Lasting Interest Quotes

When you spend a year or two researching a subject, and you're still fascinated by it, that's a good indicator that what you're doing will appeal to others, as well.

I've never stopped loving cartoons. I loved cartoons as a kid. I can still look at them and enjoy them.

I was asked by a student what my most significant accomplishment was at National Geographic, after thirty years, and I said that my career came to an appropriate close, and I still loved photography. Not everybody who spends their career at anything ends up fascinated and involved with it.

If you can find a passion at a young age, somewhere between fifteen and thirty, if you can find that passion, I can pretty much guarantee you that you can be sixty-five and still love that passion and still have a reason to dance out of bed and down the hall every morning.

I played many sports, but when that golf bug hit me, it was permanent.

Every kid has a bug period... I never grew out of mine.

I think it is good when something can stay interesting for a long time. It's not just a trend for one month.

Some bands I'm obsessed with but I get sick of listening to their music after a while, but that hasn't happened with Twin Peaks.

Most people who are really, enduringly interested in something eventually find that it's important, too - and important to other people. Very few people can keep going their whole life doing something and feel like it's merely personally fascinating.