And because of the reunion I think we've got more energy and enthusiasm than we've ever had. And it's genuine. I think the fans can detect when you're genuine, when you love what you do, and we love to be there on stage. That's what we thrive on.
~By Glenn Tipton ~
A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.
~By John Muir ~
It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war.
~By Elihu Root ~
I've been amazed at the degree to which Democrats, in particular, have expressed their enthusiasm for the president's manner with which he handled this budget.
~By Tom Daschle ~
I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.
~By James Broughton ~
Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith.
~By Herbert Croly ~
Accordingly the Northern races of Europe found their inspiration in the Bible; and the enthusiasm for it has not yet quite faded away.
~By Lafcadio Hearn ~
Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean.
~By Letitia Landon ~
You can't climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don't fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness. Try for a goal that's reasonable, and then gradually raise it.
~By Emil Zatopek ~
The Department of Cell Biology at Johns Hopkins was founded and directed by Tom Pollard, an engaging young scientist with remarkable energy and enthusiasm.
~By Peter Agre ~
Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.
~By David Seabury ~
But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.
~By Ho Chi Minh ~
Let there be great enthusiasm for the plan throughout the entire republic that will overcome all obstacles. Let us join together to realize the Five Year Plan and bring our economy and our own living standards to previously unknown heights.
~By Walter Ulbricht ~
Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.
~By Samuel Smiles ~
To act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the tides. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other.
~By Helena Petrova Blavatsky ~
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
~By Alexander Hamilton ~
If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
~By Bruce Barton ~
I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy.
~By Patricia Ireland ~
I was really glad to meet Jane Clark because it did give me an insight. I couldn't imagine what kind of woman she was. I was hugely impressed by her energy, straightforward nature and enthusiasm for life.
~By Jenny Agutter ~
All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.
~By William Ellery Channing ~
Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
~By Douglas MacArthur ~
I noticed recently, in the last few shows I did, that I'm starting to get people - not a large group, but quite a few people - who come to see me because they love Curb Your Enthusiasm.
~By Wanda Sykes ~
I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.
~By Michael Jordan ~
No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty.
~By James Anthony Froude ~
I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
~By Carl Sagan ~
Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.
~By Bo Bennett ~
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.
~By Steve Irwin ~
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.
~By Samuel Ullman ~
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
I think the biggest difficulty is that when I'm here in America, there's a necessity of using English, so I really have a great sense of really wanting to learn, but unfortunately when I head back to Japan, the necessity vanishes and so does my enthusiasm about learning.
~By Chiaki Kuriyama ~
Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.
~By Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience.
~By John Lothrop Motley ~
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
~By Bela Lugosi ~
Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
~By Edgar Allan Poe ~
Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.
~By Henry Ford ~
If you have enthusiasm, you have a very dynamic, effective companion to travel with you on the road to Somewhere.
~By Loretta Young ~
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
~By Sidonie Gabrielle Colette ~
I set very high standards for myself and worked every game with the same energy and enthusiasm as if it were the seventh game of a World Series.
~By Jim Evans ~
Sometimes you don't know what you've got until you put it in front of an audience - and the enthusiasm for the show from the audience has been just incredible.
~By Matthew Bourne ~
A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.
~By Mary Kay Ash ~
I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.
~By Edward Appleton ~
I think enthusiasm is the answer to passionate writing.
~By Jerome Lawrence ~
Thus, after finishing high school, I started with high expectations and enthusiasm to study chemistry at the famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.
~By Richard Ernst ~
Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.
~By Henry Miller ~
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.
~By Charles Schwab ~
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
Muslim delegates concerned about rights in Palestine could have brought their enthusiasm closer to home by addressing the fate of black Christians being slaughtered and enslaved in the Sudan.
~By Jack Schwartz ~
But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be doing. You know, you're working on something. You get bugged, or you lose your enthusiasm or something. So you turn to something else with an absolute vengeance.
~By Norton Juster ~
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
~By Adam Smith ~
To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.
~By Tryon Edwards ~
What I bring to the table is a huge enthusiasm and love for this stuff.
~By Ted Allen ~
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.
~By Samuel E. Morison ~
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.
~By Birch Bayh ~
Enthusiasm is the energy and force that builds literal momentum of the human soul and mind.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
It is energy - the central element of which is will - that produces the miracle that is enthusiasm in all ages. Everywhere it is what is called force of character and the sustaining power of all great action.
