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Quotes About Interest

Nothing the human can read is more interesting than you. Therefore, when the human picks up a book, magazine, or newspaper, you may best assist him or her by interposing your magnificent Self between the page and humanity.
~ Unknown
He had no interest in precision, or even any ability to be precise.
~ Michael Wolff
alarm signals first went off among his new campaign staff: he seemed to lack the ability to take in third-party information. Or maybe he lacked the interest; whichever, he seemed almost phobic about having formal demands on his attention
~ Michael Wolff
Donald Trump became a symbol of the media's own self-loathing: the interest in and promotion of Donald Trump was a morality tale about the media.
~ Michael Wolff
You have to take an interest in something in life, I told myself. I wondered what could interest me, now that I was finished with love. I could take a course in wine tasting, maybe, or start collecting model aeroplanes.
~ Michel Houellebecq
Vous vous intéressez aux vins? - Ça me donne une contenance; ça fait français. Et puis il faut s'intéresser à quelque chose, dans la vie, je trouve que ça aide.
~ Michel Houellebecq
the tables were taken by law students talking about rave parties or 'junior associates', in other words, those things which interest law students
~ Michel Houellebecq
You have to take an interest in something in life, I told myself. I wondered what could interest me, now that I was finished with love. I could take a course in wine tasting, maybe, or start collecting model airplanes.
~ Michel Houellebecq
I've more or less finished with the world as narration – the world of novels and films, the world of music as well. I'm now only interested in the world as juxtaposition – that of poetry and painting.
~ Michel Houellebecq
La traditionnelle lucidité des dépressifs, souvent décrite comme un désinvestissement radical à l'égard des préoccupations humaines, se manifeste en tout premier lieu par un manque d'intérêt pour les questions effectivement peu intéressantes. Ainsi peut-on, à la rigueur, imaginer un dépressif amoureux, tandis qu'un dépressif patriote paraît franchement inconcevable.
~ Michel Houellebecq
La tradicional lucidez de los depresivos, descrita a menudo como un desinterés radical por las preocupaciones humanas, se manifiesta ante todo como una falta de implicación en los asuntos que realmente son poco interesantes. De hecho, es posible imaginar a un depresivo enamorado, pero un depresivo patriota resulta inconcebible
~ Michel Houellebecq
Usually I write about what I care about, which is a weakness but I think also a strength.
~ Mickey Kaus
He casts a sheep's eye at the wench.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
Everything we experience—joy or pain, interest or boredom—is represented in the mind as information. If we are able to control this information, we can decide what our lives will be like.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Everything we experience—joy or pain, interest or boredom—is represented in the mind as information. If we are able to control this information, we can decide what our lives will be like. The
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Even the most highly respected physicist, artist, or politician becomes a hollow bore and ceases to enjoy life if all he can interest himself in is his limited role in the universe. 4.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Without interest in the world, a desire to be actively related to it, a person becomes isolated into himself.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
without disinterested interest life is uninteresting.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
If you are interested in something you will focus on it, and if you focus attention on anything, it is likely that you will become interested in it.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
If you are interested in something you will focus on it, and if you focus attention on anything, you will become interested in it.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
If you are interested in something, you will focus on it, and if you focus attention on anything, it is likely that you will become interested in it. Many of the things we find interesting are not so by nature, but because we took the trouble of paying attention to them.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Life doesn't just happen it's constructed through the history of power. And that's something I am interested in and so is the art world: a world that's trying to engage socially, with a leftist slant, to work out how we got here.
~ Mike Mills
It's no coincidence that female interest in the sport of baseball has increased greatly since the ballplay- ers swapped those wonderful old-time baggy flannel uniforms for leotards.
~ Mike Royko
Immortality no longer interests the weary old man at all.
~ Milan Kundera