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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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• Today, scientists sound the alarm on other environmental dangers. Vested interests still hire their own scientists to confuse the issue. But in the end, nature, will not be fooled.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Issues, Environmental, Alarms

  "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey/ The Clean Room". Documentary, 2014.

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

  Ellsworth Kelly

  Rocks, Shadow, Texture

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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

  "Betting On a Bass That Belts Them Out; Singing Fish Becomes Season’s Unlikely Hit" by Darragh Johnson, The Washington Post, July 30, 2000.

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• I do not always find the streets interesting, so I wait until I see picturesque groups and those that compose well in relation to the whole.

  Childe Hassam

  Interesting, Waiting, Groups

  Ulrich W. Hiesinger, Childe Hassam, Jordan-Volpe Gallery (1994). “Childe Hassam: American impressionist”, Te Neues Pub Group

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

  Jim Hodges

  Holding On, Evidence

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• Have a special interest, a positive prejudice about some clump of trees or one particular knoll, an excitement about them can spread through the whole composition, and so fire the rest of the things that you are only mildly interested in.

  John French Sloan

  Fire, Tree, Special

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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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• 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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• 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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• What interests me the most is expressing what's in nature, in the visible world, that is.

  Giorgio Morandi

  World, Visible

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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, Energy, Generations

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

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• The bank hath benefit of interest on all moneys which it creates out of nothing.

  William Paterson

  Historical, Banking, Credit

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• A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.

  John Ciardi

  Inspirational, Education, Teenager

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• Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Leadership, Responsibility

  Albert Einstein (1970). “Albert Einstein: philosopher-scientist”

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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

  Keys, Russia, Action

  Radio broadcast, 1 Oct. 1939

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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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• The things that go on in my head are far more interesting than what actually happens.

  Nicole Kidman

  Interesting, Goes On, Happens

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• I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Peace, Interesting, People

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History”, p.151, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Find what you love and let it kill you.

  Charles Bukowski

  Love, Inspirational, Death

  "Did Charles Bukowski Really Say, 'Find What You Love and Let it Kill You?'" by Jef Rouner, www.houstonpress.com. July 16, 2013.

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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'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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