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Quotes About Interest

I don't want you to say, 'This is gross.' I want you to say, 'I thought this would be gross, but it's really interesting!' Okay, and maybe a little gross.
~ Mary Roach
It was very different when the masters of science sought immortality and power; such views, although futile, were grand: but now the scene was changed. The ambition of the inquirer seemed to limit itself to the annihilation of those visions on which my interest in science was chiefly founded. I was required to exchange chimeras of boundless grandeur for realities of little worth.
~ Mary Shelley
Who could be interested in the fate of a murderer, but the hangman who would gain his fee?
~ Mary Shelley
Cualquier inteligencia normalmente dotada que se dedique con interes a determinada area, llega sin duda a dominarla con cierta profundidad.
~ Mary Shelley
It was very different, when the masters of the science sought immortality and power; such views, although futile, were grand: but now the scene was changed. The ambition of the inquirer seemed to limit itself to the annihilation of those visions on which my interest in science was chiefly founded. I was required to exchange chimeras of boundless grandeur for realities of little worth.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The ambition of the inquirer seemed to limit itself to the annihilation of those visions on which my interest in science was chiefly founded. I was required to exchange chimeras of boundless grandeur for realities of little worth.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I had a contempt for the uses of modern natural philosophy. It was very different, when the masters of the science sought immortality and power; such views, although futile, were grand: but now the scene was changed. The ambition of the inquirer seemed to limit itself to the annihilation of those visions on which my interest in science was chiefly founded. I was required to exchange chimeras of boundless grandeur for realities of little worth.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Cure for an obsession: get another one.
~ Mason Cooley
If he or she leans away from you with his or her body faced elsewhere, then it is likely that he or she does not want to talk to you or does not enjoy the subject you are talking about.
~ Matt Morris
If you are interested in someone, communicate it
~ Matt Morris
Philip Livingston, too, alludes to the virtuous atheist in his magazine from the 1750s: "It is an Opinion too generally received, that Man is led into all the Crimes and Extravagancies he commits, thro' Unbelief. And no Wonder this Doctrine, false as it is, should be so vigorously inculcated by Men whose Interest consists in a Depression of rational Faculties."174
~ Matthew Stewart
If they bulge in the brain or anywhere else of interest, the wallet is a good alternate location. And I should know.
~ Maureen Johnson
Kaz was always enthusiastic. His special interest was the environment, and he spent a lot of time getting Ellingham to convert to composting toilets. Kaz cared a lot about composting toilets.
~ Maureen Johnson
Stevie's other big interest outside crime was disaster, so she had seen Titanic many times. It was clear to her that there was plenty of room on that door for two people. Jack was murdered.
~ Maureen Johnson
A boy and a girl, I forget their names. The two of them seemed to be a pair. The girl had hair like a raven and the boy looked a bit like Byron. They were interested in poetry. They had a little light behind the eyes. The girl asked me about Dorothy Parker
~ Maureen Johnson
Since a value is that which one acts to gain and/or keep, and the amount of possible action is limited by the duration of one's lifespan, it is a part of one's life that one invests in everything one values. The years, months, days or hours of thought, of interest, of action devoted to a value are the currency with which one pays for the enjoyment one receives from it.
~ Ayn Rand
Aku tersandung pada salah satu rahasia yang tersimpan dengan baik tentang orang-orang kulit hitam: kebanyakan orang kulit hitam tidak tertarik dengan revolusi; kebanyakan kami merasa lelah dengan masalah ras.
~ Barack Obama
Finally, there are the dangers inherent in any autobiographical work: the temptation to color events in ways favorable to the writer, the tendency to overestimate the interest one's experiences hold for others
~ Barack Obama
But what McConnell lacked in charisma or interest in policy he more than made up for in discipline, shrewdness, and shamelessness—all of which he employed in the single-minded and dispassionate pursuit of power.
~ Barack Obama
El mundo es complicado, Bar. Por eso es interesante.»
~ Barack Obama
Still, key Democratic interest groups—especially the big industrial unions—resisted any environmental measures that might threaten jobs for their members; and in polls we conducted at the start of my campaign, the average Democratic voter ranked climate change near the bottom of their list of concerns. Republican
~ Barack Obama
the White House's interest in maintaining a sizable troop presence in Iraq was about more than a simple desire to ensure stability and reduce violence. It was also about preventing Iran from taking further advantage of the mess we'd made.
~ Barack Obama
The eye sees what it cares enough to see.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Students work to get good grades even when they have no interest in their studies.
~ Barry Schwartz