Uninterested Quotes

• There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  I Hate You, Ignorance, People

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• Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

  Harry S. Truman

  Greatness, Be Good

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• Let me... remind you that it is only by working with an energy which is almost superhuman and which looks to uninterested spectators like insanity that we can accomplish anything worth the achievement. Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Discipline, Perfect, Achievement

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• Sometimes, when you have someone behind the counter who's supposed to assist you and help you out, just being completely bored and uninterested - sometimes it's a little bit frustrating, you know?

  Caroline Dhavernas

  Bored, Littles, Just Being

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• Not to like ice cream is to show oneself uninterested in food.

  Joseph Epstein

  Ice Cream, Icy, Shows

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• I'm tired of my life, my clothes, the things I say. I'm hacking away at the surface, as at some kind of gray ice, trying to break through to what is underneath or I am dead. I can feel the surface trembling—it seems ready to give but it never does. I am uninterested in current events. How can I justify this? How can I explain it? I don't want to have the same vocabulary I've always had. I want something richer, broader, more penetrating and powerful.

  James Salter

  Powerful, Tired, Ice

  James Salter, Robert Phelps (2010). “Memorable Days: The Selected Letters of James Salter and Robert Phelps”, p.25, Counterpoint Press

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• There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Earth, Artistic Temperament

  Heretics (1905) ch. 3

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• You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Life, Success, Money

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• If you create something that is asking for people to respond as they're going to respond, you have to allow them to respond as they're going to respond. Some of the people are going to be uninterested and some people are going to be mad for some reason, which is their business. That's just the way the world is.

  Charlie Kaufman

  People, Mad, Asking

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• If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Selfish People, Psychology, Selfishness

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.48, Publishdrive

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• Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Work, Perfect, Trust In God

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1994). “Papers”

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• The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Love, Inspirational, Friendship

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• If you can think of times in your life that you’ve treated people with extraordinary decency and love, and pure uninterested concern, just because they were valuable as human beings. The ability to do that with ourselves. To treat ourselves the way we would treat a really good, precious friend. Or a tiny child of ours that we absolutely loved more than life itself. And I think it’s probably possible to achieve that. I think part of the job we’re here for is to learn how to do it

  David Foster Wallace

  Jobs, Children, Thinking

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• I have a tendency to run after people who are completely unattainable and uninterested and make a complete fool of myself.

  Martha Wainwright

  Running, People, Unattainable

  "Formerly Known as What's-His-Name's Sister" by Daphne Merkin, www.elle.com. April 20, 2011.

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• My creative process begins when I get out with the camera and interact with the world. A camera is truly a license to explore. There are no uninteresting things. There are just uninterested people.

  Jerry Uelsmann

  Photography, People, Creative

  "Master Interview; Jerry Uelsmann". Interview with Chris Maher and Larry Berman, www.shutterbug.com. September 1, 2007.

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• I'm uninterested in superheroes. I am only interested in real stories, real people, real connection.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Real, People, Superhero

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. September 21, 2012.

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• Identity for me is something that has to be played with and explored, and not become complacent about or uninterested in.

  Mika

  Identity, Complacent

  "The Nowhere Boy: Mika Finds Confidence in Coming Out". Interview with Zack Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 18, 2013.

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• There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. Nothing is more keenly required than a defence of bores. When Byron divided humanity into the bores and bored, he omitted to notice that the higher qualities exist entirely in the bores, the lower qualities in the bored, among whom he counted himself. The bore, by his starry enthusiasm, his solemn happiness, may, in some sense, have proved himself poetical. The bored has certainly proved himself prosaic.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Boredom, Humanity, Quality

  1905 Heretics, ch.3.

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• As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.

  Yann Martel

  Sloth, Sound, Hearing

  Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In the ideal sense nothing is uninteresting; there are only uninterested people.

  Brooks Atkinson

  People, Perspective, Ideals

  Brooks Atkinson (1951). “Once around the sun”

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• If you are uninterested in what I say, there's an end to it. If you like what I say, please try to understand which previous influences have made you like it. If you like some of the things I say, and dislike others, you could try to understand why. If you dislike all I say, why not try to find out what formed your attitude?

  Idries Shah

  Attitude, Trying, Why Not

  Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.10, Octagon Press Ltd

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• I'm not only uninterested in having children. I am opposed to having children. Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; it is nothing but vanity, human vanity.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Baby, Dog, Children

  "New Yorker" Magazine, April 23, 2003.

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• In one way they make the movie something you can handle because it's character driven and it's slightly off center. That's what's attractive, but it also has the potential of being cutesy and sappy. I am so uninterested in that.

  Campbell Scott

  Character, Driven, Attractive

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I am aware of the technical distinction between ‘less’ and ‘fewer’, and between ‘uninterested’ and ‘disinterested’ and ‘infer’ and ‘imply’, but none of these are of importance to me. ‘None of these are of importance,’ I wrote there, you’ll notice – the old pedantic me would have insisted on “none of them is of importance”. Well I’m glad to say I’ve outgrown that silly approach to language

  Stephen Fry

  Silly, Language, Distinction

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• It’s not important,” Silena insisted. “We have to find Charlie!” Another first: a child of Aphrodite uninterested in jewellery.

  Rick Riordan

  Children, Important, Firsts

  Rick Riordan (2010). “Percy Jackson: The Demigod Files: The Demigod Files”, p.47, Penguin UK

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