George Eliot Quotes

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

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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

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

  

  Kate Reardon
  • She
  • Energy
  • Enthusiasm

• I just think to be a manager you've got to live and breathe and have this incredible enthusiasm for football, the whole thing. And while I love the game, and it's been a large part of my life, it's not the only thing in my life.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Life
  • Game
  • Enthusiasm

• In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.

  

  Alfred Russel Wallace
  • History
  • Food
  • Animals

• 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

• Enthusiasm is the steam that drives the engine.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Enthusiasm
  • Engine
  • Steam

• 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

• If you are not getting as much from life as you want to, then examine the state of your enthusiasm.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Life
  • Enthusiasm
  • Examine

• Fill the day with enthusiasm. Give the day all you've got and it will give you all it's got, which will be plenty.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Day
  • Enthusiasm
  • Plenty

• Life is not all fun and easy going. Far from it; there are many rough times. But, sadly, we too often let the hard times dull our enthusiasm. And that is dangerous, if not fatal, to our lives.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Times
  • Enthusiasm
  • Dull

• Positive thinking is how you think about a problem. Enthusiasm is how you feel about a problem. The two together determine what you do about a problem.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Problem
  • Enthusiasm
  • Positive Thinking

• There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Magic
  • Difference
  • Enthusiasm

• Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Enthusiasm
  • Significance
  • Releases

• A people may prefer a free government, but if by momentary discouragement or temporary panic, or a fit of enthusiasm for an individual, they can be induced to lay their liberties at the feet of even a great man, or trust him with powers to subvert their institutions, in all these cases they are unfit for liberty.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • People
  • Government
  • Liberty

• I was in my mid 20s when email finally took off. Until then, the phone was my primary way of connecting with the people in my life.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Marriage
  • Ruins

• I'd rather see twenty thousand smiling faces than twenty thousand crying people.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • People
  • Faces
  • Cry

• From the early days of the Raj, Shakespeare had been woven into the fabric of India's education, and my father understood that in a culture rich with storytelling and fantastical tales, Shakespeare's characters and storylines resonated in a powerful way.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Father
  • Culture
  • Education

• Ah, what a warning for a thoughtless man, Could field or grove, could any spot of earth, Show to his eye an image of the pangs Which it hath witnessed,-render back an echo Of the sad steps by which it hath been trod!

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Eye

• 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