Enthusiasm

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We seriously undervalue the passion... a person brings to an enterprise. You can rent a brain, but you can't rent a heart.

McCormack on Managing (1985)
Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.
Enthusiasm is not the same as just being excited. One gets excited about going on a roller coaster. One becomes enthusiastic about creating and building a roller coaster.
Faked enthusiasm is worse than bad acting - it is bad acting with the intent to deceive.
While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love.
If you don't love what you're doing with unbridled passion and enthusiasm, you're not going to succeed when you hit obstacles.
Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.
Strange though it may seem, people rarely show such enthusiasm as when they are seeking the proof of a ghost story � the soul gathers all this sort of thing to its hungry bosom.

Independent People
There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
Enthusiasm is always connected with the senses, whatever be the object that excites it. The true strength of virtue is serenity of mind, combined with a deliberate and steadfast determination to execute her laws. That is the healthful condition of the moral life; on the other hand, enthusiasm, even when excited by representations of goodness, is a brilliant but feverish glow which leaves only exhaustion and languor behind
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