Henry Theodore Tuckerman Quotes

It's impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren't feeling twinkly yourself

I think irony precludes really feeling deeply about anything. I just didn't want to be that kind of writer who found nothing that wasn't worth indictment. I admire Willa Cather so much because she was unafraid to have big feelings and put them on the page. I just want to be able to believe in things.

I'm a passionate person, to a fault at times.

You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world.

I've known Jan, probably, very well for, well, for over a decade. And the passion that Jan just showed the viewers in that particular piece is very real.

I like the enthusiasm but not the insincerity of Los Angeles.

If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's not an expression of how a person genuinely feels, then it's not a good song done with any conviction.

I think I have a lot of energy, and most of it is quite aggressive energy. But in a positive way, I think. It's like a positive aggression.

The only thing that comes naturally to me is my energy.

I think when people listen to music, they can truly feel authenticity. For me personally, as a listener, there's certain songs where I'm just like, 'Man, I know that person was really feeling that.'

Become the most passionate person you know. It'll be contagious.

If I am interested, amazed, stimulated to work, that is sufficient reason to thank the gods, and go ahead!

Never forget that all the enthusiasm you need is in your mind. Let it out - let it live - let it motivate you.

One of the important qualities that I think is often overlooked is just energy. It's vitality, and sort of a life force that some people have and others don't. Probably that is connected to a love of whatever it is that they're doing. Another quality that I think is central is confidence. Again, some people are more blessed with that than others.

It's necessary to have an energy that carries you forward. You need the will to live, to have a great curiosity. To look for the best in life, to find new interests.

Enthusiasm is the power that transfers the mental blueprint into the physical dimension.

Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding

Respond to every call that excites your spirit.

Enthusiasm does not always speak for those who arouse it, but always for those who experience it.

Being ill makes you feel what well people call sentimental, but what you feel is nonetheless genuine whatever they call it.

Find something you're passionate about and just love. Passion is really gender neutralizing.

Love cannot exists as a duty; to tell a child that it ought to love its parents and its brother and sisters is utterly useless, if not worse.

I'm attracted to intelligence and creativity and passion - and not necessarily the romantic kind. I want to learn from someone who is greedy for information and light and laughter and the whole world. Someone who celebrates their days and finds inspiration in what other people accomplish.

...True prayer is measured by weight, not by length. A single groan before God may have more fullness of prayer in it than a fine oration of great length.

The key that unlocks energy is desire. It's also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited.