“None of my patients are really troubled by the idea that some part of what they say might be in a book in the future. Some have expressed the very opposite feeling—the fear that they would not be interesting enough to write about.” — Irvin D. Yalom, I’m Calling the Police
“Do we respond only to people who seem to find us interesting?” — Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose
“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.” — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
“Bullshitting has its obvious incentives and pleasures: you get all the kudos of saying interesting and important things without any of the work of actually thinking interesting and important things.” — David Egan, Calling Bullshit, The Point
“Many of the things we find interesting are not so by nature, but because we took the trouble of paying attention to them.” — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Finding Flow
“Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.” — Alfred Hitchcock, The Lyons Den (1956-03-02)
“Truth, however, is not always interesting, and many things are believed because they are interesting although, in fact, there is little other evidence in their favour.” — Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
“There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.” — F. H. Bradley, Aphorisms
“You’re not born uninteresting. But it’s entirely possible you’ve persuaded yourself to be so frightened of the consequences that you no longer have the passion, the generosity or the guts to be interesting any longer.” — Seth Godin, Are you interesting?
“There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.” — G.K. Chesterton, Heretics
Yahooey's Blog 