#interest

It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor. ↗

— Francis Wright

#appear #attentive #best #consideration #cooperation

I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker. ↗

— Stanley Kubrick

#fear #interest #learning #education

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

#friends #get #interested #make #months

It was maddening how your best friend could twist the knobs inside of you so much that it hurt. ↗

— Melissa de la Cruz

#interesting #pain #friendship

I've met the most interesting people while flying or on a boat. These methods of travel seem to attract the kind of people I want to be with. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#boat #flying #i #interesting #interesting people

You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the paintings because I myself have not analyzed why they have turned out like this or like that. ↗

— H. R. Giger

#because #curious #deeper #i #interested

I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness. ↗

— Norman Spinrad

#been #between #consciousness #culture #etc

'Do not ask what brings Dante to man but what brings man to Dante-to personally enter his sphere, though it is forever severe and unforgiving.' ↗

— Matthew Pearl

#interesting #inspirational

Why my interest in writers? Well, I'm one, and many of my friends are writers. I know what it's like to write. I'm interested in the creative process. I'm fascinated by the disparity between who we are on the outside, and what we have bubbling away inside us. ↗

— Eric Brown

#between #bubbling #creative #creative process #disparity

I think one of the interesting things about poker is that once you let your ego in, you're done for. ↗

— Al Alvarez

#done #ego #i #i think #interesting