Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo EmersonObama’s primary constituency was financial institutions. They were the core of the funding for his campaign. They expect to be paid back. And they were. They were paid back by coming out richer and more powerful than they were before the crisis that they created.
Noam ChomskyOne of the problems of organizing in the North, in the rich countries, is that people tend to think – even the activists – that instant gratification is required. You constantly hear: ‚Look I went to a demonstration, and we didn’t stop the war so what’s the use of doing it again?‘
Noam ChomskyTo 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.
J. Robert OppenheimerThe first time I ever saw snow skis was when I was 62 years old and that was 19 years ago and I’m still skiing. So, we’ll be skiing with some very close friends of the Carter Center letting them know what the Carter Center is doing around the world. We have programs in over 65 countries.
Jimmy CarterThe secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
Aldous HuxleyMy 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.
Wayne DyerI personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors.
Noam ChomskyObama, of course, outspent McCain.
Noam ChomskyObama’s not Jesus. He can’t walk on water.
Mr. TI 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.
John MuirI’m very disappointed in Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war. I cannot support droning. I cannot support capitulating to the banks.
Alice WalkerObama has no way to conceal that Osama was executed in front of his children and wives, who are now under the custody of the authorities of Pakistan, a Muslim country of almost 200 million inhabitants, whose laws have been violated, its national dignity offended, and its religious traditions desecrated.
Fidel CastroI have found far greater enthusiasm for science in America than here in Britain. There is more enthusiasm for everything in America.
Stephen HawkingTell them to send everything that can fly.
Richard M. NixonWhen you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.
Paulo CoelhoGenius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are the times when you have a uniquely brilliant idea and implement it even if only you are aware of how fantastic it is.
Wayne DyerWhen 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.
John C. MaxwellI am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman’s dance.
Abraham LincolnThe smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.
Warren BuffettIf you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
Dale CarnegieA lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.
Clint EastwoodA person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.
Wayne DyerI am the Democratic Party’s candidate for president who happens also to be a Catholic. I do not speak for my church on public matters – and the church does not speak for me.
John F. KennedyThere’s the chaos surrounding the practical day-to-day – playdates, doctors‘ appointments, packing and unpacking, and organizing mealtimes.
Angelina JolieA 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.
John MuirI don’t think the Tea Party people are racist, except maybe a tiny portion of them. But there has been a deliberate effort – again, referring to Fox Broadcasting – to inject the race issue into it. They have actually called Obama a racist on television.
Jimmy CarterProtect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.Good governance with good intentions is the hallmark of our government. Implementation with integrity is our core passion.
Narendra ModiEverything 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.
David BowieEnthusiasm 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.
Henry FordI just have an enthusiasm for life.
Lou HoltzI don’t call up the press and say, ‚Look at me!‘
Mr. TIn the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.
Richard M. NixonIt would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.
Abraham LincolnGenius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
F. Scott FitzgeraldToday 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.
Dale CarnegieI became a journalist partly so that I wouldn’t ever have to rely on the press for my information.
Christopher HitchensFires 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.
James BaldwinIn the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheObama himself has been highly supportive of Mubarak.
Noam ChomskyHowever many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
BuddhaPeople at Facebook are fairly used to the press being nice to us or not nice to us.
Mark ZuckerbergRemember, it is not about voting for the perfect candidate – there is no such thing. Presidents are human.
Michelle ObamaSuccess consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Winston ChurchillThe press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.
Henry AdamsSecurity is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers – organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative – if we don’t solve these security problems, then people will hold back.
Bill GatesOne cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.
Douglas MacArthurI believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I’m here.
Pope FrancisThe press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.
Friedrich NietzscheFour hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
Napoleon BonaparteI can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader – or any person – in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.
Alice WalkerMystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.
Thomas SowellA candidate is not going to suddenly change once they get into office. Just the opposite, in fact. Because the minute that individual takes that oath, they are under the hottest, harshest light there is. And there is no way to hide who they really are.
Michelle ObamaIt’s not just a matter of whether you support Obama or Romney. It’s who they have coming with them. I always keep my powder dry, as they say in the military.
Colin PowellThere is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
Alexander HamiltonFighting football, not serenity football – that is what I like.
Jurgen KloppAs international support for Obama’s decision to attack Syria has collapsed, along with the credibility of government claims, the administration has fallen back on a standard pretext for war crimes when all else fails: the credibility of the threats of the self-designated policeman of the world.
Noam ChomskyEnthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI loved the fact that Obama is multi-racial. I thought that was terrific, as my wife is the same racial make-up.
Clint Eastwood