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Quotes About Interests

my memory is reasonably good—unlike yours, dear sir!" "Mine is erratic," he said imperturbably. "I remember only what interests me.
~ Georgette Heyer
If you take anything away from this class, I want it to be the belief that cooperative, mutually beneficial change is still possible between big business and environmental interests.
~ Georgia Bockoven
In World War II, Pius XII's silence helped protect a complex web of interlocking business interests with the Third Reich, relationships that yielded significant profits for the Vatican. In some cases they are dealings the Church has denied to this day.
~ Gerald Posner
The secret of happiness is this: Let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
~ Bertrand Russell
The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find.
~ Lord Longford
A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
What we love to do we find time to do.
~ John Lancaster Spalding
Each day can be one of triumph if you keep up your interests.
~ George Matthew Adams
Follow your interests, get the best available education and training, set your sights high, be persistent, be flexible, keep your options open, accept help when offered, and be prepared to help others.
~ Mildred Spiewak Dresselhaus
Before he sets out, the traveller must possess fixed interests and facilities, to be served by travel. If he drifted aimlessly from country to country he would not travel but only wander, ramble as a tramp. The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere so his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations.
~ George Santayana
The interests of childhood and youth are the interests of mankind.
~ Edmund Storer James
A few early farmers conserved the soil - George Washington was one - but they were stray oddities. A few pioneers had naturalistic interests, but any revelation of such interests branded the holder of them as being peculiar or even undemocratic. The mass rule then, as now, was: Conform and be dull.
~ J. Frank Dobie
My sex life is private, Butch. So are my…unconventional interests." "I hear ya. No one's biz but yours. One question, though." "What." "When the females tie you down, do they paint your toenails and shit? Or just do your makeup?" As V laughed in a loud crack, the cop said, "Wait…they tickle your pits with a feather, right?
~ J.R. Ward
Wherever there is an ascendant class, a large portion of the morality emanates from its class interests and its class feelings of superiority.
~ Jack London
My prime interests are in evolution and development. I use the cellular slime molds as a tool to seek an understanding of those twin disciplines.
~ John Tyler Bonner
As a mature and responsible nation, one of India's foreign policy interests is to evolve a regional architecture based on the twin principles of shared security and shared prosperity.
~ Sushma Swaraj
Anything you're interested in the world - whether it be Charlie Rose or JetBlue or a public figure or your local coffee shop - they're on Twitter and broadcasting what is interesting to them.
~ Jack Dorsey
I'm a luddite in comparison with some of the people I follow on Twitter, but a nerd in comparison with many people. But I was always a nerd in other terms - always a big Dungeons & Dragons fan, stuff like that.
~ Graham Linehan
People on Twitter can follow tech if they're interested in tech, or business if they're interested in business, or they can follow celebrities that they're fans of.
~ Jonah Peretti
The way the Facebook network is set up, it's not as suitable for content discovery. Twitter is better, but there are too many over-sharers. Also, on Twitter and Facebook, everything comes from people you know. On StumbleUpon, it comes from people that you don't necessarily know but share your interests.
~ Garrett Camp
I feel I'm two people: I have my interest in acting and I have a lot of other political interests I'd like to pursue.
~ Alec Baldwin
If you imagine your friend is recommending you content on a topic they're an expert on, they can do a really good job of that. They know what you're interested in, they know your personality, they know if you have a scientific type of mind-set or not.
~ Adam D'Angelo
I like a lot of different types of music.
~ Verne Troyer
Well, in the general population, we find differences between the typical male and typical female. For example, males seem to be more interested in systems and females seem to be more interested in people and particularly people's emotions.
~ Simon Baron-Cohen