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Quotes About Interest

The geologist, six years ago now, hadn't defied anything to climb the hill. He'd had his own powerful magic--the ordinary magic that extraordinarily interested people always have.
~ Elizabeth Knox
In the real world, it is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
servant if you watch him all the time. You must always stand over a Jew, though, if you want things done properly. They're tricky and uncertain unless they're working for their own interest.
~ Algernon Blackwood
A man interested in the meaning of words, not one whose interests leave words meaningless.
~ Ali Smith
People love to talk but hate to listen. Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous human interest in what is being told us. You can listen like a blank wall or like a splendid auditorium where every sound comes back fuller and richer.
~ Alice Duer Miller
Onde Júpiter está, há interesse pela excelência e pela abordagem 'clássica' ou universal da vida.
~ Alice O. Howell
The job of the Central Bank is to worry.
~ Alice Rivlin
When you're interested in somebody and you think they might be interested in you, you should point out all your beauty problems and defects right away, rather than take a chance they won't notice them.
~ Alison Pace
Perhaps that's why he became so interested in history, […] He felt that if you read everything and put the pieces all together the real truth would emerge. It would be, somehow, like carpentry. Everything would fit together just so, and you would see in the end something like 'a perfect building called the past.
~ Alistair MacLeod
Sólo merecerá la pena si te apetece, si te interesa de verdad. Nunca lograrás hacer bien nada que no te apetezca hacer.
~ Almudena Grandes
One stake patriarch suggested, your blessing will be "a catalyst, a lightning rod for new revelation. When you ponder on your patriarchal blessing, you show respect and interest in knowing God's will. This will tune you into God and open the channel to receive more revelations concerning your life, important decisions, and your future."[4
~ Alonzo L. Gaskill
I think a lot of food shows, especially when we started 'Good Eats' back in the late '90s, they were still really about food. 'Good Eats' isn't about food, it's about entertainment. If, however, we can virally infect you with knowledge or interest, then all the better.
~ Alton Brown
Mutual interest is what separates courting couples from stalker and prey.)
~ Alvin E. Roth
Signals such as high grades—or a peacock's tail or big bank building—don't indicate interest; they are marks of desirability. That is, the gaudy tail doesn't signal how much the peacock is interested in a particular peahen; it signals how much the hens should be attracted to that particular cock.
~ Alvin E. Roth
Without Invest there is no interest.
~ Aman
The appetite of the British people for a long-term involvement in another Middle Eastern conflict could not be weaker. There is no wish to have any further long-term obligations of a military kind that do not affect the most direct national interest.
~ Jacob Rees-Mogg
I floated around in the department of biochemistry and learned some interesting things, and then I began to... I never wanted to work with a mentor because I always wanted to have my own reputation and be free to do what I wanted to do. So I worked with the weakest people in the department. Don't make that public.
~ Irwin Rose
I have a weakness for treating people's economic interests as their only interest, ignoring things like belonging and pride and the desire to send a message to those who ignore you.
~ Anand Giridharadas
Usually I write about what I care about, which is a weakness but I think also a strength.
~ Mickey Kaus
Captain America is an interesting character because it makes you ask those questions in yourself as a writer. What do we want as a nation, what do we mean as a nation, what is our role in the world as a nation? What are our strengths and weaknesses as a country?
~ Mark Waid
It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
~ Edmund Burke
Rumors of my wealth are greatly exaggerated. I have never been interested in money.
~ Maurice Strong
All but a very few of us are in debt. We exist as entities who borrow money and spend the rest of our lives making interest payments on a debt tally that never seems to budge. Whatever wealth we have, in labor, property or cash, is suctioned to the top.
~ Roger Ebert
The source of wealth is from individuals with little or no history of interest in the game, who have happened upon football as a means of serving some hidden agenda.
~ Sepp Blatter