Transformations

"Enthusiasm, like the breath of God, transforms everything." ~ Gail Sher

In Earnest

"It is a fine thing to see people in hot earnest about anything." ~ John Muir

The God Within

"Enthusiasm: translated from Greek it means "the God within you." ~ unknown

A Vital Element

"Enthusiasm is a vital element toward the individual success of every man or woman." ~ Conrad Hilton

Preferences

"I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom." ~ Anatole France

Something To Believe In

"One needs something to believe in, something for which one can have whole-hearted enthusiasm. One needs to feel that one's life has meaning, that one is needed in this world." ~ Hannah Senesh

Leaping Lightning

"Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm Demanding

"I admit I'm enthusiastically demanding." ~ Brad Bird

Work

"No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life." ~ Samuel Goldwyn

Every Moment

"Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Passion

"When we are enthusiastic we are intoxicated with passion rooted in our true selves and it flows into all we do." ~ Linda Saccoccio

Foolish Things

"You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm." ~ Colette

Color

"Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life." ~ Vincent van Gogh

Genius

"Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm." ~ Benjamin Disraeli

Apathy

"Apathy can only be overcome by enthusiasm." ~ Arnold J. Toynbee

Awaken As A Child

"Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, "ye cannot enter the kingdom of God." One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.” ~ Dorothy L. Sayers

The Heart Knows

"The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand." ~ Robert Vallett

Your Heart

"Follow your heart and your mind will create." Ray Wilkins

Art Moves People

"I love the way art moves people emotionally. I love the fact that when someone purchases art it is the one thing that will last for generations." ~ Jack White

Emtions From All Over

"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a passing shape, from a spider's web." ~ Pablo Picasso

A Contributor

"Art cannot single handedly create enthusiasm; it merely contributes to enthusiasm and guides us to be more conscious of feelings that we might previously have experienced only tentatively or hurriedly." ~ Alain de Botton

Insanity

"In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions." ~ Henry Ward Beecher

The Creative habit

“The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.” ~ Henry Moore

Excite!

“What is required is sight and insight; then you might add one more -- excite.” ~ Robert Frost

Energy

“Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.” ~ Oprah Winfrey

Machines

"Machines might give us more time to think but will never do our thinking for us." ~ Thomas J. Watson, Jr.

Wild Things

"Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher 'standard of living' is worth its cost in things natural, wild and free. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see hummingbirds is more important than television." ~ Aldo Leopold

Stop and Smell the Roses

"In this vast changing world of technology the old saying "stop and smell the roses" holds even more meaning." ~ Kathleen Arnason