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“I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.”
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“Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it ... he who doesn't ... pays it.”
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“The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion . . . open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony.”
― My Name Is Red
― My Name Is Red

“Destiny is a lie. Destiny is justification for atrocity. It is the means by which murderers armour themselves against reprimand. It is a word intended to stand in place of ethics, denying all moral context.”
― Midnight Tides
― Midnight Tides

“My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.”
― Soliloquies in England & Later Soliloquies
― Soliloquies in England & Later Soliloquies
“I knew people were talking, but I wasn't listening. I wasn't interested in anything anyone had to say.”
― Suicide Notes
― Suicide Notes

“The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully funny; whose attitude is:
"Tell me more. Tell me all you can. I want to understand more about everything you feel and know and all the changes inside and out of you. Let more come out."
And if you have no such friend,--and you want to write,--well, then you must imagine one. ”
― If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit
"Tell me more. Tell me all you can. I want to understand more about everything you feel and know and all the changes inside and out of you. Let more come out."
And if you have no such friend,--and you want to write,--well, then you must imagine one. ”
― If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit

“If one has failed to develop curiosity and interest in the early years, it is a good idea to acquire them now, before it is too late to improve the quality of life.
To do so is fairly easy in principle, but more difficult in practice. Yet it is sure worth trying. The first step is to develop the habit of doing whatever needs to be done with concentrated attention, with skill rather than inertia. Even the most routine tasks, like washing dishes, dressing, or mowing the lawn become more rewarding if we approach them with the care it would take to make a work of art. The next step is to transfer some psychic energy each day from tasks that we don鈥檛 like doing, or from passive leisure, into something we never did before, or something we enjoy doing but don鈥檛 do often enough because it seems too much trouble. There are literally millions of potentially interesting things in the world to see, to do, to learn about. But they don鈥檛 become actually interesting until we devote attention to them.”
― Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life
To do so is fairly easy in principle, but more difficult in practice. Yet it is sure worth trying. The first step is to develop the habit of doing whatever needs to be done with concentrated attention, with skill rather than inertia. Even the most routine tasks, like washing dishes, dressing, or mowing the lawn become more rewarding if we approach them with the care it would take to make a work of art. The next step is to transfer some psychic energy each day from tasks that we don鈥檛 like doing, or from passive leisure, into something we never did before, or something we enjoy doing but don鈥檛 do often enough because it seems too much trouble. There are literally millions of potentially interesting things in the world to see, to do, to learn about. But they don鈥檛 become actually interesting until we devote attention to them.”
― Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life

“I don't have time, energy, or interest in hating the haters; I'm too busy loving the lovers.”
― Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
― Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“I hadn鈥檛 been a nerd, mind you. I鈥檇 just been the type of guy who spent a lot of time by himself, focused entirely on a single consuming interest.”
― Firefight
― Firefight

“Is it that you don鈥檛 like people, or that you just grow tired of them and can鈥檛 for the life of you remember why you ever found them interesting?”
― Find Me
― Find Me
“We think we are being interesting to others when we are being interesting to ourselves.”
― Words Are Not Things
― Words Are Not Things
“Every beginner possesses a great potential to be an expert in his or her chosen field.”
― Think Great: Be Great!
― Think Great: Be Great!

“People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project 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 ...But here is the point: If the Nation can issue a dollar bond it can issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good makes the bill good also. The difference between the bond and the bill is that the bond lets the money broker collect twice the amount of the bond and an additional 20%. Whereas the currency, the honest sort provided by the Constitution pays nobody but those who contribute in some useful way. It is absurd to say our Country can issue bonds and cannot issue currency. Both are promises to pay, but one fattens the usurer and the other helps the People. If the currency issued by the People were no good, then the bonds would be no good, either. It is a terrible situation when the Government, to insure the National Wealth, must go in debt and submit to ruinous interest charges at the hands of men who control the fictitious value of gold.”
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“O: Hey youngman, you should respect me!
Y: Hey oldman, you should understand me!”
― Master of Stupidity
Y: Hey oldman, you should understand me!”
― Master of Stupidity

“None of the people have any real interest in a science, who only begin to be enthusiastic about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it.”
― Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
― Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

“By becoming interested in the cause, we are less likely to dislike the effect.”
― How to Win Friends & Influence People
― How to Win Friends & Influence People

“If we wanted to construct a basic philosophical attitude from these scientific utterances of Pauli's, at first we would be inclined to infer from them an extreme rationalism and a fundamentally skeptical point of view. In reality however, behind this outward display of criticism and skepticism lay concealed a deep philosophical interest even in those dark areas of reality of the human mind which elude the grasp of reason. And while the power of fascination emanating from Pauli's analyses of physical problems was admittedly due in some measure to the detailed and penetrating clarity of his formulations, the rest was derived from a constant contact with the field of creative processes, for which no rational formulation as yet exists.”
― Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science
― Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science

“We wish to discuss a structure for the salt of deoxyribose nucleic acid. (D.N.A.). This structure has novel features which are of considerable biologic interest.”
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“Interest and enthusiasm are the wellspring of continually evolving community life: they create bonds which unite us whether we are young or old, nearby or far from each other; they allow human warmth and love to be the formative forces in personal and community life and striving.”
― Education for special needs: Principles and practice in Camphill Schools
― Education for special needs: Principles and practice in Camphill Schools

“I started studying law, but this I could stand just for one semester. I couldn't stand more. Then I studied languages and literature for two years. After two years I passed an examination with the result I have a teaching certificate for Latin and Hungarian for the lower classes of the gymnasium, for kids from 10 to 14. I never made use of this teaching certificate. And then I came to philosophy, physics, and mathematics. In fact, I came to mathematics indirectly. I was really more interested in physics and philosophy and thought about those. It is a little shortened but not quite wrong to say: I thought I am not good enough for physics and I am too good for philosophy. Mathematics is in between.”
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“Nobody will deny that there is an interest in philosophy today. But鈥攊s there anything at all left today in which man does not take an interest, in the sense in which he understands "interest"?”
― What is Called Thinking?
― What is Called Thinking?

“Thus, you see, he arrived at the same end, via supposed duty, that he was previously pledged to via interest. I fancy a good number of us, when any line of action will promote our own interest, can make ourselves believe that reasons exist which compel us to it as a duty.”
― My Lady Ludlow and Other Stories
― My Lady Ludlow and Other Stories

“When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country.”
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“Don't run around looking for someone who can sexually satisfy you, run around and look for the book which will intellectually satisfy you.”
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“Passion is different from interest. Those who are just interested in things have the 鈥渨ish鈥�, but passionate people have the 鈥渨ill鈥�.”
― Dream big!: See your bigger picture!
― Dream big!: See your bigger picture!

“Una volta aveva letto un romanzo d'amore che le aveva prestato la sorella. Non aveva capito niente di quelle emozioni e si era annoiata da morire. Era anormale? Il suo corpo e il suo cuore sarebbero stati eternamente sordi a quel genere di richiami?”
― Les Fianc茅s de l'hiver
― Les Fianc茅s de l'hiver
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