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Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
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Winston S. Churchill
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Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm
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Winston Churchill
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There are many aspects to success; material wealth is only one component. ...But success also includes good health, energy and enthusiasm for life, fulfilling relationships, creative freedom, emotional and psychological stability, a sense of well-being, and peace of mind.
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Deepak Chopra
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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. โ€”WINSTON CHURCHILL
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Dan Brown (Origin (Robert Langdon, #5))
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Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Flaming enthusiasm, backed by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
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Dale Carnegie
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Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
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Winston Churchill
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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
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Winston Churchill
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The possibility of the dream gives strength.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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Jumping from failure to failure with undiminished enthusiasm is the big secret to success.
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Savas Dimopoulos
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Make enthusiasm a way of life. Make optimism a way of success. Make gratitude a way of happiness.
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Debasish Mridha
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Many growth-minded people didnโ€™t even plan to go to the top. They got there as a result of doing what they love. Itโ€™s ironic: The top is where the fixed-mindset people hunger to be, but itโ€™s where many growth-minded people arrive as a by-product of their enthusiasm for what they do.
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Carol S. Dweck (Mindset: The New Psychology of Success)
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Without enthusiasm then what we have surrounded ourselves with becomes worthless.
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Stephen Richards
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There is eloquence in the tongueless wind, and a melody in the flowing brooks and the rustling of the reeds beside them, which by their inconceivable relation to something within the soul, awaken the spirits to a dance of breathless rapture, and bring tears of mysterious tenderness to the eyes, like the enthusiasm of patriotic success, or the voice of one beloved singing to you alone.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Take the challenge of your life. Reach out to your goals. There is no limit to what you can achieve.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
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Enthusiasm is the energy and force that builds literal momentum of the human soul and mind.
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Bryant McGill
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Success is going from failure to failure with great enthusiasm.
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Winston Churchill
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Celebrating your achievements and applauding your triumphs is a sure way to refuel your enthusiasm and keep yourself motivated for your future endeavours.
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Roopleen
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Avoid people who are always having a bad day. In their minds, nothing ever works in their favor. They have a chronic โ€œWoe Is Meโ€ campaign that they continue to launch full blast. This kind of negativity depletes enthusiasm. You donโ€™t need the woe-is-me speech every day.
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Steve Harvey (Act Like a Success, Think Like a Success: Discovering Your Gift and the Way to Life's Riches)
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Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.
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Winston Churchill
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Enthusiasm is a vital element in individual success.
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Conrad Hilton
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My priority is not about grades. I seek yearn for knowledge, skills and wisdom.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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As Winston Churchill said, "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
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Robert T. Kiyosaki (Rich Dad's Guide to Investing)
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Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.โ€ โ€• Winston S. Churchill
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Penny Reid (Grin and Beard It (Winston Brothers, #2))
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With great enthusiasm and determination you will master the art in your field.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing do it with all your might. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your objective. ~
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I have been where you are now. I have felt the fears and resolved them. I have had the doubts and concerns and found the way forward. Lift up your head, and step ahead...
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Moutasem Algharati
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Item one: the law of the will. We just talked about this: one should only do that which truly fills our hearts with enthusiasm. If we brush this aside, if we put off the moment to live that which we dream of, we lose the energy necessary for any important transformation in our lives. Someone once put this most succinctly: โ€œI donโ€™t know the secret of success - but the secret of failure is to always try to follow the will of others.
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Paulo Coelho (Warrior of the Light)
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But I have one want which I have never yet been able to satisfy; and the absence of the object of which I now feel as a most severe evil. I have no friend, Margaret: when I am glowing with the enthusiasm of success, there will be none to participate my joy; if I am assailed by disappointment, no one will endeavour to sustain me in dejection. I shall commit my thoughts to paper, it is true; but that is a poor medium for the communication of feeling. I desire the company of a man who could sympathise with me; whose eyes would reply to mine. You may deem me romantic, my dear sister, but I bitterly feel the want of a friend. I have no one near me, gentle yet courageous, possessed of a cultivated as well as of a capacious mind, whose tastes are like my own, to approve or amend my plans. How would such a friend repair the faults of your poor brother!
