Quotes about interests

Criss Jami - Killosophy

Excitement is a crossroad which runs in all directions. No man lacks personality he just never connected with you at the intersection.

Ashok Kallarakkal -

Follow your passion; Do not get married to it, though.

James C. Dobson - Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

When you strip away all the layers one by one, not much remains to “discover.” You will never find real meaning among your selfish interests, feelings, and aspirations. The answers do not lie within you.

Oswald Chambers - My Utmost for His Highest

Narrow all your interests until your mind, heart, and body are focused on Jesus Christ.

Christi Caldwell - At Last His Love

Let me learn your interests and share them, tell me of your hopes and together we will attain them, and desire for nothing because as long as you're mine, if you should call forth the stars, I'll bring them down to you.

Sara Sheridan -

I didn't expect to love being online as much as I do. I've met some wonderful people and discovered that however arcane some of my interests that there are people out there who are interested too.

M.H. Rakib - The Cavalier

Better or worse, we are living such a fallacious world, where people like to seek their own interests in in others' matters.

Marian Deegan - Relevance: Matter More

When we make a habit of acting on the interests arising out of our authentic passions, our enthusiasm can open doors before we even realize the potential that lies beyond them.

Erik Pevernagie -

Understanding” may become “misunderstanding”, if no commitment or no responsibilities are assumed, no specific objectives set, no definite expectations met and common values and interests no longer shared. Mutual understanding may then, against all odds, end up in heartache, confusion and bewilderment. ("Mutual understanding" )

Marian Deegan - Relevance: Matter More

Acting on our interests refines our understanding of what we are good at and what we value. The experiences we have along the way sometimes introduce us to new values that enhance and enlarge our vision. The lessons we learn through habits of action test our understanding and teach us to identify what matters in our life.

J.D. Sallinger -

What I mean is, lots of time you don't know what interests you most till you start talking about something that doesn't interest you most. I mean you can't help it sometimes. What I think is, you're supposed to leave somebody alone if he's at least being interesting and he's getting all excited about something. I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.

Bryant McGill - Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

The public good must come before private interests.

Richard Courant -

It becomes the urgent duty of mathematicians, therefore, to meditate about the essence of mathematics, its motivations and goals and the ideas that must bind divergent interests together.

Christina Engela - Blachart

What is your talent? What are your interests? What resources do you have at your disposal? What can you do? What would you like to do? What can you do? You could apply your outrage to activism. Get involved. Do something.

Christina Engela -

It's not in the interests of the self-serving government to educate the masses to the point where they are smart enough to see through the bullshit - because then people will be too smart to vote for them again.

José Ortega y Gasset -

Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra -

Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art

Marty Rubin -

It's better to develop hobbies and interests than to have ideas about things.

Peter Singer - Practical Ethics

When we make ethical judgments, we must go beyond a personal or sectional point of view and take into account the interests of all those affected, unless we have sound ethical grounds for doing otherwise. This means that we weigh interests, considered simply as interests and not as my interests, or the interests of people of European descent, or of people with IQs higher than 100. This provides us with a basic principle of equality: the principle of equal consideration of interests. The essence

Duop Chak Wuol -

If you are a leader or someone who works for the interest of a community, first make sure that you understand the interest of the people who make up that community. In this way, you will have a good chance of minimizing, perhaps, avoiding the us versus them mentality.

Steven Johnson - How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World

Time travelers tend, as a group, to have a lot of hobbies.

George William Norris -

Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.

Nick Hornby - High Fidelity

A while back, when Dick and Barry and I agreed that what really matters is what you like, not what you are like, Barry proposed the idea of a questionnaire for prospective partners.

Cameron Conaway - Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet

Like forearm veins, my interests spread in different directions and eventually led to the hands, to writing.

John Stuart Mill -

One person with a belief is worth 99 people who have only interests.

