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“Fanaticism, or, to call it by its milder name, enthusiasm, is only powerful and active so long as it is aggressive. Establish it firmly in power, and it becomes conservatism, whether it will or no.”

Long Names Powerful Active Enthusiasm Aggressive Conservatism Fanaticism

Book:Among My Books

Source: Among My Books

“Now then, you of noble mind, who love this profession, come at once to art and accept these precepts: enthusiasm , reverence, obedience, and perseverance. As soon as you can, place yourself under the guidance of a master, and remain with him as long as possible.”

Mind Long Art Accepting Masters Perseverance Noble Profession Enthusiasm Obedience Guidance Reverence

Author:Cennino Cennini

“As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.”

Long Opportunity Enthusiasm New Opportunity

Book:Enthusiasm Makes the Difference

Source: Enthusiasm Makes the Difference

“George Bernard Shaw of England stopped over just long enough to make one speech in Bombay, India, started a war and 100 Indians killed each other. That's what I call good speech-making. The only enthusiasm any of our speakers can rouse is a demand to kill the speaker.”

Inspirational Long War Enough Demand Speech India England Enthusiasm Speakers Bombay Bernard Shaw

Author:Will Rogers

“In the ardor of his enthusiasm, a youth set forth in quest of a man of whom he might take counsel as to his future, but after long search and many disappointments, he came near relinquishing the pursuit as hopeless, when suddenly it occurred to him that one must first be a man to find a man, and profiting by this suggestion, he set himself to the work of becoming himself the man he had been seeking so long and fruitlessly.”

Men Firsts Long Might Youth He Man Becoming Disappointment Seeking Pursuit Enthusiasm Hopeless Quests Suggestions Be A Man Ardor Relinquishing

Book:Table-talk

Source: Table-talk

“As long as I can do something that I am passionate about and that I can really enjoy and the audience can enjoy. That is where my enthusiasm comes from.”

Long I Can Enjoy Can Do Audience Passionate Enthusiasm Can Do Something

Author:Dwayne Johnson

“Enthusiasm for the universe, in knowing as well as in creating, also answers the question of doubt and meaninglessness. Doubt is the necessary tool of knowledge. And meaninglessness is no threat so long as enthusiasm for the universe and for man as its center is alive.”

Men Wells Long Universe Answers Knowing Doubt Alive Creating Tools Threat Enthusiasm Meaninglessness

Book:The Courage To Be

Source: The Courage To Be

“If you suspect that my interest in the Bible is going to inspire me with sudden enthusiasm for Judaism and make me a convert of mountain-moving fervor and that I shall suddenly grow long earlocks and learn Hebrew and go about denouncing the heathen - you little know the effect of the Bible on me. Properly read, it is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.”

Ifs Knows Littles Long Moving Force Grows Interest Atheism Effects Inspire Mountain Enthusiasm Suspects Judaism Hebrew Heathen Fervor

Author:Isaac Asimov

“You find very few critics who approach their job with a combination of information and enthusiasm and humility that makes for a good critic. But there is nothing wrong with critics as long as people don't pay any attention to them. I mean, nobody wants to put them out of a job and a good critic is not necessarily a dead critic. It's just that people take what a critic says as a fact rather than an opinion, and you have to know whether the opinion of the critic is informed or uninformed, intelligent of stupid -- but most people don't take the trouble.”

People Knows Want Mean Long Facts Jobs Pay Attention Opinion Trouble Stupid Information Humility Approach Criticism Intelligent Critics Enthusiasm Combination Uninformed

Book:Conversations with Edward Albee

Source: Conversations with Edward Albee