Of Interest Quotes

The best headlines are those that appeal to the reader's self-interest, that is, headlines based on reader benefits. They offer readers something they want - and get from you.

We're all living on borrowed time. The trick is to come up with works of sufficient interest to pay off the debt.

Discipline means protection from one's own wanton interest.

Everybody pursues their national interests. The only one who gets blamed for it is the United States.

It is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock Exchanges.

We hold that each man is the best judge of his own interest.

Certainly the interest in asserting copyright is a justified one.

My interest lies in my self-expression -- what's inside of me -- not what I'm in.

I write mostly positive reviews. I don't write about places that don't interest me.

The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interest of the desire to know.

Every man is to be considered in two capacities, the private and public; as designed to pursue his own interest, and likewise to contribute to the good of others.

The Federal Reserve needs to provide small businesses in America with the same low-interest loans it gave to foreign banks.

I honestly have no interest in celebrity whatsoever. If anything, I always cringe at it because it takes away from what I am, which is an actor who wants to be better and do better things.

Politicians pay more attention to interest groups than to the public interest.

The investor's primary interest lies in acquiring and holding suitable securities at suitable prices.

Stages of life are artifacts. Adolescence is a useful contrivance, midlife is a moving target, senior citizens are an interest group, and tweenhood is just plain made up.

Eating has always come up whenever and wherever. Maybe it's because we're girls, we have a lot of interest in eating.

There will be no job cuts arising out of this merger in Europe - this is in the interest of jobs in Europe.

The average Christian pays more in interest than he gives to the Lord's work. In a church of 100 families 37 will give nothing.

My process of being inspired is very intuitive. Im constantly following my interest.

The interests of all Cypriots would be advanced with a bizonal bicommunal federation.

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

All men are idolators, some of fame, others of self-interest, most of pleasure.

At first the ancient images of the Goddess did not interest me.

But the wisdom and authority of the legislator are seldom victorious in a contest with the vigilant dexterity of private interest.

The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second, which comes with a sort of mastery.

I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.

You can do what you want, but saving love doesn't bring any interest.

The artist's interest cannot be restricted to a single field; he must seek the highest perception of everything, of the whole and its details.

I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest.

The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.

There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.

Even if you don't feel appreciation, just look. Feel what you feel; take an interest and be curious.

You make a film to distract people, to interest them, perhaps to make them think, perhaps to help them be a little less naive, a little better than they were.

Her interest in natural history was confined to observation of the crows' feet gathering around her eyes.

To serve the public interest is not the same as being a servant of public opinion.

If you want to buy something; it’s obviously in your best interest to convince the seller that what he’s got isn’t worth very much.

The trade of banks is the buying and selling of interest and exchange.

It is not worth it to sacrifice the interest of the country for the sake of my son.

Advice from others is always filtered through self interest.

You cannot write for children They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.

I want to keep my attractiveness as long as I can. It has to do with vitality and energy and interest.

I wrote 'The story of O' alone, for Dominique Aury, to interest him, to please him, to occupy him. I wasn't young, nor particularly pretty. I needed something which might interest a man like him.

It is in many people's best interest for you not to find yourself, but it only matters that it is in yours, and the whole world's, to proceed.

I have no interest in returning to yesteryear. I love the conveniences and delights of today's time. I wouldn't go back if I could.

Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.

In nearly all cases, if the people complain of the length of our sermons it is because we fail to interest them personally in what we have to say.

No one grows old by living - only by losing interest in living.

If children have interests, then education happens.

Every discussion in a meeting has a diminishing curve of interest. The longer the discussion goes on, the fewer people will be interested in it.