Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.

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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.
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If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
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The real secret of success is enthusiasm.
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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.
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There is something enormously compelling about Fran Cutler. She is a thrilling bundle of energy and enthusiasm.
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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.
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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.
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Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.
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The enthusiasm was based on pure love and love of what we were doing.
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Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.
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I just have an enthusiasm for life.
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As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.
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A cross could be a shape for expressing something spacious, such as the coordinators of space. That could be called its first significance or its first relevance.
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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.
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The Mean Value Theorem is the midwife of calculus - not very important or glamorous by itself, but often helping to deliver other theorems that are of major significance.
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Enthusiasm is the steam that drives the engine.
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every word calls up far more of a picture than its actual meaning is supposed to do, and the writer has to deal with all these silent associations as well as with the uttered significance.
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Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.
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Maybe it’s animalness that will make the world right again: the wisdom of elephants, the enthusiasm of canines, the grace of snakes, the mildness of anteaters. Perhaps being human needs some diluting.
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When possums were introduced in 1837 to start a fur industry, no one predicted that these Australian neighbours would naturalize with destructive enthusiasm, wreaking havoc on gardens and bush alike. Up to 20 million possums a year were killed during the height of the fur trade, but this barely checked their rapid expansion.
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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.
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A man without persistence will never make a good shaman or a good physician.
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Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.