Of Interest Quotes

Nothing ought to be told, I think that does not interest or kindle one's own mind in looking back; it is the only condition on which one can hope to interest or kindle other minds.

The sweet reward for preparation often does not come in the youthful twenties or staid thirties. It arrives - with accrued interest - in the mature years.

I wasn't that interested in the dollars-and-cents part of business. My interest in starting Mary Kay Inc. was to offer women opportunities that didn't exist anywhere else.

A poet's interest in craft never fades, of course.

I am easy-going right up to the borders of my self-interest.

Good advice is never as helpful as an interest-free loan.

The interest in Wisdom is fading. Soon there will not be enough left to support the aphorism, even though it tries to amuse by half-mocking the Wisdom it propounds.

I have a really big interest in the spirit world: spooks and the things we can't necessarily see but feel.

I have a hard enough time speaking for myself - I don't pretend I can be a spokesman for anybody. I have no interest in playing that role.

I was never that much a focus of interest that I became a 'thing' at an earlier point in my career. I'm aware of having become a 'thing' now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.

Yeah, I'm a fan of the Blue Jays. It's hard. My sports interest has definitely decreased since we've been on the road. It's really hard to follow.

English civilization the humanizing, the bringing into one harmonious and truly humane life, of the whole body of English society that is what interests me.

I have a huge interest in hockey because I grew up in Canada, where it's kind of the law that you love hockey.

I think all it really takes for different people to get along is a common rooting interest and a few beers.

Fun is going to enhance interest, because people don't feel incompetent when they're having fun.

My parents did not have any interest in music.

God wants believers to take an interest in the well-being of the society in which they live.

People sometimes punish to exact judgment for past actions. God disciplines in order to teach and always in the interest of those whom he disciplines.

What is the sound of one hand clapping? What is the weight of a single grain of sand? The answer is equal to my interest in the message you are about to leave. So make it short.

I feel humbled by the fact that there's any interest in me at all.

Everyone's politics are born of self-interest, particularly around sexuality. We just have to own up to that.

I think I understand the line between my job and the director's. I have no interest in directing. Not my movie, not your movie, nobody's movie.

For years now, the Lakers have expressed interest in having me play for them, but we could never get the stars to align. I'm finally a Laker...

Most of the money I make now comes from investments from CrunchFund. And the vast majority of that is what's called carried interest.

The government needs the help of industry. But the reality is companies will balance that against their own commercial interest in a very competitive market.

I think, in terms of the media, journalists need to do a much better job of asking people they interview about conflicts of interest and then reporting them.

It wouldn't interest me to try to sound like Cop or something. It would be silly and soul-crushing.

Teachers themselves know if there's a colleague who can't keep control or keep the interest of their class, it affects the whole school.

As you have to pay more interest and amortization on what you owe, you're left with less and less money to buy goods and services - unless you borrow even more and go further into debt.

Trump has said that he wants to remove the tax deductibility of interest. If he can do that, fine. But I hope that Trump knows that it's not the President that sets tax policy. It's Congress.

The economy is being run primarily by the banks for their own interest.

There's things I know I'm good at, and those things interest me less and less. I learn a lot more from doing it wrong than I do from doing it right.

I'm sure there are people who think I only do music, people who think I only do theater, and people who think I only do dramatic stuff. I do things that interest me.

I'm outside the music I've made. I have no interest in it.

There are few things on which we can pass a sincere judgement, because there are few things in which we have not, in one way or another, a particular interest.

In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.

I love 3D a lot, I have a great interest in 3D, so if I am given the tools to do a project with 3D, it's a dream for me.

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

Ever since I was a kid, I've had an enormous interest in the sciences - everything from quantum physics to anthropology.

Historians ought to be precise, faithful, and unprejudiced; and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should make them swerve from the way of truth.

I'm embarrassed to say that I don't have a lot of hobbies. It's not because I don't have interests, it's just that I don't have the time.

We can doubt the Lord when we go through tough times, but you know that He's always got your best interest at heart.

Now the question is, now that we are there, what should we do in the best interest of the U.S., not only from a standpoint of the necessity of some stable democracy in the Middle East.

My interest in political philosophy was rather casual until I met Hayek.

Palestinians have no interest whatsoever in establishing peace and that the pathway to peace is almost unthinkable to accomplish.

My main interest is just to work with people who have beautiful, interesting, emotive voices; I'm not too concerned whether someone is famous.

If you happen to be the only one with negative interest rates, you also weaken your currency, which means you make your exports more competitive.

I think there is a general interest in films that deal with contemporary issues. Constructions of Iran, Islam, the Middle East as well as the U.S. itself are also of interest, it seems.

I find the selectivity of erotic love - the choice of this man or this woman - much more intelligible if liking the person is the origin of sexual interest, rather than the other way.

This boldness in telling the truth overshadows sport greatly. You couldn't get Joe Frazier or no boxer on this show and get interest in a subject like this. He couldn't talk about it.