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

• 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

• Men were considered "free" only so that they might be considered guilty - could be judged and punished: consequently, every act had to be considered as willed, and the origin of every act had to be considered as lying within the consciousness (and thus the most fundamental psychological deception was made the principle of psychology itself).

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Free
  • Consciousness
  • Judged

• a committee, of course, exists for the purpose of damping enthusiasms.

  

  Stella Benson
  • Purpose
  • Enthusiasm
  • Courses

• I went over the heads of the things a man reckons desirable. No doubt invisibility made it possible to get them, but it made it impossible to enjoy them when they are got.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Doubt

• Up and down, up and down I will lead them up and down I am feared in field in town Goblin, lead them up and down

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Fields
  • Towns
  • Goblin

• In my view, I am often immensely rich, not in money, but (although just now perhaps not all the time) rich because I have found my metier, something I can devote myself to heart and soul and that gives inspiration and meaning to my life.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Giving

• There are a lot of folks out there that love the convenience of the Kansas City airport. That's one of the biggest things it's got going for it.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Love
  • City
  • Airport

• 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