Interesting Quotes

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The most natively interesting object to a man is his own personal self and its fortunes. We accordingly see that the moment a thing becomes… — William James
The difference between an interesting and a tedious teacher consists in little more than the inventiveness by which the one is able to mediate these… — William James
If, then, you wish to insure the interest of your pupils, there is only one way to do it; and that is to make certain… — William James
All that we need explicitly to note is that, the more the passive attention is relied on, by keeping the material interesting; and the less… — William James
But when all is said and done, the fact remains that some teachers have a naturally inspiring presence and can make their exercises interesting, whilst… — William James
If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples; if it be unfamiliar, make it figure as part of a story; if… — William James
I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best; nothing is so interesting as weeding. I went crazy… — Robert Louis Stevenson
How interesting it would be to write the story of the experiences in this life of a man who killed himself in his previous life;… — Leo Tolstoy
While statistics are interesting, they're all in the past. — Vince Lombardi
No exercise brings into play all the muscles of the body in a more thorough manner, and none is more interesting than wrestling. He will… — Hugh Leonard
People who leave their own time out of their work cannot be surprised if their time fails to find them interesting. — John Masefield
I drink so the others become interesting. — George Jean Nathan
Talking about golf is always boring. Playing golf can be interesting, but not the part where you try to hit the little ball; only the… — Dave Barry
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction… — Jim Rohn
It would be wryly interesting if in human history the cultivation of marijuana led generally to the invention of agriculture, and thereby to civilization. — Carl Sagan
If a man isn't a certain age, he just isn't interesting. — Marilyn Monroe
When you've always worked hard in the theater, you find that when you stop playing at the end of a run, the evenings seem very… — Rex Harrison
Are you placing enough interesting, freakish, long shot, weirdo bets? — Tom Peters
Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing. — Oscar Wilde
There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success. — Max Beerbohm
Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star… — E. M. Forster
Artists have no less talents than ever, their taste, their vision, their sentiment are often interesting; they are mighty in their independence and feeble only… — George Santayana
If men would avoid that general language and general manner in which they strive to hide all that is peculiar, and would say only what… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out under another, then under another Democrat president, Jimmy… — Michele Bachmann
We have solved, by fair experiment, the great and interesting question whether freedom of religion is compatible with order in government and obedience to the… — Thomas Jefferson

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