Jenny Holzer Quotes

I can't say that there are 'things' that make me come alive. There are thoughts that make me come alive.

It’s the same thing. Passion is passion. It’s the excitement between the tedious spaces, and it doesn’t matter where it’s directed.

We definitely need to get the excitement back.

Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.

You have to do anything you can think of that gets you excited.

I've been able to get an excitement back in the water.

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I'm borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

I never want things to be dull.

Fun gets people going; fun gets people excited.

I think when you've got a passion for something, it comes out of you, and people can feel it. Then your mind is so geared towards that and how you can improve on it, and you're so excited about performing that it comes together.

I don't worry about running myself ragged. I worry about being bored.

Everybody knows when I get in the zone... I just kind of go crazy. I have a lot of fun.

Movement inspires a lot in me.

I get fired up when emotions are involved. I think it pulls a little bit of extra out of me.

If you're not excited by it, why do you do it?

...I mean, you don't just love people, you must LOVE them with exclamation points.

Down with boredom. It has to go.

Anything that doesn't bore me I think is doable because it's keeping me awake.

One cannot deny that if a person has the energy to get you interested and excited, then that is half the battle won, like all the great leaders had this quality.

Seek passion, seek passion, seek passion!

I've so much left to explore, it's enormously exciting to me. It's a passion. I just try and get better at what I do, and I study it very hard, like it is my life degree.

Inspiration is being motivated by a person or idea. Motivation is being inspired by an object. When people are inspired, they don't need motivation.

There is nothing greater than enthusiasm.

I think we were promoting New Moon just as I was finishing The Runaways, and I remember going to Comic-Con with a Minor Threat T-shirt on. I was really happy and excited to be there, but I was so defensive and crazy.

Do not be afraid of enthusiasm. You need it. You can do nothing effectively without it.