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Frankenstein)
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Loving what you do doesnโ€™t mean you are never going to be faced with trials. It rather means, you are highly qualified to persist, persevere and endure till the end because you are enthusiastic about seeing the joyous end.
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Israelmore Ayivor (Dream big!: See your bigger picture!)
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We all need salespeople who help people with the same enthusiasm shown by a small child describing the best Christmas present EVER
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Chris Murray (Selling with EASE: The Four Step Sales Cycle Found in Every Successful Business Transaction)
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If you are not EXCITED enough at your present life its mean your future is not EXITING. Excitement will give you ENTHUSIASM and enthusiasm will give you a positive energetic LIFE STYLE which could give you a successful exiting lifeโ€ฆ
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Rashedur Ryan Rahman
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SUCCESS TONIC โ€ข 1 tsp confidence โ€ข 1 tsp courage โ€ข 2 tsp patience โ€ข 4 tsp prayer โ€ข 4 tsp perseverance โ€ข 4 tsp joy โ€ข 6 tsp enthusiasm Take one teaspoonful of this tonic three times daily.
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Sivananda Saraswati (Samadhi Yoga)
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It is well that we remember that the trials, difficulties, and experiences of life all have purpose. There came to me on the occasion of a year in my life to be remembered when the lovely sisters of our Relief Society wrote this as a prayer in my behalf. It was entitled 'May You Have': "Enough happiness to keep you sweet, Enough trials to keep you strong, Enough sorrow to keep you human, Enough hope to keep you happy, Enough failure to keep you humble, Enough success to keep you eager, Enough wealth to meet your needs, Enough enthusiasm to look forward, Enough friends to give you comfort, Enough faith to banish depression, Enough determination to make each day better than yesterday. "This is my prayer for the faithful Saints in every land and throughout the world as we look forward to the future with courage and with fortitude
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Harold B. Lee
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Success,โ€ as Winston Churchill once said, โ€œis going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
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Amanda Ripley (The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way)
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Success consists of going from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
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Jack Canfield (The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be)
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Winston Churchill said, "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
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Robert T. Kiyosaki (Rich Dad's Guide to Investing)
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Hope is an enthusiastic assurance.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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Affirmation without discipline is like enthusiasm without direction.
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Lisa A. Mininni
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Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
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Jeff Keller (Attitude Is Everything: Change Your Attitude ... Change Your Life!)
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Humbleness and enthusiasm are two great qualities for effective leadership. By aligning your 114 chakras, you can unleash your inner fire and inspire your team to achieve greatness.
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Sri Amit Ray (Power of Exponential Mindset for Success and Leadership)
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Success comes to people with leadership skills, a sound vision, enthusiasm, and the willingness to put forth the effort to build an organization and find others who will do the same.
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Mark Yarnell (Your First Year in Network Marketing: Overcome Your Fears, Experience Success, and Achieve Your Dreams!)
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I have no friend, Margaret: when I am glowing with the enthusiasm of success, there will be none to participate my joy; if I am assailed by disappointment, no one will endeavour to sustain me in dejection. I shall commit my thoughts to paper, it is true; but that is a poor medium for the communication of feeling. I desire the company of a man who could sympathize with me, whose eyes would reply to mine. You may deem me romantic, my dear sister, but I bitterly feel the want of a friend.
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Frankenstein)
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Irrational exuberance is the psychological basis of a speculative bubble. I define a speculative bubble as a situation in which news of price increases spurs investor enthusiasm, which spreads by psychological contagion from person to person, in the process amplifying stories that might justify the price increases and bringing in a larger and larger class of investors, who, despite doubts about the real value of an investment, are drawn to it partly through envy of othersโ€™ successes and partly through a gambler's excitement.
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Robert J. Shiller (Irrational Exuberance)
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The true asset before any human being on this planet are... Enthusiasm & Will... with these everything comes from nothingness & devoid of them everything perishes to nothingness... http://goo.gl/B8LdxS
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Dinesh Kumar (Destiny Re scripted (Desire 2 Will))
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Learning to remain nonreactive is the name of the game. Does this mean living without passion? Absolutely not. Live, love, laugh, and learnโ€”just donโ€™t be a sucker for drama. Live your life with enthusiasm and purpose, and donโ€™t be a pawn in someone elseโ€™s vision for you. You drive. Better yet, let your Higher Self drive, and you relax.
