Quotes About Interest

He is altogether selfish, she thought in some surprise, the only man I have ever sat and talked to alone, and I am impatient; he is simply not very interesting. Why don't you grow up by yourself? she asked him, and wondered how many people—how many women—had already asked him that.

Detesto scrivere pezzi autobiografici: se il materiale è noioso non bisognerebbe infliggerlo a nessuno, e se è interessante dovrei usarlo per un racconto.

Once you have the solution, the problem might not be interesting.

Life is impoverished, it loses in interest, when the highest stake in the game of living, life itself, may not be risked. It becomes as shallow and empty as, let us say, an American flirtation.

Finalmente, há outro fato que se deve ter em mente como capaz de levar os sonhos a serem esquecidos, a saber, que a maioria das pessoas têm muito pouco interesse pelos seus sonhos. Qualquer um, como um pesquisador científico, que preste atenção aos seus sonhos por certo período de tempo, terá mais sonhos do que habitualmente - o que, sem dúvida, significa que ele se recorda dos seus sonhos com maior facilidade e frequencia.

In states of acute crisis analysis is to all intents and purposes unusable. The ego's whole interest is taken up by the painful reality and it withholds itself from analysis, which is attempting to go below the surface and uncover the influences of the past.

T]he theory of Empedocles which especially deserves our interest is one which approximates so closely to the psychoanalytic theory of the instincts that we should be tempted to maintain that the two are identical, if it were not for the difference that the Greek philosopher's theory is a cosmic phantasy while ours is content to claim biological validity.

I believe that a biography is more effectual than any other kind of literature in turning the mind into a new channel, and causing it to take an interest in the concerns of others rather than its own. GEORGE HAMILTON-GORDON, 5th EARL of ABERDEEN

The Social Security's medical consultants support the interest not of the victims but of the organization.

The gospel crew could never consider their converts as human beings, like waiters or manicurists or brakemen, but they had in them such a professional interest as surgeons take in patients, critics in an author, fishermen in trout.

What I have never witnessed is a writer's work succeeding notably in a field he doesn't habitually read for pleasure.

The best of good writing will entice us into subjects and knowledge we would have declared were of no interest to us until we were seduced by the language they were dressed in.

Shopping is actually very similar to farming a field. You can't keep buying the same thing, you have to have a bit of variety. Otherwise you get bored and stop enjoying yourself.

Mum's suddenly become interested in LOC

you're interested, mum could start cooking lessons today. nat

You haven't been home before eleven this week!" This is what I mean by an insatiable interest. She probably has all my details logged somewhere in a little book.

Life became a science when interest shifted from the dissection of dead bodies to the study of action in living beings and the nature of the environment they live in.

I consider myself perfectly normal, and I don't know of any part of my life that would be so unusual as to interest the idly curious.

I think that there are these two very different sides to my relation to the Bible: one, my professional life; the other, a more private concern, interest and fascination with the Bible.

I've never seen one Star Trek in my whole life.

People always seem to be interested in my private life because I'm married to a pop star.

I'm not taking any interest in politics. I'm not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing now.

I've been car crazy my whole life, since I was nine years old. It's just something I'm very aware of.

Doing a story about my mundane, waking life, how much I don't like my job, or breaking up with someone, I don't think so. Those stories don't interest me that much as a general thing.