Brian Eno Quotes

Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.

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• I have an abundance of enthusiasm; however, it would be foolish to think I can predict a future that doesn't exist.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Think
  • Future
  • Enthusiasm

• If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • You
  • Enthusiasm
  • Fired

• The real secret of success is enthusiasm.

  

  Walter Chrysler
  • Real
  • Success
  • Enthusiasm

• Authors change publishers because it's like being married for a long time and suddenly you want to go out and have a wild affair! No, not seriously, sometimes the deal is more interesting with a new publisher, and other times they have more enthusiasm for your books.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Time
  • Long
  • Interesting

• There is something enormously compelling about Fran Cutler. She is a thrilling bundle of energy and enthusiasm.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • She
  • Energy
  • Enthusiasm

• 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.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • Balance
  • Changes
  • Enthusiasm

• Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Spirit
  • Genius
  • Enthusiasm

• The enthusiasm was based on pure love and love of what we were doing.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Doing
  • Enthusiasm
  • Pure Love

• The good work proceeds with tenacity, intention, without interruption, with an equal measure of passion and reason and it must surpass that goal the artist has set for himself.

  

  Odilon Redon
  • Good
  • Work
  • Passion

• I just have an enthusiasm for life.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Life
  • Enthusiasm
  • Enthusiasm For Life

• As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.

  

  Alistair Cooke
  • American
  • Enthusiasm
  • British

• The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake without enthusiasm, and dies for what he does not believe in, is a purely literary product. He was invented by Turgenev, and completed by Dostoevsky. Robespierre came out of the pages of Rousseau as surely as the People's Palace rose out debris of a novel. Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Purpose
  • Literature

• Enthusiasm is the steam that drives the engine.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Enthusiasm
  • Engine
  • Steam

• Even in my stand-up, there's a lot more positivity and enthusiasm rather than negative, I-hate-everything vibes.

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • Up
  • Hate
  • Negative

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

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Mind
  • Effort
  • Enthusiasm

• He played with the energy and the enthusiasm and threw his body around out there, things that we want to see players do. That helped us. I thought he ran out of gas at one point in that fourth quarter. Otherwise, I probably would have had him stay on the floor.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Energy
  • Played
  • Enthusiasm

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

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Success
  • Powerful
  • Enemy

• An understanding of beauty and enthusiasm for it are one and the same.

  

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
  • Beauty
  • Enthusiasm

• Yes, Isaac Taylor, who has just published 'The World of Mind,' is the Isaac Taylor, author of the 'Natural History of Enthusiasm.' I dare say by this time there is a want of fatty particles in his brain.

  

  George Eliot
  • Enthusiasm
  • Punished
  • Natural History

• Time dissolves in summer anyway: days are long, weekends longer. Hours get all thin and watery when you are lost in the book you'd never otherwise have time to read. Senses are sharper - something about the moist air and bright light and fruit in season - and so memories stir and startle.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Time
  • Long
  • Book

• The repeated claim before the 'seizure of power' - that the NSDAP, as a national social-revolutionary movement, and not simply another political party... would create new bonds of unity through its elimination and transcending of the party system, was highly attractive and conveyed much of Nazism's dynamic appeal.

  

  Ian Kershaw
  • Power
  • Political
  • Party

• I was on the playground all night. I ain't never go to parties or nothing. I'd get out of school at 3 and be out there playing until one in the morning with one streetlight. For real.

  

  Moses Malone
  • Night
  • Party
  • Morning

• When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies, 'Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life.'

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life

• Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Enthusiasm
  • Proceeds