John Lancaster Spalding Quotes

The worst thing a politician can be is dull. At least I'm interesting.

Make the important interesting.

The busier you are, the more interesting you are. The more you're off doing your thing and loving your job and your life, that's fascinating.

I know everyone says attention spans are shorter now, and if you can't get them in the first 20 seconds, you lost them. But I honestly believe if you give someone something worth slowing down to really pay attention to, they will.

If you can present your case clearly and visually, anyone can understand it. No one has an attention span.

Putting my audience to sleep isn't what I'm going for.

If you can't be funny, be interesting.

All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.

I like to find comedy or something interesting to look at with whatever I'm working on.

If I try to cover too much ground, you start to get watered down and less interesting.

Very strong personalities must confine themselves in mutual conversation to very gentle subjects.

You watch the interview afterwards, and they didn't really say much, but it's interesting, funny, and engaging. Whereas I sit there and look a little bit too serious, and as soon as that happens then you're uncomfortable and you don't want to watch.

It's not enough just to be real; you have to try to make it interesting or entertaining.

It's about having personality...it's not about being the bad guy, it's about entertaining people.

I've found three or four things that are quite interesting to me that I'm focused on. That's been fun.The Clippers is obviously one of them.

Everybody is interesting when they are interested in something.

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

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

The first obligation of the writer is to be interesting. To be interesting; not to change the world.

The mastery of any subject requires that one identify himself with the particular state of consciousness appropriate to that subject.

That's the secret: be interesting. If you can't be interesting, shut up. There's nothing wrong with silence.

I always, I would say, make sure that in my presentation I'll have what I want to do. I try and make it so interesting to my companions that they want to go, too. I don't have to twist any arms or make - you know - any great challenges available.

An interesting piece of work, freely chosen, which has the virtue of inducing concentration rather than fatigue, adds to the child's energies and mental capacities, and leads him to self-mastery.

There are two ways to be cool: One is to be disinterested and make it seem like you must be doing something much more interesting than everybody else if you are this disinterested. The other is to be extremely interested. You are not trying to please anyone, but you are really invested are really focused.

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.