Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge for it requires from its disciples composers and performers alike not only talent and enthusiasm but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection.

Enthusiasm moves the world.

Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.

I'm a better coach now than when I joined Celtic. The longer you stay in any job the better you become. If you lose your drive your enthusiasm your imagination that experience is no good.

I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks to do what they were most afraid of doing to widen their horizons of action.

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

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first an ideal with takes the imagination by storm and second a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

I didn't like England. I couldn't take the look of the place or the style of friendship. I need more intimacy from people than is considered okay there and I felt that my personality and my enthusiasms weren't understood. I had to put a big lid on myself.

Years may wrinkle the skin but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry fear self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

While we are focusing on fear worry or hate it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness enthusiasm or love.

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

Thus after finishing high school I started with high expectations and enthusiasm to study chemistry at the famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.

Of course Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith.

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words or in exact and priggish argument.

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

Back of every creation supporting it like an arch is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes then miracles occur.

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

What's great about the geek spirit is that life never seems to stop us and they never seem to kill our enthusiasm our optimism and our hunger to experience the world. We keep our sense of humor we protect our dignity we talk to our friends about the experience and then we start again fresh the very next day.

The crucial question one comes back to is the examination without that experience is meaningless. And I think it's true that society is becoming more and more passive less and less fired up with enthusiasm in many spheres.

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