~By Samuel Smiles ~
Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.
~By William Warburton ~
My belief is that what comes across on the television is a capture of my enthusiasm and my passion for wildlife.
~By Steve Irwin ~
No, I can't write treatments, I think there's a danger with treatments. That you... you write out your first excitement and enthusiasm in a prose treatment.
~By Ronald Harwood ~
I wouldn't call it radical; I would call it enthusiasm for progress.
~By John Templeton ~
I cannot explain why they made that sequel to Secret of NIMH. Because they claim that it the original didn't make money, so what was the enthusiasm to make a sequel?
~By Don Bluth ~
Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.
~By Wilfred Owen ~
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.
~By Jackie Collins ~
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
~By Vince Lombardi ~
I've experienced a private doubt, something that I've kept deeply inside, and then eventually delivered a piece of work that people responded to with huge enthusiasm.
~By Trevor Nunn ~
Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm.
~By Murray Gell Mann ~
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
~By Dale Carnegie ~
Enthusiasm is not the same as just being excited. One gets excited about going on a roller coaster. One becomes enthusiastic about creating and building a roller coaster.
~By Bo Bennett ~
I thought in terms of the enthusiasm of doing it. I didn't think about whether I was ready.
~By Elmer Bernstein ~
Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
~By Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton ~
The problem is, of course, that these interest groups are all asking for changes, but their enthusiasm for change rapidly disappears when it affects the core of their own interests.
~By Angela Merkel ~
On the other hand, I don't understand the enthusiasm for everything in the antique shop that Grandma threw out. There, the sense of quality has declined; otherwise Grandma wouldn't have thrown it out.
~By Arne Jacobsen ~
The Peace Corps is guilty of enthusiasm and a crusading spirit. But we're not apologetic about it.
~By Sargent Shriver ~
Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
~By William Howard Taft ~
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.
~By Henry Bessemer ~
It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.
~By Arthur Balfour ~
Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.
~By Arnold J. Toynbee ~
As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.
~By Alistair Cooke ~
In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
The whole mystery of temptation is to have sins suggested to us, and to be swept after them by a sudden enthusiasm, which sometimes feels as strong as the Spirit of God ever made in us the enthusiasm for virtue.
~By George A. Smith ~
I guess my enthusiasm kind of rubs off on people.
~By Margaret Murray ~
You look at shows like The Simpsons or Larry Sanders or Curb Your Enthusiasm or Seinfeld, they're really sophisticated shows that we all love back home.
~By Simon Pegg ~
One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.
~By Ivan Turgenev ~
What it all boils down to for me is having the enthusiasm to do something for enjoyment and being stimulated by what's around you. That's what photography does for me.
~By Graeme Le Saux ~
If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.
~By Norman Vincent Peale ~
With Star Wars fans, there's so much enthusiasm, and it's a completely different generation now.
~By Peter Mayhew ~
Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
~By Tennessee Williams ~
Then there is a still higher type of courage - the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life; to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead.
~By Howard Cosell ~
We have built a genuine level of enthusiasm and goodwill with people throughout this district. People are really excited about the possibilities this election holds, not just for this district, but because of the message Alabama sent to the rest of the country.
~By Artur Davis ~
True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it.
~By Charlotte Bronte ~
However, I had a chance encounter with an admissions officer of Stevens Institute of Technology, who so impressed me by his erudition and enthusiasm for the school that I changed course and entered Stevens Institute.
~By Frederick Reines ~
Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
He was so excited. He cut out pictures of these landscapes and neighborhoods and kind of really tried to give you a feel of the movie. It was kind of cute but at the same time it really showed his enthusiasm for it.
~By Macaulay Culkin ~
I printed a list of Irish names from the Internet and my husband, Dave, saw Finley on the list. I really liked it but didn't want to scare Dave off with my enthusiasm. So I used a little reverse psychology and let him think it was his idea.
~By Holly Marie Combs ~
Enthusiasm glows, radiates, permeates and immediately captures everyone's interest.
~By Paul J. Meyer ~
I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
~By Anatole France ~
Winning to often is as disastrous as losing too often. Both get the same results, the falling off of the public's enthusiasm.
~By Knute Rockne ~
The people in East Germany have lived through so many changes in the last 15 years like never before in the country, and they did this often with great enthusiasm. But in the West we also have a high degree of transformations.
~By Angela Merkel ~
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