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Pedram Shojai (The Urban Monk: Eastern Wisdom and Modern Hacks to Stop Time and Find Success, Happiness, and Peace)
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and if it be true that the loveliest tune imaginable becomes vulgar and insupportable as soon as the public begins to hum it and the hurdy-gurdies make it their own, the work of art which does not remain indifferent to the spurious artists, which is not contested by fools, and which is not satisfied with awakening the enthusiasm of the few, by this very fact becomes profaned, trite, almost repulsive to the initiate. This promiscuity in admiration, furthermore, was one of the greatest sources of regret in his life. Incomprehensible successes had forever spoiled for him many pictures and books once cherished and dear. Approved by the mob, they began to reveal imperceptible defects to him, and he rejected them, wondering meanwhile if his perceptions were not growing blunted.
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Joris-Karl Huysmans (Against Nature)
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Iโ€™ve watched my dad move our family from extreme poverty to extreme wealth and then everywhere in between. Never once did I see or hear him be anything but a cheerleader for the accomplishments of others. It didnโ€™t matter if he was down or up in life, he wanted everybody around him to succeed. Iโ€™ve even watched him praise the very people that have tried to destroy him over the years and then very publicly wish them success and happiness. He taught me the enthusiasm that should always come at the success of others. He constantly taught me that when others succeed, it gives us all more opportunity to succeed. He taught me that when there is conflict, minor or major, you can almost always walk away at the end with a handshake.
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Dan Pearce (Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One)
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The real secret of success is enthusiasm.
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Walter Chrysler
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Success is the ability to move from one failure to another without losing enthusiasmโ€ Winston Churchill
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Amit Eshet (Change Your Mindset, Think Like the Rich)
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Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
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John A. Sarkett (Extraordinary Comebacks: 201 Inspiring Stories of Courage, Triumph and Success)
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Enthusiasm and passions are the fundamental ingredients of all success.
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Debasish Mridha
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If you have enthusiasm, boldness, and confidence, you are already a success.
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Debasish Mridha
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Make enthusiasm a way of life. Make optimism a way of success. Make gratitude a way of happiness.
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Debasish Mridha
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The sacred soul who desire to work, must not be interrupted.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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Definite purpose, absolute commitment.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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As Winston Churchill so aptly explained, โ€œSuccess consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
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Jen Sincero (You Are a Badassยฎ: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life)
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Take a daily action to make your dreams a reality.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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With persistent focus, commitment and enthusiasm, your dream will be reality.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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How could we have achieved the set-goal, without endurance to the end?
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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I will passionately perform my work.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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Enthusiasm is one of the key ingredients for a lifetime of successful living
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Robin S. Sharma (The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Remarkable Story About Living Your Dreams)
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But, as Winston Churchill observed, โ€œSuccess consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
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John McCain (The Restless Wave: Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights, and Other Appreciations)
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I've come to the conclusion that it's all about fear- fear that your kid won't come out on top, be a success. Forcing him into these brutal encounters will a) make a dame sure he is a success, and b) all you to see evidence of that success with the added bonus of a cheering crowd. This means that sports are supported with an almost desperate enthusiasm. The football team gets catered dinners before a fame. Honor Society is lucky if it gets a cupcake. Academic success-forget it. That requires too much imagination. There's no scoreboard.
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Deb Caletti (The Nature of Jade)
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One of the subtlest means of deceiving, at least as long as possible, and of successfully representing oneself to be stupider than one really is - which in everyday life is often as desirable as an umbrella,- is called ENTHUSIASM, including what belongs to it, for instance, virtue.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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I shared what I feel is the right way to go, the right course of action, and I suspect some of you may see it differently. If you do, Iโ€™d like to hear it. I know that my enthusiasm may make it hard to challenge me, but my job is to make the best possible decisions for the organization, not to persuade you of my viewpoint. So please speak up.โ€ This is an unusual and highly appealing way to begin a meeting. At
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Susan Scott (Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work and in Life One Conversation at a Time)
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Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. If you're going through hell, keep going. You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
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Winston Churchill
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- When we feel well after carrying out a certain task. Consequently, everything which causes us to lose our enthusiasm and self respect, is harmful; even if it means power, money or success. I have seen so many people suffocated by success, making mistakes which ended up destroying years of work, yielding to heavy drinking, becoming aggressive, tough, bitter. These people are distant from themselves, and distant from others.
