"Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm."
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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."
"Enthusiasm is the nature of life. Become one whose enthusiasm never dies."
"The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's."
"Success in life is the ability to move from one mistake to another without loosing enthusiasm."
"Exuberance is better than taste."
"...the best possible way to prepare for tomorrow is to concentrate with all your intelligence, all your enthusiasm, on doing today's work superbly today. That is the only possible way you can prepare for the future."
"Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm."
"And so we shall have to do more than register and more than vote; we shall have to create leaders who embody virtues we can respect, who have moral and ethical principles we can applaud with enthusiasm."
"Only one who bursts with enthusiasm do I instruct; Only one who bubbles with excitement do I enlighten. If I hold up one corner and you do not come back to me with the other three, I do not continue the lesson."
"One must be convinced to convince, to have enthusiasm to stimulate the others."
"Cash can buy, but it takes enthusiasm to sell."
"What I do best is share my enthusiasm."
"I was overcome with an attack of pathological enthusiasm."
"Vitality! That's the pursuit of life, isn't it?"
"Let passion fill your sails, but let reason be your rudder."
"Whenever I get to a low point, I go back to the basics. I ask myself, "Why am I doing this?" It comes down to passion."
"Consider that this day ne'er dawns again."
"Enthusiasm is that ingredient of vitality mixed with a firm belief in what you are doing that ensures the success of any project you undertake."
"A man's library is a sort of harem."