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Quotes About Interest

if you can talk to them about themselves, you'll have their full attention.
~ Jay Conrad Levinson
The government is not interested in a foreign plot. It has its perpetrators and they don't want anyone or anything complicating it," Cannistraro postulated in a bold departure from his previous fence-sitting comportment
~ Jayna Davis
The only thing worse than being bored is being boring.
~ Jean Baudrillard
It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him.
~ Jean Rostand
I have been thinking about you a great deal this summer; having somebody take an interest in me after all these years makes me feel as though I had found a sort of family. It seems as though I belonged to somebody now, and it's a very comfortable sensation.
~ Jean Webster, Daddy Long Legs
Que le verbe se fasse chair est décidément la seule chose qui m'intéresse. Le mystère de l'incarnation n'est pas à mes yeux une affaire de religion mais d'esthétique.
~ Jean-Bertrand Pontalis
I believe the most intricate plot won't matter much to readers if they don't care about the characters, especially in a series. So I try to focus hard on making each character, whether villain or hero, have an interesting flaw that readers can relate to.
~ JEFF ABBOTT
The proper monitoring attitude is not to be distrustful, but instead, to show interest in their work.
~ Jeff Atwood
A future driven by genes has little to no direction and only short-term goals: stay healthy, have kids, enjoy life. A future designed in the best interest of knowledge has both direction and end goals.
~ Jeff Hawkins
I don't know if this makes me a bad person or whatever, but it's hard for me to get interested in other people's vacations.
~ Jeff Kinney
I certainly believe that improving our intelligence is of important national interest.
~ Jeff Sessions
The Thing about people who wanted to show you things was that sometimes their interest in granting you knowledge was laced with a little voyeuristic sadism. They were waiting for the Look or the Reaction, and they didn't care what it was so long as it inflicted some kind of discomfort.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
The thing about people who wanted to show you things was that sometimes their interest in granting you knowledge was laced with a little voyeuristic sadism. They were waiting for the Look or the Reaction, and they didn't care what it was so long as it inflicted some kind of discomfort.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Marriage isn't a vow to stop being interested in other people; it's a commitment as to how to handle that interest.
~ Egon Schiele
Contudo, o sentimento em relação às terras distantes permanece, e o interesse por elas jamais arrefece. Assim, o homem cavouca, insaciável, em épocas passadas e em culturas desconhecidas. A rigidez da própria existência aumenta, e essas épocas e culturas oferecem o instrumento inesgotável para a transformação.
~ Elias Canetti
The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria …" His voice broke. "Father
~ Elie Wiesel
We were learning firsthand that the so-called national 'folk boom' had more to do with celebrity than with any deep grassroots interest.
~ Elijah Wald
Indeed nature is more suggestive of a mother juggling resources to ensure each family member's welfare as she works out differences of interest to make the whole family a cooperative venture, than of a rational engineer designing perfect machinery that obeys unchangeable laws.
~ Elisabet Sahtouris
Nothing has done more damage to the Christian view of life than the hideous notion that those who are truly spiritual have lost all interest in the world and its beauties.
~ Elisabeth Elliot
he found himself wanting to learn more. About her brain and her bra.
~ Elizabeth Bevarly
A creative life is an amplified life. It's a bigger life, a happier life, an expanded life, and a hell of a lot more interesting life. Living in this manner—continually and stubbornly bringing forth the jewels that are hidden within you—is a fine art, in and of itself.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
curiosity only ever asks one simple question: "Is there anything you're interested in?
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Multiple discovery even happens in romantic relationships. Nobody's been interested in you for years and years, and suddenly you have two suitors at the same time? That's multiple discovery, indeed!
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
I had only asked writing to be interesting. And it was always interesting to me. Even when I couldn't do it right, it was still interesting to me. It still interests me. Nothing has ever interested me more. That profound sense of interest kept me working
~ Elizabeth Gilbert