Millions of items in the outward order are present to my senses which never properly enter into my experience. Why? Because they have no interest for me. My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind --without selective interest, experience is an utter chaos.
Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don't be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you. The chances are that they aren't paying attention to you.
I like some of the early silent films because I love to watch how actors had to play then. What would interest me today is to do a silent film.
As you read, allow your reading to cluster around your interests.
Edith Sitwell's interest in art was largely confined to portraits of herself.
Golf in the interest of good health and good manners. It promotes self-restraint and affords a chance to play the man and act the gentleman.
Some kids are fine, but often I don't like what I see in child actors. My kids are young and they are already showing an interest, so I have to try to discourage them, squash that in them.
No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment.
Trade is a social act. Whoever undertakes to sell any description of any goods to the public, does what affects the interest of other persons, and of society in general; and thus his conduct, in principal, comes within the jurisdiction of society.
Nothing captures human interest more than human tragedy.
Love of Christ does not distract us from interest in others, but rather invites us to responsibility for them, to the exclusion of no one….
I've had an interest in racing all my life, or longer really.
Most people are too stupid to act in their own interest
Girls didn't really take much interest in me until I was about 14. But I knew how to talk to them very quickly. What I figured out - that my friends didn't - was you have to talk to women like you're not constantly trying to have sex with them. That seemed to work.
We need to defend the interests of those whom we've never met and never will.
Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
Suspicion is a Virtue, if in the interests of the good of the people.
It remains overwhelmingly and compellingly in Britain's national interest that the EU should succeed.
I think that there are these two very different sides to my relation to the Bible: one, my professional life; the other, a more private concern, interest and fascination with the Bible.
Scientists announced today that they have discovered a cure for apathy. However, they claim no one has shown the slightest interest in it.