Intensely Interested Quotes

#1. I've always found that the best travelers are the very same people who are intensely interested in the history and culture of their own home city.

Arthur Frommer

#2. Deep listening is miraculous for both listener and speaker. When someone receives us with open- hearted, non-judging, intensely interested listening, our spirits expand.

Sue Thoele

#3. To become a good clinical neurologist, you have to be intensely interested by what the brain does, how it works, how it breaks down.

Allan H. Ropper

#4. The important point is to become intensely interested in the mental picture or imaginary act, making it real and natural.

Joseph Murphy

#5. Most English writers are not interested in change but in the social novel. That demands a static backdrop. I'm intensely interested in change - probably as a matter of self-preservation. What the hell is going to happen next?

J.G. Ballard

#6. I remember that already as a child I was often intensely interested in things, obsessed by ideas and projects in many areas, and in these topics I learned much on my own, reading books.

Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

#7. As a child, I would demand that visitors to our house tell me a story. I was intensely interested in everything - still am.

Kerry Greenwood

#8. But the boy was not cheated by her ignorance. He was not intensely interested in answers, the things themselves were enough. So he ran on, holding the leaf by its twig, or feather by its quill, and whereas his mother thought mostly of arriving, discovery kept him in a state of endless being.

Patrick White

#9. When I was in the fourth grade, I became intensely interested in geography and I learned it well.

Clyde Tombaugh

#10. Communists have no respect for people, only for positions.

E.L. Doctorow

#11. If the black vote does not come out in big numbers in the age of Ferguson and voter ID, it will empower our adversaries and enhance our marginalization.

Al Sharpton

#12. What has been the tale of me? ... (in May 16, 1848 letter to Abiah Root)

Emily Dickinson

#13. Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.

Lech Walesa

#14. Poetry is a niche genre, sure, but it has a way of opening people up. It opens me up. As with music and art, poetry is an essential human art and discussing its genesis, fruition and prose with somebody legitimately interested is intensely rewarding.

Nicholas Trandahl

#15. At the risk of being a fuddy-duddy I don't have a computer; I don't have e-mail; and I really don't need something in my house that I would be sitting in front of for hours.

Marian McPartland

#16. Men make opportunity. Every great industrial achievement has been the result of individual effort - the practical development of a dream in the mind of an individual.

Charles M. Schwab

#17. I remember very distinctly being so tall I didn't fit sleeves, so I ended up modeling lingerie and bathing suits, sleeveless stuff, basically. I didn't have a good body, but I believed I knew how to stand or pose to mask it.

Geena Davis

#18. If I go to a party I don't feel like I have to be in the centre. But I do find myself quite often being placed in that position. Even when I was younger at school, I would be asked to make a speech. I don't remember putting up my hand and all that often but I'd just find myself there.

Hugh Jackman

#19. One of the great issues in biology is the origin of altruism - of why you would do something for someone else that could hurt you - and Darwin posited that it might be rooted in maternal instinct, in sacrificing yourself for your children.

Isabella Rossellini

#20. Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.

Anatole France

#21. I never knew I liked to be outside so much. I never knew I liked lochs and views and that, but I could seriously handle living in a cottage by the side of somewhere like this.
The Panopticon

Jenn Fagan

#22. If certain places you came to in life felt right, then how many others were just as clearly the wrong place to be?

Paul Russell