Quotes About Interest

If behind popular fascination with Freudian theory there was a nervous, often guilty preoccupation with the self as sexual, behind increasing interest in computational interpretations of mind is an equally nervous preoccupation with the self as machine.

From watching children play with objects designed as "amusements," we come to a new place, a place of cold comforts. Child and adult, we imagine made to measure companions. Or, at least we imagine companions who are always interested in us.

Interest sparked in Jess's eyes. "Then

Who can ever know what turns the spark into flame? Vidanric's initial interest in me might well have been kindled by the fact that he saw my actions as courageous, but the subsequent discovery of passion, and the companionship of the mind that would sutain it, seemed as full of mystery as it was of felicity. As for me, I really believe that the spark had been there all along, but I had been too ignorant--and too afraid--to recognize it.

But Buddha was not interested in the elements comprising human beings, nor in metaphysical theories of existence. He was more concerned about how he himself existed in this moment.

I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.

It was Balfour, who as prime minister in 1903, had offered Uganda to the Zionists, but now he was out of power. Weizmann feared that his languid interest was just 'a mask', so he explained that if Moses had heard about Ugandaism 'he would surely have broken the tablets again'.

I] read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.

was the heroic creation of a legion of interested and enthusiastic men and women of wide general knowledge and interest; and it lives on today, just as lives the language of which it rightly claims to be a portrait.

This attitude means you haven't met a girl worthy of your attention. You'll want to get caught if the right girl comes along.

The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.

Perhaps the world s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

One's religion is whatever he is most interested in, and yours is Success.

I ought to warn you that my verse is of no interest to people who can think.

but the story's interest lies in my struggle over semantics and the moral resonance of interpreting the meaning of a word.

And later in the letter, he elaborated further, "It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

I'm very much a believer in knowing what it is that you love doing so you can do a great deal of it.

So many people don't know that God loves them. They feel, 'Why would God love me? Why would He be interested in me?

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

The bit I love is I really love acting, really, and the circus of being a celebrity is something I'm sort of not interested in. I find it strange.

I am super-interested in fashion. I love being a person whose clothes get discussed. That makes it more interesting for me.

My love is for acting not money, so I only take on roles that I find challenging, in stories I find interesting.

In love abides all knowledge. It is mankind's love and interest in things that in time reveals their secret.

I love David Caruso. I know it's not cool, but I do. I watch CSI: Miami. I think he's interesting.