Mary Oliver
Poet
"And I say to my heart: rave on."
Enthusiasm quotes
Enthusiasm
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Winston Churchill
Politician, Writer, Historian
"Success is often nothing more than moving from one failure to another with undiminished enthusiasm."
Leo Tolstoy
Novelist, Philosopher
"Boredom: the desire for desires."
Vincent Van Gogh
Painter
"I am working with the enthusiasm of a man from Marseilles eating bouillabaisse, which shouldn't come as a surprise to you because I am busy painting huge sunflowers."
Vincent Van Gogh
Painter
"I am painting with the same enthusiasm as a Marseillaise eats bouillabaisse ... I am painting big sunflowers."
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"I found him well educated, with unusual powers of mind, but infected with misanthropy, and subject to perverse moods of alternate enthusiasm and melancholy."
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"If you want to sell a steak, you can't just have the sizzle, you gotta have sauce."
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"A thought often makes us hotter than a fire."
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"The state sometimes makes mistakes. When one of these mistakes occurs, one notes a decline in collective enthusiasm due to the effect of a quantitative diminution in each of the elements that make up the mass. Work is paralyzed until it is reduced to an insignificant level. It is time to make a correction."
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"Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm."
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"We rely more on enthusiasm than actual skill. Whatever you do, do it enthusiastically and people will like it more."
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"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition."
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"Enthusiasm is the engine of success."
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"The second fiddle. I can get plenty of first violinists, but to find someone who can play the second fiddle with enthusiasm"
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"I don't know what I'm doing, but my incompetence has never stopped my enthusiasm."
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"Success comes from continuing to strive, fail and learn without losing enthusiasm."
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"Enthusiasm is caught, not taught."
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"Love without reverence and enthusiasm is only friendship."
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"If i'm not with somebody who really excites or inspires me, then I'd rather be by myself."
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"Do whatever you do intensely."
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"Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm."
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"It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used pencils, two for a nickel, and could not buy a fountain pen, when I lost mine."
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"Enthusiasm is the nature of life. Become one whose enthusiasm never dies."
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"The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's."
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"Success in life is the ability to move from one mistake to another without loosing enthusiasm."
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