ideological enthusiasm prove too unproductive, too expensive, or too transient.
I must be sincere towards what I am. . . . Experimenting is the only thing that fills me with enthusiasm. . . . It is the only sphere where I feel really honest and sincere.
I can't afford to slow down, but I suppose it really depends. As long as there's enough enthusiasm, then one wants to continue.
Enthusiasm is more important than innate ability, it turns out, because the single more important element in developing an expertise is your willingness to practice.
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.
The enthusiasm of old men is singularly like that of infancy.
There are very few good examples of effective, nurturing leadership that unlocks people's potential or even enthusiasm.
Love, supreme power of the heart, mysterious enthusiasm that encloses in itself all poetry, all heroism, all religion!
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
By eloquence I understand those appeals to our moral perceptions that produce emotion as soon as they are uttered. This is the very enthusiasm that is the parent of poetry. Let the same man go to his closet and clothe in numbers conceptions full of the same fire and spirit, and they will be poetry.
Writing wasn't easy to start. After I finally did it, I realized it was the most direct contact possible with the part of myself I thought I had lost, and which I constantly find new things from. Writing also includes the possibility of living many lives as well as living in any time or world possible. I can satisfy my enthusiasm for research, but jump like a calf outside the strict boundaries of science. I can speak about things that are important to me and somebody listens. It's wonderful!
I don't know what I'm doing, but my incompetence has never stopped my enthusiasm.
A lot of bands have the enthusiasm kicked out of them by playing really dreary pub venues that just churn bands through.