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Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.

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.

I like the enthusiasm but not the insincerity of Los Angeles.

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?

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.

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.

True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it.

Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.

One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.

Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

The real secret of success is enthusiasm.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

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.

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.

As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.

The professional world was much more unpleasant than I thought. I was always wishing I could get back that enthusiasm I had when I was doing shows at college.

But I think the - what the tea party movement demonstrates, and I think the, the, the enthusiasm that we're seeing from independents and Republicans, is that if Washington isn't going to change itself, then we're going to change Washington. And I think that's what we're seeing.