Act Quote by B. F. Skinner

To be interested is to be absorbed in, wrapped up in, carried away by, some object. To take an interest is to be on…

— John Dewey

To be interested in something is to be involved in what is essentially a stressful relationship with that thing, to suffer anxiety on its…

— Geoff Dyer

To know when one's self is interested, is the first condition of interesting other people.

— Walter Pater

“One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. They will…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“to be “interest-ing” is to be curious and attentive, and to practice “the continual projection of interest.” To put it more simply: If you…

— Austin Kleon

If you are interested in something, you will focus on it, and if you focus attention on anything, it is likely that you will…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

What you focus on with your thought and feeling is what you attract into your experience.

— Rhonda Byrne

Everything is pointing to one's own activity of looking, to an awareness and sort of hyper-consciousness of visual perception. The only way I know…

— Uta Barth

Remember when you were a kid, and everyone used to say, 'Would you rather be interested or interesting?' And to me, it was always…

— Winona Ryder

Being interested is more important than being interesting.

— Ann Landers

“Passion can seem intimidatingly out of reach at times - a distant tower of flame, accessible only to geniuses and to those who are…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Why?”. Neurological research shows that merely wondering about an interesting question activates regions of the brain linked to reward-processing. Curiosity—the act of wondering—feels good…

— Warren Berger