Gustave Flaubert Quotes

Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.

Almost anything that you pay close, direct attention to becomes interesting.

When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.

One looks, looks long, and the world comes in.

Whatever interests is interesting.

Look at everything. Don't close your eyes to the world around you. Look and become curious and interested in what there is to see.

I am curious about a lot of things. I'm perplexed and engaged.

Almost everything is interesting if you work at it.

One can travel this world and see nothing. To achieve understanding it is necessary not to see many things, but to look hard at what you do see.

It is obvious that the only interesting people are interested people, and to be completely interested is to have forgotten about "I".

If you are interested in something, you will focus on it, and if you focus attention on anything, it is likely that you will become interested in it. Many of the things we find interesting are not so by nature, but because we took the trouble of paying attention to them.

Nothing is boring exept to people who aren't really paying attention.

One must look for one thing only, to find many.

Clarity keeps you from boredom.

I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go read something else, that's exciting.

Everything is interesting to me.

I'm interested in everything.

What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.

Attention to any subject will in a short time render it attractive, be it ever so disagreeable and tedious at first.

When I am fascinated by something, I like to play with it.

If you look at a magazine and something catches your eye, are you not going to open it up to see what's inside?

If you pay attention to the world, it's an amazing place. If you don't, it's whatever you think it is.

There's something special about 'Looking.'

Everything interests me.

As long as you're interested in people and things, that curiosity propels you forward.