Jonathan Anderson Quotes

A real collector does not sell.

What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity.'

If I like something, I then have to study every single aspect of it to find out if there's more things that I would like, and it's just this weird hunger to want more. I always feel like there's so much that exists.

I'm an anorak. I've always been an obsessive collector of things. Richard Briers collects stamps. I collect cars and guns, which are much more expensive, and much more difficult to store.

Collecting is my passion.

We all know a lot about something. We all have a passion about something.

Neither Adam or I are scientists, we're not engineers or anything of the sort. We just have a lot of fun and the thing is, fun for us happens to involve science and satisfying our curiosity.

I tell kids to be as passionate about your education as you are about anything else in life.

If you're passionate enough you can restore anything but it depends whether you're doing it to try and make money or just because you're crazy about it.

The love of knowledge is a kind of madness.

Anything that you can do a tiny bit of research about, I'll turn it into an obsession.

I recognize that on paper, you can't really tell that I'm a fan or a nerd.

I find people interesting. People trying hard are interesting. People with a passion are interesting - whether it's old cars or taxidermy or knitting.

I care about reading, a lot. It's a big part of my life.

Collecting is the sort of thing that creeps up on you.

Having this interest here in the Redskins is the chief hobby of my life.

The moment you start being in love with what you're doing, and thinking it's beautiful or rich, then you're in danger.

Zeal will do more than knowledge.

The obsessions of others are opaque to the unobsessed, and thus easy to mock. NASCAR, jazz, baseball, roses, poetry, quilts, fishing. If we're lucky, we all have at least one.

When I think back on my favorite teachers, I don't remember anymore much of what they taught me, but I sure remember being excited about learning it. What has stayed with me are not the facts they imparted, but the excitement about learning they inspired.

If you're going to spend two or three years immersed in a subject, you better be deeply interested in it, or it won't be interesting to the reader.

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

I'm passionate about learning. I'm passionate about life.

Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.