Adrian Tan Quotes

Find that pursuit that will energize you, consume you, become an obsession. Each day, you must rise with a restless enthusiasm. If you don't, you are working.

Adrian Tan

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• I had an unhealthy obsession with 'Only Fools and Horses.' I still have to watch an episode with my brother every two or three weeks.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Brother
  • Three
  • Obsession

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

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • You
  • Enthusiasm
  • Fired

• My new obsession is 'Storage Wars.' I don't know how such a simple show concept can be so addicting, but I can sit and watch marathons of it.

  

  Nathan Kress
  • Know
  • Simple
  • Obsession

• 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

• My obsession with accumulation, which at times has taken on the whisper of a psychic illness - as anyone who has experienced the ode to the Collyer brothers that is my 'Vogue' office will concur - began in infancy.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Taken
  • Office
  • Illness

• I wanted to make a comment on the obsession with success and failure that we see a lot in America.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • America
  • Success
  • Failure

• I just have an enthusiasm for life.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Life
  • Enthusiasm
  • Enthusiasm For Life

• These predators loved with wild fury, but they were also darkly possessive, crossing the boundary into what humans might term obsession.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Might
  • Obsession
  • Predator

• 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

• 'Snow White' is an old fairy tale, so obviously the idea of vanity and obsession with youth is long-standing. With today's science, people have become crazy with trying to move their face around. It's bizarre.

  

  Julia Roberts
  • People
  • Long
  • Trying

• Enthusiasm is always connected with the senses, whatever be the object that excites it. The true strength of virtue is serenity of mind, combined with a deliberate and steadfast determination to execute her laws. That is the healthful condition of the moral life; on the other hand, enthusiasm, even when excited by representations of goodness, is a brilliant but feverish glow which leaves only exhaustion and languor behind.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Mind
  • Determination
  • Laws

• 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

• 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

• I'd work on Garbage or I'd edit a song or writing here, but I was able to do a lot of things with my family. There are things outside of Garbage, the whole band has come to realize that we need things like that. That's why we took that break. Garbage had swallowed us up and had become a full time obsession for us and we needed to escape that and reclaim our old lives.

  

  Butch Vig Garbage
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Obsession

• The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Life
  • Best
  • Expectation

• Just be nice to other girls because as a force we are a whole lot stronger when we stick together.

  

  Perrie Edwards Little Mix
  • Together
  • Force
  • Girls

• I'm typically a 'just drink water' kind of guy. I was a bodybuilder in high school, so I used to - food to me was, 'there are this many grams of carbohydrates and proteins, and I need these micronutrients in order to grow and be fit,' and I ate in order to live and not live in order to eat, and I think most people are the opposite.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • People
  • Live
  • School

• Find that pursuit that will energize you, consume you, become an obsession. Each day, you must rise with a restless enthusiasm. If you don't, you are working.

  

  Adrian Tan
  • Enthusiasm
  • Obsession
  • Restless