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Quotes About Interest

Listen, my friend, all forms that exist in God's universe can be found in the human figure. A man's body and face can tell everything he represents. So how could I ever exhaust my interest in it?
~ Irving Stone
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
~ Irwin Corey
Two important things are to have a genuine interest in people and to be kind to them. Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
The preference that seems to have the most influence on occupational choice, the SN preference, determines in large part what will interest people. Sensing
~ Isabel Briggs Myers
They [INTJs] are likely, however, to organize themselves out of a job. They cannot continually reorganize the same thing, and a finished product has no more interest. Thus, they need successive new assignments, with bigger and better problems, to stretch their powers.
~ Isabel Briggs Myers
In teaching, the other main problem related to type is the students' interest. Intuitives and sensing types differ greatly in what they find interesting in any subject even if they like, that is, are interested in, the same subjects. Intuitives like the principle, the theory, the why. Sensing types like the practical application, the what and the how.
~ Isabel Briggs Myers
I, on the contrary, have been convinced for some time that perfection is not produced except marginally and by chance; therefore it deserves no interest at all, the true nature of things being revealed only in disintegration.
~ Italo Calvino
Yo, al contrario, estoy convencido hace tiempo de que la perfección sólo se produce accesoriamente y por azar; por tanto no merece el menor interés, pues la verdadera naturaleza de las cosas sólo se revela en la destrucción
~ Italo Calvino
Her way of living in the world, filled with interest in what the world can give her, dismisses the egocentric abyss of the suicide's novel that ends by sinking into itself.
~ Italo Calvino
It is in this that the public man's ascendance over the crowd consists: he is the man who will have a public death, the man whose death we are sure to be there for, all together, and that is why so long as he lives he will enjoy our interested, anticipatory concern.
~ Italo Calvino
strong actors have a lower interest in a fight's outcome because their survival is not at stake, whereas weak actors have a high interest in a fight's outcome because their survival is at stake.
~ Unknown
En el punto de partida de las ciencias empírico-analíticas hay un interés técnico, en el de las histórico-hermenéuticas un interés práctico, y en el de las ciencias orientadas críticamente aquel interés emancipatorio del conocimiento que, sin concederlo, estaba ya como base de las teorías tradicionales.
~ Jurgen Habermas
Such considerations have led to a renewed public interest in the subject of religion; religion is discovered after all to be a useful thing. But the trouble is that in being utilized religion is also being degraded and destroyed. Religion is being regarded more and more as a mere means to a higher end.
~ J. Gresham Machen
We're always pitching ideas and being told "no thank you." No offense taken, because I would so much rather be told the truth that they're not interested and be able to find the right show for that network down the line.
~ J. J. Abrams
I'm interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society.We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it's quite a satisfying thing to do, isn't it?
~ J. K. Rowling
When it comes to naming things, vanity and flattery are dull motivations best suited for deciding on a child's middle name. Much more interesting are the descriptive names that suggest a story or happening of interest.
~ J. Maarten Troost
The quality of mindfulness is not a neutral or blank presence. True mindfulness is imbued with warmth, compassion, and interest. In the light of this engaged attention, we discover it is impossible to hate or fear anything or anyone we truly understand. The nature of mindfulness is engagement: where there is interest, a natural, unforced attention follows.
~ J. Mark G. Williams
Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud.
~ Unknown
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
~ Dale Carnegie
It is always an attractive moment when curiosity takes hold.
~ Damon Galgut
Nothing captures human interest more than human tragedy.
~ Dan Brown
The Rothschilds developed the very idea of the international investment bank – they could transfer their funds wherever there was peace and prosperity, and thus enjoy high interest on their investments no matter what the situation was. Importantly, they were happy to fund private and government ventures by lending money. These two factors made them a financial machine of a completely new sort.
~ Unknown
Islam and Capitalism Capitalism continues to spread untouched by all this theorizing, and one of its biggest growth areas is Sharia banking (banking that conforms to Islamic law). Like the Bible, the Koran takes a dim view of charging interest.
~ Unknown
Every bad thing that happens in the world is good for somebody.
~ Dan Gutman