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Paulo Coelho (Warrior of the Light)
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Iโ€™m cancer-free today! Cancer cannot keep up with my goals, enthusiasm, focus, passion, and determination. I will run you out of my body by not thinking about you, I will focus on what it will be like when you are gone.
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Gregory Q. Cheek (Three Points of Contact: A Motivational Speaker's Inspirational Methods of Success from Homeless Teen Through Cancer.)
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Her sense of self is built on a strong inner foundation. Sheโ€™s cultivated her breath and tapped into her connection with the entire Universe. What accolades other people may give her do not matter. She is reinforced by life and nature as her exuberance and enthusiasm radiate from within.
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Pedram Shojai (The Urban Monk: Eastern Wisdom and Modern Hacks to Stop Time and Find Success, Happiness, and Peace)
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Disturbing encounters in life spur reflective thinking that jars a person from his or her exhausted ideologies and way of living. A person who lives passionately will develop a philosophic outlook because the road of excess leads to knowledge. Enthusiasm will frequently make a person look foolish, and result in intermittent periods of despondency and self-questioning, yet only exuberance and a degree of risk-taking leads us to wisdom.
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Kilroy J. Oldster (Dead Toad Scrolls)
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When you answer questions about your educational or work history, let your enthusiasm about different projects and situations come through (e.g., โ€œIt was so much more than I could have hoped for in an internship. I had the chance to actually write up the newsletter and work with a designer to put it together. I loved every minute of it.โ€).
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Kate White (I Shouldn't Be Telling You This: Success Secrets Every Gutsy Girl Should Know)
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Happiness supports enthusiasm and empowers creativity and initiative. Happiness makes you a better person in your private, family, and work spheres. Happiness keeps you healthy and lets you stick to your plans. Cultivate happiness as the most precious flower in your Garden. - From HAPPY DIVORCE, by Rossana Condoleo gardenRossana Condoleo
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Rossana Condoleo
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It was Sir Winston Churchill, in the midst of Nazi bombings, who said to the people of London, "This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."' He was the one who offered the best definition of success I've ever read: "Success is moving from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
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Charles R. Swindoll (Moses: A Man of Selfless Dedication (Great Lives from God's Word, Volume 4))
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1. Success is a choice. -Rick Pitino 2. Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well. -Warren Lester 3. I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment; it takes place every day. -Albert Camus 4. If you're not fired up with enthusiasm, you'll be fired with enthusiasm. -Vince Lombardi 5. There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity. -Douglas MacArthur 6. Yesterday's the past and tomorrow's the future. Today is a gift, which is why they call it the present. -Bill Keane 7. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. -Thomas Edison 8. When you get to the end of your rope tie a knot and hang on. -Franklin D. Roosevelt 9. The best way to predict your future is to create it. -Author unknown 10. I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says, "Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest." I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have. -Harry S Truman 11. Triumph? Try Umph! -Author unknown 12. You hit home runs not by chance but by preparation. -Roger Maris 13. If you don't have enough pride, you're going to get your butt beat every play. -Gale Sayers 14. My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces. -Wilma Rudolph 15. You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. -Margaret Thatcher
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Samuel D. Deep (Close The Deal: Smart Moves For Selling: 120 Checklists To Help You Close The Very Best Deal)
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The qualities that I have seen successful people in HPOs posses: unbridled passion and enthusiasm.
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Andrรฉ de Waal
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To be successful you have to have imagination, enthusiasm, optimism, and conviction.
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Debasish Mridha
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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. โ€”WINSTON CHURCHILL
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Alan W. Hirshfeld (The Electric Life of Michael Faraday)
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The change "grief cycle", for some people, may be excitement, enthusiasm, engagement, effort, and excellence.
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Paul Gibbons (The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture)
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The spirit of hope, inner strength, enthusiasm and persistent determination are the pillars for any success.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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Poor Tom did not know and could not learn that dissembling successfully is one of the creative joys of a businessman. To indicate enthusiasm was to be idiotic.
