Boredom is the laboratory where new enthusiasms prepare…

The first thing a writer should be is - excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms. Without such vigor, he might…

— Ray Bradbury

A Settlement is above all a place for enthusiasms, a spot to which those who have a passion for the equalization of human joys…

— Jane Addams

“His manner showed a curious mixture of longing and enthusiasm, which is to say that his enthusiasms were always of a wistful sort, and…

— Eleanor Catton

My enthusiasms...constitute my reserves, my unexploited resources, perhaps my future.

— Emile M. Cioran

I had a lot of enthusiasms that were very contradictory, I was never very doctrinaire in the type of design I wanted to do.

— Michael Bierut

“The journey of life requires alot of enthusiasms, great passion and commitment.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

I have a very personal view of what I want in a café. I don't spend a lot of time thinking about what other…

— James Freeman

I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen…

— James Broughton

“The enthusiasm that characterizes our time is, unlike current events, hopeful and, like all enthusiasms, playful. The energy that flashes through our electronics has…

— Edward M. Hallowell

All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.

— William Ellery Channing

“Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms -- you’ll be able to use them better when you’re older.”

— Seneca

Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast

— Minna Antrim

We are all experiments in enthusiasms, narrow and preordained.

— Kurt Vonnegut

a committee, of course, exists for the purpose of damping enthusiasms.

— Stella Benson

“I had schooled myself since the war-days never to speak of my enthusiasms; when other people did not share them, which was usual, I…

— Robertson Davies