Quotes About Interest

The pictures which do not represent an intense interest cannot expect to create an intense interest.

It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.

The Church, then, is too much interested in men and too much absorbed in God. Of course she is too much interested and too much absorbed, for she alone knows the value and capacity of both; she who is herself both Divine and Human.

smart people who get bad grades are listening to their inner voice, doing what they believe is interesting and right.

When we crunch the numbers in heaven, we'll see they had a way of compounding with interest until the exponential results can only be calculated by the angelic bookkeepers.

The owner I was searching for was the guy who would come to the phone and give at least some indication that he might be interested in selling his property. I say indication, because an owner will rarely come right out and admit that he's interested in selling his property.

But I spent just two calendar years at Cornell University, though it was covering more than three years of work, and then went to medical school and did become interested in psychiatry, and even helped form a kind of psychiatry club in medical school.

The variable that marks some periods as barren and some as rich in prophetic vision is in the interest, the level of seeking, the responsiveness of the hearers. The variable is not in the presence or absence or the relative quality and force of the prophetic voices. The prophet grows in stature as people respond to his message...It is the seekers, then, who make the prophet.

Greg Jensen, co-CEO, explains that all this success derives from the company's approach to its principles, a source of "compounding understanding," much like compound interest, over time.

No doubt there are other important things in life besides conflict, but there are not many other things so inevitably interesting. The very saints interest us most when we think of them as enganged in a conflict with the Devil.

fellows are just naturally interested in a good piece of work and have no unnatural restrictions in looking it over. Perhaps, and may the sahibs of the Fogg forgive me for thinking it, this simple, curious outlook of healthy men is more important than some of the monuments themselves.

The art of teaching consists in large part of interesting people in things that ought to interest them, but do not

Of cliques, groups and social intrigues] ... why be alive if you can't like the battle of measuring your contempt or indifferent or interest against that of others?

In fact, if your investment is not over $5 million, it's hard to get anyone in the government to become interested in your property.

I offered the sellers what they were asking for, which was $35,000 down and they would carry the $300,000 at 8 percent interest for five years. It was such a great deal that I could not pass it up.

So many people say, "Oh, I'm not interested in money." Yet they'll work at a job for eight hours a day. "No, that would be a waste of time," said rich dad. "Emotions are what make us human. The word 'emotion' stands for 'energy in motion.

I've been getting some crap from the rest of the ER staff," Thomas said. "They think I'm interested in the case because the patient is a piece of ass.

How to tell a story—how to make it go on and on to fill the time—how to get interested in it yourself so it would be interesting to your listeners, or listener—all that came back to me

The need for loans often was so great and so widespread that Italian banks opened branches all across the Continent. Although many bishops, monastic orders and even the Roman hierarchy ignored the ban on usury, opposition to interest lingered. As late as the Second Lateran Council in 1139, the Church 'declared the unrepentant usurer condemned by the Old and New Testaments alike and, therefore, unworthy of ecclesiastical consolations and Christian burial'.

Beauty is not the source of disinterested pleasure, but simply the object of a universal interest: the interest that we have in beauty, and in the pleasure that beauty brings.

society is not identical with the state. Society is composed of people, freely associating and forming communities of interest that socialists have no right to control and no authority to outlaw. To

And again, damn. Of troubles I considered myself amply possessed. But those who have do seem to get. Some spiritual form of compound interest, I suppose.

Mass culture is a machine for showing desire; here is what must interest you, it says, as if it guessed that men are incapable of finding what to desire themselves.

it is a maxim founded on the universal experience of mankind that no nation is to be trusted farther than it is bound by its interest.