Top 97 Lose Interest Quotes
#2. She wondered if literature might lose some of its interest when she reached an age or state of mind where her life was set on such a sure course that the things she read might stop seeming so powerfully like alternate directions for her being.
Charles Frazier
#3. I wasn't aware of my dad being an actor when I was young. I remember there was an Australian children's entertainer on television called Ralph Harris and when I'd say my father was an actor, kids would say, you know, 'oh, is he Ralph Harris?' And I had to say no and then they would lose interest.
Jared Harris
#4. We humans are unhappy in large part because we are insatiable; after working hard to get what we want, we routinely lose interest in the object of our desire. Rather than feeling satisfied, we feel a bit bored, and in response to this boredom, we go on to form new, even grander desires.
William B. Irvine
#5. We have the ability (under special circumstances) to transcend self-interest and lose ourselves (temporarily and ecstatically) in something larger than ourselves. I called this ability the hive switch.
Jonathan Haidt
#6. We need time to lose interest in things.
Don DeLillo
#7. When you lose interest in a program, your last duty to it is to hand it off to a competent successor.
Eric S. Raymond
#8. I know she would want me to still do what I'm doing, because she kept me going a lot of times when I'd almost lose interest in getting out on the road.
Earl Scruggs
#9. It is simply this: do not tire, never lose interest, never grow indifferent - lose your invaluable curiosity and you let yourself die. It's as simple as that.
Tove Jansson
#10. It never failed - I'd buy a new journal, write like a madwoman for ten pages, then lose total interest in the process. Three months later, I'd start the whole process all over again. I think I just liked buying new notebooks.
MaryJanice Davidson
#11. As publishers focus on blockbusters, they steadily lose interest in little-known authors from other countries.
Stephen Kinzer
#12. Well, when you're the youngest of five, parents kind of lose interest more and more through the children. I think my eldest brother was under loads of pressure to do something amazing with his life, but by the time I came around they were like, 'Well, let's hope he doesn't kill a guy.'
Chris O'Dowd
#13. I would tell him how he almost made us lose interest in passion by his obsession with the gestures empty of their emotions, and how we reviled him, because he almost caused us to take vows of chastity, because what he wanted us to exclude was our own aphrodisiac - poetry.
Anais Nin
#14. Readers tend to like a character who is at least superficially like themselves. But they quickly lose interest unless this particular character is somehow out of the ordinary. The character may wear the mask of the common man, but underneath his true face must always be the face of the hero.
Orson Scott Card
#15. I thought that maybe it is not so much, as he seems to think, that the world loses interest in female performers after they hit a certain age, than the performers lose interest in the world.
Lara St. John
#16. I just think that sports movies have such a built-in visceral, rooting interest, an epic win or lose redemptive quality. When they get it right, it can make for a really rousing movie experience.
Shawn Levy
#17. You don't need to think deeply before reaching out to the excuses to give. Just lose interest in it and you gain excuses at no cost!
Israelmore Ayivor
#18. It's only one date. I can do it. And you'll probably lose interest afterward."
"No other woman's ever needed to give herself a pep talk to spend time with me."
"That you know of.
Ann Bruce
#19. Political and social history are in my view two aspects of the same process. Social life loses half its interest and political movements lose most of their meaning if they are considered separately.
F. M. Powicke
#20. We love a good, hyped sound, but when it starts to sound insincere, that's when I lose interest. I hope that our music, even if it sounds polished, doesn't sound insincere.
Nate Ruess
#21. I think audiences, producers and directors included, develop crushes on actors (actresses in particular) and then lose interest and move on to the next one.
Julia Stiles
#22. Never let a boy know you're crazy about him. He'll lose interest, and then you'll be a loser.
Hailey Abbott
#23. In youth, it is common to measure right and wrong by the opinion of the world, and in age, to act without any measure but interest, and to lose shame without substituting virtue.
Samuel Johnson
#24. I sometimes lose interest in the characters and get much more interested in the trees and animals.
Toni Morrison
#25. I see two opposite tendencies in Turkish society: people feel demoralized, they lose the interest in politics and retreat to their private lives; or they become very angry and even more politicized, and radicalized. Both trends are troublesome.
Elif Safak
#26. I must frankly admit that ... I should probably lose all interest in life and would rather not be a German at all. But since, thank the Lord, this cannot be done, we have no need to be surprised that the health, unspoiled people avoid 'bourgeois mass meetings' as the devil holy water.
Adolf Hitler
#27. When I write a film, there's a particular thing I am wrestling with and the question or concern I'm dealing with has to be big enough for me to dedicate a year or two of my life. If the question isn't big enough, or rich enough, I'll lose interest.
Josh Radnor
#28. The people I know who have retired, so many of them lose interest and die; they just become nobodies overnight.
