“Ultimately, I think starting with unlearning some of the default assumptions you have about your hobbies and interests has the potential to unlock so many things for you.”— Kayla Kumari, autostraddle.com
“Lisa: I like school. Homer: Well, why don't you live in it then? Lisa: I would if I could.”— Dan Greaney, Lisa Simpson, Yeardley Smith, imdb.com
“In all the world the only thing that interests me is the truth.”— Steven Knight, C.I. Chester Campbell, Sam Neill, imdb.com
“If someone is different than you - see it as an invitation to learn about them instead of seeing it as a reason to distance yourself because they aren’t the same as you.”— Ryan Pernofski, twitter.com
“The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity.”— Martin Van Buren, amazon.com
“Interests are not discovered through introspection. Instead, interests are triggered by interactions with the outside world. The process of interest discovery can be messy, serendipitous, and inefficient. This is because you can't really predict with certainty what will capture your attention and wh…”— Angela Duckworth, amazon.com
“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, en.wikiquote.org
“That’s what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I’m not fooling anyone. Oh, and I go to the mailbox.”— Nicole Krauss, amazon.com
“Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you’re supposed to. Stay home on New Year’s Eve if that’s what makes you happy. Skip the committee meeting. Cross the street to avoid making aimless chitchat with random acquaintances. Read. Cook. Run. Write a story.”— Susan Cain, amazon.com
“If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.”— Katharine Hepburn, thecultureconcept.com
“A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.”— Michel Foucault, en.wikiquote.org
“I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He taught me that if you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it at full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good eith…”— Roald Dahl, amazon.com
“I’m very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.”— Antonia Fraser, encyclopedia.com
“We may idealize freedom, but when it comes to our habits, we are completely enslaved.”— Sogyal Rinpoche, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com