You can’t predict what people are going to like. You have to stay true to your enthusiasm and obsessions.
Sometimes good work is done with passion, enthusiasm – presence can be as valuable as many millions of pounds.
Even though I’m 32 I feel like a kid again. I’ve got so much enthusiasm for the game. The fact that I’m playing under Brendan Rodgers and for Liverpool, I just can’t wait.
I love running the floor and doing crazy dunks. I think I bring a lot of enthusiasm to the team.
A man will succeed in anything about which he has real enthusiasm, in which he is genuinely interested, provided that he will take more thought about his job than the men working with him. The fellow who sits still and does what he is told will never be told to do big things.
Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith.
Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean.
Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.
It was Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez who benefited most from the World Social Forum’s enthusiasms.
The Peace Corps is guilty of enthusiasm and a crusading spirit. But we’re not apologetic about it.
Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.
We believe the size is almost irrelevant to investment success. Our size has certainly not diminished our enthusiasm for investing in our funds, our ability to find or create opportunities, or our performance outlook.
I am a positive-energy, enthusiasm type of a coach and I’m going to spread that to everybody that will feel it.
One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.
With Star Wars fans, there’s so much enthusiasm, and it’s a completely different generation now.
I was studying to be an architect, I wasn’t plotting to join the movies. Films were just another career option. I took acting up with the same schoolgirl enthusiasm I had for examinations. Acting is a job and I take it very seriously.
I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the same purpose.
I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
I still like to shock, but the jokes are less sexist. It’s just that, at one point in my stories, there was some sense of pride, some enthusiasm, and now I’m just embarrassed by myself.
I cast my vote against Donald Trump. I did it without joy or enthusiasm. I did it out of civic duty and love for our country.
After my episode of ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ ran, Larry David and JJ Abrams were like, ‘I discovered her,’ but I was like ‘Hold up. Please. I’m from ‘Next Friday.’ Everybody knows me!’
And I thought my loss my loss was not, certainly, the end of the world, but to lessen the enthusiasm of those young people who were signed up, I thought that was tragic.
Enthusiasm is always an interesting spectacle. When it expresses itself with an honest and artless eloquence, it is difficult to listen to it and not, in some degree, to catch the flame.
What is enthusiasm but a passionate belief in what seems to be a high and holy aim – an unselfish devotion to some noble cause – a consecration of heart and mind and soul to the attainment of a great object?
Every project is a race between your enthusiasm and your ability to get it done. Go fast. Don’t slow down. A year from now, new things will interest you.
I can only guess that, for guys in their 30s and 40s who watched me play, they understood that the score never mattered and my paycheck never mattered (in relation) to how I played. I played with Little League enthusiasm and professional flair. That’s what fans are really looking for.
I loved character actresses like Julie Walters and Alison Steadman, films like ‘Nuts in May’ and ‘Educating Rita.’ And I never get tired of watching Larry David and ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm.’
Labor, in itself, is neither elevating or otherwise. It is the laborer’s privilege to ennoble his work by the aim with which he undertakes it, and by the enthusiasm and faithfulness he puts into it.
My own belief is all men should be feminists, and with enthusiasm.
Here’s the rule that I set for myself, and I believe it – even on a show like ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’: the more personal you are, the wider your audience.
I started studying acting to become a better model. But, in the course of doing so, I found myself feeling the same thrill and enthusiasm that I felt the first time I came to walk on the runway.
Sleater-Kinney is a band that we hold close to our hearts as well; it’s not something that we’re cynical or jaded about. We only feel gratefulness and appreciation for other people’s enthusiasm about it. We would never be annoyed by that.
Having an enthusiasm to move doesn’t necessarily mean that the Lord has blessed you with the feet to do so.
Porto helped me quite a bit but I worked really hard, with lots of enthusiasm and humility and with my mind always focused on returning to Real Madrid. It was a fantastic year on a personal level.
For a child everything is wonderful, be it going to a fair or visting a temple with parents. This happiness and enthusiasm needs to reflect in my writing.
I extend my greetings and good wishes to all our citizens on the joyous occasion of Deepawali. The festival of lights, celebrated with gaiety and enthusiasm all over the country, signifies the victory of good over evil and is an appropriate occasion for us to resolve to follow the high ideals in life.
Young people, you need the wisdom of age, just as some of us older ones need your enthusiasm for life.
I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?
Google has withdrawn from China, arguing that it is no longer willing to design its search engine to block information that the Chinese government does not wish its citizens to have. In liberal democracies around the world, this decision has generally been greeted with enthusiasm.
I’ve often said it: that it is seen to be a place of energy, of excitement, of enthusiasm. That there’s something about Ireland.
I’ve always followed my enthusiasm. Whether the pictures have turned out good or not is one thing – but I’ve always had a lot of enthusiasm for the project at hand.
I have always tried to live my life with enthusiasm and pleasure.
I have gone into every project with the same enthusiasm and the same hope, but some have worked out, and some haven’t.
I did about 10-12 national commercials and then got one line parts in things like ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ and the show ‘The Unit.’ Got a little part in the movie ‘Redbelt’ by David Mamet and kept slowly grinding up and then started getting bigger parts in independents and getting noticed by Liz Meriwether.
It wasn’t that Harvard was deliberately trying to overwork me, but I think I had a tendency to take on more things out of enthusiasm than were good for me.
Iraq is short on capital, short on electricity, and short on management expertise, but it does not lack economic enthusiasm.
Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.
I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
At this period the enthusiasm of the amateur was fast giving way to a more steady commercial instinct, and I let no opportunity slip of improving my position, but I felt that I was still labouring under the disadvantage of not having acquired some technical profession.
My enthusiasm seems to cause my world to endlessly offer me cooperative, co-creating experiences. I’m willing and I’m eager, and not just about my writing – I feel the same way about staying in shape, enjoying my family, giving a lecture, or whatever it may be.
Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.
I do think the Welsh have a special enthusiasm for death. My father’s always going to funerals of people he doesn’t know very well.
Wrought upon at length, you may say, by an enthusiasm and frenzy that could brook no control – I burst the tyrant bands, which held my sex in awe, and clandestinely, or by stealth, grasped an opportunity, which custom and the world seemed to deny, as a natural privilege.
I eat healthily and exercise, and I’m not giving up and saying I’m too old – I’m just determined to keep on marching with enthusiasm and interest and curiosity.
I must have good genes from my parents because I feel no slowdown of energy, enthusiasm or even memory.
While I try and give as much energy, enthusiasm and detail to any work I do, if I keep coming back to it, to the same people year after year, there’s an attachment. But you don’t want anything to become comfortable.
Homeschooling has always been at the back of my mind, because whenever I am with the boys and we are out in different environments their senses heighten and their enthusiasm to learn is at its best.
