Quotes About Interests

There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money - and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact.

Topics... are what people talk about when they don't know each other well. Topics... are what men talk about.

The tragedy was not even the first drink, because the first drink was not the first resort but the last. There'd had to be first the failure of everything else—of her and Sam, of his friends, of his hope, of his interests, really.

create a bond through some shared interest by telling them something about yourself?

one way to understand people is to pay attention to what they love.

To access subconscious stores of motivational energy, you have to provide rewards that address the three vital interests of your subconscious mind: security, pleasure, and power.

Una investigación realizada por Howard Gardner, de Stanford, William Damon, de Harvard, y Csikszentmihalyi, de Claremont, se centró en lo que ellos llamaban un "buen trabajo", una combinación entre la ética (es decir, lo que uno cree que le gusta) y aquello en lo que destaca (es decir, lo que realmente le gusta).

"The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile."

The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.

I feel like I know a lot of music stuff that most people my age don't know, because people that were slightly older were into it.

Marriage, in what is evidently its most popular version, is now on the one hand an intimate "relationship" involving (ideally) two successful careerists in the same bed, and on the other hand a sort of private political system in which rights and interests must be constantly asserted and defended.

The division of members into Tories or Whigs had by 1761 lost nearly all significance; the real division was between supporters and opponents of the current "government," or ministry, or of the king. By and large the Tories protected the landed interest; the Whigs were willing now and then to consider the desires of the business class; otherwise both Tories and Whigs were equally conservative. Neither party legislated for the benefit of the masses.

I do not ask autocratic exclusion of films," Crafts said, trying to seem less fanatical in the press, "but only such supervision as the Government gives to all other great financial interests.

A physical store cannot be reconfigured on the fly to cater to each customer based on his or her particular interests.

Companies are full of bureaucracy, procedures, and approval processes, a structure designed to defend the integrity of the organization. Communities, on the other hand, form around shared interests and needs, and have no more process than they require. The community exists for the project, not to support the company in which the project resides.

It is noteworthy that the Southern states were such strong defenders of national power at the Constitutional Convention. Having recently been conquered by the British, living in constant tension with various Indian tribes, and sharing a substantial border with hostile European powers, the South chose the plan that would best serve its interests. Only a strong, well-financed government could deter and repel hostile enemies.

I owe my life to my hobbies—especially stamp collecting

Thanks to energetic lobbying by the vested interests of southern congressmen, legislation for the building of a transcontinental railroad was repeatedly blocked in Congress during the 1850s.

Car quelles que soient leurs "opinions", les femmes sont opprimées. Leur antiféminisme étant a) un obstacle à la prise de conscience de leurs intérêts objectifs et b) plus directement le reflet de leur oppression dans leur subjectivité est donc l'un des moyens du maintien de cette oppression.

Look for someone who matches your soul (not who completes it): someone who flows through life like you do; someone who shares your interests, values, outlook, routine, and so on."…."No one else completes you. Period. People come in and out of our lives to share them with us, contribute, support us, and teach us, but they never complete us.

People do not calculate. As masses, they cannot calculate. They feel only, and are therefore not led by interests nor state — or public Law, principles or deductions, but only by feeling. If you prefer the word, by instincts.

I have never seen a wrestling match or a prize fight, and I don't want to. When I find out a man is interested in these sports, I drop him.

Die Ermüdbarkeit des Menschen steht in umgekehrtem Verhältnis zu seinen wirklichen Interessen.

In the developed countries of the capitalist world, the mass media are beginning to become businesses, and huge businesses at that. The freedom of journalists is now becoming, in most cases, a very relative thing: it ends where the interests of the business begin... In socialist areas, it is enough to recall that the means of social communication are the monopoly of the party.