Willis R. Whitney -

Our immediate interests are after all of but small moment. It is what we do for the future, what we add to the sum of man's knowledge, that counts most. As someone has said, 'The individual withers and the world is more and more.' Man dies at 70, 80, or 90, or at some earlier age, but through his power of physical reproduction, and with the means that he has to transmit the results of effort to those who come after him, he may be said to be immortal.

Peter Marshall -

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Alejandro Escovedo -

Life is just so interesting and complicated and beautiful. Every day, every interaction is different. There’s so much floating around that I would find it really hard to get bored. I’m interested in creating in some way or another, whether it’s photography or writing or just walking through the world.

Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom's Cabin

An atmosphere of sympathetic influence encircles every human being; and the man or woman who feels strongly, healthily and justly, on the great interests of humanity, is a constant benefactor to the human race.

Bryan Caplan -

In a useful conversation... there is a double coincidence of wants. You have to be interested in what I have to say; I have to be interested in what you have to say. This is an important reason why people with conventional interests seem more socially intelligent. Even if they don't check whether their audience cares, it probably does.

Toba Beta - My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

In any government, interests precede truth.

Sunday Adelaja - spending time or investing time?

When you understand that through the power of conversion in solitude you can become great, so many things you’ve been wasting your time on will no longer interest you. You will even run away from some friends.

Steven Magee -

Corporate controlled governments protect the interests of the corporations and not the common people.

Erik Pevernagie -

Let’s watch out for the unpredictability and the wildcat jumps of contrarian people, whose sole interests are soaring targets at high-speed, at all costs and without any consideration. Perceptive understanding may help us discover the hidden actualities behind the ‘appearances’. .("Mama. Meine Bäume wachsen bis in den Himmel")

Joyce Rachelle -

If I exist, then surely there must be someone else out there like me.

B.F. Skinner - Walden Two

Each of us has interests which conflict the interests of everybody else... 'everybody else' we call 'society'. It's a powerful opponent and it always wins. Oh, here and there an individual prevails for a while and gets what he wants. Sometimes he storms the culture of a society and changes it to his own advantage. But society wins in the long run, for it has the advantage of numbers and of age.

Shannon L. Alder -

If you want to discover the true character of a person, you have only to observe what they are passionate about.

David Brooks -

...Politics is an activity in which you recognize the simultaneous existence of different groups, interests and opinions. You try to find some way to balance or reconcile or compromise those interests, or at least a majority of them. You follow a set of rules, enshrined in a constitution or in custom, to help you reach these compromises in a way everybody considers legitimate.The downside of politics is that people never really get everything they want. It’s messy, limited and no issue is ever r

Nicholas Sparks - The Last Song

There are guys who grow up thinking they'll settle down some distant time in the future, and there are guys who are ready for marriage as soon as they meet the right person. The former bore me, mainly because they're pathetic; and the latter, quite frankly, are hard to find. But it's the serious ones I'm interested in, and it takes time to find a guy like that whom I'm equally interested in. I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energ

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -

What you feed in yourself that grows.

Moutasem Algharati -

Your present interests are not a solid basis of a career decisions. So, stop following your passion and Do What Is Valuable.!

Angela Duckworth - and the Science of Success

...interests are not discovered through introspection. Instead, interests are triggered by interactions with the outside world. The process of interest discovery can be messy, serendipitous, and inefficient. This is because you can't really predict with certainty what will capture your attention and what won't...Without experimenting, you can't figure out which interests will stick, and which won't.

Simon Cheshire - Plastic Fantastic

How can you claim to have a passionate interest in something, and then make no effort to properly understand it?

Oche Otorkpa - The Unseen Terrorist

So many interests compete for our young people, from drug baronsto sex traffickers who are constantly looking for ways to revive their ageing workforce

Mehmet Murat ildan -

Man is hypocrite! He says that he loves flowers but he kills them for his own simple interests and for his own joy! Man is hypocrite!

Shannon L. Alder -

Where you hang your feelings is where you hang your focus.

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