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John Steinbeck (East of Eden)
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You have to be enthusiastic enough to do what is required for achieving your dreams and goals.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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Mr. Morris's poem is ushered into the world with a very florid birthday speech from the pen of the author of the too famous Poems and Ballads,โ€”a circumstance, we apprehend, in no small degree prejudicial to its success. But we hasten to assure all persons whom the knowledge of Mr. Swinburne's enthusiasm may have led to mistrust the character of the work, that it has to our perception nothing in common with this gentleman's own productions, and that his article proves very little more than that his sympathies are wiser than his performance. If Mr. Morris's poem may be said to remind us of the manner of any other writer, it is simply of that of Chaucer; and to resemble Chaucer is a great safeguard against resembling Swinburne.
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Henry James (Views and Reviews (Project Gutenberg, #37424))
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I also have to credit Bill Bilby, owner of Chelsea Books, with two other important lessons: first, his shop was always tidy and thoughtfully-organized โ€“a remarkable trait in secondhand shops; and second, he was visibly enthusiastic about his stock. He was the first bookseller I knew to describe a book-artefact as โ€œsexyโ€! A cynic might denigrate this latter trait as a mere sales tactic โ€“because indeed his infectious enthusiasm successfully sold lots of books โ€“but the fact is that the guy was, and is, just a completely mad bibliophile, and being in his shop with him, listening to him effuse about his books, and watching the way he would stroke them and savour them, was profound. It made me realize that we in the trade are actually evangelists of bibliophilia, and embracing and spreading that passion is the only way to ensure our survival.
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Jen Campbell (The Bookshop Book)
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There are many aspects to success; material wealth is only one component. Moreover, success is a journey, not a destination. Material abundance, in all its expressions, happens to be one of those things that makes the journey more enjoyable. But success also includes good health, energy and enthusiasm for life, fulfilling relationships, creative freedom, emotional and psychological stability, a sense of well-being, and peace of mind.
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Deepak Chopra (The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams)
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Cultivate your curiosity. Keep it sharp and always working. Consider curiosity your life preserver, your willingness to try something new. Second, enlarge your enthusiasm to include the pursuit to excellence, following every task through to completion. Third, make the law of averages work for you. By budgeting your time more carefully than most people you can make more time available. Does the combination of curiosity, enthusiasm, and the law of averages guarantee success Indeed it does not ... Success in the final analysis always involves luck or the element of chance. Louis Pasteur grasped this well when he said that chance favors the prepared mind.
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John Hanley Jr.
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A man runs into an old friend who had somehow never been able to make it in life. "I should give him some money", he thinks. But instead he learns that his old friend has grown rich and is actually seeking him out to repay the debts he had run up over the years. They go to a bar they used to frequent together and the friend buys drinks for everyone there, When they ask him how he became so successful, he answers that until only a few days ago, he had been living the role of the Other. "What is the Other?", they ask. "The 'Other' is the one who taught me what I should be like, but not what I am. The Other believes that it is out obligations to spend our entire life thinking about how to get our hands on as much money as possible so that we will not die of hunger when we are old. So we think so much about money and our plans for acquiring it that we discover that we are alive only when our days on earth are practically done. And then it's too late." "And you? Who are you?" "I am just like everyone else who listens to their heart: a person who is enchanted by the mystery of life. Who is open to miracles, who experiences joy and enthusiasm for what they do. It's just that the Other, afraid of disappointment, kept me from taking actions". "But there is suffering in life", one of the listeners said. "And there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggle for your dreams than to be defeated without ever even knowing what you're fighting for." "That's it?", another listener asked. "Yes, that's it. When I learned this, I resolved to become the person I had always wanted to be. The Other stood there in the corner of my room, watching me, but I will never let the Other into myself again - even though it has already tried to frighten me, warning me that it's risky not to think about the future." "From the moment that I ousted the Other from my life, the Divine Energy began to perform its miracles".
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Paulo Coelho (By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept)
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But take note: Never express, through words or acts, something that does not harmonize with your beliefsโ€”or you will lose the ability to influence others. I do not believe that I can afford to deceive anyone about anything; but I know that I cannot afford to deceive myself. To do so would destroy the power of my pen. It is only when I write with the fire of enthusiasm that my writing impresses others. It is only when I speak from a heart that is bursting with belief in my message that I can move my audience to accept it.
