“What can be said about a man who is interested in nothing but his painting? It's a pity if a man can only interest himself in one thing. But I can't do any thing else. I have only one interest.” IfsMenSaidI CanInterestOne ThingPaintingPity Author:Claude Monet
“I really do think inspiration comes from day-to-day life. I think there's things that pique our interest - not necessarily aha! moments - but things that just kinda make you raise your eyebrows. And those are often the moments that are the seeds of inspiration. Sometimes they're in a great conversation with friends, sometimes they're things you see live, something you read, a movie trailer you watch... I think inspiration is kind of laid out there. One thing we have to practice is recognizing when it happens, and recording that moment so we can come back to it.” ThinkingKindSometimesMomentsInspirationHappensInterestWatchesPracticeOne ThingConversationRaisesSeedsThat MomentDay To DayRecognizingEyebrowsTrailersDay LifeDay To Day LifePiqueAha Moment Author:Phil Kay
“One thing was very clear and I made it always very clear at the beginning when I got into the governorship, and that was that I wasn't trying to become a career politician. This was not like I was going to be governor for seven years and then I was going to run for the Senate and then for Congress. That was never my interest.” TryingYearsMadeRunningInterestCareersClearOne ThingPoliticianSevenCongressMade ItSenateGovernorsSeven YearsCareer Politicians Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger
“There's one thing that always interests me about you good people, not your certainty that the rest of us are swine, - no doubt we are, - but your certainty that your opinions are pearls.” PeopleInterestOpinionDoubtOne ThingCertaintyArroganceNo DoubtGood PeoplePearlsSwine Author:Margaret Deland
“I guess it really didn't even dawn on me that you could be a rock critic as a job until I was maybe almost out of college. I knew criticism existed. I read Rolling Stone and Spin. Siskel and Ebert were on television. But I had absolutely no idea how to get that kind of life. And moreover, it didn't interest me that much. I just sort of read normal books growing up. I wasn't that media-conscious. I felt like the one thing I was able to do was to listen to a record and decide whether I liked it.” KindBookIdeasAbleJobsFeltInterestGrowing UpRecordsGrowingOne ThingRocksMediaTelevisionCollegeNormalConsciousStonesCriticismCriticsNo IdeaDawnRollingRolling Stones Author:Chuck Klosterman
“An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.” PersonsWisdomFoundSexInterestInterestingEducationOne ThingIntellectualIntelligenceWittyIntellectSexualityIntellectualismFunny SexIntellectual LifeIntellectual Growth Author:Aldous Huxley
“People who believe in 'universal health care' show remarkably little interest - usually none - in finding out what that phrase turns out to mean in practice, in those countries where it already exists, such as Britain, Sweden or Canada. For one thing, 'universal health care' in these countries means months of waiting for surgery that Americans get in a matter of weeks or even days.” PeopleBelieveMeanLittlesCountryMatterShowsCareTurnsWaitingInterestPracticeOne ThingWeekMonthsFindingsUniversalHealth CarePhrasesBritainCanadaSurgerySwedenUniversal Health Care Author:Thomas Sowell
“Bush had expertise in one thing: How to run a Presidential campaign. He understands campaigns and Presidential politics. He has no interest or disposition or I think probably - he's not stupid, but he's not bright, he's not a rocket scientist - he isn't interested in policy.” ThinkingRunningInterestOne ThingStupidPolicyScientistCampaignsPresidentialDispositionRocketsExpertiseNot StupidPresidential Campaign Author:John Dean
“That is a horrible thing in a way, but it is the one thing poets can bring back to experience, this intense focus on language, which activates words as a portal back into experience. It's a mysterious process that's very hard to articulate, because it's focused entirely on the material of language in a way, but in the interests not just of language itself whatever that would mean - that's the mistake, by the way, that so many so-called "experimental" poets make - but in service to human experience.” WayHumansMeanHardLanguageProcessInterestMistakeFocusOne ThingPoetMaterialsFocusedIntenseHorribleMysteriousHuman ExperiencePortalHorrible ThingsActivate Author:Matthew Zapruder