The first quote

My quote for this day is "Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm" by: Ralph Waldo Emerson. Alright so there is probably not as many people out there that know about Emerson as there probably should be. But as we know, he was born in 1803 and died in 1882. He was probably one of the most important American essayists in our history. He wrote many essays, and was influenced by Montaigne. Some of his works were "Education, Self-Reliance, and The American Scholar".
To the point, what do I think this quote means, well I can give you a story. I am in a psychology class and the other day we were talking about how if your going around looking for things to critique then your going to find things that you can critique, and if you go around looking for happy things... your going to go around finding happy things, this is a simple phrase called mind set. So some examples are Thomas Edison, who spent hundreds of hours simply trying to invent a working lightbulb. He made thousands of them until he stummbled upon the right way eventually. If he was not motivated and enthusiastic to make a light bulb, we may not have any to this day. That was some thing great in my opinion. Or another example is Albert Einstein, he made many theories, and invented many things, not because he was bored...Because he was enthused to do so. He wanted to. And all of us know that Albert Einstein did many great things. One last example I can use is Adolf Hitler, definetly someone who did great things "terrible...But great" (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Ollivander said in the wand shop). Adolf Hitler took over almost all of Europe and nearly brought the worlds booming powers to their knees. Scary I know. But do you think he did those things simply because there was nothing else to do...NO, of course not. So these are the things that Emerson meant, these things are not just something people want to do to pass the time, great things only happen if someone is enthused to continue on something that their interested in.
So my opinion for you all is when you go out tonight in your sad or mad moods, think about something happy, get yourself into a better mind set. Who knows maybe you'll come across something that will amaze all of mankind.