Quotes About Interests

Ed Miliband should be out and proud about his abstruse interests, his Master's in Economics, his political obsession, his prioritising of the mental over the physical.

I thought I was better at basketball, but obviously people didn't think so. But I loved them equally, whether it be baseball season, basketball, football, golf, I liked them equally.

La elección y la exclusividad son condiciones que la amistad comparte con el amor. La amistad nace de la comunidad y de la coincidencia en las ideas, en los sentimientos o en los intereses. El amor nace de un flechazo; la amistad es el intercambio frecuente y prolongado. El amor es instantáneo; la amistad requiere tiempo.

Each power entered the Crimean War with its own motives. Nationalism and imperial rivalries combined with religious interests.

Nimeni nu poate s? ias? din propria sa existen??, aÈ™a cum nici ursul nu poate s? ias? din cuÈ™ca lui de la menajerie. Tot ceea ce i se întâmpl? cuiva din partea altcuiva pare straniu pentru noi. Când noi ar?t?m interes preocup?rilor altora, acord?m, de fapt, interes propriilor noastre preocup?ri.

Honest and earnest criticism from those whose interests are most nearly touched,—criticism of writers by readers,—this is the soul of democracy and the safeguard of modern society. If

This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me

Life will be happier for the on-line individual because the people with whom one interacts most strongly will be selected more by commonality of interests and goals than by accidents of proximity." J. C. R. Licklider and Robert Taylor, "The Computer as a Communication Device," Science and Technology , Apr. 1968.

Email did more than facilitate the exchange of messages between two computer users. It led to the creation of virtual communities, ones that, as predicted in 1968 by Licklider and Taylor, were "selected more by commonality of interests and goals than by accidents of proximity.

Los intereses de un ser humano vienen determinados, en gran medida, por sus apetitos, deseos, impulsos e instintos», dijo Braithwaite

Sometimes I wondered if my problem was liking too many different kinds of

I]magine that a 25-year-old first-year MBA student is considering merging his future economic interests with those of a 25-year-old day laborer. The MBA student, a non-earner, would find that a "share-for-share" merger of his equity interest in himself with that of the day laborer would enhance his near-term earnings (in a big way!). But what could be sillier for the student than a deal of this kind?

A CEO's behavior has a huge impact on managers down the line: If it's clear to them that shareholders' interests are paramount to him, they will, with few exceptions, also embrace that way of thinking.

Life has taught me that one's most precious asset is the spirit of 'independence at all costs'... the constant disposition to risk all in the interests of a connection.

Ultimately to say that people all share the same hopes and fears, are all born and love and suffer and die alike, is to say very little. For it is after commonalities are accounted for that politics becomes necessary. It is only when values, ideologies, cultures and interests clash that politics even begins.

Do you think if two people liked the same thing, it could bring them closer together?" "Certainly... Take classical music, for instance... Two people who shared a love for Beethoven could become very close..." "How about TV?

The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.

In giving us children, God places us in a position of both leadership and service. He calls us to give up our lives for someone else's sake - to abandon our own desires and put our child's interests first. Yet, according to His perfect design, it is through this selflessness that we can become truly fulfilled.

The democratic process will always favor small, well-organized groups at the expense of large, diffuse groups.

As a writer, or as a filmmaker, you have to present yourself, and part of what yourself is is what you're interested in, or what you think is funny, or what you think is sad, or what you think is horrible.

Under Goh, the government continued to be suspicious of prevailing popular opinion and special interests, and focused instead on what it saw as Singapore's long-term needs

Applying the 80:20 rule, I would say that 80 per cent of our youth don't even care about politics or government. What they care about are their lives—their jobs, their boyfriends or girlfriends and, well, that's about it.

I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.

The reason is that the people know that the Democratic Party is the people's party, and the Republican Party is the party of special interest, and it always has been and always will be.