Of Interest Quotes

I ought to warn you that my verse is of no interest to people who can think.

It is in the hard, hard rockpile labor of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of writing again comes in.

The American Labor Movement has consistently demonstrated its devotion to the public interest. It is, and has been, good for all America.

The cost of leadership is self-interest.

Men often act knowingly against their interest.

A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him.

The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.

It is not easy to find something that will intrigue and bind your interest and enthusiasm. This you must seek for yourself.

To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.

The state of that man's mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.

There is but one special interest that we should be working for, and that would solve just about all of our problems, and that is our liberty.

Men are like bank accounts. Without a lot of money they don't generate a lot of interest.

If inflation-adjusted interest rates decline in a given country, its currency is likely to decline.

The big question is: When will the term structure of interest rates change? That's the question to be worried about.

Putting miles in your training log is like putting money in the bank. You begin to draw interest on it immediately.

I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.

Common interest may always be reckoned upon as the surest bond of sympathy.

All failures are so because they lack social interest.

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them.

In my life there are not that many questions I can't properly deal with using my $40 adding machine and dog-eared compound interest table.

It is in the national interest to have the Flying Kangaroo. It's in the interests of our tourism industry. It's in the interests of jobs here in Australia.

The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it.

Anybody who does not evolve can become a self-parody. I have to evolve on a daily basis just to keep my own interest in what I do.

I never get tired of talking about food. I do getting tired of fighting governments when they are so clearly not putting the best interest of the children forward.

As far as the stars are from the earth, and as different as fire is from water, so much do self-interest and integrity differ.

There are no permanent friends or permanent enemies, just permanent interests.

It's amazing what happens when you put your interests out into the universe and make it known what you want.

[W]e need to talk over not only those things which are of vital importance to us as women, but also the things that are of especial interest to us as colored women.

A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.

If there is a simple, easy principle that binds everything I have done together, it is my interest in people and their relationship to things.

It’s in our best interest to put some of the old rules aside and create new ones and follow the consumer – what the consumer wants and where the consumer wants to go.

I have a lot of interests.

The Holy Grail of universal coverage in the United States may remain out of reach unless, through rational collective action overriding some individual self-interest, we can reduce per capita costs.

Sailing is just the bottom line, like adding up the score in bridge. My real interest is in the tremendous game of life.

Perfect self-expression will never be labor, but of such absorbing interest that it will seem almost like play.

Economic controversy is generally a thankless task. You cannot hope to make any impression on your opponent. Yet he is the only reader on whose interest you can count.

When it came to formal classes, I was a slacker. But I've always been a diligent autodidact and can teach myself virtually any subject if I have a serious interest in it.

The worst fault a salesman can commit is to be a bore...... Pretend to be vastly interested in any subject the prospects shows an interest in.

Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons.

When interest rates are low we have conditions for asset bubbles to develop, and they are developing at the moment. The ultimate asset bubble is gold.

There are no permanent alliances, only permanent interests.

It's in my interest, in ours perhaps, or maybe the interests of the greater good, for me to smoke a joint, and calm down.

I like being a cog in a wheel. I like being a small aspect of a much bigger thing, and I think my interest in that takes the pressure of myself.

I lost interest in firearms because we had a dog that was scared to death of the sound of a rifle shot.

I like some of the early silent films because I love to watch how actors had to play then. What would interest me today is to do a silent film.

People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.

Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.

Fascination is one step beyond interest. Interested people want to know if it works. Fascinated people want to learn how it works.

I have never made any secret of any of my thoughts or areas of interest. I've always been honest, open, and upfront

Tremendous interest in the superficial is very characteristic of cultures in decline.