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Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.
Bill Vaughan
He played with the energy and the enthusiasm and threw his body around out there, things that we want to see players do. That helped us. I thought he ran out of gas at one point in that fourth quarter. Otherwise, I probably would have had him stay on the floor.
Phil Jackson
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
An understanding of beauty and enthusiasm for it are one and the same.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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
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
Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feelings, reviews the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which warmed the springtime of our being, refines youthful love, strengthens our interest in human mature, by vivid delineations of its tenderest and softest feelings, and through the brightness of its prophetic visions, helps faith to lay hold on the future life.
William Ellery Channing
The most effective teacher will always be biased, for the chief force in teaching is confidence and enthusiasm.
Joyce Cary
The thing I love about sketch is sometimes it leads you as opposed to you leading it.
Harland Williams
A man without persistence will never make a good shaman or a good physician.
Confucius
The movie, like the book before it, is an expertly built machine for the mass production of tears. Directed by Josh Boone 'Stuck in Love', with scrupulous respect for John Green's best-selling young-adult novel, the film sets out to make you weep - not just sniffle or choke up a little, but sob until your nose runs and your face turns blotchy. It succeeds.
Anthony Oliver "A. O." Scott
What I do best is share my enthusiasm.
Bill Gates