Excitement Quotes

Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning. (Gloria Steinem)
Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas. View quote
Paul Samuelson
The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts. View quote
Henry Moore
I hope that seeing the excitement of solving this problem will make young mathematicians realize that there are lots and lots of other problems in mathematics which are going to be just as challenging in the future. View quote
Andrew Wiles
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. View quote
Donald Trump
The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this. View quote
William Wordsworth
I wish you all the pleasurable excitement one can have without hurting others and one's own dignity. View quote
Norbert Elias
...when I started doing chemistry, I did it the way I fished – for the excitement, the discovery, the adventure, for going after the most elusive catch imaginable in uncharted seas. View quote
K. Barry Sharpless
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living. View quote
David Attenborough
When David Marr at MIT moved into computer vision, he generated a lot of excitement, but he hit up against the problem of knowledge representation; he had no good representations for knowledge in his vision systems. View quote
Marvin Minsky
That's why people take vacations. No to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things. (Don DeLillo)
This solution has great superficial appeal--all the excitement of secret, forbidden, romantic sexuality without family responsibility and family grubbiness. View quote
Benjamin Spock
Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned. View quote
Taylor Caldwell
Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has been drilled and regimented and depressed to such an extent that it needs at least a vicarious participation in difficult feats of strength or skill or heroism in order to sustain its waning life-sense. View quote
Lewis Mumford
If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state. View quote
Cate Blanchett
Your sweetheart calls you by another's name. His eyes linger too long on your best friend. He talks with excitement about a girl at work. And the fire catches. Jealousy - that sickening combination of possessiveness, suspicion, rage, and humiliation - can overtake your mind and threaten your very core as you contemplate your rival. View quote
Helen Fisher
Any kind of novelty or excitement drives up dopamine in the brain, and dopamine is associated with romantic love. View quote
Helen Fisher
Excitement was plentiful during my two years' service as a Pony Express rider. View quote
Buffalo Bill
In other words, I'd say the whole story of Bob Dylan is one man's search for God. The turns and the steps he takes to find God are his business. I think he went to a study group at the Vineyard, and it created a lot of excitement. View quote
T Bone Burnett
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in. View quote
Rachel Carson
I think that you have to seriously have fun, or taking serious things in a light way and obviously, for me, before all, music is made of fun and pleasure and excitement. (Jean-Michel Jarre)
As the romance of manned space exploration has waned, the drive today is to find our living, thinking counterparts in the universe. For all the excitement, however, the search betrays a profound melancholy - a lonely species in a merciless universe anxiously awaits an answering voice amid utter silence. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
Well, I think that the image is a part of me. I wear the baggy pants, the hats, the whole nine. And you know, I may add a little for the excitement and the intrigue in the videos, but my family has told me that little air of mystery that surrounds me is for real. View quote
Aaliyah
The government should not be guided by Temporary Excitement, but by Sober Second Thought. View quote
Martin Van Buren
What interest, zest, or excitement can there be in achieving the right way, unless we are enabled to feel that the wrong way is also a possible and a natural way, - nay, more, a menacing and an imminent way? And what sense can there be in condemning ourselves for taking the wrong way, unless we need have done nothing of the sort, unless the right way was open to us as well? I cannot understand the willingness to act, no matter how we feel, without the belief that acts are really good and bad. View quote
William James