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, Commitment

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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, Cute, Friendship

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

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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, Details

  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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• 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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• 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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• The strongest force in the universe is Compound Interest.

  Albert Einstein

  Being Yourself, Being Real, I Love Myself

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• Items of interest will be located, identified, monitored, and remotely controlled through technologies such as radio-frequency identification, sensor networks, tiny embedded servers, and energy harvesters - all connected to the next-generation internet using abundant, low-cost, and high-power computing.

  David Petraeus

  Technology, Radio, Next

  "CIA Chief: We'll Spy on You Through Your Dishwasher" by Spencer Ackerman, www.wired.com. March 15, 2012.

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• Once I began to consider everything as being of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value.

  Alain de Botton

  Layers, Latent, Objects

  Alain De Botton (2008). “The Art of Travel”, p.225, Vintage

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• Imagination is the most powerful force in the universe.

  Albert Einstein

  Powerful, Pay The Price, Civilization

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• Find what you love and let it kill you.

  Charles Bukowski

  Love, Inspirational, Death

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• Friends are those rare people who ask how we are, and then wait to hear the answer.

  Ed Cunningham

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• People want to know why the South is so interested in the Civil War. I had maybe, it's a rough guess, about fifty fistfights in my life. Out of those fifty fistfights, the ones that I had the most vivid memory of were the ones I lost. I think that's one reason why the South remembers the war more than the North does.

  Shelby Foote

  Memories, War, Loss

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• To see something spectacular and recognise it as a photographic possibility is not making a very big leap. But to see something ordinary, something you’d see every day, and recognize it as a photographic possibility - that is what I am interested in.

  Stephen Shore

  Photography, Vision, Ordinary

  "Stephen Shore's best shot" by Leo Benedictus, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2007.

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• I want you to be afraid to turn the page (and to do that) you need to show right from the beginning that you're playing for keeps.

  George R. R. Martin

  Reading, Writing, Novelists

  "Interview with George R.R. Martin at Comicon". GeeksOn podcast (Episode 54), www.geekson.com. August 4, 2006.

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• I have found that women are not only just as much interested as men are in flying, but apparently have less fear than the men have. At least, more women than men asked to go up with me. And when I took them up, they seemed to enjoy it.

  Katherine Stinson

  Strong Women, Fear, Flying

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• Wisdom begins in wonder.

  Socrates

  Wise, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• I believe when we look different and carry something different, people are going to see that and want it too.

  Britt Nicole

  Believe, Individual Differences, People

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• I'm not interested in fame and glory. It's just that I would like others to know what a happy dance this is.

  Frankie Manning

  Happy, Dance, Glory

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• If we merely try to impress people and get people interested in us, we will never have many true, sincere friends. Friends, real friends, are not made that way.

  Dale Carnegie

  Friendship, Best Friend, Real

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.53, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Things of the spirit are what count: brotherhood – in a day when there is too much hatred at home and abroad; cheerfulness – in a day when the pessimists have the floor and cynics are popular; service – in a day when millions are interested in getting or grasping, rather than giving

  E. Urner Goodman

  Hate, Home, Giving

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• Depressed, anxious, sad, frightened? Yes. But I've never been bored.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Sad, Depression, Boredom

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• To me it is no mystery that we can only photograph effectively what we are truly interested in or-maybe more importantly-are grappling with. Often unconsciously. Otherwise the photographs are merely about an idea or a concept-that stuff eventually falls flat for me-there must be something more, some emotional hook for it to really work for me.

  Todd Hido

  Photography, Fall, Emotional

  "A conversation with Todd Hido". Interview with Joerg Colberg, jmcolberg.com. June 18, 2007.

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• Anyone interested in design must be interested in other fields of expression - theater, ballet, photography, literature, music.

  Lester Beall

  Inspirational, Dance, Photography

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