Interest Quotes

• The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.

  William Morris

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  William Morris, May Morris (2012). “The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris”, p.94, Cambridge University Press

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  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.

  Henry James

  Art, Consideration, Process

  Letter to H. G. Wells, 10 July 1915

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• Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Things In Life, Important, Life Happiness

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• My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born, and that is all that is necessary.

  Albert Einstein

  Simple, Facts, Life Is

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.15, Princeton University Press

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• There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when it's convenient. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses - only results.

  Ken Blanchard

  Success, Work, Adventure

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• 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

  Nature, Interesting, Focus

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1997). “Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life”, p.128, Basic Books

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• The strongest force in the universe is Compound Interest.

  Albert Einstein

  Being Yourself, Being Real, I Love Myself

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• Learn to leave things. If you don't have an interest in something, you don't need even to transcend it!

  Mooji

  Needs, Ifs

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• If we merely try to impress people and get people interested in us, we will never have many true, sincere friends. Friends, real friends, are not made that way.

  Dale Carnegie

  Friendship, Best Friend, Real

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.53, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Self, People, Blind

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• The library in summer is the most wonderful thing because there you get books on any subject and read them each for only as long as they hold your interest, abandoning any that don't, halfway or a quarter of the way through if you like, and store up all that knowledge in the happy corners of your mind for your own self and not to show off how much you know or spit it back at your teacher on a test paper.

  Polly Horvath

  Summer, Teacher, Book

  Polly Horvath (2008). “My One Hundred Adventures”, p.10, Schwartz & Wade

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• The outside world holds no interest for me without you." -Edward

  Stephenie Meyer

  World, Eclipse, Without You

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• To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.

  Tryon Edwards

  Education, Teacher, Business

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.1350, Ravenio Books

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• The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspirational, Happiness, Inner Peace

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.90, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Wisdom begins in wonder.

  Socrates

  Wise, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Mean, People

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.176, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There are two levers for moving men - interest and fear.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Courage, Motivation, Fear

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• Write down each day what surprised you and how you surprised others. When something strikes a spark of interest, follow it.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Writing, Each Day, Sparks

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• Here on the edge of the river, the motifs are very plentiful, the same subject seen from a different angle gives a subject for study of the highest interest and so varied that I think I could be occupied for months without changing my place, simply bending a little more to the right or left.

  Paul Cezanne

  Thinking, Rivers, Giving

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• An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Encouraging, Education, Money

  Jack Vincent, Benjamin Franklin (2010). “Benjamin Franklin's the Way to Wealth”, p.91, The Way to Wealth

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• I have always been very interested in landscape... I find that all natural forms are a source of unending interest - tree trunks, the growth of branches from the trunk, each finding its own individual air-space.

  Henry Moore

  Space, Air, Tree

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• Do studies, not pictures. Know when you are licked - start another. Be alive, stop when your interest is lost.

  Charles Webster Hawthorne

  Alive, Study, Lost

  Richard Mühlberger, Charles Webster Hawthorne (1999). “Charles Webster Hawthorne”, University of Washington Press

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• I have a great interest in a number of things, perhaps too many. I admire people who seem to concentrate on only one fixed discipline to the exclusion of almost everything else.

  Tom Glazer

  Numbers, Discipline, People

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• Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

  Henry Miller

  Music, Beauty, Beautiful

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• For me the only things of interests are those linked to the heart

  Audrey Hepburn

  Heart, Linked

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