"Enthusiasm..the sustaining power of all great action"

-- Samuel Smiles

#Enthusiasm Quotes #Action Quotes

“Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay.”
“Are you OLD?" "No. I'm only twelve. But I've been that for a long time.”

Source : John Ajvide Lindqvist (2010). “Let Me In”, p.271, Macmillan
“The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it.”
“And young people who are learning digital skills discover that the real challenge is coming up with an image that resonates, first of all, with your self and hopefully, with an audience. They can learn all these new techniques and think that they're easier to use, but creating great images isn't about the tools.”

Source : "Master Interview; Jerry Uelsmann". Interview with Chris Maher and Larry Berman, www.shutterbug.com. September 1, 2007..
“Iâ€™m grateful for being here, for being able to think, for being able to see, for being able to taste, for appreciating love â€“ for knowing that it exists in a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, and yet love exists. Iâ€™m grateful to know that it exists.”
“Gifted women musicians and composers rarely received their due.”
“Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.”
“The woods were made for the hunters of dreams, The brooks for the fishers of song; To the hunters who hunt for the gunless game The streams and the woods belong.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, ("Bloodless Sportsman"), 1922.

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