People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.
I loved gymnastics. I was eager to compete. I was hungry to go out there and be the best in the world, and I had that determination.
Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.
In 1970, Dean Robert Ebert offered me the Chair of Pathology at Harvard Medical School. I moved to Harvard because I missed the university environment and, more particularly, the stimulating interaction with the eager, enthusiastic, and unprejudiced young minds of the students and fellows.
Activity in politics also produces eager competition and sharp rivalry.
From the moment he took office in January of 1961, Kennedy had been eager to settle the Cuban problem without overt military action by the United States.
Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
