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

• 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

• 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

• An understanding of beauty and enthusiasm for it are one and the same.

  

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
  • Beauty
  • Enthusiasm

• 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

• When I work, I try to eat as much vegetarian as possible. When I do Cupid, I eat vegetarian because I need the energy. I've got those wings on my back.

  

  Karl Urban
  • Work
  • Energy
  • Wings

• It will take your breastfed baby an average of five to six months to double her birth weight.

  

  Ina May Gaskin
  • Birth
  • Weight
  • Double

• Today we know more about Jupiter than the guy who lives next door to us. We can predict where an election will go, we can turn a gene on or off, and we can even send a robot to Mars, but we are lost if asked to explain or predict the phenomena we might expect to know the most about, the actions of our fellow humans.

  

  Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
  • Humans
  • Actions
  • Explain

• I'm young. You can't just sit there and be satisfied.

  

  Esther Renay Dean
  • Young
  • Satisfied

• 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