Gerry Harvey
#29. Let life kick you off your pedestal time and time again, until you lose all interest in being on pedestals.
Jeff Foster
#30. When things are too easy I lose interest in them so I find ways to complicate them to get myself interested.
Richard Marx
#31. One of the first signs of being depressed is that you lose interest in things. That's why I think it is important to stay passionate.
Nicolas Cage
#32. If you're not connected emotionally to a story, then you're dead. You're really just opening the door for people to lose interest and their minds to wander, for them to start picking it apart.
Paul Feig
#33. When we accomplish a goal, it instantly loses some of its importance and we tend to lose interest. When we write down too many goals, there is plenty to keep our subconscious mind at work.
Mark Victor Hansen
#35. Ah, in every age there is always some new wonder to astound mankind until they grow accustomed to it and lose interest.
Jose Saramago
#36. If a movie has more characters than an audience can keep track of, the audience will get confused and lose interest in the story.
Seth Grahame-Smith
#37. To deem us simply enemies is to lose the true flavor of our relationship. It was more like the two of us entered into a business partnership in order to more efficiently pursue our mutual interest of hating each other.
Patrick Rothfuss
#38. Politics has always been a mud fight - better that citizens jump in the trough
than lose interest.
James Poniewozik
#39. Over the years I've seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that.
Billy Graham
#40. I like the songs to appear very simple and to flow by without any kind of hiccup, but there has to be this impression of other currents underneath. Like if the songs aren't, on some level, multidimensional, we lose interest in them.
Gillian Welch
#41. But I'm not interested in politics. I lose interest the microsecond it ceases to be emotional, when something becomes a political movement. What I'm interested in is emotions.
Bjork
#42. We all lose our looks eventually. Better develop your character and interest in life.
Jacqueline Bisset
#43. The NBA and NHL have different agendas: The NBA is much more protective of its players and its brand; the NHL has less to lose, and it's in their best interest to generate buzz any way they can.
Bill Simmons
#44. I lifted you from the tomb world just now and I will continue to lift you until you lose interest and want to quit. But you will have to stop searching for me because I will never stop searching for you.(Mercer)
Philip K. Dick
#45. I'd like to lose interest in myself ...
Don DeLillo
#46. Unlike mere action, prayer is not subject to immediate evaluation or verification. If we are addicted to "results" we will quickly lose interest in prayer.
Eugene H. Peterson
#47. It was all tragic information because it wasn't me, but I definitely didn't lose interest and move on
Anthony Kiedis
#48. I love the first hour of a horror movie, the fear and anticipation. Then, when it gets bloody, I lose interest.
Sean Durkin
#49. The criticism is, once I get something flying, I lose interest in it.
Burt Rutan
#50. Some are interested in the mysterious, but lose interest once they think they know you.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#51. Usually, you lose interest in a story beyond a certain point. But with 'Highway,' there was something very subtle, yet something very influential. I intended 'Highway' to be the first film that I ever made. Didn't happen.
Imtiaz Ali
#52. Men don't want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
Tennessee Williams
#53. A lot of times when I've been offered film series and stuff, if they shoot in Los Angeles, I lose interest.
Karen Allen
#54. I'm looking for trouble. A lot of people get to be a certain age and they just kind of lose interest or they give up. But I'm looking for trouble.
John Mellencamp
#55. There is nothing more common than for people who want to talk about God to lose interest in the people they are talking to.
Eugene H. Peterson
#56. In the public interest, therefore, it is better that we lose the services of the exceptions who are good Judges after they are seventy and avoid the presence on the Bench of men who are not able to keep up with the work, or to perform it satisfactorily.
William Howard Taft
#57. Unless I'm really uneasy with what I'm writing, I lose interest very quickly.
Paul Haggis
#58. We cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great.
Thomas Merton
#59. You're lucky if I watch 10 minutes of wrestling a month. Most of the time, I channel surf, and I lose interest after a few minutes.
Jesse Ventura
#60. Tozer wrote, When the followers of Jesus Christ lose their interest in heaven they will no longer be happy Christians, and when they are no longer happy Christians they cannot be a powerful force in a sad and sinful world.
Randy Alcorn
#61. People who are "in love" lose interest in other pursuits. That is why we call it "obsession.
Gary Chapman
#62. Education teaches children to lose interest in what matters most to them.
Paul Russell
#63. You only need two or three details to set the scene. More than that and you can lose the reader's interest.
Marc Levy
#64. When this is over, the media will lose interest. There'll be nothing to say. It won't fit into a headline anymore. It won't fit into a template.
Robert Pattinson
#65. Sometimes when you want something for so long, you lose interest when you finally get it. "I
Natavia Stewart
#66. I think there's too much emphasis placed on learning things by rote that you don't really care about. So what happens to students in school is that they eventually lose interest in learning, because they've been forced to learn the required courses, rather than pursing their passion.
