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Daily Inspiration Quote by Parker Stevenson

"I like people who are enthused about things they do, like travel, sports, work. I like being with people who have things they're excited about"

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Stevenson’s line reads like a casual preference, but it’s really a quiet manifesto about energy as social currency. He’s not praising achievement, taste, or even talent; he’s praising momentum. “Enthused” is the key word: it signals a kind of active engagement with life that can’t be faked for long, the opposite of the jaded cool that so often passes for sophistication. In an industry built on performance, he’s choosing a quality that’s legible off-camera. Enthusiasm is the one trait you can’t outsource to publicists.

The specificity of his examples matters, too. Travel, sports, work: three arenas where commitment shows up differently - curiosity, discipline, purpose - but all share the same underlying posture: an appetite for experience. By listing broad, accessible pursuits, Stevenson avoids sounding elitist; he’s not demanding rarefied passions, just proof that a person is awake to their own life.

There’s subtext in the repetition of “I like.” It’s relational, not aspirational. He’s describing what he wants to be around, suggesting that excitement is contagious and that companionship is less about matching identities than matching voltage. For an actor of his generation, who’s moved through fame’s cycles and the long middle stretch of a career, it also lands as a survival strategy: stay close to people who still care. Enthusiasm becomes a hedge against cynicism, a way of choosing vitality without making it a self-help slogan.

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Stevenson, Parker. (2026, January 15). I like people who are enthused about things they do, like travel, sports, work. I like being with people who have things they're excited about. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-like-people-who-are-enthused-about-things-they-163174/

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Stevenson, Parker. "I like people who are enthused about things they do, like travel, sports, work. I like being with people who have things they're excited about." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-like-people-who-are-enthused-about-things-they-163174/.

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"I like people who are enthused about things they do, like travel, sports, work. I like being with people who have things they're excited about." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-like-people-who-are-enthused-about-things-they-163174/. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.

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Parker Stevenson (born June 4, 1952) is a Actor from USA.

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