Pastoral Resources

I think the biggest difficulty is that when I'm here in America, there's a necessity of using English, so I really have a great sense of really wanting to learn, but unfortunately when I head back to Japan, the necessity vanishes and so does my enthusiasm about learning.

The boredom occasioned by too much restraint is always preferable to that produced by an uncontrolled enthusiasm for a pointless variety.

Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean.

The best thanks we could offer those who went before and raised the Irish working class from their knees was to press forward with determination and enthusiasm towards the ultimate goal of their efforts, a Co-operative Commonwealth for Ireland.

Useful as a war against France, undertaken by the Government against the will of the people would be for our revolutionary development, just so dangerous must be the effect upon our democratic development of a war supported by blind popular enthusiasm.

I think enthusiasm is the answer to passionate writing.

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.

Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.

Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.

Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm.

With Star Wars fans, there's so much enthusiasm, and it's a completely different generation now.

Enthusiasm is the energy and force that builds literal momentum of the human soul and mind.

Genius is always accompanied by enthusiasm.

The people in East Germany have lived through so many changes in the last 15 years like never before in the country, and they did this often with great enthusiasm. But in the West we also have a high degree of transformations.

The problem is, of course, that these interest groups are all asking for changes, but their enthusiasm for change rapidly disappears when it affects the core of their own interests.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that raises the dough.

Enthusiasm glows, radiates, permeates and immediately captures everyone's interest.

It's been the most creatively liberating thing I've ever done and so I'm bringing some of that mad enthusiasm to Marvel for the next couple of years as they let me loose on some Marvel Universe titles you'll be hearing about soon.