Jack Canfield
#67. I could never get excited about games you play with other people. I can't get into them. I lose interest.
Haruki Murakami
#68. If we who follow Christ, with all the facts before us and knowing what we are about, deliberately choose the kingdom of God as our sphere of interest, I see no reason why anyone should object. If we lose by it, the loss is our own; if we gain, we rob no one by so doing.
A.W. Tozer
#69. All the problems and challenges make life interesting. It makes the living worthwhile. If everything follows a straight order, we lose our interest out of life.
Roshan Sharma
#70. Loaves of bread remind us of sunlight, but when we are inside that orb,we lose interest in building ovens,in millwork and the preparation of fields before the planting.
Rumi
#71. It is a truth of human nature that we can ponder life's mysteries for only so long before we lose interest and move on to something else.
Sue Grafton
#72. I go to see some big shows of other bands, and I feel like I'm so bombarded and over-stimulated that I lose interest in the music. There has to be light and shade, and less stimulating moments. There has to be an arc to the show.
Dave Gahan
#73. The art world has become so insular. The rules have become so autodidactic that, in a sense, they lose track of what people have any interest in thinking about, talking about or even looking at.
Kehinde Wiley
#74. If you find that you start a number of stories or pieces that you don't ever bother finishing, that you lose interest or faith in them along the way, it may be that there is nothing at their center about which you care passionately.
Anne Lamott
#75. Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.
Haniel Long
#76. I don't really collect books. I tend to lose interest in them the minute I've read them, so most of the books I've read are left in airplanes and hotel rooms.
Malcolm Gladwell
#77. If a man carries his horse out of a slave State into a free one, be does not lose his property interest in him; but if he carries his slave into a free State, the law makes him free.
Benjamin F. Wade
#78. Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
Irwin Corey
#79. Most of the time, creative entrepreneurs lose interest long before their marketing message loses its power.
Seth Godin
#80. People don't tell others when they lose interest, just like they don't tell others when they love them. And then they wonder why they are so unhappy.
Donna Lynn Hope
#81. Men haven't changed: they love the thrill of the chase, and if you hand yourself over on a plate they'll lose interest.
Jane Green
#82. This is one of the dangers of sorrow: that in our grief for those who are gone we lose our interest in those who are living, and slacken our zeal in the work which is allotted to us.
Lettie B. Cowman
#83. When the healthy pursuit of self-interest and self-realizatio n turns into self-absorption , other people can lose their intrinsic value in our eyes and become mere means to the fulfillment of our needs and desires.
P. M. Forni
#84. Never lose interest in life and the world. Never allow yourself to become annoyed.
John D. Rockefeller
#85. Seventeen years after the Cold War, how can it be in the Unites States' national security interest for the President of Russia to have only a few minutes to decide whether to fire his nuclear weapons or lose them in response to what could be a false warning?
Sam Nunn
#86. Everything needs to be catchy because a listener is either going to stay with the song or lose interest in the first five seconds. But people also like those songs they can relate to and say, 'Yeah, I went through that.'
Benny Blanco
#87. As soon as children find something that interests them they lose their instability and learn to concentrate.
Maria Montessori
#88. Fannie Mae has never publicly disclosed how much money it could lose if interest rates rose 1.5 percentage points in a very short period of time.
Alex Berenson
#89. Social psychology has found the more you reward people for doing something, the more they tend to lose interest in whatever they had to do to get the reward.
Alfie Kohn
#90. OK," she said. "Let's try. But remember one thing. You're going to lose interest. At some point, it will happen. You don't think so now, but you'll get distracted. You have to stay with me. If we have a family together, you have to be here to help.
Louisa Hall
#91. I never lost my interest in acting but I did lose my interest in the business and what I had to go through to make a film. I felt saturated, you know, like a sponge when it's saturated - it's not good.
Debra Winger
#92. I like straightforward names for my characters. When I get too symbolic with names or places, I start feeling like the characters and the story are less read, and I lose interest.
Tayari Jones
#93. As soon as I know it's about technological things or spies, I lose interest. I want to know what goes on in people's minds.
Ruth Rendell
#94. Yes, in socialism the rich will be poorer - but the poor will also be poorer. People will lose interest in really working hard and creating jobs.
Thomas Peterffy
#95. Actually, with those dirty movies, I find like, they're good for about fifteen, twenty minutes. I'm really interested. And, then, uh, there's one point, that all of a sudden I'm bored. You know? I just lose interest completely and I feel deeply ashamed.
Norm MacDonald
#96. When it is all about winning, once you've done it, you lose interest; stay focus on helping/developing young people as your long-term goal.
Bradford Winters
#97. To feel controlled is to lose interest.
Alfie Kohn
