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"Practice being excited."
"Enthusiasm imparts itself magnetically and fuses all into one happy and harmonious unity of feeling and sentiment."
"To have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation - this to to have succeeded."
"When we can identify a problem and face the problem with confidence and enthusiasm, the solution is on the way."
"My enthusiasms...constitute my reserves, my unexploited resources, perhaps my future."
"I'm not lacking for enthusiasm as you can see, given that I have something like 65 canvases covered with paint and I'll be needing more since the place is quite out of the ordinary; so I'm going to order some more canvases."
"I'm an investor in a number of biotech companies, partly because of my incredible enthusiasm for the great innovations they will bring."
"What color is in a picture, enthusiasm is in life."
"The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking"
"I would rather have one man with enthusiasm working with me than ten who are complacent."
"You see I am an enthusiast on the subject of the arts. But it is an enthusiasm of which I am not ashamed, as its object is to improve the taste of my countrymen, to increase their reputation, to reconcile to them the respect of the world, and procure them its praise."
"Live life to the fullest."
"Anything where there's great enthusiasm, and a place to come share what you think is cool."
"Reason alone is insufficient to make us enthusiastic in any matter."
"...it was dangerous to overflow because we might end up finding ourselves occupied by our loved ones and drowning them with our love and enthusiasm."
"Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber."
"It is so much easier to be enthusiastic than to reason!"
"Who will speak for Planet Earth?"
"That youthful fervor, which is sometimes called enthusiasm, but which is a heat of imagination subsequently discovered to be inconsistent with the experience of actual life."