"There are very few good examples of effective, nurturing leadership that unlocks people's potential or even enthusiasm."
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"To a modern mind, it is difficult to feel enthusiastic about a virtuous life if nothing is going to be achieved by it."
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"I'd...bet enthusiasm for 'ethnic cleansing' will wane if only sticks and rocks are available for the warring parties."
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"One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm."
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"I'd like to learn to meditate with more enthusiasm. I can sit down and get quiet for 20 minutes, but it just has not been a part of my Christianity at all."
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"Perfecting and selling your writing is a lifelong task. If you are a persistent writer, you can expect your abilities to improve with time. Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm."
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"Nothing is won without enthusiasm."
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"The definition of courage is going from defeat to defeat with enthusiasm."
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"Enthusiasm is a good engine, but it needs intelligence for a driver."
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"Enthusiasm and eagerness give life to our devotional service."
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"All the things you would do gladly, oh without enthusiasm, but gladly, all the things there seems no reason for your not doing, and that you do not do! Can it be we are not free? It might be worth looking into."
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"The banality of evil transmutes into the banality of sentimentality. The world is nothing but a problem to be solved by enthusiasm."
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"The man who cannot wonder, who does not habitually wonder (and worship), were he President of innumerable Royal Societies, and carried the whole Mecanique Celeste and Hegel's Philosophy, and the epitome of all Laboratories and Observatories with their results, in his single head, is but a Pair of Spectacles behind which there is no Eye. Let those who have Eyes look through him, then he may be useful."
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"Daring enthusiasm And abiding cheerfulness Can accomplish everything on earth Without fail."
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"To succeed in any field, Our enthusiasm-eyes must sparkle and our enthusiasm-hearts Must dance."
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"A convert's enthusiasm for his new religion is greater than that of a person who is born in it."
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"I must be sincere towards what I am. ... Experimenting is the only thing that fills me with enthusiasm. ... It is the only sphere where I feel really honest and sincere."
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"I am afraid that we are beginning to be over-educated; at least everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching -that is really what our enthusiasm for education has come to."
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"I always say that I can help someone who can already compose, but if they can't, I can't help them. I can advise on technical issues, of course, like how low the piccolo can go, but otherwise what's important is not wisdom but enthusiasm."
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"There is a sort of human paste that when it comes near the fire of enthusiasm is only baked into harder shape."
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