Interest Quotes - Page 5

All interesting heroes have an Achilles heel.

I chose to be an agitator. And there's one interesting thing about being an agitator - and I tell people - the next time you put your underwear in the washing machine, take the agitator out, and all you're going to end up with is some dirty, wet drawers.

Anyway, there is a lot of really interesting work going on in the neuroscience and psychology of consciousness, and I would love to see philosophers become more closely involved with this.

The more you expose yourself as a celebrity, the less interesting you are to watch in your work, because if you're putting yourself out there all the time, you're not holding anything back.

What the universe will manifest when you are in alignment with it is a lot more interesting than what you try to manifest

I've always said it's interesting to watch devils cry when angels want to stab you in the back. I like that mixture.

If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.

Stay curious, keep learning and keep growing. And always strive to be more interested than interesting.

Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never!

A man who limits his interests limits his life.

Keep in mind our Constitution predates the Industrial Revolution. Our founders did not know about electricity, the train, telephones, radio, television, automobiles, airplanes, rockets, nuclear weapons, satellites, or space exploration. There's a lot they didn't know about. It would be interesting to see what kind of document they'd draft today. Just keeping it frozen in time won't hack it.

You must place interest in principle above interest on principal.

I'm not interested in meeting people's expectations, and I'm not interested in pleasing people.

You want to be interesting? Be interested.

Being powerful is so much more interesting than being beautiful.

If I, deaf, blind, find life rich and interesting, how much more can you gain by the use of your five senses!

The Bible is endlessly interesting because it is God's story, and God by nature is himself endlessly interesting. The Bible is an ever-flowing fountain. The more you read it, the more you find its truth and beauty to be inexhaustible.

A revolutionary career does not lead to banquets and honorary titles, interesting research and professorial wages. It leads to misery, disgrace, ingratitude, prison and a voyage into the unknown, illuminated by only an almost superhuman belief.

I have a cause higher and nobler than my own, a cause to which all private interests and concerns must be subordinated.

Camouflage is the most interesting of all the arts.

The whole subject of the X rays is opening out wonderfully, Bragg has of course got in ahead of us, and so the credit all belongs to him, but that does not make it less interesting. We find that an X ray bulb with a platinum target gives out a sharp line spectrum of five wavelengths which the crystal separates out as if it were a diffraction grating. In this way one can get pure monochromatic X rays. Tomorrow we search for the spectra of other elements. There is here a whole new branch of spectroscopy, which is sure to tell one much about the nature of an atom.

I am very much aware of the visual side of things. I do a lot of photography. I often take Polaroids of things that strike me as visually interesting, just to remember them and perhaps use later.

People think I have an interesting walk. Hell, I'm just trying to hold my gut in.

Epidemiology is like a bikini: what is revealed is interesting; what is concealed is crucial.

Our aim as scientists is objective truth; more truth, more interesting truth, more intelligible truth. We cannot reasonably aim at certainty. Once we realize that human knowledge is fallible, we realize also that we can never be completely certain that we have not made a mistake.