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Napoleon Hill (The Law of Success (Condensed Classics): The Original Classic from the Author of THINK AND GROW RICH)
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The definition of success--To laugh much; to win respect of intelligent persons and the affections of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give one's self; to leave the world a little better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition.; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived--this is to have succeeded.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Education will give you titles, but experience will give you success. Hard work will give you progress, but diligence will give you excellence. Confidence will give you enthusiasm, but perseverance will give you discipline. Patience will give you control, but mastery will give you command. Intellect will give you positions, but integrity will give you authority. Ambition will give you the energy, but generosity will give you influence. Knowledge will give you strength, but wisdom will give you power. Talent will give you respect, but genius will give you honor. Pleasure will give you happiness, but joy will give you contentment. Strength will give you fortitude, but love will give you dominion. Courage will give you victory, but faith will give you greatness. Virtue will give you the world, but God will give you universe.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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My wife of more than forty-years shot herself yesterday afternoon. At least that is what the police assume, and I am playing the part of grieving widower with enthusiasm and success. Life with Sarah has schooled me in self-deception, which I find--as she did--to be an excellent training in the deceiving of others. Of course I know that she did nothing of the kind. My wife was far too sane, far too rooted in the present to think of harming herself. In my opinion she never gave a thought to what she had done. She was incapable of guilt. It was I who killed her.
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Richard Mason (The Drowning People)
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โœ“ EXPRESS YOUR ENTHUSIASM: Say, โ€œIโ€™m thrilled about the offer. This is my first choice, for reasons X, Y and Z, and Iโ€™d love to join the team.โ€ โœ“ EXPLAIN YOUR REQUEST: โ€œI just have a few questions about the terms that Iโ€™d like to address before Iโ€™ll be ready to sign.โ€ โœ“ ESTABLISH YOUR CONTRIBUTION: โ€œI know this position often pays $X, and I believe I can add enough value to the organization to earn it.โ€ โœ“ ASK FOR ADVICE: โ€œI hope itโ€™s okay to ask you about thisโ€”my relationships with people here are very important to me. I trust you and Iโ€™d very much value your recommendations on how to proceed.
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Ivanka Trump (Women Who Work: Rewriting the Rules for Success)
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The mighty Toyota Company was born from the ashes of a failed weaving business. And perhaps you have heard of Wrigleyโ€™s gum? William Wrigley started off his company trying to sell baking soda and soap, but he never turned a profit, and so he turned to making and selling chewing gum instead. These men share one thing in commonโ€”they were open to change and they listened to their intuition. Sometimes we hear a whisper in the air that guides us positively. This whisper we hear, it is not passiveโ€”it is a response to our own enthusiasm, passion, and commitment. We put in the effort and we get back a divine message. Call it inspiration if you want. Call it an entrepreneurial muse. But it feels and sounds like a whisper in your soul. If you hear it, listen to it. You must be willing to change course when it tells you to.
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Daniel Lapin (Business Secrets from the Bible: Spiritual Success Strategies for Financial Abundance)
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Can you remember, Acte...how much easier our belief in Nero made life for us in the old days? And can you remember the paralysis, the numbness that seized the whole world when Nero died? Didn't you feel as if the world had grown bare and colorless all of a sudden? Those people on the Palatine have tried to steal our Nero from us, from you and me. Isn't splendid to think that we can show them they haven't succeeded? They have smashed his statues into splinters, erased his name from all the inscriptions, they even replaced his head on that huge statue in Rome with the peasant head of old Vespasian. Isn't it fine to teach them that all that hasn't been of the slightest use? Granted that they have been successful for a few years. For a few years they have actually managed to banish all imagination from the world, all enthusiasm, extravagance, everything that makes life worth living. But now, with our Nero, all these things are back again.
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Lion Feuchtwanger (The False Nero)
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The key to success in selling/recruiting lies in your ability to go from no to no without losing your enthusiasm. Remember that we are in the people attraction business. So we must keep our level of passion and excitement high as we sort through the prospects because part of what they are buying into is our โ€œmusicโ€ โ€” our conviction and attitude about what we are a part of. Itโ€™s not what you say; itโ€™s how it sounds that is most important. Donโ€™t worry about having the right words โ€ฆ that is secondary.
