Misguided Enthusiasm Quotes

We have young men with shoes which light up when they walk and a brain that seems dead when they talk.

There is no cause so good or noble that it will not attract fuggheads; and the fuggheads will get all the press.

Passion without focus can lead you astray.

By the time buzzwords appear in the popular press, there's probably a bunch of us in the development trenches pulling out our hair and weeping.

My biggest problem, when I was younger and when things weren't going so well, I was so enthusiastic, so anxious to make things better that I used to get myself in trouble.

There are so many examples today of how the kind of wonderful zealousness and unquestioning loyalty of young people can be harnessed by all sorts of insidious powers.

There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté.

Reflect upon your own spirit, and believe Him that said it to His overzealous disciples, 'You know not what spirit you are of.'

It's a fascinating culture [the South in the Civil War period] and so rife with comedic possibilities. And not in a way that...I have no intention of making fun of re-enactors. I think it's more just a celebration of their passion and enthusiasm, which is so infectious and maybe at times a little misguided.

The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but the species of it. The covetous, the prodigal, the superstitious, the libertine, and the coffee-house politician, are all Quixotes in their several ways.

Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.

Jumping on something too fast can be a mistake. Tae Bo was once the latest and greatest craze, but where is it now?

There seemed to be some correlation between devotion to God and a misguided zeal for marshmallows.

Learn a little of anything, and you're ready to proselytize.

This individual does not know where initiative ends and rocket-propelled idiocy begins.