Quotes About Interest

A man flirting with bankruptcy had no business thinking of a woman. Which of course hadn't stopped him. And it was all the worse because, strange as it was to see her dressed up in manly clothes, there was no denying that the woman made a pair of britches look mighty fetching. He'd stayed away from her, and when he couldn't, he'd hid his interest in cool words.

Mathematics had never had more than a secondary interest for him [her husband, George Boole]; and even logic he cared for chiefly as a means of clearing the ground of doctrines imagined to be proved, by showing that the evidence on which they were supposed to give rest had no tendency to prove them.

Listening is the highest form of courtesy.' When you show interest, understanding and response to someone, you are giving that person a rare and valuable gift.

Sympathy compounded of liking and compassion in varying proportions evidently seemed to Jane Austen the most natural inventive to imaginative interest in a character.

Degas, who did not seem to have taken much personal interest in any of these girls except as models for his paintings, was endlessly interested in their lives, including the older men who hovered so possessively over them. These men, termed "lions," appear again and again in his paintings, sometimes adjusting a costume or sometimes simply watching. Degas

Agatha Swanburne once said, "To be kept waiting is unfortunate, but to be kept waiting with nothing interesting to read is a tragedy of Greek proportions")—

To be kept waiting is unfortunate, but to be kept waiting with nothing interesting to read is a tragedy of Greek proportions")—why,

I think I was always interested in the larger world, even as a kid, and my experiences as a journalist only heightened that interest. Covering conflict, I learned that though leaders often try to create a sense of "us" and "them," the differences are not that delineated. I often felt like it was a whole bunch of "us," with some of "them" scattered around. That made me feel that the borders we draw around ourselves are often artificial.

Richard Dawkins lamented,9 we think that our kids need to have "fun, fun, fun" rather than, say, experience wonder or interest (they are not the same thing) when going to school or a museum.

A good PowerPoint show turned a failed project into a success in the eyes of top management. As often is the case, senior executives had no knowledge or no real interest in what was really going on.

Would you rather be great at something you like, or just okay at something you love?

I may have not been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.

Quizá no estaba seguro de lo que me interesaba realmente, pero, en todo caso, estaba completamente seguro de lo que no me interesaba.»

Curiosity and passion are the enemies of anxiety.

If we have, through grace, an interest in Him who is the Fountain, we may rejoice in him when the streams of temporal mercies are dried up.

Nor is any service pleasing to God till the guilt of sin be removed by our interest in the great propitiation.

He took an interest in who I was and who I wanted to become.

Besides, I myself have now for a long time ceased to look for anything more beautiful in this world, or more interesting, than the truth; or at least than the effort one is able to make towards the truth.

You cannot write for children. They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.

There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

In speculation, you should put your money into ventures that genuinely attract you, and only those.

Bliss in that age was it to be alive.' (He says) 'Why do people regard a period like this as years lost out of our lives when beyond question it is the most interesting period of them? Why do we regard history as of the past and forget we are making it?

He who is infatuated with Man leaves persons out of account so far as that infatuation extends, and floats in an ideal, sacred interest. Man, you see, is not a person, but an ideal, a spook.