Interest Quotes

• Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us.

  

  Alice Duer Miller
  • Listening
  • Interest
  • Powers

• I have no interest in directing. I'd be a bad director.

  

  Michael Ritchie
  • Interest
  • Directing

• I don't have much interest in being on a senior tour. I don't think I retired so that I could be on tour.

  

  Andy Roddick
  • Thinking
  • Senior
  • Retired

• What you want in a mentor is someone who truly cares for you and who will look after your interests and not just their own. When you do come across the right person to mentor you, start by showing them that the time they spend with you is worthwhile.

  

  Vivek Wadhwa
  • Want
  • Care
  • Looks

• My father was adamant in his disapproval of my interest in show business.

  

  Paul Lynde
  • Father
  • Adamant
  • Disapproval

• People who love ideas must have a love of words. They will take a vivid interest in the clothes that words wear.

  

  Beatrice Warde
  • People
  • Love
  • Words

• The national interest is predetermined by geopolitics or the history of a country. Important political leaders never just followed their interests - they were concerned about the interests of their people.

  

  Joseph Nye
  • People
  • Important
  • Country

• Human knowledge is not (or does not follow) a straight line, but a curve, which endlessly approximates a series of circles, a spiral. Any fragment, segment, section of this curve can be transformed (transformed one-sidedly) into an independent, complete, straight line, which then (if one does not see the wood for the trees) leads into the quagmire, into clerical obscurantism (where it is anchored by the class interests of the ruling classes).

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Independent
  • Tree
  • Interest

• There have been times when the Federal Reserve has restricted the money supply and raised interest rates to gain an end, which had much better been left to another Government agency or the Congress to attain. The country could have had lower interest rates without sacrificing anything else.

  

  Wright Patman
  • Country
  • Government
  • Economy

• Apart from the scientific interest attached to my various journeyings, it has been made clear to me that human needs and aspirations differ little the world over and that no great difficulties arise in one race dealing with another when matters of scientific importance are involved.

  

  Howard Florey
  • World
  • Interest
  • Journeyings

• To move Nigeria forward, we must define our interest in the Nigeria project

  

  Okechukwu Ndibe
  • Moving
  • Interest
  • Projects

• I think always my interest in making movies is to have something really technical mixed with something that was not so formal...something free.

  

  Michel Gondry
  • Thinking
  • Interest
  • Formal

• Gold is not necessary. I have no interest in gold. We'll build a solid state, without an ounce of gold behind it. Anyone who sells above the set prices, let him be marched off to a concentration. That's the bastion of money.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Gold
  • Interest
  • Necessary

• I cannot even pretend to feel as much interest in boys as in girls.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Feel
  • Interest
  • Pretend

• What is true of Mr. Mill's influence on the women's-suffrage question is true also of the other political movements in which he took an active interest.

  

  Millicent Fawcett
  • Political
  • Influence
  • Active

• Although there is a very large literature, still growing almost daily, on the Chinese calendar, its interest is, we suggest, much more archaeological and historical than scientific.

  

  Joseph Needham
  • Literature
  • Interest
  • Historical

• Self-interest is not myopic selfishness. It is whatever it is that interests the participants, whatever they value, whatever goals they pursue. The scientist seeking to advance the frontiers of his discipline, the missionary seeking to convert infidels to the true faith, the philanthropist seeking to bring comfort to the needy - all are pursuing their interests, as they see them, as they judge them by their own values.

  

  Milton Friedman
  • Discipline
  • Comfort
  • Missionary

• Things are running very well inside the investment arm of the company, and now is the right time for me to pass the baton to a new generation of leadership and return to a broader agenda of personal interests.

  

  Robert Pozen
  • Time
  • Running
  • Leadership

• It is simply that we treat Japanese history, the history of the Japanese people and its unique culture with greater respect and interest. This generates enormous interest in Russia!

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • People
  • Culture
  • Unique

• Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music.

  

  Carter Burwell
  • Interest
  • Awakened

• Governments which have a regard to the common interest are constituted in accordance with strict principles of justice, and are therefore true forms; but those which regard only the interest of the rulers are all defective and perverted forms, for they are despotic, whereas a state is a community of freemen.

  

  Aristotle
  • True
  • Justice
  • Principles

• One thing I've learnt recently: how to think nothing. Here's the trick: don't have any interest in the world around you, don't have any hope for the future, and be warm.

  

  Ned Vizzini
  • World
  • Interest
  • Tricks

• I am under obligations to most of those advisers for the pains and interest they took in my case; but only to one for an effectual remedy.

  

  William Banting
  • Pain
  • Cases
  • Obligation

• You can gain in your effectiveness as a politician from a wide acquaintance with the world and from a degree of independence that having some outside interests gives.

  

  William Hague
  • World
  • Giving
  • Politician

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