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Brian Carruthers (Building an Empire:The Most Complete Blueprint to Building a Massive Network Marketing Business)
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I have led an extraordinary life on this planet, while at the same time travelling across the universe by using my mind and the laws of physics. I have been to the furthest reaches of our galaxy, travelled into a black hole and gone back to the beginning of time. On Earth, I have experienced highs and lows, turbulence and peace, success and suffering. I have been rich and poor, I have been able-bodied and disabled. I have been praised and criticised, but never ignored. I have been enormously privileged, through my work, in being able to contribute to our understanding of the universe. But it would be an empty universe indeed if it were not for the people I love, and who love me. Without them, the wonder of it all would be lost on me. And at the end of all this, the fact that we humans, who are ourselves mere collections of fundamental particles of nature, have been able to come to an understanding of the laws governing us, and our universe, is a great triumph. I want to share my excitement about these big questions and my enthusiasm about this quest.
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Stephen Hawking (Brief Answers to the Big Questions)
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WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN? The lessons of market history are clear. Styles and fashions in investorsโ€™ evaluations of securities can and often do play a critical role in the pricing of securities. The stock market at times conforms well to the castle-in-the-air theory. For this reason, the game of investing can be extremely dangerous. Another lesson that cries out for attention is that investors should be very wary of purchasing todayโ€™s hot โ€œnew issue.โ€ Most initial public offerings underperform the stock market as a whole. And if you buy the new issue after it begins trading, usually at a higher price, you are even more certain to lose. Investors would be well advised to treat new issues with a healthy dose of skepticism. Certainly investors in the past have built many castles in the air with IPOs. Remember that the major sellers of the stock of IPOs are the managers of the companies themselves. They try to time their sales to coincide with a peak in the prosperity of their companies or with the height of investor enthusiasm for some current fad. In such cases, the urge to get on the bandwagonโ€”even in high-growth industriesโ€”produced a profitless prosperity for investors.
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Burton G. Malkiel (A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing)
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MY FIRST ASSIGNMENT AFTER BEING ORDAINED as a pastor almost finished me. I was called to be the assistant pastor in a large and affluent suburban church. I was glad to be part of such an obviously winning organization. After I had been there a short time, a few people came to me and asked that I lead them in a Bible study. โ€œOf course,โ€ I said, โ€œthere is nothing I would rather do.โ€ We met on Monday evenings. There werenโ€™t manyโ€”eight or nine men and womenโ€”but even so that was triple the two or three that Jesus defined as a quorum. They were eager and attentive; I was full of enthusiasm. After a few weeks the senior pastor, my boss, asked me what I was doing on Monday evenings. I told him. He asked me how many people were there. I told him. He told me that I would have to stop. โ€œWhy?โ€ I asked. โ€œIt is not cost-effective. That is too few people to spend your time on.โ€ I was told then how I should spend my time. I was introduced to the principles of successful church administration: crowds are important, individuals are expendable; the positive must always be accented, the negative must be suppressed. Donโ€™t expect too much of peopleโ€”your job is to make them feel good about themselves and about the church. Donโ€™t talk too much about abstractions like God and sinโ€”deal with practical issues. We had an elaborate music program, expensively and brilliantly executed. The sermons were seven minutes long and of the sort that Father Taylor (the sailor-preacher in Boston who was the model for Father Mapple in Melvilleโ€™s Moby Dick) complained of in the transcendentalists of the last century: that a person could no more be converted listening to sermons like that than get intoxicated drinking skim milk.[2] It was soon apparent that I didnโ€™t fit. I had supposed that I was there to be a pastor: to proclaim and interpret Scripture, to guide people into a life of prayer, to encourage faith, to represent the mercy and forgiveness of Christ at special times of need, to train people to live as disciples in their families, in their communities and in their work. In fact I had been hired to help run a church and do it as efficiently as possible: to be a cheerleader to this dynamic organization, to recruit members, to lend the dignity of my office to certain ceremonial occasions, to promote the image of a prestigious religious institution. I got out of there as quickly as I could decently manage it. At the time I thought I had just been unlucky. Later I came to realize that what I experienced was not at all uncommon.
