Interest Quotes

• My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born, and that is all that is necessary.

  Albert Einstein

  Simple, Facts, Life Is

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.15, Princeton University Press

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• The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.

  William Morris

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  William Morris, May Morris (2012). “The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris”, p.94, Cambridge University Press

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• There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when it's convenient. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses - only results.

  Ken Blanchard

  Success, Work, Adventure

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• The strongest force in the universe is Compound Interest.

  Albert Einstein

  Being Yourself, Being Real, I Love Myself

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• To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.

  Tryon Edwards

  Education, Teacher, Business

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.1350, Ravenio Books

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• Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

  Henry Miller

  Beauty, Music, Beautiful

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• The artist's interest cannot be restricted to a single field; he must seek the highest perception of everything, of the whole and its details.

  Asger Jorn

  Artist, Perception, Fields

  Asger Jorn, Per Hovdenakk, Stine Høholt, Arken museum for moderne kunst (Ishøj, Denmark), Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst (Amstelveen, Netherlands) (2002). “Asger Jorn”

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• You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Best Friend, Cute

  Dale Carnegie (2012). “The Leader In You”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• If you are interested in something, you will focus on it, and if you focus attention on anything, it is likely that you will become interested in it. Many of the things we find interesting are not so by nature, but because we took the trouble of paying attention to them.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Nature, Interesting, Focus

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1997). “Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life”, p.128, Basic Books

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• This paper will no doubt be found interesting by those who take an interest in it

  John Dalton

  Motivational, Interesting, Doubt

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• I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.

  Winston Churchill

  Russia, Keys, Action

  Radio broadcast, 1 Oct. 1939

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• A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Curiosity, World

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• Only one thing has to matter for everything to matter.

  Jose Bergamin

  Matter, One Thing

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• I have a great interest in a number of things, perhaps too many. I admire people who seem to concentrate on only one fixed discipline to the exclusion of almost everything else.

  Tom Glazer

  Numbers, Discipline, People

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• I'm in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Writing, Clothes, Feelings

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• The cultivation of a hobby and new forms of interest is a policy of first importance to a public man.

  Winston Churchill

  Men, Firsts, Hobbies

  Winston Churchill (1965). “A Man of Destiny: Winston S. Churchill”

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• It is better decoration when, in painting, some monstrosity is introduced for variety and a relaxation of the senses and to attract the attention of mortal eyes, which at times desire to see that which they have never seen.

  Michelangelo

  Eye, Relaxation, Desire

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• Imitators? All right! Disciples if you like. But disciples be damned. It's not interesting.

  Pablo Picasso

  Interesting, Disciple, Ifs

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• The only pictorial matter that is of interest to me is the matter and sentiments brought about by the work itself.

  Pablo Picasso

  Matter, Sentiments, Pictorial

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• Certainly a chair can be just as interesting as a human being. But first the chair must be perceived by a human being... You should not paint the chair, but only what someone has felt about it.

  Edvard Munch

  Interesting, Firsts, Paint

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• All my life I've been interested in other people's stories. I wanted to know them, understand them, feel them.

  William J. Clinton

  People, Stories, Feels

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• I have always been very interested in landscape... I find that all natural forms are a source of unending interest - tree trunks, the growth of branches from the trunk, each finding its own individual air-space.

  Henry Moore

  Air, Space, Tree

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• Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Things In Life, Important, Life Happiness

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• The responsibility of the artist consists in perfecting his work so that it may become attractively disinteresting.

  John Cage

  Responsibility, Artist, May

  John Cage (2011). “Silence: Lectures and Writings, 50th Anniversary Edition”, Wesleyan University Press

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• What can be said about a man who is interested in nothing but his painting? It's a pity if a man can only interest himself in one thing. But I can't do any thing else. I have only one interest.

  Claude Monet

  Men, Painting, Pity

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