Interest Quotes

• 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

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• 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

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• Find what you love and let it kill you.

  Charles Bukowski

  Love, Inspirational, Death

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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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• 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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• 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

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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

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• The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'

  Isaac Asimov

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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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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• The only art I'm interested in is the art I don't understand right away. If you understand it right away it really has no use except as nostalgia.

  Lawrence Weiner

  Art, Understanding, Use

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• An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

  Aldous Huxley

  Education, Wisdom, Witty

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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, Fighting

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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

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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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• 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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• All of us take an interest, to a greater or lesser extent, in what people around us look like, what they are doing, and why they are doing it.

  David Cobley

  People, Looks, Greater

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• I'm not interested in the texture of a rock, but in its shadow.

  Ellsworth Kelly

  Rocks, Shadow, Texture

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• Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

  James F. Byrnes

  Friendship, Beautiful, Self

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• The most powerful force in the universe is gossip.

  Dave Barry

  Powerful, Pay The Price, Civilization

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• Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Football, Play, Special

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• I like to work with the same people when I can, and you want to get people with the same interests that you have, and the same aesthetic.

  Spike Lee

  People, Want, Aesthetic

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• I wasn't interested in holding onto the evidence of things.

  Jim Hodges

  Holding On, Evidence

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