#Interest Quotes

“Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations”

“The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.”

“I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.”

“The exercise of voluntary attention in the schoolroom must therefore be counted one of the most important points of training that take place there; and the first-rate teacher, by the keenness of the remoter interests which he is able to awaken, will provide abundant opportunities for its occurrence.”

“The prescription is that the subject must be made to show new aspects of itself; to prompt new questions; in a word, to change. From an unchanging subject the attention inevitably wanders away.”

“The difference between an interesting and a tedious teacher consists in little more than the inventiveness by which the one is able to mediate these associations and connections, and in the dullness in discovering such transitions which the other shows.”

“In teaching, you must simply work your pupil into such a state of interest in what you are going to teach him that every other object of attention is banished from his mind; then reveal it to him so impressively that he will remember the occasion to his dying day; and finally fill him with devouring curiosity to know what the next steps in connection with the subject are.”

“If, then, you wish to insure the interest of your pupils, there is only one way to do it; and that is to make certain that they have something in their minds to attend with, when you begin to talk. That something can consist in nothing but a previous lot of ideas already interesting in themselves, and of such a nature that the incoming novel objects which you present can dovetail into them and form with them some kind of a logically associated or systematic whole.”

“Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.”

“Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already exists.”

“Millions of items in the outward order are present to my senses which never properly enter into my experience. Why? Because they have no interest for me. My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind --without selective interest, experience is an utter chaos.”

“That which is most personal, is most interesting.”

“The most natively interesting object to a man is his own personal self and its fortunes. We accordingly see that the moment a thing becomes connected with the fortunes of the self, it forthwith becomes an interesting thing.”

“Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.”

“All that we need explicitly to note is that, the more the passive attention is relied on, by keeping the material interesting; and the less the kind of attention requiring effort is appealed to; the more smoothly and pleasantly the classroom work goes on.”

“Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already exists. The two associated objects grow, as it were, together; the interesting portion sheds its quality over the whole; and thus things not interesting in their own right borrow an interest which becomes as real and as strong as that of any natively interesting thing.”

“Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?”

“Political interest [can] never be separated in the long run from moral right.”

“I could say much about politics, our only entertainment here, but you would not care a fig about that.”

“I have long felt that the way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things.”

“I have long felt that the way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things. Lecturing to children is no answer to delinquency. Preaching won't keep youngsters out of trouble, but keeping their minds occupied will.”

“The interests of a nation, when well understood, will be found to coincide with their moral duties.”

“Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.”

“Every child has inside him an aching void for excitement and if we don't fill it with something which is exciting and interesting and good for him, he will fill it with something which is exciting and interesting and which isn't good for him.”

“People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project (Muscle Shoals Dam) nor contribute a pound of material, will collect more money from the United States than will the People who supply all the material and do all the work. This is the terrible thing about interest.”

“My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting.”

“Biochemical interactions are very interesting to me.”

“There are men who are wanting in the comparative, they as a rule are the most interesting.”

“Facts are not interesting to me.”

“I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.”

“As for another profession ... I suppose I'd manage a global-macro hedge fund. I love that kind of stuff. Weird, I know, but I find it fascinating.”

“When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always interesting.”

“Start it at no particular time of your life; wander at your free will all over your life; talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment; drop it the moment its interest threatens to pale.”

“Imitators? All right! Disciples if you like. But disciples be damned. It's not interesting.”

“My interest in my work dies a sudden and violent death when the work is done.”

“I must keep on trying, just to keep the experiment going until I get tired of it all. Even if the last result is not necessarily the best, I stop when my interest in the problem wanes.”

“Philip Larkin didn't write for several years before his life ended. And when he was asked why he didn't write, he said the muse deserted him. And when I read that, it really had a profound effect upon me, sort of scared me. So that's why I think I have no right to assume that some thought is going to come... But I think, in my imagination, if it is it, there will probably be something else I'm interested in.”

“I've reached the moment where the movement of my thought interests me more than the thought itself.”

“Commerce is really as interesting as nature.”

“Men are like bank accounts. The more money, the more interest they generate.”

“We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.”

“When you lose interest in anything, you also lose the memory for it.”

“A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.”

“I'm really interested in smells. I think I'd like to own a perfumery someday.”

“Never lose interest in life and the world. Never allow yourself to become annoyed.”

“Taxation, for example, is eternally lively; it concerns nine-tenths of us more directly than either smallpox or golf, and has just as much drama in it; moreover, it has been mellowed and made gay by as many gaudy, preposterous theories”

“It is a maxim, founded on the universal experience of mankind, that no nation is to be trusted farther than it is bound by its interest; and no prudent statesman or politician will venture to depart from it.”

“In general I esteem it a good maxim, that the best way to preserve the confidence of the people durably is to promote their true interest”

“Men are very apt to run into extremes, hatred to England may carry come into an excess of Confidence in France... I am heartily disposed to entertain the most favourable sentiments of our new ally and to cherish them in others to a reasonable degree; but it is a maxim founded on the universal experience of mankind, that no nation is to be trusted farther than it is bound by its interest; and no prudent statesman or politician will venture to depart from it.”

“Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.”