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Quotes About Interest

Nothing remains beautiful and interesting except thought, because the thought is the life.
~ George Bernard Shaw
it is in middle age that the interest of a life attains its highest point.
~ Janet Erskine Stuart
There are many families where the whole interest of life is centered upon the dog.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
I've always said in my career and in my life I only do things I'm interested in.
~ John Barrowman
there is not enough interest in life to spread over twenty-four hours when one can't sleep.
~ Madame de Stael
... he preferred being stimulated to being bored.
~ Ruth Harris
Besides the fact that I make movies, there's nothing interesting about my life at all, unfortunately.
~ Jonah Hill
Life is a Shylock; always it demands The fullest userer's interest for each pleasure. Gifts are not freely scattered by its hands; We make returns for every borrowed treasure.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
My father is so jolly, and I live a really happy life. I think that's why all my interest in the darker things in films comes up: because I'm curious about things I don't live in.
~ Jennifer Lynch
And I like those authors best whose scenes describe my own situation in life-- and the friends who are about me whose stories touch me with interest, from resembling my own homely existence.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you attack Stupidity you attack an entrenched interest with friends in government and every walk of public life.
~ Robertson Davies
I don't think people are interested in my personal life. I've never had a Hollywood life. I've always been a worker.
~ Willem Dafoe
I like to be challenged. I like rebellion. It adds some richness and some interest to life.
~ Albert Serra
It is natural to think that an abstract science cannot be of much importance in affairs of human life, because it has omitted from its consideration everything of real interest.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
I was primarily interested in people, and people in action, so that I did nothing photographically in the sense of doing buildings for their own sake or a still life or anything like that.
~ Ben Shahn
It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Comedy has sort of been my life-long obsession. I literally obsessed over comedy. I really didn't play sports - for me it was just comedy, computers and chess club; those were my big things.
~ Chris Hardwick
Although these early Christian authors subordinated science and the study of nature to the needs of religion, they often indicated an interest in nature, as did Basil, that transcended the mere ancillary status that the study of nature was customarily accorded.
~ Edward Grant
We did politics awfully well. The problem with that is there may have been something to the fact that people would rather watch space monsters, enigmas, and anomalies than politics.
~ Edward Gross
fan or a fan of regular TV shows, or even if you aren't
~ Edward Jones
It follows that in the reporting of strikes, the easiest way is to let the news be uncovered by the overt act, and to describe the event as the story of interference with the reader's life. This is where his attention is first aroused and his interest most easily enlisted.
~ Edward L. Bernays
Instead of describing ADD as an inability to concentrate, this model presents it as the ability to concentrate on everything. The world always is alive and ripe with sources of interest.
~ Edward M. Hallowell
With every step forward we become more sure what the disorder is not: it is not willful misbehaving, it is not a moral failing, it is not a lack of trying nor an inability to take an interest in the world. Neurobiological data now show that the syndrome is rooted in the central nervous system.
~ Edward M. Hallowell
The massive interest in self-esteem and self-worth exists because it is trying to help us with a real problem. The problem is that we really are not okay. There is no reason why we should feel great about ourselves. We truly are deficient. The meager props of the self-esteem teaching will eventually collapse as people realize that their problem is much deeper. The problem is, in part, our nakedness before God.
~ Edward T. Welch