Enthusiasm Quotes
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All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene
William Ellery Channing
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Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know. For me, the spark that turns an acquaintance into a friend has usually been kindled by some shared enthusiasm . . . At fifteen, I couldn't say two words about the weather or how I was doing, but I could come up with a paragraph or two about the album Charlie Parker with Strings. In high school, I made the first real friends I ever had because one of them came up to me at lunch and started talking about the Cure.
Sarah Vowell
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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
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There is nothing more contagious on this planet than enthusiasm.
Carlos Santana
Santana
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Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.
William Warburton
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Without enthusiasm, the adventurer could never kindle that fire in his followers which is so necessary to consolidate their mutual interests; for no one can heartily deceive numbers who is not first of all deceived himself.
William Warburton
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Even in my stand-up, there's a lot more positivity and enthusiasm rather than negative, I-hate-everything vibes.
Aziz Ansari
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But on balance, a performer wants to feel that there's something there which stands out because you put a lot of effort into it, a lot of energy and a lot of yourself into something. I feel pretty successful about some movies I've been in that have not been greeted with a lot of enthusiasm and I do trust my own criteria.
Ben Affleck
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Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
Bela Lugosi
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Enthusiasm is contagious, and the person who has it, under control, is generally welcome in any group of people.
Napoleon Hill
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One thing that struck me about going to those tech conferences was all the enthusiasm for free culture, and remixing, and social media, but people's greatest ambition was to be sponsored by Chipotle or something equivalent to that. It was this weird mix of collaborative, utopian claims and this total acquiescence to commercial imperatives.
Astra Taylor
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I'm an investor in a number of biotech companies, partly because of my incredible enthusiasm for the great innovations they will bring.
Bill Gates