“Practice being excited.”

Negative thoughts are contagious and they get passed around like a disease.

Inventively visioned, superbly crafted, and rich with insight into the physical and spiritual dilemmas that confront us all, each new work provides an unexpected pleasure.

Joanna Priestley’s amazing body of animated films have deservedly earned their place in the pantheon of contemporary international animators.

I inoculate myself against the fear of failure.

I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.

I just have an enthusiasm for life.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.

Just give your natural enthusiasm free reign and say whatever comes into your head.

Art cannot single-handedly create enthusiasm… it merely contributes to enthusiasm and guides us to be more conscious of feelings that we might previously have experienced only tentatively or hurriedly.