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  1. George Eliot _ Middlemarch

    You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you must not be ashamed of your work, and think it would be more honorable to you to be doing something else. You must have a pride in your own work and in learning to do it well, and not be always saying, There's this and there's that-if I had this or that to do, I might make something of it. No matter what a man is-I wouldn't give twopence for him'- here Caleb's mouth looked bitter, and he snapped his fingers- 'whether he was the prime minister or the rick-thatcher, if he didn't do well what he undertook to do.
    book-quoteworkjobenthusiasm

  2. Paulo Coelho _ The Pilgrimage

    I wept because I was re-experiencing the enthusiasm of my childhood; I was once again a child, and nothing in the world could cause me harm.
    book-quotechildhoodtearsenthusiasm

  3. Patrick Süskind _ Perfume: The Story of a

    Not a visible enthusiasm but a hidden one, an excitement burning with a cold flame.
    book-quoteexcitemententhusiasmhidden

  4. Doris Kearns Goodwin _ Wait Till Next Year

    Excitement about things became a habit, a part of my personality, and the expectation that I should enjoy new experiences often engendered the enjoyment itself.
    book-quotepersonalityparenthoodenthusiasm

  5. Robert A. Caro _ Master of the Senate

    {Lyndon} Johnson created his own theater.
    book-quoteleadershipsymbolismenthusiasm

  6. Victor Hugo _ Les Misérables

    In the chaos of sentiments and passions which defend a barricade, there is something of everything; there is bravery, youth, honor, enthusiasm, the ideal, conviction, the eager fury of the gamester, and above all, intervals of hope.
    book-quotehopepassionyouth

  7. Rebecca McNutt _ Smog City

    You should find something better to do with your time," Mandy told him. "I spend my time shooting people, and then I take them to darkrooms and blow them up." "…Come again?" Alecto questioned with a tone of alarm in his voice. "I take photographs and develop them myself, I've got my own darkroom… it was a joke," Mandy laughed. "I love photography and I'm gonna be a photojournalist someday." "Really?" Alecto asked. For the first time since she'd met him, he sounded slightly enthusiastic. "…I take photographs and I film my own home movies, I have a darkroom as well… but I can't be a photojournalist like you… I can't be anything… still, at least I can take photographs, it's fun.
    book-quoteweirdhumormurder

  8. Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books

    For Ibsen, gusto forgives almost everything.
    book-quoteenthusiasm

  9. Barbara W. Tuchman _ The Proud Tower: A Portrait of

    Even his own speeches bored him.
    book-quotepassionjobvocation

  10. Bill Bryson _ One Summer: America, 1927

    Tunney has all the makings of a hero – he was clean living, intelligent, polite, reasonably good-looking – but, like Lou Gehrig, he lacked the chemistry that stirred affection.
    book-quoteemotionleadershipenthusiasm

  11. Elisabeth Elliot _ Shadow of the Almighty: The

    His enthusiasm and willingness to use what he learned made him get ahead in Spanish.
    book-quotehumilityenthusiasm

  12. H.G. Wells _ The Holy Terror

    Within he felt that faint stirring of derision for the whole business of life which is the salt of the American mentality. Outwardly they are sentimental and enthusiastic and inwardly they are profoundly cynical.
    book-quotepersonalitysentimentcynicism
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