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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The cure of the part should not be attempted without treatment of the whole. No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul. Let no one persuade you to cure the head until he has first given you his soul to be cured, for this is the great error of our day, that physicians first separate the soul from the body.
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Who are those people by whom you wish to be admired? Are they not these whom you are in the habit of saying that they are mad? What then? Do you wish to be admired by the mad?
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We need to create an enterprise culture, a society where successful entrepreneurs are respected and admired, not treated with suspicion and disdain. And in which we see less envy of other peoples' achievements and mistrust of commerce, and a greater readiness to get out there and join in the process.
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My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous, which is not exactly the same as bad. If everything is dangerous, then we always have something to do. So my position leads not to apathy but to hyper - and pessimistic - activism.
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Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
