“But most of all, I like to watch people. Sometimes I ride the subway all day and look at them and listen to them. I just want to figure out who they are and what they want and where they are going.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“So fierce is the passion that burns within my heart, a raging forest fire, unstoppable and all consuming.”— Michael Faudet, twitter.com
“You can have a very intense relationship with fictional characters because they are in your own head.”— J. K. Rowling, amazon.com
“To thoroughly understand the world, to explain it, to despise it, may be the thing great thinkers do. But I’m only interested in being able to love the world, not to despise it, not to hate it and me, to be able to look upon it and me and all things with love and admiration and great respect.”— Herman Hesse, amazon.com
“Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and try to have patience, if you can.”— J.R.R Tolkien, amazon.com
“It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing.”— Søren Kierkegaard, amazon.com
“She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.”— Michael Ondaatje, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.”— Mark Haddon, amazon.com
“I think it’s foolish for people to want to be happy. Happy is so momentary—you’re happy for an instant and then you start thinking again. Interest is the most important thing in life. Happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous.”— Georgia O’Keeffe, goodreads.com
“I’m not interested in your past, I’m interested about what makes you tick, what makes you angry, what keeps you sane - tell me those things. You have my undivided attention. People waste so much time on reputation that they simply forget that you aren’t the same person who did those things back then…”— Unknown, quotemadness.com
“I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn’t.”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“It's amazing what we can do when our passions meet a purpose greater than ourselves. And that's why we need to explore our curiosities, invest in more interests us, follow what intrigues us. Transformational ideas can come from anywhere and anyone. And that's why we're chasing genius.”— Jay Shetty, youtube.com