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Eugene H. Peterson (Run with the Horses: The Quest for Life at Its Best)
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Ignorance lowers you, curiosity elevates you; knowledge puts you on a higher pedestal than information. Confusion lowers you, understanding elevates you; discernment puts you on a higher pedestal than intellect. Imprudence lowers you, insight elevates you; wisdom puts you on a higher pedestal than perception. Greed lowers you, contentment elevates you; peace puts you on a higher pedestal than indifference. Bitterness lowers you, happiness elevates you; joy puts you on a higher pedestal than pleasure. Anger lowers you, patience elevates you; longstanding puts you on a higher pedestal than tolerance. Cruelty lowers you, compassion elevates you; kindness puts you on a higher pedestal than apathy. Despair lowers you, hope elevates you; perseverance puts you on a higher pedestal than dispassion. Fear lowers you, courage elevates you; faith puts you on a higher pedestal than confidence. Hatred lowers you, mercy elevates you; love puts you on a higher pedestal than sympathy. Illiteracy lowers you, education elevates you; enlightenment puts you on a higher pedestal than talent. Imitating lowers you, creativity elevates you; originality puts you on a higher pedestal than innovation. Incompetence lowers you, skill elevates you; excellence puts you on a higher pedestal than enthusiasm. Laziness lowers you, hard work elevates you; diligence puts you on a higher pedestal competence. Failure lowers you, perseverance elevates you; success puts you on a higher pedestal than ambition. Mediocrity lowers you, talent elevates you; genius puts you on a higher pedestal than aptitude. Obscurity lowers you, fame elevates you; influence puts you on a higher pedestal than popularity. Ego lowers you, honor elevates you; humility puts you on a higher pedestal than applause. Poverty lowers you, success elevates you; wealth puts you on a higher pedestal than prominence. Dishonor lowers you, esteem elevates you; character puts you on a higher pedestal than reputation.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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The other strikingly modern feature of the type of poet which Euripides now introduced into the history of literature is his apparently voluntary refusal to take any part whatever in public life. Euripides was not a soldier as Aeschylus was, nor a priestly dignitary as Sophocles was, but, on the other hand, he is the very first poet who is reported to have possessed a library, and he appears to be also the first poet to lead the life of a scholar in complete retirement from the world. If the bust of him, with its tousled hair, its tired eyes and the embittered lines round the mouth, is a true portrait, and if we are right in seeing in it a discrepancy between body and spirit, and the expression of a restless and dissatisfied life, then we may say that Euripides was the first unhappy poet, the first whose poetry brought him suffering. The notion of genius in the modern sense is not merely completely strange to the ancient world; its poets and artists have nothing of the genius about them. The rational and craftsmanlike elements in art are far more important for them than the irrational and intuitive. Platoโ€™s doctrine of enthusiasm emphasized, indeed, that poets owed their work to divine inspiration and not to mere technical ability, but this idea by no means leads to the exaltation of the poet; it only increases the gulf between him and his work, and makes of him a mere instrument of the divine purpose. It is, however, of the essence of the modern notion of genius that there is no gulf between the artist and his work, or, if such a gulf is admitted, that the genius is far greater than any of his works and can never be adequately expressed in them. So genius connotes for us a tragic loneliness and inability to make itself fully understood. But the ancient world knows nothing of this or of the other tragic feature of the modern artistโ€”his lack of recognition by his own contemporaries and his despairing appeals to a remote posterity. There is not a trace of all thisโ€”at least before Euripides. Euripidesโ€™ lack of success was mainly due to the fact that there was nothing in classical times that could be called an educated middle class. The old aristocracy took no pleasure in his plays, owing to their different outlook on life, and the new bourgeois public could not enjoy them either, owing to its lack of education. With his philosophical radicalism, Euripides is a unique pheno menon, even among the poets of his age, for these are in general as conservative in their outlook as were those of the classical age โ€”in spite of a naturalism of style which was derived from the urban and commercial society they lived in, and which had reached a point at which it was really incompatible with political conservatism. As politicians and partisans these poets hold to their conservative doctrines, but as artists they are swept along in the progressive stream of their times. This inner contradiction in their work is a completely new phenomenon in the social history of art.
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Arnold Hauser (The Social History of Art, Volume 1: From Prehistoric Times to the Middle Ages)