Quotes About Interest

Les vérités qu'on aime le moins à apprendre sont celles que l'on a le plus d'intérêt à savoir.

Merchants understand from birth the power of compound interest; they know how to accumulate capital. The Internet has also leveled the playing field, so that it seems sometimes that any mad, passionate Indian entrepreneur can write his own future.

In a crowd every sentiment and act is contagious, and contagious to such a degree that an individual readily sacrifices his personal interest to the collective interest.

Personal interest is very rarely a powerful motive force with crowds, while it is almost the exclusive motive of the conduct of the isolated individual.

Our interest is to know what our great men were as they are presented by popular legend. It is legendary heroes, and not for a moment real heroes, who have impressed the minds of crowds.

Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It's the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all.

I got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies, which I felt there was a lack of.

In the field of Egyptian mathematics Professor Karpinski of the University of Michigan has long insisted that surviving mathematical papyri clearly demonstrate the Egyptians' scientific interest in pure mathematics for its own sake. I have now no doubt that Professor Karpinski is right, for the evidence of interest in pure science, as such, is perfectly conclusive in the Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus.

My mind went back to my school-days and an old gentleman talking to the class about careers. He had said: "If you decide to become a veterinary surgeon you will never grow rich but you will have a life of endless interest and variety." I laughed aloud in the darkness and as I got into the car I was still chuckling. That old chap certainly wasn't kidding. Variety. That was it—variety.

I shall be very deeply interested—in due course.

Chang bowed his thanks for the information. He took a keen interest in languages and liked to weigh a new word philosophically. "It is significant," he said after a pause, "that the English regard slackness as a vice. We, on the other hand, should vastly prefer it to tension. Is there not too much tension in the world at present, and might it not be better if more people were slackers?

They're interested in knowing why you're so interested in knowing whether any Jedi were here during the battle, Cudgel explained to Starstone and the others while the quartet of armed Wookiees glared down at them.

As I told you on Naboo, Anakin," he said finally, "we will continue to follow your career with great interest." And assure that it culminates in the ruination of the Jedi Order and the reascendancy of the Sith!

I've no interest on initiating a fashion trend on Coruscant or anywhere else. I simply want a uniform that fits - Tarkin

Unless I miss my guess, Yolly is about to become obsessed with horses. It's practically a stage on Piaget's developmental profile.

There's no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are kids who love reading, and kids who are reading the wrong books.

There's no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are just kids who love reading and kids who are reading the wrong books. We need to help them find the right ones.

Most guys never know when a girl is truly interested in them." Gilda gives me a funny, eyebrows-raised look. I don't know why.

Are you getting bored yet?)

anything." She steps toward me. "I want to know what you

Unfortunately for governments like that of Iran, when they forbid something, people become more interested.

The Big Dream of any entrepreneur really has very little to do with the entrepreneur. If you truly love repairing automobiles, chances are, you'll be a lousy business owner. Likewise, if you are fascinated by debits and credits, the dream of building an accounting firm with you at the helm is probably best left unfulfilled.

As the director of an opera, it is my responsibility to unify the style of the particular performance, but one can certainly approach the piece from different points of view. That's what makes it interesting and keeps it alive.

As I listened, it occurred to me that interest in and affection for the animals that share the planet with us may be a more unifying force than any other.