I’m an investor in a number of biotech companies, partly because of my incredible enthusiasm for the great innovations they will bring.

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.

When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it’s as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.

As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

I don’t regard myself as a cracking good climber. I’m just strong in the back. I have a lot of enthusiasm, and I’m good on ice.

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

I think the really good mountaineer is the man with the technical ability of the professional and with the enthusiasm and freshness of approach of the amateur.

To recruit staff, I traveled all over the country talking with people who had been working on one or another aspect of the atomic-energy enterprise and people in radar work, for example, and underwater sound, telling them about the job, the place that we are going to, and enlisting their enthusiasm.

As an entrepreneur, as an investor, I’m trying to be as educated as I can to where the progression of technological capability is going and what it does to these different categories that, me as an artist and an influencer, I can get involved and bring value.

I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness. Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God’s mountains.

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.

Obama did organize a great large number of people and many enthusiastic people, what’s called in the press ‚Obama’s Army.‘ But the army is supposed to take instructions, not to implement, to introduce, develop programs and call on its own candidate to implement them. That’s critical.

Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.

Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youthful things and learning how to exist and have enthusiasm while settling into the comfort of an older age.

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

If you have passion, there is no need for excuses because your enthusiasm will trump any negative reasoning you might come up with. Enthusiasm makes excuses a nonissue.

I just have an enthusiasm for life.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.

I think, often, people who run away are people who got into things most enthusiastically, and then they want more. They just demand more of life than what is happening in the moment. Sometimes this is a great mistake, as it’s always a good deal different than you expect it.

My enthusiasm seems to cause my world to endlessly offer me cooperative, co-creating experiences. I’m willing and I’m eager, and not just about my writing – I feel the same way about staying in shape, enjoying my family, giving a lecture, or whatever it may be.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.

When you are younger, you want to do everything, and you go haywire.

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

You can be passionate about anything.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

The investor of today does not profit from yesterday’s growth.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

I have found far greater enthusiasm for science in America than here in Britain. There is more enthusiasm for everything in America.

We’re constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

Fires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Harnessing steam power required many innovations, as William Rosen chronicles in the book ‚The Most Powerful Idea in the World.‘

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

Players today moan about the number of games, but when you’re young, you can’t play enough.

Attitude and enthusiasm play a big part in my life. I get excited about the things that inspire me. I also believe in laughing and having a good time.

Fighting football, not serenity football – that is what I like.

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.